What are you listening to now?

[Megan]

Schubert

Franz Schubert Fantasy in F minor D 940, Eschenbach, Franz


[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SybthJwp84k[/YOUTUBE]

[Megan]

Iberia - from Images for Orchestra by Claude Debussy

[Megan]

Der Schauspieldirektor - singspiel in 1 act (K.486), Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Playing: Concerto for oboe and strings in D minor, 2nd movement; Adagio by Alessandro Marcello

[Peter]

Bruckner Symphony no.4 and a string orchestra arrangement of the slow movement of the wonderful quintet.

[Megan]

Tartini Pastorale in Scordatura by Andrew Manze

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Milhaud: "Paris," Op 284
Bax: "The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew"
Morton Gould: American Salute

[Enrique]

Mozart: Mass in C minor.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Mozart: Bassoon and Cello Sonata in B-Flat, K 292
Roussel: Duo for Bassoon and Double-Bass (1925) (Very interesting combination and well done!)
Pleyel: Theme and Variations in g

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Rossini: Variations in C, Op 109
Dello Joio: Trumpet Sonata

[Enrique]

Listening to In taberna cuando sumus, from Carmina Burana. You can see an English translation here:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhwhd4yJW8[/YOUTUBE]

I think the lyrics in combination with the music is the work of a genius. Though I don't know the original manuscripts.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Rimsky-Korsakov: "Russian Easter Overture," Op 36
Glinka: Song, "Mary"
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concertino, Op 93

[Enrique]

This morning:

Mozart: Bassoon and Cello Sonata in B-Flat, K 292
Roussel: Duo for Bassoon and Double-Bass (1925) (Very interesting combination and well done!)
[.........................]

That tempted me and I gave them a[listening?]. Nothing to say about the Mozart who, being Mozart, one should not talk too much about him, lest we say some impropriety. About Roussel's work, I have to say it had, at least, the virtue of suggesting me a hearing of The Spider's Feast, a thing I did (the suite), and of making me look at a picture of the composer. More formally:

Roussel: The Spider's Feast, Op. 17 (1912).

Once the mere epithet symphonist as applied to a composer was imposing. Today, the concept is démodé, but I would like to know what was its status in the 1930's. I'll risk the opinion that nobody, by that time, call a composer a symphonist, to begin with (however Sibelius and Shostakovich could be called such and perhaps they were). Read this and dare say it's not well written:

"For the general public, Roussel remains almost famous, his work just beyond the pool of repertory universally drawn from. His music, said another way, walks the line between the memorable and the impossible to forget. [He's speaking about the 3rd symphony] The writing sets unrelated keys against one another but eventually seeks strong tonal centers; in other words, it can bark and growl but in the end wags its tail [lovely! But I do not think this is a respectful way of speaking about Roussel or his writing. Maybe I'm wrong.]" (The author wrote these words well into the 21st century.)

[Peter]

Mozart - Sonata in F for piano duet K.497

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Dello Joio: "Suite for the Young"
Elgar: "Dream Children," Op 43

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Handel:
"Semele"
Trio Sonata #4 in F, HWV 383