What are you listening to now?

[AeolianHarp]

I play his radio station all the time when I'm online. It's playing right now!

Same here!

Although, after I get that 87 CD complete Beethoven set I could almost start my own radio station!

Hehe...

[Megan]

Chopin

Chopin Nocturnes.
Maurizio Pollini piano.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V60USaluxGA[/YOUTUBE]

[Harvey]

Choral Fantasy on BeethovenOnly live streamed

[AeolianHarp]

Choral Fantasy on BeethovenOnly live streamed

I love that! Now his 8th symphony is on..oh I love it!

[Peter]

Thomas Tallis - a selection of Masses and other pieces.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Tchaikovsky: Suite #4 in G, Op 61, "Mozartiana"

[Rocco]

Currently listening to Beethoven's 3rd symphony by Gardiner.

[Harvey]

Currently listening to Beethoven's 3rd symphony by Gardiner.

That's a good one!


I am currently listening to:
Luigi Cherubini, Missa Solemnis in D minor

[Rocco]

Whatever has been playing on his radio all morning. I've been working on homework all morning and not paying much attention, so I have no idea what I heard. It was great though!

[AeolianHarp]

Whatever has been playing on his radio all morning. I've been working on homework all morning and not paying much attention, so I have no idea what I heard. It was great though!

Well, it's the Kreutzer right now!

[Rocco]

Whatever has been playing on his radio all morning. I've been working on homework all morning and not paying much attention, so I have no idea what I heard. It was great though!

Well, it's the Kreutzer right now!

Christ on the Mount of Olives right now!

[AeolianHarp]

Christ on the Mount of Olives right now!

His Triple Concerto has just been on...now WoO 129: Der Wachtelschlag has just been on(1803), which I am trying to figure out the meaning- Wachtel is quail and schlag is hit ....so it is something like Hit the quail?!


I am assuming this is an amusing lied- the intonation of the siger hints at something amusing to my poor British ears hehe..

Now Appasionata!!!

[AeolianHarp]

Ok got that wrong! Not sure it is meant to be amusing- but I find it quaint. At least I knew it is about a quail!

Der Wachtelschlag



Ach! mir schallt's dorten so lieblich hervor:
Fürchte Gott, fürchte Gott!
Ruft mir die Wachtel ins Ohr.
Sitzend im Grünen, von Halmen umhüllt,
Mahnt sie dem Horcher im Saatengefild:
Liebe Gott, liebe Gott!
Er ist so gütig, so mild.

Wieder bedeutet ihr hüpfender Schlag:
Lobe Gott, lobe Gott!
Der dich zu lohnen vermag.
Siehst du die herrlichen Früchte im Feld?
Nimm es zu Herzen, Bewohner der Welt:
Danke Gott, danke Gott!
Der dich ernährt und erhält.

Schreckt dich im Wetter der Herr der Natur:
Bitte Gott, bitte Gott!
Ruft sie, er schonet die Flur.
Machen Gefahren der Krieger dir bang:
[Tröstet mich wieder der Wachtelgesang:]2
Traue Gott, traue Gott!
Sieh', er verziehet nicht lang.



The cry of the quail
English translation


Oh! From over there so sweetly it resounds:
Fear God, fear God!
The quail cries in my ear.
Sitting in the greenery, wrapped in stems;
It entreats the listener in shady realms:
Love God, love God!
He is so gentle, so kind.

Again it tells us in a lively cry:
Praise God, praise God!
He is able to give you the worthwhile.
Do you see the wonderful fruits in the field?
Take this to heart, people of the world:
Thank God, thank God!
Who feeds and keeps you.

He frightens you in the storm, The Lord of Nature:
Plead with God, plead with God!
It calls; he spares the fields.
If the threats of warriors make you anxious:
[Comfort it brings me again, the song of the quail:]
Trust in God, trust in God!
Look, he will not turn away from you for long.

http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_t...l?TextId=51476

[Harvey]

Beautiful poem. Seems maybe he was inspired by Matthew 6:26:

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

[AeolianHarp]

Might have been!