What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Poulenc: "Trois mouvements perpétuels" (1918)
Durey: Flute Sonatine
Honegger: "Farinet ou L'Or dans La Montagne" (1938) Suite

[AeolianHarp]

The Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 on his radio...oh God the final movement...!!!

[Peter]

The Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 on his radio...oh God the final movement...!!!

It's the 3rd movt he gives thanks to God! The finale is wonderful though.

[Harvey]

I like works that give thanks to God. It seems Beethoven had his priorities right with regard to acknowledging God.

Now about an hour ago on the Beethoven Only streaming radio I heart the most beautiful soprano voice. It was the Cantata on Leopold II conducted by Robert Bass, with the Collegiate Chorale and the orchestra of St. Luke's. Marvelous!

[AeolianHarp]

It's the 3rd movt he gives thanks to God! The finale is wonderful though.

So he does yes. Poor Ludwig- he'd been so ill...

Beethoven wrote this piece after recovering from a serious illness which he had feared was fatal because he had been afflicted with intestinal disorder during the entire winter of 1824-5. He thus headed the movement with the words, "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (A Convalescent's Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_....3B_Andante.29


I wonder what the intestinal illness was. Must have been severe to last the whole winter. But it would seem his doctors eventually found a medicine that got rid of it.

[hal9000]

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

[AeolianHarp]

Yes, seen this film on you tube. Ed Harris is quite moving in some parts, though he isn't really our dear Maestro for me. Beethoven Lives Upstairs is the best film!

[Rocco]

Listened to Fidelio today from my new set.

[Peter]

I like works that give thanks to God. It seems Beethoven had his priorities right with regard to acknowledging God.

Haydn also frequently signed his autographs 'fine laus Deo'

Listening to my Ferenc Fricsay cd of the 9th - surpasses all the others!

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Bach: Violin Partita #2 in d, BWV 1004

[Harvey]

Brahms German Requiem on you tube because it is coming April 4th at the acoustically wonderful Hill Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Finney: "Fiddle-doodle-ad" (1945) "Candy Girl"
Wye: "Folklore latino-américain"
Copland: "Three Latin-American Sketches" (1972)
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 1

[Rocco]

Currently listening to Brahms German Requiem.
Listened to it for the first time yesterday, and liked it so much I listened to it 4 times, and another time this morning.

[Enrique]

It is worth listening. If he had only written the Requiem, he would have pass to posterity. I heard it once on the radio, and fascinated by what I was hearing, I called and asked the speaker whose composition was that. He replied: Brahms German Requiem. It was not long before I bought a recording by Klemperer.

[AeolianHarp]

Funny, I saw that on CD in the charity shop today!