What are you listening to now?

[AeolianHarp]

Yes and it seeks to replicate the exact forces used at the first private Lobkowitz palace performance, so the orchestra is very small and great clarity of sound is achieved. However you have to remember that only a few years later at the public performance at the Theater an der Wien, a much larger orchestra was used so HIP performances can be a little misleading.

Cool! I'll listen to that soon. Well HIP I think is aware of the situations of the performances.

[Peter]

Cool! I'll listen to that soon. Well HIP I think is aware of the situations of the performances.

Yes but the point is that there was no uniform standard, in that the number of performers was largely determined by availability rather than what the composer considered an ideal. The Saval recording whilst representing authentically the Lobkowitz orchestra doesn't mean that that was what Beethoven intended as an ideal.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Rosenberg: "Voyage to America"
Alkan: "Le chemin de fer", Op 27
J Strauss: Waltzes, "Accelerationen," Op 234

That wore me out. And I didn't even get anywhere!

[Harvey]

This evening:
Mendelssohn's Elijah
Handel's Messiah
Haydn, Creation Oratorio, sung in English.

In the Car: Flotow's Martha opera

Just ordered and soon to listen to: Wagner's Die Meistersinger opera

[Chris]

Jerome Moross - Sonata for Piano Duet and String Quartet

I'm usually not much of a fan of 20th century music, but I quite like this piece!

[Harvey]

Harry Christopher and The Sixteen's Eton Choir Book Vol II (Crown of Thorns) which has
Stabat Mater (John Browne)
Stabat Master (Richard Davy)
Jesu, mercy, how may this be (John Browne)
Stabat Mater (William Cornysh)
Ah, gentle Jesu (Sheryngham)
About 65 minutes total.

Before that I listened to Cherubini's Missa Solemnis in D Minor

[Harvey]

Last night through today:
Daughter of the Regiment
Tancredi
Meistersinger

[AeolianHarp]

Piano sonatas nos 21, 22.

[Harvey]

And next will be Fidelio Highlights conducted by Fricsay 1960.

[Harvey]

Yesterday afternoon: Turandot 1961 Met performance

Now: La Sonnambula

[Harvey]

Today:
Der Messias, Richter
Messiah, Westenburg
Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment (Pavarotti and Sutherland) 4th time through--just arrived in today's mail.

[Decrepit Poster]

Just finished listening to / watching Wolfgang Sawallisch and the VPO perform Schubert's Symphony No.9 and quited enjoyed it. Several days ago I listened to a period instrument ensemble playing Haydn's symphony no.44. Other than those I've mostly revisited favorite interpretations of shorter "light" works such as Saint-Saens' Marche Militaire Francaise and Danse Macabre.

[Harvey]

Daughter of the Regiment. Ninth time through. All I have played since the CD set arrived in yesterday's mail.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Delius: "Life's Dance" (1899)
Liszt: "Totentanz" (1849)

Seems to me this was a life and death moment.

[Rocco]

Today driving to and from work - Handel's Messiah, Pinnock