What is the Beethoven music that keeps being played on this station?

[hal9000]

Great job, DP! I don't know how I didn't make the Mendelssohn connection, it sounds so obvious now. It's a great piece.

[Chris]

Nice detective work! I don't think I have heard this before either. It's a nice piece. It definitely sounds like Mendelssohn's string writing.

[AeolianHarp]

Do you have a phone that can record audio? You could just capture the sound from your speakers.

I forgot about my phone Chris! It's just been on again and I recorded it using the video setting on the camera. Now I just have to load it onto my laptop and convert it to an mp3 in Audacity. I will link it tonight!

[AeolianHarp]

Can you solve the mystery? Here they are!

Audacity wouldn't make them into mp3s, so I did an online search and one has to make them into wav files. Hopefully you all should be able to play them...

https://app.box.com/s/txuq6dinp9cra1cp9aiq700e2l3qyggz

https://app.box.com/s/6d2ckx5n0bx9aa1y9b7k7ko5cvj1cdlb

https://app.box.com/s/n322mbni7bda4f9drlam9om6yzlic5wk

https://app.box.com/s/7vbdf63anj98j4iwdwpm4tj5rzy3j2yx

https://app.box.com/s/z142f89d7ogjt0n3ubg3ne3ivclgbkwm


https://app.box.com/s/0xrvtr5jebeovkil7bw50dr91wxy5s3j

https://app.box.com/s/hf57z3sdfhnku6tkyai8mvnix9svgdjh

Sorry they are not in one file- my phone only records a bit at a time.

[AeolianHarp]

So...anyone know what this music is.....???

[Chris]

Is it not the Mendelssohn concerto posted above?

[AeolianHarp]

Is it not the Mendelssohn concerto posted above?

YES!!! That's it!!! I should have listened to the video, not sure why I didn't..
Blimey DP! You should have been a researcher or detective!
There is something Beethovenian about this piece in parts. I know Mendelssohn admired our Maestro.
Someone should tell Radionomy that this is not Beethoven's fourth piano concerto!

[AeolianHarp]

Great job, DP! I don't know how I didn't make the Mendelssohn connection, it sounds so obvious now. It's a great piece.

I like it a lot. It's been haunting me for about a week!

[AeolianHarp]

Here's the whole concerto:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbR53znfZL8[/YOUTUBE]

I am looking for a period performance as well...

[AeolianHarp]

YES! Period performance!

Now this is IT! The wow factor! And Kristian Bezidenhout is playing the fortepiano! He's one of my fave fortepiano players. He is not only a great pianist, but he does a lot to promote fortepianos and period perfomances.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-__V3Y3c8[/YOUTUBE]

This is going on my mp3 player- huzzah!!

[hal9000]

I like it a lot. It's been haunting me for about a week!

I've been listening to it on and off since DP found it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-__V3Y3c8[/youtube]

This is a great performance, with period instruments of course :P

Edit - Looks like you already found it lol

[AeolianHarp]

I've been listening to it on and off since DP found it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-__V3Y3c8[/youtube]

This is a great performance, with period instruments of course :P

Edit - Looks like you already found it lol

LOL, you know me hal- if an HIP performance is out there I will find it pronto!!!
It's already on my laptop.
The theme of the first movement is just so affecting and dare I say, catchy! And the ending with the drums is very emphatic and grand! I shall be humming it on the bus soon ha ha.
I didn't know much of Mendelssohn's works before- I didn't know he was this good....
It is the best concerto I have heard after Beethoven! ( and Chopin).

[Sorrano]

There is something Beethovenian about this piece in parts. I know Mendelssohn admired our Maestro.

Maybe that is why I keep associating Mendelssohn's Octet so much with Beethoven. Some time ago I heard it on the radio, in progress, and I kept thinking it was Beethoven.

[AeolianHarp]

Maybe that is why I keep associating Mendelssohn's Octet so much with Beethoven. Some time ago I heard it on the radio, in progress, and I kept thinking it was Beethoven.

I know what you mean. This Concerto is like that for me. The opening theme of movement one is like a blend of Mozart and Beethoven in style, with a slight Haydn humour. To be specific- the strings are Mozart, the fortepiano Beethoven. The mood Haydn in places.
But..the later development is Mendelssohn. It's a very interesting concerto- great harmony, melody, interesting thematic development, mood changes etc. I think we are all getting addicted to it!

[hal9000]

If I didn't know any better, I would think the second movement was written by Mozart, or an early Beethoven concerto middle movement.

I agree that the Octet sounds like Beethoven, but enough like Mendelssohn to not sound like an epigonism. It still boggles my mind that he wrote it at 16.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2iSrTU219s[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izt9EPV8Ip0[/YOUTUBE]

I always felt these two were very similar. I know Mendelssohn studied Beethoven's string quartets when writing his excellent string quartet in A minor, so he probably knew Opus 59 #3 when he wrote the Octet. Mendelssohn's manages to be even more breakneck that Beethoven's.

Thanks Aeolian for letting me know what piece it was on Youtube :P