What are you listening to now?

[Chris]

For Inauguration Day, the national march of the USA:

Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRn9chmRAY[/YOUTUBE]

[Fidelio]

Beethoven's early 3 Piano Sonatas WoO47 "Kurfürstensonaten" composed when he was 12-13 years old.

[Sorrano]

Liszt: Faust Symphony

[Harvey]

Brahms four symphonies. NAXOs set I picked up at the library used sale today for $2. It is conducted by Alexander Rahbari with the BRT Philharmonic of Brussels.

[Fidelio]

The early Cantatas

Cantata on the death of Emperor Joseph II WoO87

Cantata on the accession of Emperor Leopold II WoO88

[Fidelio]

Beethoven Piano Concertos 4&5
Till Fellner piano, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano

[Harvey]

Wagner's Ring conducted by Hans Swarowsky, 1968.

[Enrique]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFPjFjUonX8

[Quijote]

The Zelenka link (Nisi Dominus) I gave above no longer exists.
Here is the latest YouTube link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3eODmwrnoU.
It really is quite wonderful. I'm trying to persuade our department's professor of conducting to schedule it for the Chamber Orchestra & Choir. A question of budget, as always.
I blame Trump.

[Quijote]

Here is a YouTube link to the Agnus Dei from Bach's Mass in B minor (featuring the angelic voice of Andreas Scholl).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLCcQixNvg

I used this extract in a recent counterpoint lesson to show implied 4-part harmony in two-part writing (before the entry of the voice). Magisterial! [written in the style of a Trump Twitter pronouncement]

[Megan]

Both beautiful pieces from Zelenka and Bach.

Another counter-tenor I like is, Philippe Jaroussky.


Philippe Jaroussky "O solitude, my sweetest choice" (L'Arpeggiata)

https://youtu.be/-ZQ_1Mp_QTc


[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/-ZQ_1Mp_QTc[/YOUTUBE]

[Zevy]

Beethoven Symphonies 7 & 8 arr. for wind ensemble / Blaserensemble Sabine Meyer

[Enrique]

Here is a YouTube link to the Agnus Dei from Bach's Mass in B minor (featuring the angelic voice of Andreas Scholl).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLCcQixNvg

I used this extract in a recent counterpoint lesson to show implied 4-part harmony in two-part writing (before the entry of the voice). Magisterial! [written in the style of a Trump Twitter pronouncement]

How do you do Quijote? That is one of the most beautiful parts of the mass, nay, of all music ever written (only an opinion). And yet so austere.

[Harvey]

Last night:

Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in d minor, Op. 125

Budapest Festival Orchestra: Iván Fischer, conductor
Richard Goode, piano
UMS Choral Union
Laura Aikin, soprano
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Robert Dean Smith, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass

Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

The highlight of course was the Ninth and it was wonderful. Every movement seemed to pass to quickly because it was so good. The audience was pretty well behaved, but felt it was free time for coughing between movement. Between every movement there was a loud din of coughing in the place. But it does ruin things because the pauses between movement are supposed to be just that, pauses, not noisy interludes. What I don't get is how these people could avoid coughing through 20 minutes of a movement and then just had to cough.

A fun part was watching the piano go below stage on a section of floor that slowly descended then came back up without the piano.

One cellist almost didn't make it because of the travel ban.

[Fidelio]

[QUOTE=Harvey;70341]Last night:

Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in d minor, Op. 125

Fantastic programme, with superb musicians. Hope you had a great evening. Very jealous.