What are you listening to now?

[Fidelio]

Hi Michael

I would suggest the audience, considering his comment. I love this work.

[Michael]

Hi Michael

I would suggest the audience, considering his comment. I love this work.

I envy you! I don't dislike it but I really want to love it!

[Chris]

Beethoven's supposedly least accessible works have always immediately appealed to me for reason - the Diabelli Variations, the Grosse Fugue, the Hammerklavier. I certainly don't "get" them all, in the sense that I have analyzed their structures and understand exactly what Beethoven was doing, but I love to listen to them. It's some of the other middle and late period works that have taken me longer to come around to.

[Michael]

Those three would also be my choice of Beethoven's most difficult works (the last movement only in the case of the Hammerklavier).

One other piece that gives me grief is the final movement of the fifth Cello Sonata (Opus 102 No. 2). If anything, it's more uncompromising than the Hammerklavier finale and really marks the start of the composer's "third period".

Compared to the above-mentioned, everything else by Beethoven is a doddle (which he would be extremely pleased to hear.)

[Megan]

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

[Megan]

I post a video and never works, Sorry.

[Chris]

I post a video and never works, Sorry.

I fixed it for you. You can't use the shortened youtu.be link.

[Megan]

I fixed it for you. You can't use the shortened youtu.be link.

I tried both ways, Chris. taking off the (s) in https. as someone suggested and I tried just simply putting the tags each end of the full address. I just can't understand why it never works for me.
Please bear with me while I try again, here. with the full youtube link.


[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPlK5HwFxcw[/Youtube]

[Peter]

I tried both ways, Chris. taking off the (s) in https. as someone suggested and I tried just simply putting the tags each end of the full address. I just can't understand why it never works for me.
Please bear with me while I try again, here. with the full youtube link.


[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPlK5HwFxcw[/Youtube]




No still doesn't show.

Chris has fixed it, so see above. Looking at your code, you still have the s there which is why it didn't show. Re. The Tchaikovsky, simply beautiful as is all his rather neglected sacred music.

[Zevy]

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Druian/Szell
These aren't readily available. I like them very much. Rafael Druian was concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell (and at the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez). They recorded a total of 4 sonatas; I guess that's all that fit on an LP.

[Megan]

Chris has fixed it, so see above. Looking at your code, you still have the s there which is why it didn't show. Re. The Tchaikovsky, simply beautiful as is all his rather neglected sacred music.

Thanks Peter, It is a beautiful work, I happened to succeed in posting it again. Apologies for double posting it. It is hit or miss with me, maybe I'll get the hang of it.

[Chris]

Thanks Peter, It is a beautiful work, I happened to succeed in posting it again. Apologies for double posting it. It is hit or miss with me, maybe I'll get the hang of it.

Just remember two things:

1. http, NOT https
2. Full youtube.com link, not short youtu.be link

[Megan]

Just remember two things:

1. http, NOT https
2. Full youtube.com link, not short youtu.be link

Thank you Chris, I have taken note now.

[Decrepit Poster]

I've long admired Mendelssohn's Andante & Rondo Capriccioso Op.14, but admit that I often find its andante a bit of a snoozer. Until recently, that is. At YouTube, I came across a performance by Mikhail Pletnev that hooks me from the first measure and keeps me hooked through to andante and on until the end. Very musical, in my opinion, yet virtuosic as needed. Of those performances of the work heard to date, this is my favorite.

[Megan]

Arkadi Volodos.

Beautiful performance of a Vivaldi's Siciliana transcribed for keyboard by Bach

Bach-Vivaldi - Siciliano BWV 596


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeykXh_vB6o[/youtube]