What are you listening to now?

[Megan]

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

[Zevy]

Beethoven Violin Concerto, Zukerman/Mehta/LAP
Absolutely gorgeous!

[Michael]

Just listened to a nice performance of the symphony that begins with the famous four note phrase:: Da Da Da Da...…………..


Yep - you've guessed it: Haydn's last symphony.

[Peter]

Just listened to a nice performance of the symphony that begins with the famous four note phrase:: Da Da Da Da...…………..


Yep - you've guessed it: Haydn's last symphony.

Well I would have got it (the famous symphony no.104 'The dada' ), but your first da was too short - needs to be Da dada Da!

[Michael]

Well I would have got it (the famous symphony no.104 'The dada' ), but your first da was too short - needs to be Da dada Da!

You're forgetting that I can't read music, Peter.

However - and I'm getting quite technical here, I think the opening goes more like this : Da ...da da ...Da.....

Anyway, I'm more into Cubism than Dadaism.

[hal9000]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5g80FTvN1s

One of the supreme sets of variations. Up there with Brahms' Handel variations or Beethoven's Eroica piano variations in my opinion.

[Peter]

You're forgetting that I can't read music, Peter.

However - and I'm getting quite technical here, I think the opening goes more like this : Da ...da da ...Da.....

Anyway, I'm more into Cubism than Dadaism.

Let's get really technical! I think your separated da da implies a slower tempo of 4 beats in a bar, whereas Haydn writes 2 in a bar which I think my joined dada suggests better. I don't know how it would work out in cubes!

[Michael]

Let's get really technical! I think your separated da da implies a slower tempo of 4 beats in a bar, whereas Haydn writes 2 in a bar which I think my joined dada suggests better. I don't know how it would work out in cubes!

Well, I put on another recording of the same work and this conductor goes Dee Dee Dee Dee instead of Da!

I think I'll go back to Beethoven's Fifth.

[Sorrano]

Nielsen: Symphony No. 6

[Chris]

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Krips)

My favorite recording of my favorite opera aside from Fidelio. It's been years since I listened to it, and I'm happy to be revisiting it again!

[Chris]

I turned on the radio as I was driving to work this morning just in time to catch the second and third movements of the Appassionata. The second movement is one of my favorite slow movements in all of music!

[Michael]

I turned on the radio as I was driving to work this morning just in time to catch the second and third movements of the Appassionata. The second movement is one of my favorite slow movements in all of music!

Like the second movement of the 7th symphony, it barely has a tune.
And yet, between the two tempestuous outer movements, it is a beautiful oasis.
Our guy was a master of context and he really knew what he was doing.

[Michael]

Beethoven's Septet - an arrangement by (of all people) Toscanini.

The conductor had a fascination with this work since his early days but he believed the right balance between wind and strings was never attained, so in his orchestration, he used 12 violins, 10 violas, 8 cellos and five double basses.

The recordings sounds pretty good for 1951 and it's a bit of a novelty but I don't think he "improved" this work.

[Fidelio]

INSIDE THE HEARING MACHINE: BEETHOVEN ON HIS BROADWOOD

Piano Sonatas Opus 109, 110 and 111, TOM BEGHIN

Interesting recording, more info at:
https://www.insidethehearingmachine.com/

A new publication and a forthcoming book may also be of interest:
That Jealous Demon, My Wretched Health: Disease, Death and Composers by Jonathan Noble
Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery by Robin Wallace

In this month's (Sept) BBC Music Magazine, there also an article written by Robin Wallace (see above), about the unique hearing machine.

[Peter]

Listening to quite a lot of William Byrd, particularly the 3 Masses. Here is the 'Ave Verum Corpus'

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ckGcpx6xI[/YOUTUBE]

And by way of contrast 'Sellinger's Round' played by Glenn Gould.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyfZOZwuFM8[/YOUTUBE]