What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

Beethoven's Leonore No. 4 Overture (arranged by Malcolm Arnold).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYm9syfFP0

Thank you! That was a great way to start a Monday morning!

[Peter]

I ran across this and thought it exquisite. I would have never guessed that this was Tchaikovsky.

Yes I'm familiar with Tchaikovsky's beautiful church music - this is one of 9 sacred pieces written in 1884/5. The words were adapted by Tchaikovsky from Russian liturgical texts. No. 7 uses verses from the Russian Orthodox Liturgy, and No. 8 is based on the text of Psalm 140.

[Michael]

Thank you! That was a great way to start a Monday morning!

We aim to please, Sorrano!

[Peter]

Exquisite playing of Scarlatti sonatas by Ivo Pogorelich

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yBQlZ06G40[/YOUTUBE]

[Chris]

I can never let the 4th of July pass without listening to Horowitz's transcription of Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3i1mVkqI34[/YOUTUBE]

[gprengel]

I listened today to the Requiem from Berlioz, and I must say, that for me it is - apart from the very beatiful Sanctus - one of the most boring music I know. How much greater are the 2 Requiems by Cherubini from about the same time...

[Peter]

I listened today to the Requiem from Berlioz, and I must say, that for me it is - apart from the very beatiful Sanctus - one of the most boring music I know. How much greater are the 2 Requiems by Cherubini from about the same time...

It never made a great impression on me either, but there again the only two requiems that have are Mozart's and Faure's.

[Sorrano]

Last night I listened to two sections of Berlioz' requiem, Rex Tremendae Majestatis and Lacrimosa. I found it anything but boring. Composed in the 1830's, just a few years after Beethoven's death, it boasts of orchestration far beyond it's time period.

[Peter]

Friedrich Witt symphony in C 'Jena' - once considered to be by Beethoven, though to me it sounds much more like Haydn. Particularly like the impressive finale starting 19'37.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-LttiSc17E[/YOUTUBE]

[Michael]

On July 20th we should all listen to the Moonlight Sonata!

[Chris]

Friedrich Witt symphony in C 'Jena' - once considered to be by Beethoven, though to me it sounds much more like Haydn. Particularly like the impressive finale starting 19'37.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-LttiSc17E[/YOUTUBE]

I just pulled out my CD with this work a few days ago. I agree - it's quite reminiscent of Haydn in places. I actually like this piece a lot.

[Michael]

I've played it a few times too.
It's quite pleasant but hard to believe some half-Witt attributed it to Beethoven. It doesn't even sound like his early Bonn output.

(No doubt you'll have spotted my tremendously Witty pun.
I'll leave you Witt that.)

[Enrique]

But, is the score the only criterion to attribute a work to an author?

[Enrique]

Fred Astaire played the piano! Watch:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpl2ZOs72I4[/YOUTUBE]

[gprengel]

Yesterday I got to knew a for me altogether new and hauting piece! Do you know it?

A Chloris from R. Hahn (1913):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNXX_8xonoE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih6UCcIvE18