What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

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

Very beautiful Gerd, thanks for that. No I've never heard the piece or of the composer and how lovely it is arranged for the Cor Anglais.

[Sorrano]

Haydn Symphony No. 52 (last two movements).

[Enrique]

Haydn, symphony no.48, "Maria Theresa", Sir Neville Marriner.

[Chris]

Haydn, symphony no.48, "Maria Theresa", Sir Neville Marriner.

One of my very favorites symphonies!

[Enrique]

It is one of the sturm und drang symphonies, described as maajestic in a Gramophone article.

[Sorrano]

Speaking of Haydn, I heard the work below just after it had started (I was driving home from work). For the duration I was trying to figure out who the composer was and thought it was Beethoven, but I did not recognize the work. I thought it sounded quite mature and very much like a mature Beethoven work. It surprised me to hear it was by Haydn. Any thoughts?

Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in E-flat major, H.XVI:52
Imogen Cooper, piano

[gprengel]

Speaking of Haydn, I heard the work below just after it had started (I was driving home from work). For the duration I was trying to figure out who the composer was and thought it was Beethoven, but I did not recognize the work. I thought it sounded quite mature and very much like a mature Beethoven work. It surprised me to hear it was by Haydn. Any thoughts?

Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in E-flat major, H.XVI:52
Imogen Cooper, piano

Thank you, Sorrano, for refering to this piece. I love the 3rd movement (not so much the other ones), but if you like this one - do you know which for me is by far Haydn's best piano work - his f-minor variations? It is his last piano work , finally reaching Mozart and even Beethoven ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPU3YCXqXk

[gprengel]

Speaking of Haydn, I heard the work below just after it had started (I was driving home from work). For the duration I was trying to figure out who the composer was and thought it was Beethoven, but I did not recognize the work. I thought it sounded quite mature and very much like a mature Beethoven work. It surprised me to hear it was by Haydn. Any thoughts?

Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in E-flat major, H.XVI:52
Imogen Cooper, piano

Thank you, Sorrano, for refering to this piece. I love the 3rd movement (not so much the other ones), but if you like this one - do you know which for me is by far Haydn's best piano work - his f-minor variations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPU3YCXqXk

My favoutite sonata by Haydn is this e-minor sonata with beautiful 1st and 3rd movements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTbrU8bFdM

[Sorrano]

Thank you, Sorrano, for refering to this piece. I love the 3rd movement (not so much the other ones), but if you like this one - do you know which for me is by far Haydn's best piano work - his f-minor variations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPU3YCXqXk

My favoutite sonata by Haydn is this e-minor sonata with beautiful 1st and 3rd movements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTbrU8bFdM

Thanks! I will check out the variations as I am not familiar with them. It was interesting to hear the sonata without knowing who the composer was. That was an interesting perspective, especially trying to figure out who had composed it.

[Sorrano]

Quite nice, I got a chance to listen to the variations. With exception to dynamic differences I thought it well played, very clear to follow. Pedaling was not an issue and the feel for the piece was strong. I can see why this is one of your favorite Haydn piano works.

Thank you, Sorrano, for refering to this piece. I love the 3rd movement (not so much the other ones), but if you like this one - do you know which for me is by far Haydn's best piano work - his f-minor variations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPU3YCXqXk

My favoutite sonata by Haydn is this e-minor sonata with beautiful 1st and 3rd movements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTbrU8bFdM

[Sorrano]

On Exploring Music last night I heard the final movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony (Serge Koussevitzky with the Boston Symphony Orchestra). That was one of the most exhilarating performances I've ever heard of that work with breath-taking tempi. It was amazing that the orchestra was able to stay together and make the performance work. In my library I have a recording by Sergiu Celibidache which is pretty much the opposite, yet to my ears it also works and I think is a fine performance. It is an interesting contrast.

[Zevy]

Mozart Symphony #29 in A Major K 201 - Sir Charles Mackerras/Prague Chamber Orchestra. Everyone knows the first movement from "Amadeus", but the fourth movement is amazing!

[Fidelio]

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Danish Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer

[Peter]

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Danish Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer

Also Adam Fischer, but Haydn symphonies 43,44 & 45 with Austro Hungarian Haydn orchestra.

[Chris]

Also Adam Fischer, but Haydn symphonies 43,44 & 45 with Austro Hungarian Haydn orchestra.

I just had that complete box of the Haydn symphonies out last night, which I believe I bought on your recommendation. I'm still enjoying it!