What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

Not so remarkable when you consider the timescale for Mozart's last 3 symphonies or Schubert's last 3 sonatas!

Not as remarkable as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis which took only four years.
And don't forget Brahms's first symphony - fourteen years!

[Peter]

Not as remarkable as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis which took only four years.
And don't forget Brahms's first symphony - fourteen years!

Or 26 years for Wagner's 'Ring' cycle!

[Enrique]

Stravinsky: Septet (1954).

[Zevy]

Mozart: Serenades for wind instruments. Wow!

[Enrique]

And don't forget Brahms's first symphony - fourteen years!

Where did you read that? Or who told you? Can you produce a source, Michael?

[Michael]

Where did you read that? Or who told you? Can you produce a source, Michael?

It's fairly well known that Brahms was intimidated by the Beethoven symphonies and it took him a long time to finish his first one. In fact, if you go back to his first sketches, it's more like twenty years!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Brahms)

(There's something funny about the above link - so just type into Google: "Brahms Symphony No. 1 Wikipedia")



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[Enrique]

It's fairly well known that Brahms was intimidated by the Beethoven symphonies and it took him a long time to finish his first one.
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I knew that. But during those 14 years he must have worked on other projects too. Otherwise that number is unacceptable.

[Peter]

A lovely arrangement of the 2nd movt of Mendelssohn's piano trio in D minor.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Tb9Y63Cyw[/YOUTUBE]

[Enrique]

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
This is well above the Concerto for Orchestra. The 1st movement little by little builds up an ambient of pure madness. It's tremendous!

[Sorrano]

Ive been listening to Bill McLaughlin's Exploring Music. Last night he featured Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.

[Sorrano]

In Exploring Music they've been playing excerpts from Bartok's The Wooden Prince and the Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky's The Fairy's Kiss, and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. That was very enjoyable!

[Chris]

I listen to this one every New Year's Eve and Day, but I think it is especially appropriate at the start of Beethoven's 250th:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw9__By5F-E[/YOUTUBE]

[Michael]

Very appropriate and I can never think of it!

[Enrique]

Beethoven: Piano concerto no.1, Apor Szüts piano.

I think this is one of the more marvelous things I've ever heard in my life. I explicitly refer to the first movement.

[Sorrano]

Beethoven: Piano concerto no.1, Apor Szüts piano.

I think this is one of the more marvelous things I've ever heard in my life. I explicitly refer to the first movement.

I quite like the finale, too. Once it gets in my head it takes awhile for it to leave, but with this work I don't mind a bit!