What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

sorrano, that's Danzi's variation set for string quartet ?

It was an orchestral set with a cello solo. When it was announced (on the radio) I thought he had given the composer as Mozart, who I am guessing composed the theme. It's from Nimbus: Nimbus 5868, if that helps.

[Roehre]

It was an orchestral set with a cello solo. When it was announced (on the radio) I thought he had given the composer as Mozart, who I am guessing composed the theme. It's from Nimbus: Nimbus 5868, if that helps.

Thanks Sorrano.

[Roehre]

Today:

Michael Haydn
Sinfonia in E flat major (MH.340/P.17) (1783)

Gossec:
Symphony in D major opus 5 no.3 'Pastorella' (B 27)(1761)

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in D, Falck41 (c.1735)
Erzittert Und Fallet, Falck 83

Ferneyhough:
Prometheus (1967)

Fox:
Three Constructions after Kurt Schwitters (1993).

[Sorrano]

Today:

Michael Haydn
Sinfonia in E flat major (MH.340/P.17) (1783)

On the way to work they played Michael Haydn's Second Trumpet Concerto; this is a composer with whom I need to further my acquaintance.

[Roehre]

On the way to work they played Michael Haydn's Second Trumpet Concerto; this is a composer with whom I need to further my acquaintance.

A nice one is the set of six duos for violin and viola, officially Michael Haydn's, but in reality only four of his hand and 2 Mozart's KV423 and 424 .

All Michael's symphonies have been recorded for CPO.

There is also a big orchestral Serenade in D which is very interesting (and lasts nearly an hour), as well as a double concerto for organ, viola and orchestra. The latter was on an Argo LP combined with his horn concerto.

I can appreciate why Mozart liked him and his music.

[Sorrano]

This morning, more Haydn:

F J Haydn: Piercing Eyes

M Haydn: Horn Concertino in D

The movements seemed to be out with the menuett being the last. Of course, I am aware that is how it is, but it was a bit anti-climatic. Nevertheless, it's a work worth listening to. (This was played with period instruments.)

Vivaldi: Flute Concerto Op 10/3,

[Chris]

Guillaume de Machaut:

Messe de Notre Dame
Le Lai de la Fonteinne
Rondeau Ma fin est mon commencement

The Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier

It's certainly interesting to hear what was happening with harmony during the 1300s in light of the recent Bach exercises Quijote has given us.

[Roehre]

Today:

Alexander Goehr:
To These Dark Steps/The Fathers are Watching opus 90 (2011/’12)

Monteverdi:
Dixit dominus II
Sancta Maria
Lauda Ierusalem
Memento Domine David
Confitebor tibi III
Christe adoramus te
Salve Regina I
Nisi Dominus I
Cantate Domino
Ecce sacrum paratum
Gloria in excelsis Deo

[Roehre]

Guillaume de Machaut:

Messe de Notre Dame
Le Lai de la Fonteinne
Rondeau Ma fin est mon commencement

The Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier

It's certainly interesting to hear what was happening with harmony during the 1300s in light of the recent Bach exercises Quijote has given us.

Brilliant music, one of my Desert Island candidates.
Can be performed a bit more expressive, more unsettling than the Hilliards do, good as their performance/recording certainly is.

[Chris]

Brilliant music, one of my Desert Island candidates.
Can be performed a bit more expressive, more unsettling than the Hilliards do, good as their performance/recording certainly is.

Have you heard the Marcel Pérès/Ensemble Organum recording of the Mass? That's arguably more expressive and certainly more unsettling than the Hilliards. Though whether it is more correct or authentic is debatable. Rather Eastern sounding.

[Enrique]

Mozart:
Symphony no.41

Can there be anything more beautiful than the adagio? It shows the fathomless depths of Mozart soul.

Bach:
Suite no.2 in D minor for solo violin. [But my computer plays it in C# minor!]

[B]Ravel:[B]
Mirrors

[Roehre]

Have you heard the Marcel Pérès/Ensemble Organum recording of the Mass? That's arguably more expressive and certainly more unsettling than the Hilliards. Though whether it is more correct or authentic is debatable. Rather Eastern sounding.

That's my favourite - it sounds more Eastern, though the "technique" is Corsican, assuming that the Corsican monastic way of singing is one of the more or less surviving traditions reaching back to the age of the composition of the Mass or even further back.

[Roehre]

Today:

Goebbels:
Walden (1998; chamber version 2008)

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach:
Lasset Uns Ablegen Falck.80 (1749)
Sinfonia in d minor, Falck 65 „Adagio und Fuge“
Gaudete omnes Populi Falck 103 [after JS Bach, Cantata BWV80 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott]
Harpsichord Concerto in g Falck deëst (emerged 1999)
Duet for two Flutes no.3 in E Flat Falck 55
Duet for two Flutes no.1 in e minor Falck 54

Stravinsky:
Le Baiser de la Fée (1928)

[Enrique]

Shostakovich
String quartet no.2

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Haydn: Symphony No. 47 in G

Grieg: In Autumn Overture