What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Schubert: Landler # 5 from 12 Landler, D 790
Kodaly: Dances of Galenta
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1

[Chris]

Bizet - Symphony in C major
Beethoven - Egmont Overture

[Roehre]

Today:


Beethoven/Liszt:
Symphony no.6 op.68 S.464/6 (Liszt’s 2nd arrangement)

Gerhard:
Symphony no.2 “Metamorphoses” (1957/’59)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

W F Bach: Flute Concerto in D

[Chris]

Beethoven - Triple Concerto
Mozart - Symphony No. 36 "Linz"
George Szell - Piano Quintet, Op. 2

[Roehre]

Today:

Beethoven/Liszt:
Symphony no.7 op.92 S.464/7 (Liszt’s 2nd arrangement)

Gerhard:
Symphony no.3 “Collages” (1960)

[Peter]

Beethoven - Triple Concerto
Mozart - Symphony No. 36 "Linz"
George Szell - Piano Quintet, Op. 2

I didn't know Szell wrote a piano quintet! What did you think of it?

Listening to Bruckner's 5th symphony.

[Megan]

Russian violinist, Viktoria Mullova
Bach BWV 1004, Chaconne violin Solo.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VL9TFvYyKI

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[Megan]

Broadcasts of recitals from this year's Hay Festival at St Mary's Church continue with a concert from the brilliant young virtuoso Leonard Elschenbroich; he performs sensuous late sonatas for 'cello and piano by Debussy and Beethoven.

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Alexei Grynyuk (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata, Op.102 no.1

Debussy: Sonata

Beethoven: Sonata, Op.102 no.2.

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[Megan]

BBC NOW Live from Hoddinot Hall


Rachmainov: Isle of the dead

Mussorgsky: Songs & Dances of Death

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Henk Neven (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Roberto Minczuk (conductor)

During the interval, at around 2.50pm:
Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor).

[Sorrano]

Sounds like a great program from Hoddinot Hall, Megan!

[Chris]

I didn't know Szell wrote a piano quintet! What did you think of it?

It was pretty good, amazing considering he wrote it when he was only 14. It seems he was quite the prolific composer when he was young.

[Megan]

Sounds like a great program from Hoddinot Hall, Megan!

Yes. Stravinsky isn't familiar territory for me I'm afraid, but I did like the Scherzo fantastique.
I did also enjoy Rach's Isle of the Dead.

[Roehre]

Today:


Beethoven/Liszt:
Symphony no.8 op.92 S.464/8

Gerhard:
Symphony no.4 “New York” (1966/’67)

[Megan]

This morning's listening.


10.00
Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431 653-2

10.07
Albeniz
Bajo la palmera (Cantos de Espana) [Beneath the Palm Tree]
Julian Bream & John Williams (guitars)
RCA 09026 61452-2

10.13
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

Sonata in G major, Op.49 No.2
Melvyn Tan (piano)
VIRGIN CLASSICS VBD 562368-2

10.18
Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
London Symphony Orchestra
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
COLLINS CLASSSICS 10192

10.43
Artist of the Week
Janacek
Pohadka
Anne Gastinel (cello)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V4748

10.55
Bach
"Mache dich mein herze rein" (St Matthew Passion) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Munich Bach Orchestra Karl Richter (conductor)
Archiv 439 338-2

11.08
Benjamin Britten drew many great musicians to his festival in Aldeburgh, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julian Bream and Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat, K.482, with Benjamin Britten conducting the English Chamber Orchestra. Britten wrote the cadenzas at Richter's request specifically for this performance. Britten dared to step outside the musical language of Mozart's original and express the full sonorities and virtuoso displays that a grand piano is capable of in an extraordinary mix of musical styles and melodic invention.

Mozart
Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major, K.482
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
BBC Legends BBCB8010-2.

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