What are you listening to now?

[haydnguy]

First listen to a new boxed set that just came today and first listen for me to this composer:

Humphrey Searle (1915-1982)

CD1:
Symphony No 1 op. 23 (1952/3)
Night Music op. 2 (1943)
Symphony No 4 op. 38 (1962)
Overture to a Drama op. 17 (1949)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alun Francis
CPO

[Megan]

Music while I work.



Wednesday Award-winner

Vaughan Williams
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1
Stuart Green (viola)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Paul Daniel (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557276

10.22
Artist of the Week

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 'Emperor'
Murray Perahia (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
SONY S3K 44575

11.16
Mozart
Quartet for Flute and Strings No.1 in D K.285
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Christoph Poppen (violin)
Hariolf Schlichtig (viola)
Jean-Guihan Queryas (cello)
EMI 5568292




I can never concentrate on what I am doing when listening to Beethoven's Emperor. I just have to follow those delicious notes!

[Roehre]

First listen to a new boxed set that just came today and first listen for me to this composer:

Humphrey Searle (1915-1982)

CD1:
Symphony No 1 op. 23 (1952/3)
Night Music op. 2 (1943)
Symphony No 4 op. 38 (1962)
Overture to a Drama op. 17 (1949)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alun Francis
CPO

Following the Night Music and especially the 1st symphony (1st mvt), a little excursion to Webern's string quartet opus 28 pays off

[Roehre]

Today:

Weiner:
Divertimento no.2 in A minor opus 24 (1938) (R3: TtN)

Brian:
Cello concerto (1964)

[Chris]

Weiner:
Divertimento no.2 in A minor opus 24 (1938) (R3: TtN)

People were still writing divertimentos in 1938? Huh.

[Roehre]

People were still writing divertimentos in 1938? Huh.

Bartok did so in 1939, and that one is a premonition of the oncoming war.
(Btw: I've got some 30odd divertimenti dating from 1940-1994 in my collection )

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
Kullervo opus 7 : mvts 3 and 5 (piano-version)
Rakastava JS160a (1893)
6 Choral songs opus 18 (1893/1901)

Alwyn:
Overture in the form of a Serenade (1946)
Blackdown – a Tone Poem from the surrey Hills (1926)
Both works showing an (un?)conscious influence of Rimsky K’s Sheherazade and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker’s finale of Act 1)
Prelude (1925)
Ad Infinitum – a Satire for Orchestra (1929)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Beethoven's Symphony No. 8

[Chris]

Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 on the way in to work this morning.

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
Heitä, koski, kuohuminen JS94 (1893)
Hymn Natus in curas op.21 (1898 version)
Kuutamolla JS114 (1898)
Atenarnes Sang op.31/3 (version for boys’ and mens’ voices/piano/harmonium 1899)
[the harmonium/piano sounds like an out-of-tune piano, btw]
Sandels op.28 (mens’ choir/piano version 1898)

Maxwell Davies:
Thristle’s nest Junction (R3: P03)

Hildegard von Bingen:
O Jerusalem

Anonymus 12C:
Luto carens et latere
Jerusalem! Grant damage me fais
Jerusalem accipitur
Te Deum

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
CD 2 (Male Voice Choirs) from Complete Edition vol.11, i.a.:
Har du Mod op.31/2 (1911) and JS93(1904) versions
Ej med klagan JS69 (1905)
Laulun mahti JS118 (1895)
Veljeni vierailla mailla JS217 (1904)
Isänmaalle JS98b (final version 1908)
Tulen synty op.32 (bariton/male choir/piano version 1910)
Songs opp.84, 108, JS224
Finlandia op.26
Marches op.91a, JS173, JS219/220

Vaughan Williams:
Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue (1901/’02)

Bowen:
Eventide op.69 (1922)

Liszt:
A la Chapelle Sixtine S.461 (1862)

JSBach/Liszt:
Fantasia and Fugue in g BWV542/S.463 (p.1863/’72)

Dufay:
Missa Se la face ay pale

[Michael]

Beethoven, String Trio, Opus 9 Number 3 in C minor.
Furious perfection in Beethoven's personal key.

[Megan]

GRANADA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA. J.F.Rebel. "La Fantaisie"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8Hh...el_video_title

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
CD 3 (Music for mixed choirs) from Complete Edition vol.11, i.a.:
Italian folk song Arrangements JS99 (1897/’98)
Cantata for the University Graduation Ceremonies of 1897 op.23
Rakastava JS160c
Songs opus 18

JSBach/Liszt:
Preludes and Fugues BWV 543-548 S.462 (1842/’50)

Sweelinck:
Chansons (p.Antwerp 1594 & Amsterdam 1608)

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
CD 4 (Music for children’s choir) from Complete Edition vol.11, i.a.:
Carminalia JS51c (1898)
2 Christmas Songs op.1 (1942)
The World Song of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts op.91b (1918/1952)

Sweelinck:
Italian rimes and madrigals (p.1583/1612)

Nanino:
Morir non puo il mio core (p.1583)
Sweelinck:
Morir non puo il mio core

Marenzio:
Liquide perle Amor (p.1593)
Sweelinck:
Liquide perle Amor

Marenzio:
Qual vive Salamandra (p.1593)
Sweelinck:
Qual vive Salamandra

Macque:
Amor, io sento un Respirar (p.1600)
Sweelinck:
Amor, io sento un Respirar

Andrea Gabrieli:
Dolcissimo ben mio (p.1583)
Sweelinck:
Dolcissimo ben mio

Ferrabosco:
Io mi son Giovinetta (p.1583)
Sweelinck:
Io mi son Giovinetta

Adès:
Tevot (2007)