What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

Strauss' Four Last Songs.

[Peter]

Strauss' Four Last Songs.

Wonderful! If I had to pick one work by Strauss it would be that.

Continuing my journey through the Beethoven quartets with Op.127 and Op.130. It's a very interesting process listening to them all in sequence and with the score.

[Sorrano]

Wonderful! If I had to pick one work by Strauss it would be that.

Continuing my journey through the Beethoven quartets with Op.127 and Op.130. It's a very interesting process listening to them all in sequence and with the score.

I'll have to check the songs out; my Strauss work would probably be the Alpine Symphony.

This morning: Pleyel's Clarinet Concerto. It was thought that he would become the greatest composer of his time. What happened?

[Chris]

Ravel - Boléro

It was on the radio this morning, and I think this might be the first time I've actually stuck it through to the end!

[Joy]

Ravel - Boléro

It was on the radio this morning, and I think this might be the first time I've actually stuck it through to the end!

Boy, I really have to be in the mood of that tune to listen to it in it's entirity so congratulations!

[Chris]

I was a captive audience, sitting in my car

Seriously, it is a wonderful melody, but listening to it for fifteen minutes straight can be difficult, unless you are really in the mood for it or you really focus on the orchestration.

[Megan]

I guess Bolero is good piece for trombonists to practice glissando and vibrato.
To me the glissando in the lower register is an ugly or angry sound.

[Roehre]

Today:

Dvorak:
Symphony no.5 in F opus 24 & 76 B.54 (1875)

Reimann:
Zyklus (1971)

Rheinberger:
Grand sonata for piano-4-hands in c-minor op.122 (1881)
Fantasy for piano-4-hands in e-flat-minor op.79 (1874)

Pintscher:
towards Osiris (2005) (R3 live)

Vaughan Williams:
Fantasy for piano and orchestra (1897/1904)

Holliger:
T(air)e (1978/’83)

[Sorrano]

I was a captive audience, sitting in my car

Seriously, it is a wonderful melody, but listening to it for fifteen minutes straight can be difficult, unless you are really in the mood for it or you really focus on the orchestration.

So how long did it take you to get the melody and rhythm out of your head?

[Chris]

So how long did it take you to get the melody and rhythm out of your head?

About three minutes before it ended...

[Roehre]

Today:

Weingartner:
Violin concerto in G opus 52 (1911)

Dvorak:
Symphony no.6 in D opus 60 B.112 (1880)

Krenek:
Concerto grosso no.2 opus 25/2 (1924)
Symphony no.4 op.113 (1947)

Reimann:
Die Pole sind in uns (1995)

Petersson:
Symphony no.2 (1952/‘53)

[Roehre]

Today:

Dvorak:
Symphony no.7 in d opus 70 B.141 (1885)

Julian Anderson:
Symphony (2002/’03) (R3)

HKGruber:
Nebelsteinmusik (Violin concerto no.2) (1988) (R3)

Von Einem:
Concerto for Orchestra opus 4 (1943) (R3)

[Chris]

Weelkes - As Vesta Was Descending

[Roehre]

Today:

Webern:
Das Augenlicht opus 26
String quartet op.28
Cantata no.1 op.29
Variations for orchestra op.30
Cantata no.2 op.31

Dvorak:
Symphony no.8 in G opus 88 B.163 (1889)

Mathias:
Piano concerto no.1 op.2 (1955)

Stenhammar:
Serenade for orchestra in F op.31 (5 mvt version) (1913)

[haydnguy]

Greetings to everyone! Here is what has been on my "turntable" lately.

Beethoven:
Piano Sonatas - Op. 109 - Op. 110 - Op. 111
Friedrich Gulda, Piano

The Alwyn series on Naxos:

8.570705 - Violin Concerto, Miss Julie Suite, Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion

8.570145 - Concerti Grossi Nos. 2 and 3, Seven Irish Tunes, Dramatic Overture: The Moor of Venice

8.557649 - Symphony No. 4 (1959), Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1970)

8.557648 - Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3

ALL - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones