What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Started on my tour of the Beethoven violin sonatas yesterday with Op.12/1 - I have the complete set with Oistrakh/Oborin.

[Michael]

/Not one of his best works, but the sopranosolo with that violin solo is a great moment even by Beethoven's standards. (But that lasts only 4 minutes or so of IIRC in total some 40 minutes)

Yes, he wrote something similar (WoO98) for inclusion in the incidental music for "The Consecration of the House".
The last movement of Der glorreiche Augenblick (see - I did it! ) is quite nice too if you can get a recording with the children's chorus as written by B himself. Some versions substitute female singers at this point.

[Megan]

COMPOSER OF THE WEEK, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018090r


Listen : This programme is on air now:
Listen Live on BBC Radio 3 (Started at 12:00)
SynopsisIn 1807 there was an explosion in performances of Beethoven's music. His name on a concert programme would guarantee a full house, and his music became the biggest draw for Viennese audiences, second only to Haydn. And thanks to a rise in popularity of domestic music-making, there was a huge demand for instrumental music. Donald Macleod introduces the cello sonata dedicated to a friend Beethoven had asked to help him find a wife, one of his most popular piano pieces presented to the woman in question, and the extraordinary choral work, barely finished in time for his own benefit concert which broke down during the first performance.

.Music played
Timings are shown as 24hr time of the day.

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Ludwig van Beethoven — Bagatelle (fur Elise) in A minor WoO.59 for piano
Performer: Alfred BRENDEL - Piano (Piano)

PHILIPS, 456 031-2-, 1-28 --:--
Ludwig van Beethoven — Sonata in A major Op.69 for cello and piano
Performer: Angela HEWITT - Piano Performer: Daniel MULLER-SCHOTT - Cello

HYPERION, CDA67633, 1-7 --:--
Ludwig van Beethoven — Sehnsucht (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt) WoO.134`4 [4th setting]
Performer: Ann MURRAY - Mezzo-soprano Performer: Iain BURNSIDE - Piano

SIGNUM, SIGCD-139, 2-8 --:--
Ludwig van Beethoven — Fantasia in C minor Op.80 for piano, chorus and orchestra
Conductor: Claudio ABBADO Performer: Camille CAPASSO - Mezzo-soprano Performer: Cheryl STUDER - Soprano Performer: Friedrich MOLSBERGER - Bass Performer: Hiroshi OSHIMA - Tenor Performer: John ALER - Tenor Performer: Kristina CLEMENZ - Soprano Performer: Yevgeni KISSIN - Piano Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Rias Chamber Choir

Deutsche Grammophon, DG4537982, 2-




http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018090r

[Megan]

And now, continuing with Beethoven, Radio 3 Lunchtime concert.


Presented by Stephen Johnson.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 10 in G major Op.14 No. 2
Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 22 in F major Op.54
Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 15 in D major Op.28 (Pastoral)

Llyr Williams (piano).

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018090t

[Michael]

Just listening to it, Megan!

[Megan]

Just listening to it, Megan!

Great Michael, I'm glad you caught it!

[Roehre]

Today:

Respighi:
Lauda per la Nativita del Signore (1929)

Pettersson:
Symphony no.5 (1962)

[Preston]

Listen to various pieces by Mozart, including his Requiem. I just want to say, it is so unimaginably sad that such a genius as Mozart died at such a young age. He had already left his brief stardom and was starting to look into spirituality very deeply (attempting to be employed at churches) - from what I understand? And, not that he had not looked into it before.

Anyway, to imagine what he could have done after writing a piece as emotionally, as serious, deep, etc. as his requiem is mind-bewildering.

'More to come on this, hopefully at least. Perhaps a thread.'

[Megan]

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John Taverner — Christe Jesu
Performers: Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington (director of music)

AVIE AV 2215 --:--
Ravel — Rapsodie espagnole
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux (conductor)

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Johann Sebastian Bach — Concerto in D minor, BWV1060
Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), Arthur Grumiaux (violin), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor

[Megan]

Midday today.
Vienna's Darkest Hour.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0180910

[Roehre]

Today:

Tallis:
Missa Puer natus est nobis

Holliger:
Scardanelli-Zyklus (1975/'91)

Pettersson:
Symphony no.6 (1963/'66)

[Chris]

Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
National Philharmonic Orchestra/Richard Bonynge

[Michael]

Eartha Kitt singing "Old Fashioned Millionaire". Lovely harpsichord!

[Roehre]

Today:

Keuris (who died today in 1996, just 2 months after his 50th birthday):
Symphony in D (1995)

Kersters:
Hulde aan Paul opus 79 (1997) (R3: TtN)

Carl Davis:
A Christmas Carol-suite (1993)

Tallis:
Puer natus est nobis
Beati immaculati
Viderunt omnes
Suscipe quaeso
Gaude gloriosa

Pettersson:
Symphony no.7 (1966/’67)

[Chris]

Tchaikovsky:
The Nutcracker
The Sleeping Beauty
National Philharmonic Orchestra/Richard Bonynge

Office Christmas party tonight, so today seemed like a good day to listen to The Nutcracker.

Also caught Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 on the radio on the way to work!