What are you listening to now - I ?

[Thomas Roth]

Sebastian Fagerlund: Partita. Clever but not very original.

[Mahlerei]

Jerome Kern Treasury (McGlinn/London Sinfonietta)

[Roehre]

Today:

Clarke:
Poem for String Quartet(1926) (R3: Lunchtime)

Huygens:
Pathodia sacra et profana (1647)

Verrijt:
Flammae divinae opus 5 (1649)

Sweelinck:
Psalm 42 (p.1604)
Mein junges Leben hat ein End

Escher:
Musique pour l’Esprit en Deuil (1943)

[french frank]

The discussion of the Weinberg opera made me get out the Naxos disc of the violin concertos of Vainberg [sic] and Myaskovsky. I liked the Weinberg (1960) which I thought matched the idiom of Shostakovich. The Myaskovsky (1938) is still in the lush, romantic, lyrical style. Sort of nice in the lush, romantic, lyrical way, but perhaps not quite as interesting.

[Roehre]

Today:

Alpaerts:
Zomer-idylle (1928) (R3: TtN)

Mahler:
Symphony no.10: Adagio

Peter Eötvös:
Zero Points
Psychokosmos
Levitation
IMA (last Saturday’s R3: H&N, thanks Bryn )

For some reason Eötvös‘ IMA inspired me to return to:
Sweelinck:
Psalms 150, 33, 53, 148 and 98
Te Deum laudamus
Ab Oriente
Oraison orientale
De Profundis
Caude et laetare
Ecce Prandium

[salymap]

Rossini's little String Sonata no 1 in G, written when he was in his teens. Are the other 5 Sonatas as attractive as this one?

[Ventilhorn]

Rossini's little String Sonata no 1 in G, written when he was in his teens. Are the other 5 Sonatas as attractive as this one?

Yes, they are, Salymap. You can hear them as String pieces or in Rossini's own arrangement for wind quartet - Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn.

Last night I listened to Piano concertos by J. C. Bach.**
Played by the Hanover Band and directed from the fortepiano by Anthony Halstead (better known to wind players as one of the most accomplished horn players of his generation).

What a remarkable musician!

** Op. 13 Nos 1 to 6 and No 14

Good morning everybody,
VH

[Roehre]

Rossini's little String Sonata no 1 in G, written when he was in his teens. Are the other 5 Sonatas as attractive as this one?

The Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville marriner made a recording of all of them in the 1970s, then released on an Argo 2LP-set [combined with IIRC a Donizetti string quartet] Should be available on one CD.

Delicious works they are, these Rossini sonatas à 4, all of them written in the summer of 1804 (he was 12 by then!) as he was on holiday and staying at family's of his of which 4 were playing string instruments. Btw, the original bass-line of these sonatas is not for 'cello, but for double bass

[salymap]

Thanks Roehre, I must look out for it. I've had a tape of no 1 for ages, the others never seem to make it on TTN.

[Dave2002]

The Asrael is a closed book to me and this is my first real attempt at getting into it. First impressions: vivid performance and recording, but I still have doubts about the work as a whole. 5 movements and an hour plus of naked misery are a difficult trick to bring off: the soul - well, mine anyway - does need a bit of (strong) contrast somewhere along the road!

Clearly I need to give it a few more spins before setting this judgment into stone...

I think it's easier not to bother. Sorry to say this, but I had another go myself after reading this.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

..the Finzi Cello Concerto on this morning ... not heard too many versions but love the piece; i have Yo Yo Ma and the RPO and Tim Hugh and Northern SInfonia ... listening to Ma now

[Suffolkcoastal]

The Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville marriner made a recording of all of them in the 1970s, then released on an Argo 2LP-set [combined with IIRC a Donizetti string quartet] Should be available on one CD.

Delicious works they are, these Rossini sonatas à 4, all of them written in the summer of 1804 (he was 12 by then!) as he was on holiday and staying at family's of his of which 4 were playing string instruments. Btw, the original bass-line of these sonatas is not for 'cello, but for double bass

A section of the Double Bass part from the 3rd Sonata was one of my old Grade VI Double Bass examination pieces. Basically fun with C major scales!

[BBMmk2]

Been listening today to a selction of cds from that marvelous box of hasrmonia Mundi's Annoiversary year, this one called 'Sacred Music'. the cds I have had on are the 'La Petit et Grande Motets, The Birth of Polyphony and a cd of settings of the Stabat Mater.

[Mahlerei]

Florent Schmitt: Psaume 47 (HDTT download of Martinon's classic 1972 recording)

[Roehre]

Today:

Two centuries of Psalms:
33 and 130 Sweelinck
69 Zwingli
46 Walter
125 Greiter
12, 26 and 40 Clemens non Papa
107 de Monte
140 Claude le Jeune
47 Vallet
121 Butler
24 van Noordt
120 Hassler
103 Buxtehude (BuxWV 212)
103 Schütz (SWV 201)
149+103+150 JSBach (Motet BWV 225)

Maconchy:
String quartet no.1 (1932/’33)