What are you listening to now - I ?

[Barbirollians]

George Weldon's passionate Enigma Variation after the Gladys Ripley Sea Pictures on a Somm disc - thanks to salymap for recommending these marvellous performances.

[Roehre]

Today:

Gal:
3 Sketches opus 7 (1911) (R3)

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 134a and 173a
Motets BWV 118, 227, 229, 230

Bosmans:
String Quartet (1927)

Escher:
Le vrai Visage de la Paix (1953/’57)

Pijper:
Six Adagios (1940)

[BBMmk2]

Jorge Bolet, playing Liszt! Gosh what a fine Lisztian JB was!

[Basil]

Grieg,

Sigurd Jorsalfar, incedental music, Op22

Neema Jarvi - Goteborgs Symfoniker.

Also Peer Gynt by the same.

[Anna]

I've done my usual eyes closed, pick something at random.

Scriabin Symph No. 2 and Poem of Ecstasy. USSR SO, Evgeni Svetlanov

[Threni]

Last night:
Smetana: all three CDs out of the new set I bought off amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smetana-Comp...6680377&sr=8-1 Bargain price too!

Tonight:
Sibelius: Symphony no. 1 and 2
NYPO/Bernstein

Stravinsky: The Firebird
Craft

Stravinsky: Petrushka
Craft

[Panjandrum]

Xenakis Khoaї
Elisabeth Chojnacka

Boulez Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
BBC SO; Boulez

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 82, 83 and 125
(3 of the 7 works composed specifically for today: Candlemas/ Mariae Reinigung)

Hendrik Andriessen:
Miroir de Peine (1919)

Maderna:
Oboe concerto no.3 (1973)

[salymap]

The last item on TTN this morning, Suk's 'Fairy Tale Suite' which seemed to veer between his father-in-law's
style and briefly a Bruckner Scherzo. I must listen again to it.

[Roehre]

The last item on TTN this morning, Suk's 'Fairy Tale Suite' which seemed to veer between his father-in-law's style and briefly a Bruckner Scherzo. I must listen again to it.

Good description Salymap.
There is another piece of Suk's to which this description IMO applies fully: his Fantastic Scherzo opus 25.

[verismissimo]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 82, 83 and 125
(3 of the 7 works composed specifically for today: Candlemas/ Mariae Reinigung)

Why so many for Candlemas, Roehre?

I'm on 82 myself - listened to Ramselaar/Leusink and David Thomas/Parrott thus far. Souzay/Winschermann to come. Then on to 83 etc...

[BBMmk2]

More Jorge Bolet from hios Liszt recital.

[vinteuil]

Why so many for Candlemas?...

well, quite a lot to be marked on Candlemas - both the Purification of the BVM as well as the Presentation at the Temple, the occasion for Simeon's 'Nunc Dimittis' - so lots of liturgical opportunities?

2 February is also, of course, Groundhog Day...

[verismissimo]

Seven Bach Cantatas for Candlemas? I only have six - 82, 83, 125, 157, 161 and 200. What's the seventh?

And thanks, vinteuil for yours. I agree - and maybe Candlemas was more important in Protestant Germany in the early 18th century than it is now.

[Roehre]

Why so many for Candlemas, Roehre?

Verismissimo,
JSBach is said to have composed 5 complete cantata cycles, but of 2 of these most works have disappeared.
By chance the Maria purification/Candlemass cantatas seem all to have survived:
In chronological order 161 (1715/'16), 83 (1724), 125 (1725), 82 (1726?), 157 (1727) and 200 (1742).
82 as well as 157 were played in 1727, making it possible that both cantatas were composed for that occasion.
The date of composition of 158 "Der Friede sei mit dir" hasn't been established sofar (that's the seventh work)