What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

[Lisztianwagner]

End of the VW symphonic journey:

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Pastoral Symphony (No. 3)

[Madiel]

Haydn: op.33/1 in B minor.



Nobody really told me to listen to so much Haydn. I just get a kick out of it.

Oh alright, I secretly wanted to impress Gurn...

[Florestan]

Haydn: op.33/1 in B minor.



Nobody really told me to listen to so much Haydn. I just get a kick out of it.

Oh alright, I secretly wanted to impress Gurn...

A Schenkerian analysis of the minuet would make you appear much more knowledgeable and well informed. Just saying... 

[Madiel]

A Schenkerian analysis of the minuet would make you appear much more knowledgeable and well informed. Just saying... 

You'll just have to take it on trust that I could manage a Schenkerian analysis. The problem is, I don't have the graphical software necessary to show you the results.

EDIT: To show you them efficiently.

[Florestan]

You'll just have to take it on trust that I could manage a Schenkerian analysis.

I trust you. The problem is, which GMGer would be interested in a Schenkerian analysis of the minuet from Op. 33/1 --- beside coffee, that is? 

[Madiel]

I trust you. The problem is, which GMGer would be interested in a Schenkerian analysis of the minuet from Op. 33/1 --- beside coffee, that is? 

I don't think even Gurn would be. As far as I can tell he's more keen on things like chronology - just like me. 

PS It's not even called a minuet. In opus 33 he calls the minuet a scherzo. Although they're pretty much still minuets. Sheesh.

PPS Haydn is a fucking genius. I guess Mozart and Schubert are okay...

[Florestan]

PPS Haydn is a fucking genius. I guess Mozart and Schubert are okay...

What tiers do you assign them to? 

[DavidW]

[VonStupp]

I agree about Boult's performance of Simpson's 1st Symphony (my favourite of his symphonies). Also that is a fabulous CD which also features Robin Orr's powerful, memorable and eloquent Symphony in One Movement (my favourite of the three featured works). Fricker's 2nd Symphony has the most exciting last few pages. I still don't like the Simpson symphonies that much (I stick with my belief that they are like very impressive and carefully constructed pieces of scaffolding which, when removed, reveal that there is no building underneath). Apart from No. 1, I like No.3 (especially in Horenstein's recording) most. No.9 is considered to be a great masterpiece by some and I'd like to hear 2 and 4 again.

Thank you vandermolen, an excellent description. I know Simpson mainly as an academic, and he certainly has strong views on the symphony as a form, so perhaps that comes through in his music.

Still, I will seek out a few more, I think. Thank you for the suggestions!

VS

[Madiel]

What tiers do you assign them to? 

Oh right. Tiers. I have no idea how many tiers I have. Plus I'm only up to number 176 in the Köchel catalogue and I haven't asked anyone to vote on whether any of those pieces were worth me listening to, so I can't tell you which ones I liked in case I reveal that I don't know which Mozart is the best Mozart.

(Please don't make me listen to every single work in the Schubert catalogue. I'm begging you.)

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D major - Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder - the high point of the cycle so far. This symphony has been very fortunate in recordings.

[Traverso]

Bach

I really really enjoyed this recording,awesome  ...

[Traverso]

Mozart


CD 5

[Mirror Image]

Now playing this entire Bartók Boulez disc:



Stupendous!

[Mandryka]

A really lovely performance of Andrea Gabrieli's Pass'e mezzo by Bernard Brauchli on a clavichord. Followed by an equally expressive hornepipe by Hugh Aston.

[SonicMan46]

Spohr, Louis (1784-1859) - Octet & Nonet w/ the Gaudier Ensemble (these works include wind instruments) and Piano Trios w/ the Beethoven Trio Ravensburg - just single Fanfare reviews attached (slim pickings this time -  )  Dave

 

[Artem]

[vandermolen]

Samuel Barber: Symphony No.2

I'm now on to the terrific Cello Concerto, which I first encountered in this excellent Decca Eclipse LP release of 1974 (I remember buying it in a record shop near South Kensington station in London):

[Mandryka]

Listening to the opening duo for two cellos in C.

I don't think this is formulaic or anodine or just charming, delightful. There's a level of fantasy, unexpectedness, which makes it more than that. Boccherini is turning out to be my biggest old time classical music composer discovery for a long time.

Richard Lester is the Boccherini man as far as I can see - here and in the cello quintets.