What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[TheGSMoeller]

Kid Esa-Pekka

"Daddy Salonen made me wear this turtleneck." -Esa

[Sadko]

Just landed:

Skriabin: 24 Preludes op. 11
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes op. 34

Marta Deyanova

[Karl Henning]

One of those recordings which, wonderful as it is, I need to be in just the right mood for . . . .

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[nesf]

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 3
Ashkenazy



From Decca Sound box.

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart Symphony #41 C major K.551 "Jupiter" Hermann Abendroth conduciting the RSO Berlin




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart Piano Concerto #9 E flat K.271 "Jeunehomme" Leif Ove Andsnes conducting the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard




Sarge

[Todd]

[Florestan]

Mozart Piano Concerto #9 E flat K.271 "Jeunehomme"

I've always wondered why this nickname when it was actually a "jeune fille" whom the concert was written for...     

[Sergeant Rock]

I've always wondered why this nickname when it was actually a "jeune fille" whom the concert was written for...     

A Mozartian pun? The woman may have been named Wuilliaume or Villieaume and Mozart's accent combined with his sense of humor managed to change her age and gender    At least that's what the liner notes suggest.

Sarge

[Florestan]

A Mozartian pun? The woman may have been named Wuilliaume or Villieaume and Mozart's accent combined with his sense of humor managed to change her age and gender    At least that's what the liner notes suggest.

It has also been suggested that the name was actually Jenamy. Now this might come from "jeune mamie" and I think this is a much more plausible Mozart pun, provided he spoke colloquial French... 

[Gurn Blanston]

It has also been suggested that the name was actually Jenamy. Now this might come from "jeune mamie" and I think this is a much more plausible Mozart pun, provided he spoke colloquial French... 

Within the last 5 years or so it has been definitively documented that what Mozart had written to his father in a letter "...I wrote a concerto for Mlle. Genomy..." is exactly what he intended to write. Mlle. Genomy was the daughter of a French diplomat stationed in Vienna and a very prodigious amateur pianist. How that story got started 200 years ago and perpetuated for all that time is one of the modern mysteries.

Thread duty;

Jerome Hantai - Hob 16_46 Sonata #31 in Ab for Keyboard 1st mvmt - Allegro moderato

[Florestan]

Mozart had written to his father in a letter "...I wrote a concerto for Mlle. Genomy..."

That is, "Mlle Gen... oh my..." 

(Wild guess: Genevieve...  )

[Dancing Divertimentian]

[Gurn Blanston]

That is, "Mlle Gen... oh my..." 

(Wild guess: Genevieve...  )

Doh! It's her last name!    I could tell you her first if I could remember. She was actually a real person.

[Florestan]

Doh! It's her last name!    I could tell you her first if I could remember. She was actually a real person.

Your sense of humor has apparently vanished despite your predilection for Haydn... 

[Gurn Blanston]

Your sense of humor has apparently vanished despite your predilection for Haydn... 

Oh, you know me. When it comes to history, I'm serious as a heart attack! 

Anyway, name = "Victoire Jenamy" 

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty (but not humorless):

Jn Tavener
The Protecting Veil
Steven Isserlis, vc
LSO
Rozhdestvensky

[Florestan]

Oh, you know me. When it comes to history, I'm serious as a heart attack! 

Well, as a Romanian philosopher once said, referring to Romanians: "History pissed on us and we retorted by pissing on it." 

Anyway, name = "Victoire Jenamy" 

Don't get me started... 

[Karl Henning]

Well, as a Romanian philosopher once said, referring to Romanians: "History pissed on us and we retorted by pissing on it." 

Sumpn smells funny here!

[listener]

REGER    Violin Sonata no. 9 in c, op.139
Suite in the Old Style op. 93    3  Pieces op. 79d
Ulf Wallin, violin    Roland Pöntinen, piano
STRAVINSKY   Petrouchka  (1911 version)
London Philharmonic Orch.,     Haitink cond.