What are you listening to now?

[kishnevi]

Henning Op. 121 a contemplative duo which is a mon gout performed here a touch too quickly.  But as the saying goes chaconne a son gout

[North Star]

G'day, everyone!

"Very lively" would be Molto vivace. I should read Vivace assai as "rather lively" . . . there's wiggle room for interpretation, but if Vivace is 0, and Molto vivace is (say) +1, my sense is to set Vivace assai at (say) -1.

An even truer model might be:

Vivace assai :: -1
Vivace :: 0
Molto vivace :: +2 or 3

Edit :: pedantic refinement

That's how I've always understood the word assai, too.
There's a wonderful tempo marking in the finale of Sibelius's Second Symphony: Moderato assai.  Not too moderately..

Thread duty
RVW
Symphony No. 6
New Philharmonia
Boult

[Karl Henning]

Henning Op. 121 a contemplative duo which is a mon gout performed here a touch too quickly.  But as the saying goes chaconne a son gout

I expect that live performers will let 'er breathe a bit.  Thanks for listening!

[Harry]

Some enjoyable Gluck which makes me glucklich.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/gluck-christoph-willibald-von-1714-1787.html?spref=tw

[Mookalafalas]

"Papa"
Cello Concerto № 2 in D, Hob.VIIb.2
Hidemi Suzuki, vc
La Petite Bande
Kuijken

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I want that disc, and as buying it in that box isn't much more than getting it on its own, I think I'll just nab a set and consider the other 9 discs a nice bonus

For my part, I'm going through Gurn's ginormous Haydn thread and have hit the part where he presents a chronological path to entering F.J.'s music.  As a good student, I have been listening to this for the last few hours:

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[Henk]

Karl Henning - How to tell (chasing the tail of nothing), op. 103

Nice work, Karl!

[Henk]

Henning - Le Tombeau de W.A.G., op. 122a

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Henk.

[Pat B]

I have found several references to 'assai' meaning, at the time of Haydn, 'quite' or 'rather', not 'very'. So Vivace assai would be 'quite lively'.  The Harvard Dictionary of Music is apparently one reference that says this was the 18th century meaning.

One should not automatically be guided by modern Italian when one is not reading a tempo marking written in modern Italian.

Yes, but in this case, "Quite" and "very" are quite close in meaning. To use Karl's numbering scheme, my take (I think this was how we took them back in my playing days) has been:

0 vivace
1 vivace assai
2 molto vivace

No comment on Kuijken's Bear though.

Thread duty: Rameau's keyboard pieces of 1728 (Rannou). Thanks to Que and king ubu for this recommendation.

[The new erato]

I dug this out for a rerun. Very enjoyable!

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[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/v/FKmNTtgPauI
Ensemble Mare Nostrum play some fantasias by Eustache du Caurroy --such a shame that there aren't more recordings of these fantasies.

[Karl Henning]

Thread duty: Rameau's keyboard pieces of 1728 (Rannou). Thanks to Que and king ubu for this recommendation.

Just in case you may find it of interest:

http://www.youtube.com/v/m5M5HwRY69c

[Drasko]

Opening of Josquin's Miserere Mei Deus never fails to give me goosebumps.

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[mc ukrneal]

I want that disc, and as buying it in that box isn't much more than getting it on its own, I think I'll just nab a set and consider the other 9 discs a nice bonus

For my part, I'm going through Gurn's ginormous Haydn thread and have hit the part where he presents a chronological path to entering F.J.'s music.  As a good student, I have been listening to this for the last few hours:

[asin]B004H38WUQ[/asin]

The various Huss discs are generally excellent. Hope you are enjoying them.

[SonicMan46]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - Orchestral Works, Vols. 1-3 w/ Siegert Rampe & Nova Stravaganza - today another side of Graupner on the excellent MDG label - Dave

   

[Karl Henning]

I want that disc, and as buying it in that box isn't much more than getting it on its own, I think I'll just nab a set and consider the other 9 discs a nice bonus

It's a fabulously good box!

Thread Duty:

“Papa”
Sinfonia concertante in B^b, Hob. I/105
Patrick Beaugiraud, ob
Marc Vallon, bn
Ryo Teraokado, vn
Hidemi Suzuki, vc
La Petite Bande
Kuijken

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[Papy Oli]

Good evening all 

1st listen to Hugo Wolf, from the Gerhaher boxset :

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[Pat B]

Just in case you may find it of interest:

http://www.youtube.com/v/m5M5HwRY69c

Yes indeed! Thanks.

Thread duty: Just started the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Huberman and Steinberg from 1928).

[Brian]

Hurwitz named this a new "CD from Hell," so I decided to give it a try. The timing is certainly hellish - it's just Scheherazade, no couplings, 45 minutes, for full price.

[Harry]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - Orchestral Works, Vols. 1-3 w/ Siegert Rampe & Nova Stravaganza - today another side of Graupner on the excellent MDG label - Dave

   

This series is in my collection too, and I remember how delighted I was with them.