What Have You Been Listening To Lately? - #3

[Roehre]

Today:

Eisler:
5 Orchesterstücke (1938)
Kammer-Symphonie (1940)

Schubert (Manfred, that is ) :
Symphony no.1 (1979/’82)

[Green Knight]

Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.36 and Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92, both performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.

[Green Knight]

On Spotify:

Serge Prokofiev--Symphony No.1 in D Major, Op.25 {"Classical"} and Symphony No.5 in B-Flat Major, Op.100, both performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.

[Green Knight]

On Spotify:

Franz Schubert--Symphony No.8 in B Minor, D.759 {"Unfinished"} and Symphony No.9 in C Major, D.944 {"The Great"}, both performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.

[Tarantella]

Today, Beethoven piano Sonata ('Les Adieux') played by Alfred Brendel. I just ADORE this sonata, especially the triumphant and jubilant ending. No matter how far I roam in my listening I ALWAYS go back to Beethoven. He's the touchstone.

Brendel's performance is dynamic and, as usual, revealing. Lacking the hard-driven edge of Pollini, Brendel can be compelling, tender and sensitive.

[Herzeleide]

Liszt, Der traurige Monch (1860) a melodrama -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhiEe_1aewE

Does anyone know of a composition earlier than this that contains equally extensive use of the whole-tone scale?

[Roehre]

Herzeleide, I do think this is the earliest example, but I am not fully sure.


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Today:

Schubert:
Des Teufels Lustschloss D.84 (1814) (R3:TtN)

Venetian Vespers by Monteverdi, Rigatti, Grandi, Cavalli, Finetti and Marini.
First Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (which is today, March 24th),
as it might have been celebrated in St.Mark’s in 1643.

Schubert:
Fierrabras opus 76 D.796 (1823) (R3)

[Green Knight]

Jean Sibelius--Symphony No.1 in EMinor, Op.39 and Symphony No.4 in A Minor, Op.63. Both works are performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Lorin Maazel.
Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op.21 and Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.36, both featuring the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique led by John Eliot Gardiner.

[Roehre]

Today:

Schubert:
Adrast D.137 (R3: TtN) (no other recording available in any format afaik)
Fernando D.220 (R3: TtN)
4 Fugues D.24 (no other recording available in any format from the fragment D.24/4 afaik)
Trio-fragment D.111a
Tantum ergo in B flat major D.730
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern D.538
Nachtgesang im Walde D.913
Die Geselligkeit D.609
Der Hochzeitsbraten D.930
Tantum ergo in B flat major D.730
Der Gondelfahrer D.809

Gerster:
Festouvertüre 1948

Zechlin:
Musik für Orchester (1980)

Loevendie:
Naima: a strange Wedding (1986)

[Green Knight]

Pyotr Tchaikovsky--Symphony No.1 in G Minor, Op.13 {"Winter Daydreams"}, Symphony No.2 in C Minor, Op.17 {"Little Russian"} and Symphony No.3 in D Major, Op.29 {"Polish"}. All three symphonies feature the Utah Symphony Orchestra led by Maurice Abravanel. {On Spotify}.