Music For Medical Recuperation

[Nick Armstrong]

r3 can come to your rescue here, with anything performed by a new generation artist. (they're all aspirin')

Health warning: that joke is shocking!

[Dave2002]

Trying not to get too excited, but how about the following:

Bruckner Symphonies 4 and 7.

Mozart - Any of the major operas, Marriage, Don, Cosi, Flute.

Mozart - violin concertos

Beethoven - middle and late quartets
Violin concerto
Fidelio

Brahms Violin Concerto
Double concerto

Schubert C major quintet and C major symphony

Bach Goldberg variations
Violin concertos
Harpsichord concertos
Cello suites

You can go for more edgy stuff later on.

[cloughie]

I agree with Barbs. Mozart piano concertos - they cannot but do you good!

Plus K452, 334, 250, Schubert 5 and Beethoven 6 oh and Brahms 2 - Sym and PC.

[EdgeleyRob]

If we're talking Mozart

String Quartet K387
Sonata for 2 pianos K448

Feeling better guaranteed.

[richardfinegold]

Trying not to get too excited, but how about the following:

Bruckner Symphonies 4 and 7.

Mozart - Any of the major operas, Marriage, Don, Cosi, Flute.

Mozart - violin concertos

Beethoven - middle and late quartets
Violin concerto
Fidelio

Brahms Violin Concerto
Double concerto

Schubert C major quintet and C major symphony

Bach Goldberg variations
Violin concertos
Harpsichord concertos
Cello suites

You can go for more edgy stuff later on.

Dave, you gotta add the Mozart PCs!

[richardfinegold]

If we're talking Mozart

String Quartet K387
Sonata for 2 pianos K448

Feeling better guaranteed.

Clarinet Quintet. Especially played on a basset horn

[Dave2002]

Dave, you gotta add the Mozart PCs!

And some of the symphonies. 29 in particular is recommended, but also 25 and 28. Some of the wind serenades are lovely too, plus a well known one for strings. I was trying to keep the list shortish, otherwise everything, possibly including Xenakis, Schoenberg, Stockhausen and then veering towards Pharaoh Sanders, gets in.

However, how about Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht?

[Richard Tarleton]

Enough orchestra already! Richard you need chamber music, and above all lute music. Think John Dowland and the King of Denmark. Anythink by Nigel North, Jakob Lindberg or Paul O'Dette!

Very best wishes

Richard

[vinteuil]

Enough orchestra already! Richard you need chamber music, and above all lute music.

... or indeed harpsichord music - perhaps starting with :

Froberger: Suite [XXX] Plainte faite à Londres pour passer la Melancholie laquelle se joue lentement avec discrétion - From Book IV (1656)...

[Roehre]

... or indeed harpsichord music - perhaps starting with :

Froberger: Suite [XXX] Plainte faite à Londres pour passer la Melancholie laquelle se joue lentement avec discrétion - From Book IV (1656)...

harpsichord + recovery = JSBach/Goldberg for me

I found Monteverdi's Verspers great listening to as I was stuck in bed recovering
(but so was Mahler 7 )

[doversoul1]

… and some human voices (somewhat different from Callas). On Through the Night.
Les Arts Florissants and William Christie perform Rameau's Grands Motets at the 2014 BBC Proms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vh3rb

come to that, this week’s Schutz Composer of the Week is more than worth catching up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vh3rj

[vinteuil]

harpsichord + recovery = JSBach/Goldberg for me

... on reflection, almost any JS Bach to be recommended when recuperating. Or indeed at any time...

Also health-giving, I find - almost any Haydn, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Rossini...



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[Hornspieler]

Thanks to all who have offered good wishes. Today my blood pressure is quite low and my Cadiologist has cut back on meds and liberalized salt and fluid intake. While the lightheaded ness is crimping the fun of being home playing sick, the liberalized diet is welcome. My wife is a Registered Nurse and today is our 11 th Wedding Anniversary. We have at least a nice shared dinner to look forward to, possibly Thai.
Laying on the couch in our main room streaming files from my phone to a Blutooth DAC connected to the Home Theater
Setup. Also listening to Chicago's WFMT. I have Bernstein's Amsterdam Mahler 1playing now. The cuckoos are making me miss the fine outdoor weather.
Played Haitink/CSO Resurrection earlier, but when the Day of Judgement came, after what I have just been through, I thought "perhaps not"

"If music be the food of love, Play on, Give me excess of it......"
(William Shakespeare)

Steady now, Richard! You've just had a serious operation!

HS

[MrGongGong]

I thought it was a heart operation not a lobotomy?

When I was in a similar incapacitated state I listened to all the Bruckner symphonies in one sitting (or lying?)

La Monte Young's : Well tuned piano would be my choice

Best wishes for a healthy (rather than too fast and cyclic) recovery

[Don Petter]

Strauss waltzes! You'll forget all about being ill with a batch of these.

Or, better still, a 'nOscar' Straus?