What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[ahinton]

George Perle refers to two and a half pages of sketches for a third movement, which "appears to have been intended as a scherzo". Webern abandoned his plan, which (according to Ernst Krenek) appeared to be at a dead end, and moved on to the op.22 quartet. So he seems to have decided that the two existing movements could stand on their own. Perle makes no reference to the possibility of finishing it.

Sounds like a similar fate to that of Berg's Op. 1 piano sonata...

[Bryn]

George Perle refers to two and a half pages of sketches for a third movement, which "appears to have been intended as a scherzo". Webern abandoned his plan, which (according to Ernst Krenek) appeared to be at a dead end, and moved on to the op.22 quartet. So he seems to have decided that the two existing movements could stand on their own. Perle makes no reference to the possibility of finishing it.

My first thought was Perle but the Internet has not offered up any help in tracking down the Radio 3 broadcast in question. It was during the late 1970s or early 1989s, possibly associated with a series of short programmes offering the complete works, including early arrangements of compositions by others such as Siegfrieds Schwert.

[Stanfordian]

Donizetti
‘Parisina’ tragic melodrama in 3 acts (1833)
Azzo - Dario Solari (baritone); Parisina - Carmen Giannattasio (soprano);
Ugo - José Bros (tenor); Ernesto - Nicola Ulivieri (bass); Imelda - Ann Taylor (mezzo)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir,
London Philharmonic Orchestra / David Parry
Recorded 2008 Henry Wood Hall, London
Opera Rara 3 CD set

[Keith]

Who was it who constructed a third movement for Op. 21 to complete the palindrome? I had a Radio 3 programme about it on cassette but have lost track[sic] of it.

Alan Stout, apparently. https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ef7005a...97f5447476b4f3

[edashtav]

Alan Stout, apparently. https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ef7005a...97f5447476b4f3

Alan Stout was an American teacher and composer whose zenith was around 50 years ago and who died in 2018. Bruce Duffie recorded an interesting conversation with him:

http://www.bruceduffie.com/stout.html

[Mandryka]

My first thought was Perle but the Internet has not offered up any help in tracking down the Radio 3 broadcast in question. It was during the late 1970s or early 1989s, possibly associated with a series of short programmes offering the complete works, including early arrangements of compositions by others such as Siegfrieds Schwert.

What is Siegfrieds Schwert? (You are not allowed to answer Nothung.)

[Bryn]

What is Siegfrieds Schwert? (You are not allowed to answer Nothung.)

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?532-Classical-Music-Association-Thread&p=16150&highlight=siegfrieds#post16150

Though now considered to be an arrangement by Webern, rather than an original composition by him.

[Bryn]

Alan Stout, apparently. https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ef7005a...97f5447476b4f3

Thanks for that. Yes, that name rings a bell. I note that Paul Griffiths dismissed it at the time: https://www.jstor.org/stable/961757, though he failed to mention Alan Stout.

[BBMmk2]

Frederic Rweski
36 Variations on The People United will Never be Defeated
North American Ballads (Paul Jacobs)
(I) Down by the Riverside
(II) Winsboro Cotton Mills
Marc-André Hamelin (piano).

Alban Berg
Piano Sonata, Op.1 (orch.Andrew Davis)
Three Orchestral Pieces, Op.6
Violin Concerto
James Ehnes (Violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis

[Stanfordian]

Galina Gorchakova – ‘Italian Opera Arias’
16 Opera Arias from Mascagni, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Catalani, Cilea, Verdi
Galina Gorchakova (soprano)
Philharmonia of Russia / Constantine Orbelian
Recorded 2001 Great Hall, Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow
Delos, CD

Daniil Trifonov – ‘Silver Age’
Stravinsky
Serenade in A
The Firebird (1910) Suite for piano arr. Guido Agosti
Three Movements from Petrushka
Prokofiev
Sarcasms, Op. 17
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84
Gavotte from Three Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 95
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
Scriabin
Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
Recorded 2019, Concert Hall, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia (concertos);
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Deutsche Grammophon, 2 CDs

[Stanfordian]

Massenet
‘Hérodiade’ grand opera in four acts (version in French)
Cheryl Studer (Salomé), Nadine Denize (Hérodiade), Martine Olmeda (A Babylonian girl),
Ben Heppner (Jean), Thomas Hampson (Hérode), Jose Van Dam (Phanuel),
Marcel Vanaud (Vitellius), Jean-Philippe Courtis (High Priest) & Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (Voice in the temple)
Sociedad Choral de Bilbao,
Choeur et Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse / Michel Plasson
Recorded 1994 Halle-aux-grains, Toulouse
EMI Classics, 2 CD set

[Mandryka]

Georg Friedrich Haas, weiter und weiter und weiter, from Donaueschinger on the 16th of this month. Surprisingly exciting and loud! A bit long for me at 40 minutes, but I should be able to stay with it I think.

[Mandryka]

Eliahu Inbal's Denon Webern op 21. Slower even than Holliger, and while I didn't really appreciate Holliger's, I like this one immediately.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2QQ0xLckvAta9Wq56cmBxg?uid=ffbef3540db186d8aa98&uri=spotify%3Atrack%3A1OG8tL5HZMopC67y5uogO3&highlight=spotify%3Atrack%3A1OG8tL5HZMopC67y5uogO3

Georg Friedrich Haas, weiter und weiter und weiter, from Donaueschinger on the 16th of this month. Surprisingly exciting and loud! A bit long for me at 40 minutes, but I should be able to stay with it I think.

That was optimistic.

[RichardB]

Georg Friedrich Haas, weiter und weiter und weiter, from Donaueschinger on the 16th of this month. Surprisingly exciting and loud! A bit long

The clue is perhaps in the title!

(The place is called Donaueschingen by the way. The "-er" is an attributive ending used for the festival's full title "Donaueschinger Musiktage" - "music days of Donaueschingen").

Having remembered my enthusiasm for Mikhail Rudy's Scriabin, now playing is his Janáček disc, which seems pretty good although this isn't music I know well, not yet anyway.

[Mandryka]

The clue is perhaps in the title!

(The place is called Donaueschingen by the way. The "-er" is an attributive ending used for the festival's full title "Donaueschinger Musiktage" - "music days of Donaueschingen").

Having remembered my enthusiasm for Mikhail Rudy's Scriabin, now playing is his Janáček disc, which seems pretty good although this isn't music I know well, not yet anyway.

His disc of Schumann chamber music, märchenerzählungen especially, is something I remember loving. Also Wagner transcriptions -- I remember a beautiful Siegfried Idyll.

And yes, the Haas goes on and on and on!