First entry for a couple of days, as I’ve been busy with other commitments.
I have completed my list of all the music I have listened to in the week from October 6th -12th. Quite an extensive list:
Thursday October 6th
7.15am – 8.15am Radio 3 Breakfast Show:
Edvard Grieg – Norwegian Dance Op 35.2.
Mozart – Symphony No 40, 1st Movement.
Edward Elgar – The Wand of Youth Suite No 2: March.
Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade.
Ringtone on mobile – Louis Armstrong – Potato Head Blues
Radio 3 evening concert – listened to 5-10 mins of this whilst driving to & from shop – Elgar Introductions and Allegro, Cello Concerto, BBC Philharmonic
Watched documentary on Berlin Philharmonic during Hitler’s reign of Germany, called Reichsorchestra, Sky Arts 2 which featured several fragments of performances. Also heard music set as background to adverts before and after this programme.
Friday, October 7th
Listened to Radio 3’s Breakfast programme whilst getting ready, including Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker; 3rd movement of Mozart’s Sonata for Piano Duet in B Flat and Franz Krommer’s Concerto for two Clarinets in E Flat.
Chemical Brothers Salmon Dance on Spotify as part of research.
Whilst having breakfast listened to Radio 3, Beethoven’s Leonora and CD of the week, Coro Nacional de Cuba conducted by Digna Guerra. Also heard part of Chopin Polonaise no 3.
Listened on Spotify as part of research: The Prodigy – Voodoo People; Orbital – Farenheit 303; O’Malley’s Folk Music Players – An Cúilien.
Listened to Radio 3 whilst out driving, various classical pieces.
Listened on Spotify as part of research, Italian Restaurant Music Academy – Tarantella; Samova Russian Folk Music Ensemble – Russian Dances.
Whilst doing housework listened to Haydn Symphony no 4 Mozart’s Serenade no 13, Mendelssohn’s Symphony no 4, Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto all through Spotify.
As part of research listened to John Tavener’s Funeral Ikos and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mantra through Spotify.
Listened to Radio 3 whilst getting ready to go out and driving to and from function, included Composer of the Week, William Schuman.
Saturday, October 8th 2011
Started morning watching Rugby World Cup Quater finals, that featured some music, National Anthems, incidental music on adverts and theme music of programmes. Also during breaks in the game music was played over the intercom, usually the pop song Hey Baby.
Listened to music on Radio 3 whilst driving car, Shostakovich, Symphony No 10, and recording of USSR State Symphony Orchestra from 1968, also playing Shostakovich.
Listened to Radio 3 lunchtime concert, Ben Johnson (tenor) and James Baillieu (piano) playing Schubert’s Schwanengesang song-cycle and An Die Musik.
Incidental music on TV adverts, whilst watching cricket.
Heard parts of Debussy’s opera Pelleas et Melisande on a concert recorded in Paris in May 2011 and broadcast on Radio 3 whilst cooking and eating dinner.
Listened to Marc-Anthony Turnage’s Lament to a Hanging Man on Spotify as part of research. Also watched a short clip on YouTube of Stockhausen’s Mantra.
Watched on Sky Arts 2 a production of Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini.
Sunday, October 9th 2011
Radio 3, whilst getting ready: Camille Saint-Saëns’ Bassoon Sonata in G; Frederick Delius – On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; Herbert Sumsion – Magnificent and Nunc dimittis in G; Johann Strauss II – Roses from the South; Edvard Grieg – Phantom; and Giovanni Benedetto Platti – Concerto grosso No 10 in F (after Corelli’s Sonata, Op. 5).
Whilst watching world cup Rugby, heard theme music, anthems and incidentioal music during commercial breaks.
During research listened to: Eminem – Without Me; Beastie Boys – Fight for Your Right and 50 Cent – Heat.
Monday, October 10th 2011
Listening to radio 3, whilst getting ready for work, Bach – Jesu, meine Freude – motet (BWV.227); Stravinsky – Dances Concertantes for chamber orchestra; Beethoven – Sonatine in C major WoO.44 no.1; Walton – Johannesburg Festival Overture; Debussy – Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque; Copeland – Appalachian Spring – ballet suite, parts 7 & 8; Domenico Zipoli – Kyrie from Missa San Ignacio; Rimsky-Korsakov –D ance of the Tumblers from the Snow Maiden, Act III; Francesco Geminiani – Concerto Grosso (after Corelli) no.11 in E major; Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Dance no.2; Mozart – Adagio (part 3) from Serenade in B flat major for 13 wind instruments K.361 “Gran partita”; Haydn – The flowers of Edinburgh (the last couple of pieces listened to whilst driving to work.
The only other music heard on this day were telephone ringtones.
Tuesday, October 11th
Again started the day listening to radio 3: J.S.Bach – Contrapunctus 1 and 2 from The Art of Fugue; Richard Wagner – Prelude to Act 3; The Apprentices dance; Prelude to Act 1 of ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ ; Dvorak – Slavonic Dance in A flat Op.46 No.3; Liszt – Snow-whirls (Transcendental Study No.12 in B flat minor); Handel – Let the Bright Seraphim (Samson); Saint-Saëns – The Swan (Carnival of the Animals); Leo Delibes – Prelude & Mazurka; Mozart – Symphony No.35 in D “Haffner”: 1st movementt – Allegro con spirito; Traditional – The Salley Gardens (Arranged by Britten); Telemann – Sinfonia in E minor (Tafelmusik); Fauré – Pavane; Vivaldi – Cello Concerto in B minor RV424:1st movement;
No music during day, until the drive home (Radio 3 again): J. S. Bach – Sinfonia, Cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret; Tosti – Van gli effluvi delle rose (live performance in studio); Grieg – Allegretto animato (final mvt., Violin Sonata no.2 in G major, op.8); William Grant Still – Afro-American Symphony (final mvt); Shostakovich – Prelude in C Major; Tosti – A’ vucchella; Glenn Miller band performing Pennsylvania 6-5000.
Later whilst driving heard part of Radio 3 in Concert that night, which included Mozart’s Symphony no. 35 in D major.
Last Day – Wednesday, October 12th 2011
Again listened to radio 3 early in the morning, including, Mendelssohn – Symphony No.4 in A major (Op.90), ‘Italian’; J. S. Bach – Prelude & Fugue in C sharp, BWV872 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2); Gustav Holst – A Fugal Concerto, Op 40 No 2; Handel – Hallelujah (Messiah); Grieg – Symphonic Dance No 1 in G (from Op 64); Robert Schumann – Widmung, Op 25 No 1; Offenbach – Overture: La Belle Helene; Nielsen – Humoreske-bagateller, Op 11; Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances; Liszt – Go not, happy day.
Whilst driving home heard, Tiomkin – Dial M For Murder (Original Theme From Dial M For Murder); Mozart – Menuetto from String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465, “Dissonance”.
Later on whilst driving also heard, Grieg – Wedding Day at Troldhaugen; Scarlatti – Stabat Mater a 10 (Stabat Mater + Cujus animam gementem); Caldara – Crucifixus a 16; Jean-Philippe Rameau Le Rappel des Oiseaux.
Later whilst driving also heard part of The Composer of the week programme, which featured the music of Szymanowski. Also heard part of the live broadcast that night, which included Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 (a performance I particularly enjoyed). That was the end of my listening for the week.
I have also been continuing to research African Music, although haven’t done much in the last couple of days. Hope to get down to work on this over the weekend.
I have also started to read one of the recommended books in appendix F of the course book, A Concise History of Western Music by Paul Griffiths. I have enjoyed the first few chapters and earlier on tonight listened to some of the Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos’s Chant music. This was fascinating to listen to, and although it probably is not as it sounded originally, it gives an idea of the earliest sounds of Western music.