Any Classical Music Fans/musicians?

[lynnifer]

While I was recovering from this last spine surgery this spring and I was in bed a lot, I did an internet, ipod lecture series on Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas - the group of them span his whole career and are a window into his creativity, the piano was his music laboratory.

Is there a way for me to access this?

[rfbdorf]

Is there a way for me to access this?

The lectures are sold here: http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDe....aspx?cid=7250
But I wouldn't pay that much - they will for sure be on sale for much, much less at some time in the year (I have never paid full price for any lectures, always wait for their sales). When you buy the course via a download (as I did), you affirm that you will use it for yourself only, and not copy it to others. If it were purchased in DVD, CD or audiotape format, I don't suppose there would be a problem with sending someone the medium.
- Richard

[arndog]

lynnifer - only buy courses that are on sale. All courses go on sale during the year. I just look at the 'on sale' section. If you call the teach12.com people they are helpful.


Raven - the movie 'Ten' almost spoiled that piece(Bolero). But it really is good and that video adds the pyrotechnics that is , well, missing in boring classical music. But if you like Ravel, check out his piano concerto with Argerich, I think it is on youtube. Good stuff.

Just got back from the concerts today.
Heard Bach violin sonata #1 BVM1001
Chopin's - cello sonata
Janacek - String Quartet Kreutzer Sonata
Mozart - Dissonance quartet
dohnanyi piano quintet - totally beautiful. I will get this on iTunes
mendelssohn trio - crowd pleaser
Great day to hear all that live.
Okay,Hlh, So violin , viola, cello ? What do you play?

About op.132 movement 3 being played at my funeral, the music is for those alive to really listen to it. My gift to them. To let them know I felt strongly about this movement and for them to be happy they are alive.. I won't enjoy it then, I probably won't hear it !

[arndog]

THe last chamber music festival concert was last night.
3 stand out pieces
Brandenburg concerto #3 - at breakneck speed and joy and accuracy and ecstasy .
Shostikovich - Octet - it is on youtube and worth listening too. The 2nd movement is insanity - a self portrait for me sometimes...
Smetana - Le Moldeau - it was a piano quintet.
Back to listening to the ipod .....

[arndog]

rfbdorf - are you a fan of Brahm's horn, violin, piano trio? I read in your bio that you are a french horn player.....
It is especially beautiful .

[rfbdorf]

Brahms' trio certainly is a nice piece, and quite playable, but I've always thought it has a feeling of sadness to it - very effective, of course - and the faster movements seem a little empty to me, perhaps because Brahm's romantic sound doesn't seem to fit real well with his use of the natural horn for the piece. I've never really tried to analyze that.
It's extremely different from his friend Schumann's exciting concertpiece for 4 horns & orchestra, or the adagio & allegro for horn & piano - both of those strain the limits of playability, particularly the concertpiece, and I always feel a sort of thrill when hearing one particular spot in the concertpiece that requires that the second horn have lips and nerves of steel! Far beyond my range of talent, I'm afraid.
- Richard

[arndog]

I will check out the Schumann pieces. Do you still play?
Jon

[rfbdorf]

Now only in a brass quintet, composed of other engineers. We've been together about 10 years now, meet every Thursday. It's a lot of fun.
- Richard

[arndog]

This is a list of the arguable top 100 chamber pieces of all time. I actually used this list as a tool to start my wonderful listening journey. I wondered if there were any opinions, glaring omissions, mixed up orders - or if someone sees something that I have to listen to right away !
1. Quartet for Strings No. 14 in C sharp minor - Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Cellos in C major, Op. 163 - Franz Schubert
3. Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115 - Johannes Brahms
5. String Quartet No. 14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden" - Franz Schubert
6. Piano Quintet in A major "Trout" - Franz Schubert
7. String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major and Grosse Fugue - Ludwig van Beethoven
8. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 - Johannes Brahms
9. String Quartet No. 15 in A minor - Ludwig van Beethoven
10. Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello in G minor, K 516 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11. Quartet for Strings No. 12 in F major "American" - AntonÃ*n Dvorák
12. String Quartet No. 19 in C major "Dissonance" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
13. Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 97 "Archduke" - Ludwig van Beethoven
14. String Quartet No. 2 in D major "Nocturne" - Alexander Borodin
15. Octet for Strings in E flat major - Felix Mendelssohn
16. String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor" - Joseph Haydn
17. Piano Quintet in E flat major - Robert Schumann
18. Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 - Johannes Brahms
19. Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major - Franz Schubert
20. String Quartet No. 16 in F major - Ludwig van Beethoven
21. Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major - Franz Schubert
22. String Quartet No. 4 in C major - Béla Bartók
23. Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello in C major, K 515 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
24. String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 - Dmitri Shostakovitch
25. String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76 No. 4 "Sunrise" - Joseph Haydn
26. String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2 "Quinten" - Joseph Haydn
27. String Quartet No. 17 in B flat major "Hunt" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
28. String Quartet No. 9 in C major "Hero" - Ludwig van Beethoven
29. String Quartet No. 8 in E minor - Ludwig van Beethoven
30. String Quartet No. 7 in F major - Ludwig van Beethoven
31. String Quartet in F major - Maurice Ravel
32. Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Olivier Messiaen
33. String Quartet No. 13 in A minor "Rosamunde" - Franz Schubert
34. String Quartet in G minor - Claude Debussy
35. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A minor, Op. 114 - Johannes Brahms
36. Verklärte Nacht for String Sextet, Op. 4 - Arnold Schoenberg
37. String Quartet No. 3 in C sharp major - Béla Bartók
38. String Quartet No. 1 in E minor "From My Life" - Bedrich Smetana
39. Octet for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Strings in F major - Franz Schuber
40. Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello in D major, K 593 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
41. Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor "Dumky" - AntonÃ*n Dvorák
42. Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 81 - AntonÃ*n Dvorák
43. String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters" - Leos Janácek
44. String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata" - Leos Janácek
45. String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major - Béla Bartók
46. String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127 - Ludwig van Beethoven
47. String Quartet in D major, Op. 76 No. 5 "Largo" - Joseph Haydn
48. Lyric Suite for String Quartet - Alban Berg
49. Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
50. String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 no. 1 - Johannes Brahms
51. Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor - Felix Mendelssohn
52. String Quartet No. 1 in D major - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
53. Piano Trio in A minor - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
54. Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor - Dmitri Shostakovich
55. Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet - Maurice Ravel
56. String Quartet No. 6 in D major - Béla Bartók
57. Five Movements for String Quartet - Anton Webern
58. Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
59. Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26 - Johannes Brahms
60. Octet for Wind Instruments - Igor Stravinsky
61. String Quartet No. 18 in A major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
62. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
63. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor - Gabriel Fauré
64. Divertimento for String Trio in E flat major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
65. String Quartet in F major, Op. 77 no. 2 - Joseph Haydn
66. Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor - Anton Arensky
67. String Quartet No. 14 in G major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
68. String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 no. 4 - Joseph Haydn
69. Piano Trio in A minor - Maurice Ravel
70. Italian Serenade in G major - Hugo Wolf
71. String Quartet No. 12 in C minor "Quartettsatz" - Franz Schubert
72. String Quartet No. 2 in A minor - Béla Bartók
73. String Quartet No. 15 in G major - Franz Schubert
74. String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major - Antonin Dvorák
75. Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op. 40 - Johannes Brahms
76. Sextet for Piano and Winds - Francis Poulenc
77. String Quartet No. 1 in A minor - Béla Bartók
78. String Trio - Arnold Schoenberg
79. String Quartet No. 2 - Elliott Carter
80. String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 No. 2 "The Joke" - Joseph Haydn
81. String Sextet No. 2 in G major "Agathe" - Johannes Brahms
82. Piano Quartet in E flat major - Robert Schumann
83. Trois Pieces Breves for Woodwind Quintet - Jacques Ibert
84. Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor - Felix Mendelssohn
805. Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101 - Johannes Brahms
86. Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 - Johannes Brahms
87. String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 no. 5 "Lark" - Joseph Haydn
88. Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp - Claude Debussy
89. Piano Quintet - Dmitri Shostakovich
90. Piano Quintet in F minor - Cesar Franc
91. String Quartet No. 3 - Elliott Carter
92. Six Bagatelles for String Quartet - Anton Webern
93. Clarinet Quintet in B flat major - Carl Maria von Weber
94. Piano Trio No. 4 in D major "Ghost" - Ludwig van Beethoven
95. Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 - Johannes Brahms
96. String Quartet No. 16 in E flat major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
97. Kleine Kammermusik for Wind Quintet - Paul Hindemith
98. String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67 - Johannes Brahms
99. Woodwind Quintet - Carl Nielsen
100. Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Cellos in E major, Op. 13 No. 5 - Luigi Boccherini
101. Keyboard Trio in G major, Op. 73 No. 2 "Gypsy" - Joseph Haydn
102. Septet in E flat major - Ludwig van Beethoven
103. Piano Trio in D minor - Robert Schumann
104. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major - Antonin Dvorák
105. Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello No. 1 in F major, Op. 88 - Johannes Brahms
106. Woodwind Quintet in G minor, Op. 56 No.2 - Franz Danzi
107. String Quartet No. 2 - Arnold Schoenberg
108. Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87 - Johannes Brahms
109. String Quartet No. 1 in B minor - Sergei Prokofiev
110. String Quartet No. 2 in C major - Benjamin Britten
111. String Quartet No. 11 in F minor "Serioso" - Ludwig van Beethoven
112. String Quartet No. 10 - Dmitri Shostakovich
113. String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1 - Felix Mendelssohn
114. Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K493 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
115. String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major "La Malinconia" - Ludwig van Beethoven
116. String Quartet in D minor "Voces Intimae" - Jean Sibelius
117. String Quartet In G minor, Op. 74 No. 3 "Reiterquartett" - Joseph Haydn
118. Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello in F major - Anton Bruckner
119. String Quartet in E minor - Giuseppe Verdi
120. String Quartet in G minor - Edvard Grieg

[rfbdorf]

The Trout quintet would be my desert island disk. But I'm surprised to not see Dvorak's Serenade for Winds in the huge list.
- Richard