What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 3 and no. 4

Disc 3 - The Organ Years. 

Edited April 29, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

[king ubu]

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV (1865-1936)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor Op. 82 (1904)
Viktor Tretiakov, Moscow Symphony Radio Orchestra/Vladimir Fedoseyev (1985)

Concerto Ballata for Cello and Orchestra in C Major Op. 108 (1931)
Mstislav Rostropovich, USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra/Evgeny Svetlanov (1964)

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra in E flat Major Op. 109 (1934)
Lev Mikhailov, Moscow Symphony Radio Orchestra Soloists Ensemble/Alexander Korneyev (1976)

 

 

[king ubu]

Both BD and (hybrid) SACD included ... but poo' me is listening to the CD layer of course

[Peter Friedman]

Gade - String Quartet in f minor (1855)

Svendsen - Symphony No.2, Op.15

[king ubu]

[Peter Friedman]

Brahms- Violin Concerto

[alankin]

Franz Schubert – String Quintet
— Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) – Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

[king ubu]

disc three: Leçons de Ténèbres, Cinq Méditations pour le Carême

[StarThrower]

[soulpope]

[king ubu]

discs one to four of this last night and this morning - very good! (disc five is a selection of the June 1958 and Jan/Feb 1960 Scriabin, of which there's more on two Denon single and double disc sets)

 

love this disc very much ... and am going to spend a few days in Ferrara in June

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op..64/4

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.15, K.450

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.5

[paul secor]

+ Robert Browning Overture

[StarThrower]

Henk Badings 1907-1987

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Quartet No.2, Op.26

[A Lark Ascending]

Yesterday morning:

Just the Howells SQ off the first, the Gurney orchestral pieces off the second and all of the third. Whilst ambling here:

Chosen Hill in Gloucestershire - a place much loved by Howells and Gurney before WWI. They'd be a bit shocked today - reservoirs on the top and the long views full of housing estates and light industry. Marvellous views of the Cotswolds, Malverns and distant Welsh mountains. Nearly 50 years ago I went to school for 6 months in the little village pictured - don't recall climbing the hill; certainly hadn't a clue who Howells or Gurney were. 

The Howells quartet is a gem; the Gurney orchestral pieces reconstructions - faintly folky but a bit Edwardian in feel - much prefer the songs with just piano. 

Part of an ongoing tour of sites associated with English cowpat composers. 

Today:

Edited May 2, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Trios Hob. XV No. 29 & XV No.30

[jeffcrom]

James Houlik Plays the Tenor Saxophone (Golden Crest LP). Spun this for the first time a few years, since it was misplaced. (The story is in another thread.) The most substantial pieces here are by Walter Hartley - "Poem" and a sonata. But I've always been fascinated by William Duckworth's "Pitt County Excursions," a four-movement suite in which the movements time out at 1:02, 1:03, :24, and :41. The saxophone part of "Air," the second movement, consists entirely of multiphonics.

[A Lark Ascending]

Edited May 3, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[alankin]

Johannes Brahms – Concerto for Piano No.2 in B flat major Op.83
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – Orchestre de Paris – Lorin Maazel 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major K 379 (373a)
— Oleg Kagan (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano) (EMI Classics)

   
 

[Peter Friedman]

[alankin]

Antonín Dvorák – Concerto for Piano in G minor Op.33/B 63
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – Bavarian State Orchestra – Carlos Kleiber 

Béla Bartók – Concerto for Piano No.2 Sz 95
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – Orchestre de Paris – Lorin Maazel (EMI Classics)

   

Some more Richter...

Edited May 3, 2016 by alankin