What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Op.20/5 & Op.20/6

[l p]

Glenn Gould 
In the studio, piano tests
Tape 1049: "Studio G test" [CBC Toronto], undated (22 min, 38 s)
Tape 1087: Orillia Opera House test, November 2, 1981 (26 min, 23 s)
Tape 1178: CBC [Toronto] piano test, April 13, 1975 (28 min, 9 s)
Tape 1183: Piano test at Eaton Auditorium, Toronto, on Steinway No. CD 131 and CD 230, March 11, 1976 (18 min, 15 s)
Tape 1184: Piano test at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, March 9 or September 3, 1978 (33 min, 2 s)

[Balladeer]

Nina Proll & Trio Salon - Lieder eines armen Mädchens, (Songs of a poor girl) Tunes of Hollaender, Eisler, Weill (Gramola)

Something to rave about. She´s got her own style, ravishing arrangements: great!

Edited July 14, 2016 by Balladeer

[Peter Friedman]

Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op.12

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.12, Op.414

[l p]

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

Schnabel - Mendelssohn - Moments musicaux D.780

Argerich - Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No.1, Op.49

[A Lark Ascending]

SQ2 off latter.

Edited July 15, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

SQ2 off latter.

 

Top notch Beethoven String Quartet recordings ....

[Peter Friedman]

Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No.2

[alankin]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Quartet for Strings No.2 in D major K 155 (134a)
– Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major K 581
Antoine-Pierre De Bavier (clarinet) – Quartetto Italiano (Decca Music)

 
 

Edited July 15, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.4

[l p]

2/23/1953   Il Trovatore, Milano, Teatro alla Scala

[StarThrower]

The Age Of Anxiety (Symphony No.2) / Serenade

[A Lark Ascending]

Some lovely music on the first but recorded in what sounds like an aircraft hanger. The recording of the clarinet concerto on the Hyperion is much more pleasurable. Need to get a recording of the Love's Labours Lost incidental music and then retire the first disc.

   

Different Trains; Tehillim; Eight Lines off the Reich; Op 18 No. 6 off the Beethoven. 

Edited July 16, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[alankin]

Franz Schubert – Wandererfantasie in C major Op.15 D760, 16 Deutsche & 2 Ecossaisen Op.33 D783, Walzer Kupelwieser-Walzer Anh. 1-14, Sonata in C major D613, Marsch in E major D606
— Michel Dalberto, piano (Brilliant Classics Piano Library)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Spohr - String Quartet No.27, Op.84/1

Scharwenka - Piano Trio No.2, Op.45

[alankin]

John Williams – Virtuoso Music for Guitar (Columbia / Sony Classical)
Niccolò Paganini – Sonata for Guitar in A major MS 3 "Grande"
Enrique Granados – Andaluza from 12 Danzas españolas for Piano Op.37/5 (transcription: John Williams)
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Etude No.8 in C sharp minor from 12 Etudes for Guitar W 235 (transcription: John Williams)
Manuel de Falla – Homenaje "Le tombeau de Claude Debussy"
Stephen Dodgson – Partita No.1 for Guitar
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Sonata for Guitar in D major Op.77 "Omaggio a Boccherini": 4th movement Vivo e energico
John Williams (guitar) 

 
 

[alankin]

Enrique Granados 
– 12 Danzas españolas for Piano Op.37
– 6 Escenas románticas for Piano
— Marylène Dosse (piano) – Complete Piano Music, Vol.2 CD 1 (Vox Music)

 

[A Lark Ascending]

That last one is a bit dainty - school teachers, civil servants and social workers pretending to be 17thC peasants (or journeymen, perhaps). The opening 'Jamaica' is intriguing - sounds just a few steps away from American Old Time music. 

The following morning:

 

Op 18 No. 4 of latter.

Musicke for weepeing of the creul slightes of my ladye. Well, if I was younger.  

Edited July 17, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[StarThrower]

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.5

[Balladeer]

Matthias Goerne (bariton), Ensemble Resonanz, Thomas Larcher (pn) -
Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge, Lieder with piano (Harmonia Mundi)

[A Lark Ascending]

Olden days music today (the first proper summer's day of the year!):

The second needs a sticker - "Includes the chord sequence from the Stairway to Heaven court case".  

[alankin]

Alonso de Mudarra – Fantasia (transc. Williams)
Alonso de Mudarra – Diferencias sobre el conde Claros (transc. Williams)
Esaias Reusner – Puduana from Suite for lute No.4 (from Dilitiae Testudinis) (transc. Williams)
Michael Praetorius – Terpsichore: Dances - Ballet (transc. Williams)
Michael Praetorius – Terpsichore: Dances - La volta (transc. Williams)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude Fugue & Allegro for Lute in E flat major BWV998
Mauro Giuliani – Sonata for Guitar in C major Op.15 "Sonate brillante"
Heitor Villa-Lobos – 5 Preludes for Guitar W 419: No.4 in E minor Lento
Heitor Villa-Lobos – 5 Preludes for Guitar W 419: No.2 in E major "Melodia Capadocia"
Federico Moreno-Torroba – Aires de la Mancha
— John Williams (guitar) — More Virtuoso Music for Guitar (Columbia / Sony Classical), CD 4 from:

   
 

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Piano Quartet WoO36 and Clarinet Trio Op.11