What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[JSngry]

The works by Schuller, Mamlok, and Wilson are very engaging to my ears, the piece by Powell seems very diffuse, maybe needs more listens, maybe just not his best work, and the concluding thing by Robert Helps could not hold be through to conclusion.

Cover art by Mel Powell! "Little Miro", it's called.

But there is nothing on here, nothing, that sounds as if the players and the music would not benefit from a nice tour, get on the work and work this stuff every night, and then record it. What's here is fine, but what could be here is probably finer yet.

[alankin]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Serenade for Winds No.10 in B flat major K 361 (370a) "Gran Partita"
– Serenade for Winds No.12 in C minor K 388 (384a)
London Wind Soloists – Jack Brymer (Decca Records)

   

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven – 33 Variations for Piano on a Waltz by Diabelli in C major Op.120
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) (Decca)

 
 

[A Lark Ascending]

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op.76/6

Brahms - String Quintet No.2, Op.111

[alankin]

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
– Sinfonia in D major F 64
– Sinfonia in D minor F 65
– Concerto for Harpsichord in D major F 41 — Charlotte Nediger (harpsichord)
– Sinfonia in F major F 67 "Dissonant"
Tafelmusik on period instruments – Jeanne Lamon (Vivarte / Sony Classical)
– Overture for Strings in G minor (BWV 1070, attrib. W.F. Bach) — Jeanne Lamon (violin), Stephen Marvin (violin), Christina Mahler (cello), Ivars Taurins (viola), Alison Mackay (double bass), Charlotte Nediger (harpsichord) 
The Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists (Vivarte / Sony Classical), CD 4 from:

 

 

  
 

Edited July 18, 2016 by alankin

[HutchFan]

On the way into work this morning:

Leopold Stokowski - The Magician (RCA Red Seal)
This is a 2-disc compilation of favorites and bon-bons from Stoki's RCA catalog.

The "Feuerzauber" from Die Walküre is magical indeed. I need to investigate more of Stoki's "bleeding chunks" from Wagner's operas.

[HutchFan]

Eugene Ormandy conducts 20th Century Classics (RCA Red Seal)
Disc 1 - Debussy: La Mer; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orch.) 

[soulpope]

23 hours ago, Balladeer said:

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

Excellent ....

[Peter Friedman]

Spohr - String Quartet No.28, Op.84/2

Frank - Cello Sonata (transcription of Violin Sonata) - Maisky & Argerich

[A Lark Ascending]

No 5 off the first, disc 1 off the first.

Disc 7 + 8 - Lully - Armide 

As hot as Spain in the UK yesterday - ideal for basking in the garden.

 

 

[David Ayers]

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[StarThrower]

[Peter Friedman]

Edited July 19, 2016 by Peter Friedman
Op.74/1

[A Lark Ascending]

Op 59 no 1 of the LVB

Edited July 20, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[alankin]

Franz Joseph Haydn – Quartet for Strings in G major Op.77/1 Hob.III:81 "Lobkowitz"
Ludwig van Beethoven – Quartet for Strings No.6 in B flat major Op.18/6
— Franco Rossi (cello), Piero Farulli (viola), Elisa Pegreffi (violin), Paolo Borciani (violin) – Quartetto Italiano (Decca Music), 1952, CD 3 from:

 
 

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - H. 20 & H. 29

Mendelssohn - Op.13

[StarThrower]

Orpheus

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.2

[alankin]

Now playing:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No.4 in D K218
— Hilary Hahn (violin) – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Sir Andrew Davis (BBC Music)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Violin Concerto In D Op.35
— Andrew Haveron (violin) – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Jiří Bělohlávek (BBC Music)

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 2 of the Ruggles - love the straightforward hymn at the end after two discs of gritty beauty. Also particularly liked the solo piano 'Evocations'. 

The Finzi pieces have never really grabbed me in the past; but I've really warmed to them of late. There's one of those wonderful visionary moments you get in RVW in the second piece of 'Dies Natalis', brought on by some wonderful chord changes.  

Edited July 21, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[David Ayers]

As foisted on me by S.P.E.C.T.R.E., the Illuminati, the EU, and other sinister elites, who want to create an industrial slave army by depriving me of tunes. And guess what? It's working.

 

[Peter Friedman]

String Quartets -  K.464  &  K.465 "Dissonance"

[A Lark Ascending]

Not really 'classical' but what's in a genre label? Very fitting for morning lolling in the garden in the current warm weather.