What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 22:
Claude Debussy 
– Trois Nocturnes for Orchestra  
– Jeux ("Poème Dansé")  
– Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune  
– La mer
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Bernard Haitink (Philips)

   
 

Edited November 8, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

String Quintet & Piano Quintet

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 9:
Gioachino Rossini – Stabat mater
— Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass), Carol Vaness (soprano), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo soprano), Francisco Araiza (tenor) 
— Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,  Bavarian Radio Chorus – Semyon Bychkov (conductor),  Jörg-Peter Weigle (chorus master) (Philips)

 

[David Ayers]

Excuse me if I have posted this before. There is a goldmine of material by Fricker on youtube, and the same user is posting lots of interesting material which can be found nowhere else. 

 

 

 

Do take a look. 

On Fricker alone he has two versions of this viola concerto!

As anyone interested in Fricker will know, there are maybe three commercially available digital recordings. Some other stuff this user has I should think there has never been any commercial recording. 

Edited November 9, 2016 by David Ayers

[A Lark Ascending]

Just the 'Jazz' Suites off the Shosty; 2 + 3 from the Prokofiev. 2 has never made much of an impression but 3 is a thrilling piece.

Disc 4 of the latter. 

XI - XX off the first; Op 77 No. 1 off second. 

Now something appropriate to my mood having lain awake all night listening to the world end...

(I'm not picking up tips!)

Edited November 9, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light ....”

[David Ayers]

Haitink still regularly comes to conduct the LSO in Bruckner or Mahler. A real great. Meanwhile André Previn has withdrawn from this week's concert with the LSO. I'm going to make the most of Haitink while he can still make make it onto the podium. This year, Mahler 9, Bruckner 7 and 9. 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, David Ayers said:

Haitink still regularly comes to conduct the LSO in Bruckner or Mahler. A real great. Meanwhile André Previn has withdrawn from this week's concert with the LSO. I'm going to make the most of Haitink while he can still make make it onto the podium. This year, Mahler 9, Bruckner 7 and 9. 

You are in for a treat .... guaranteed ....

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 2

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[Balladeer]

Maria Lettberg plays Erkki Melartin - Solo Piano Works 

Grateful for Crystal Records´ Piano rarities series that released this gem. Melartin, once student of Sibelius, deserves wider recognition.

Those Preludes and Impressions on Disc 2 are ceaselessly fascinating late romantic and expressionistic stuff.

Edited November 10, 2016 by Balladeer

[Tom 1960]

Symphony 5 and 6

[alankin]

John Bull – Doctor Bull’s Good Night
— Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord) (Naïve)

 

[A Lark Ascending]

139, 163, 52, 140 (including one of the big hits).

 

25, 27, 32, 33

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Cello Sonata Op.5/2

Beethoven - Piano Trio - No.2, Op.1/2

[soulpope]

[David Ayers]

 

Last night:

 

Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin
Schumann Violin Concerto
Dvorák Symphony No 8 

Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Renaud Capuçon violin
London Symphony Orchestra

[A Lark Ascending]

And this morning:

Appropriate to Remembrance Day - includes 'Oration' (Bridge's lament for WWI), a cello concerto in all but name that ought to be far better known. 

 

[alankin]

Now playing, part of DVD 1:
Ludwig van Beethoven – Concerto for Piano No.1 in C major Op.15: 1st movement Allegro con brio — CBC Symphony Orchestra – Paul Sherman
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita for Keyboard No.5 in G major BWV 829: Courantevv — Chrysler Festival (excerpts)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.2 in C minor "Resurrection": 4th movement Urlicht — Maureen Forrester (alto) – Glenn Gould (conductor)
Johann Sebastian Bach  – Concerto for Harpsichord in F minor BWV 1056: 2nd & 3rd movements  — CBC Symphony Orchestra – Geoffrey  Waddington
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for Harpsichord in D minor BWV 1052 – Ottowa Symphony Orchestra – Thomas Meyer
Glenn Gould (piano)  (Sony Classical)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Op.64/1 & Op.64/3

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

Had this recording on LP back in the early 80s (much better cover than the CD reissue!). It's usually the fifth and eighth parts that stand out but yesterday the third for solo clarinet really caught my ear. I'm sure I can hear allusions to the cor anglais theme from Act III of Tristan in the A section and, possibly, Albrecht's 'Hagen, mein Sohn' from Gotterdammerung. Probably my fevered imagination. Superb piece using the four instruments in such different ways from section to section.  

Disc 8 - piano music - from the Eisler. Also a CD-r with the two Schoenberg chamber symphonies by different, ever so darling ensembles.

This morning:

 

Another of Bridge's Great War related pieces here - the Cello Sonata. A favourite cover as well. 

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[David Ayers]

Philharmonia

Jaime Martín conductor

Baiba Skride violin

 

MOZART Overture, La clemenza di Tito

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the meantime a "CD" - a legacy technology not everyone here may remember:

Fricker/Rawsthorne/RVW Violin Sonatas, Stanzeleit/Jacobson (1996)

Fine and interesting. 

Edited November 12, 2016 by David Ayers