What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[StarThrower]

[A Lark Ascending]

Three of the discs containing Christmas music.

Can't have played that in 20 years - what a delightful piece. Wears its Wagner on its sleeve but also has the feel of Wunderhorn era Mahler. Really enjoyed it.

No 2 from the Sibelius; 6, In the Fen Country and an orchestral arrangement of 'On Wenlock Edge' from the RVW.

3 & 4

[alankin]

Jean-Philippe Rameau – Hippolyte et Acricie, Orchestral Suite
— La Petite Bande – Sigiswald Kuijken (deutsche harmonia mundi)

[alankin]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Quartet for Strings No.16 in E flat major K 428 (421b)
– Quartet for Strings No.17 in B flat major K 458 "Hunt"
Hagen Quartett (Deutsche Grammophon)

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 7:
Darius Milhaud – Symphonic Suite No.2 Op.57
Ernest Chausson – Poème for Violin & Orchestra Op.25 — Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Louis Gruenberg – Violin Concerto Op.47 — Jasucha Heifetz (violin) 
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor / Sony Classical)

 
 

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata D.821- Rostropovich & Britten

Franck - Trio No.1 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, alankin said:

Now playing, CD 7:
Darius Milhaud – Symphonic Suite No.2 Op.57
Ernest Chausson – Poème for Violin & Orchestra Op.25 — Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Louis Gruenberg – Violin Concerto Op.47 — Jasucha Heifetz (violin) 
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor / Sony Classical)

 
 

Beautiful ....

[alankin]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Beautiful ....

I didn't know Gruenberg, so I looked him up.  This concerto was commissioned by Heifetz in 1944, premiered by Ormandy in Philadelphia and recorded by Monteux in 1945.

Gruenberg did a lot of film work in Hollywood from 1939-1950 had several Academy Award nominations.  He was an uncredited contributor to the score for John Ford's classic Western "Stagecoach."

Edited December 28, 2016 by alankin

[alankin]

Antonín Dvořák – Concerto for Cello in B minor Op.104 B.191 — USSR State Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra – Boris Khaikin, 1957
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Cello in A minor Op.129 — USSR State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 1960 
— Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) [Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists]

 

Edited December 28, 2016 by alankin

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, alankin said:

Antonín Dvořák – Concerto for Cello in B minor Op.104 B.191 — USSR State Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra – Boris Khaikin, 1957
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Cello in A minor Op.129 — USSR State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 1960 
— Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) [Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists]

 

This "Historic Russian Archives" release is a true treasure trove ....

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 3 of the Sib. 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quintet K.516

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 3 (Columbia Masterworks / Sony Classics) —
Robert Casadesus (piano)

Vincent D'Indy – Symphony on a French Mountain Air Op.25
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto for Piano No.21 in C major K 467
— Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York – Charles Munch

César Franck – Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra M 46
— The Philharmonia Orchestra – George Weldon 

     

1949-50.

 

Edited December 29, 2016 by alankin

[alankin]

Richard Strauss – Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major Op.18
Max Reger – Sonata for Violin No.2 in C minor Op.139
— Gidon Kremer (violin), Oleg Maisenberg (piano) (Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists)

[Peter Friedman]

Mazurkas Op.6, 17, 24, 30, 33

[StarThrower]

Great live set of interesting compositions. Will have to explore some of the other

volumes in this series.

[A Lark Ascending]

11 hours ago, StarThrower said:

Great live set of interesting compositions. Will have to explore some of the other

volumes in this series.

This one is good:

Though I didn't care much for the Tan Dun.

24, 25, 30, 31 of the Mozzy.

Apologies for size of Prokofiev - doesn't seem to exist in modest dimensions. Just Symph 7 - my favourite of Prokofiev's symphs. 

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Buchbinder - No.27, Op.90

Kempff - No.28, Op.101

[JSngry]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Gawriloff's Piano Concerto performance is nothing short of superb ....

[JSngry]

 

[StarThrower]

10 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

This one is good:

Though I didn't care much for the Tan Dun.

 

I ordered the 2 disc vol 4.

Edited December 30, 2016 by StarThrower

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

Thnx for the hint reg my "mishit"  - as being forced to write via mobile phone currently  the so called "autocorrection" changed the context to concerto - without any reason .... but staying with the Piano Concerto - Aimard is here on top of his game too ...

 

[JSngry]

Indeed, a wonderful performance!

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 7, Charles Munch conducts French Music:
Maurice Ravel – Rapsodie espagnole
Maurice Ravel – La valse
Camille Saint-Saëns – La princesse jaune Op.30: Overture
Hector Berlioz – Béatrice et Bénédict opera H. 138: Ouvertüre
Edouard Lalo – Le Roi d'Ys: Overture
— Boston Symphony Orchestra – Charles Munch (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classics)