What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

More Elgar ....

[alankin]

Frederic Delius – Florida Suite, Idylle Printemps, Schervo, Over the Hills and Far Away, La Quadroone, Koanga (final scene)
— English Northern Philharmonia – David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos)

My only Delius CD.  (Have some bits and pieces elsewhere.)  I enjoyed it (except for the last six minutes when the opera singers started in).

 

Edited December 19, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Symphony No. 97

Dvorak - String Quintet Op. 97

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 2:
Emmanuel Chabrier 
– Bourrée Fantasque
– Joyeuse Marche
Maurice Ravel 
– Pavane pour une infante défunte
– Menuet antique
– Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
– Jeux d'eau
– Miroirs 5 pieces for piano
– Le Tombeau de Couperin
— Marcelle Meyer (piano) (Documents / EMI)

 

[StarThrower]

 

Edited December 19, 2016 by StarThrower

[Peter Friedman]

String Sextet No.2, Op.36

[soulpope]

5 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Dvorak - String Quintet Op. 97

Impeccable ....

[StarThrower]

5 hours ago, alankin said:

Now playing, CD 2:
Emmanuel Chabrier 
– Bourrée Fantasque
– Joyeuse Marche
Maurice Ravel 
– Pavane pour une infante défunte
– Menuet antique
– Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
– Jeux d'eau
– Miroirs 5 pieces for piano
– Le Tombeau de Couperin
— Marcelle Meyer (piano) (Documents / EMI)

 

This woman's playing is fantastic! Such a beautiful touch, and very soulful. I'm buying this set!

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quartets K.168 & K.169

Chopin - Piano Sonata No.2, Op.35

[A Lark Ascending]

18 hours ago, alankin said:

Frederic Delius – Florida Suite, Idylle Printemps, Schervo, Over the Hills and Far Away, La Quadroone, Koanga (final scene)
— English Northern Philharmonia – David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos)

My only Delius CD.  (Have some bits and pieces elsewhere.)  I enjoyed it (except for the last six minutes when the opera singers started in).

 

Get this:

Don't think it's currently in print but it's probably available s/h. 

Mostly Delius miniatures (which to my mind are where you find the best Delius) but also has the sprawling 'Appalachia' which is part Dvorak, part 'Porgy and Bess'. Most is on the big EMI Delius box but that is probably for Delius obsessives only.

   

Disc 5 of the Nancarrow. Extraordinary music - both Nancarrow and Kurtag are new to me this year, thanks to the live performances of the Ligeti Quartet. Very taken by the Kurtag. The early pieces on the Szymanowski are a bit over the top - very R. Strauss - but I like the Fourth. 

SQ 1 and 2. Went mad on these old favourites in the spring. First listen for six months - think the Kurtag set me off. 

[soulpope]

Edited December 20, 2016 by soulpope

[Peter Friedman]

[StarThrower]

Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit

Carter - Night Fantasies

Boulez - Sonatine for flute & piano; sonata no.1

[soulpope]

[StarThrower]

[A Lark Ascending]

Utterly bonkers but thoroughly enjoyable nativity opera from one of the grand English eccentrics. Standard early-20thC English opera with sudden interjections of familiar carols and occasional outbursts from West Country 'rude mechanic' types. 

I love this description of the 1925 performance from the liner notes:

"The rising tide of his career came to a sudden halt, however, in December 1926 when, horrified by the injustices of the miners' lock-out and subsequent General Strike, he decided to change the nature of a production of Bethlehem that had been scheduled for Church House, Westminster, and present instead a blunt declaration of political faith. Abandoning the customary medieval setting, he showed a Christ born in a miner's cottage, and a Herod that was the very embodiment of top-hatted capitalism. The scandal was immense and the production lost money. Unfortunately he had not consulted his fellow directors: recriminations followed and it was decided to wind up the activities of the Glastonbury Festival Players."

Edited December 21, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Thereof Bartok ....

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Clarinet Quintet K.581 - Andrew Hacker  / Solomon String Quartet

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1 - Kempff / Paul van Kampen/ Berlin Philharmonic

[alankin]

On 12/20/2016 at 0:59 AM, A Lark Ascending said:

Get this:

Don't think it's currently in print but it's probably available s/h. 

Mostly Delius miniatures (which to my mind are where you find the best Delius) but also has the sprawling 'Appalachia' which is part Dvorak, part 'Porgy and Bess'. Most is on the big EMI Delius box but that is probably for Delius obsessives only.

This sounds good.  I'll look for it.

Now playing, CD 23:
Robert Schumann 
– Marches (4) for Piano Op.76/2 in G minor
– Concert Etudes (6) for Piano after Paganini Caprices Set 2 Op.10/4 in C minor
– Concert Etudes (6) for Piano after Paganini Caprices Set 2 Op.10/5 in B minor
– Concert Etudes (6) for Piano after Paganini Caprices Set 2 Op.10/6 in E minor
– Novelletten (8) for Piano Op.21/1 in F major
– Blumenstück for Piano in D flat major Op.19
– Nachtstücke (4) for Piano Op.23
Sviatoslav Richter (Philips / Decca)

Copenhagen, July 1986.
 

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[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quartet K.170 & K.171

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas - No.24,Op.78 &  No.25,Op.79 &  No.26,Op.81a "Les Adieux"

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 39:
Igor Stravinsky – Suite italienne for Cello and Piano from "Pucinell" (arr: Stravinsky & Piatigorsky)
Sergei Prokofiev – Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major Op.119
Dmitri Shostakovich – Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor Op.40
Sergei Prokofiev – Tale of the Stone Flower Op.118: Act 2 - Waltz (arr: Piatigorsky & Kiushevitsky)
Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello) (Deutsche Grammophon)

 
 

Edited December 21, 2016 by alankin

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 14:
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.54 — London Philharmonic Orchestra – Landon Ronald
César Franck – Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra M 46 — London Philharmonic Orchestra – Landon Ronald
Camille Saint-Saëns – Concerto for Piano No.4 in C minor Op.44 – Orchestra – Charles Munch 

Alfred Cortot (piano) (EMI Classics)