What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Brahms. Piano Concerto No.1

Nelson Freire, piano

Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly. DECCA.

Sounds good. I'm not sure I have that recording, I'll have to check.

[pastoralguy]

Sounds good. I'm not sure I have that recording, I'll have to check.

I was looking for my Hough recording of both the Brahms Concertos but can't find it anywhere. However, this turned up and it's pretty wonderful. It's amazing how so much of Brahms' slow music in these works is similar to the Late Piano Music.

[BBMmk2]

Sergei Taneyev
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.30
Piano Trio in G, Op.22.
Vadim Repin, Ilya Gringolts(violins)
Nobuko Imai(Viola)
Lyn Harell(cello)
Mikhail Pletnev(piano).

[Stanfordian]

Mahler
Symphony No. 7
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker / Ádám Fischer
Recorded live February 2015 Tonhalle, Düsseldorf
CAvi-music

‘Reine de Coeur’ (‘Queen of Hearts’) – Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Songs by Schumann, Poulenc & Zemlinsky
Schumann
Sechs Gesänge, Op. 107
Sechs Gedichte und Requiem
Poulenc
La courte paille, FP 178
Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101
Zemlinsky
Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Liedern von Ferdinand Gregorovius, Op. 6 (1898)
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (soprano), Juliane Ruf (piano)
Recorded 2018 Teldex Studio, Berlin
Pentatone - new release

[Bryn]

Barrett: CONSTRUCTION (320 kbps aac from the Radio 3 transmission).

[pastoralguy]

Brahms. Piano Concerto No.1

Nelson Freire, piano

Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly. DECCA.

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2

[pastoralguy]

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2

Mrs. PG asked what this work was and when I replied I told her it was the biggest of all the Piano Concertos. And then I thought about the other monster piano concerti and this led me to digging out...

Busoni. Piano Concerto played by who else but the late, great Mr. John Ogdon?

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniell Revenaugh. (With the men's voices of the John Alldis Choir).

EMI STUDIO 1968

[pastoralguy]

Mozart. Symphony No.39 in Eb

Karl Bohm conducting Die Berliner Philharmoniker. (DG)

[Stanfordian]

Vivaldi - ‘Music for Mandolin, Chitarra Barocca & Lute’
Concerto for 2 mandolins, strings and basso continuo in G major, RV 532
Trio for violin, lute and basso continuo in G minor, RV 85
Concerto for mandolin, strings and basso continuo in C major, RV 425
Concerto for viola d’amore, lute, strings and basso continuo in D minor, RV 540
Trio for violin, lute and basso continuo in C major, RV 82
Concerto for 2 violins, lute and basso continuo in D major, RV 93
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand (mandolin, chitarra barocca & lute)
Recorded 1996 & 2006 Studio Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland
Naïve

Max Emanuel Cencic - Handel - Opera Arias
Imeneo, Floridante, Arianna in Creta, Tamerlano, Serse, Amadigi in Gaul, Parnasso in festa, Agrippina, Radamisto, & Orlando
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera,
I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis
Recorded 2009 Radio Svizzera di lingua italiano, Lugano
Virgin Classics

[Stanfordian]

Mrs. PG asked what this work was and when I replied I told her it was the biggest of all the Piano Concertos. And then I thought about the other monster piano concerti and this led me to digging out...

Busoni. Piano Concerto played by who else but the late, great Mr. John Ogdon?

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniell Revenaugh. (With the men's voices of the John Alldis Choir).

EMI STUDIO 1968

Concert organisers will find it hard to programme the Busoni.

[Richard Barrett]

Concert organisers will find it hard to programme the Busoni.

Listening to it is hard enough!

[Bryn]

Concert organisers will find it hard to programme the Busoni.

No more so than, say, the Alan Bush Piano Concerto

[Stanfordian]

No more so than, say, the Alan Bush Piano Concerto

Even more so. What about the Harty or Somervell piano concertos?

I remember Sir Mark Elder saying to me in interview some years ago that he might sometime programme the Ireland piano concerto with Halle, or words to that effect. I don't think that has happened.

On the subject of rarely heard concertos, actually a few years ago whilst in Dresden I had the opportunity of reporting from the Hamilton Harty violin concerto in concert with Neville Marriner conducting at the Frauenkirche. But I chose to attend Fidelio at Semperoper instead. A part of me regrets that I didn't take the opportunity of hearing the Harty.

[jayne lee wilson]

Haydn Symphonies 63; 43;28. (2032 VOL.8)
IL GIARDINO ARMONICO /GIOVANNI ANTONINI, conductor
Qobuz Studio 24/176.4.

Back to this sublime album again... despite my earlier carping about the c/w Bartok which doesn't fit with Haydn for me, this is wonderful playing and recording, especially in Roxolana and Mercury, two of his loveliest... One of the best in this series.

[frankbridge]

John Adams:

Common Tones in Simple Time

San Francisco Symphony

Edo de Waart

Elektra Nonesuch 979 144-2

gorgeous...