What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Martinů
Piano Quintets Nos. 1 and 2
Sonata for 2 Violins and Piano
Martinů Quartet
Karel Košárek (piano)
Recorded 2005 Czech Radio Studio, Prague
Naxos

‘The Schubert Edition’ vol. 37 Hyperion
Schubert Lieder - The Final Year - 1828
20 Lieder including ‘Auf dem Strom’ (‘On the River’) for tenor, piano and French horn , D.943
Michael Schade (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) and David Pyatt (horn)
Recorded 1998/99
Hyperion

[BBMmk2]

BBC Proms 2017 Prom 21: Sir James MacMillan and Beethoven
Sir James MacMillan A European Requiem
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.129, "Choral".
Soloists, CBSO Chorus, BBC NOW Chorus & Orchestra, conducted by
Xian Zhang.

[Bryn]

PCM 5: Shostakovich
BBC Proms, 2017

An all-Shostakovich concert featuring the Latvian Radio Choir in Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets, and pianist Alexander Melnikov in a selection of Preludes and Fugues.

Live at Cadogan Hall, London

[Bryn]

Janacek: Sarka (Bakala 1953).

My first audition from the 320kbps mp3 DVD-R mentioned recently here by 'makropulos'. This opera is split into a series of mp3 tracks, with consequent gaps. Looks like I will have to join the 'tracks' from each act using mp3DirectCut. Surprisingly good sound quality, so far. Don't expect either standard CD or DVD packaging. It comes in a windowed envelope stuck inside a folded sheet of A4 card, along with similar A5 format booklet and listing.

[makropulos]

Bryn, it won't surprise you to know that a few weeks ago I suggested joining tracks 1-6 for Act I etc. - the same as all the other operas (one track per act). Shame that wasn't done - and if you feel like it, do - please - write to David Patmore at CRQ to suggest he does it for Sarka as well.

[pastoralguy]

Jean Sibelius.

String Quartet in d minor, 'Intimate Letters'.

This, to my shame, is a work I don't know at all.

[Bryn]

Bryn, it won't surprise you to know that a few weeks ago I suggested joining tracks 1-6 for Act I etc. - the same as all the other operas (one track per act). Shame that wasn't done - and if you feel like it, do - please - write to David Patmore at CRQ to suggest he does it for Sarka as well.

Will do.

[teamsaint]

Jean Sibelius.

String Quartet in d minor, 'Intimate Letters'.

This, to my shame, is a work I don't know at all.

Must have been a nice surprise for you then, PG.

Currently:
Poulenc: Sept Repons Des Tenebres.
Pretre/Carpentier et al.

Who's got lots to tell about the links between Bernstein and Poulenc ?

[pastoralguy]

Must have been a nice surprise for you then, PG.

To be honest, TS, it didn't make that much of an impression on me which is odd since I'm a big fan of the mighty Finn's music. What was really odd is that a friend I told about this cd is convinced that we had played through it at a string quartet course many years ago!

Anyway, after tonight's somewhat mediocre Proms concert, Bach's 'cello Suites played by Jean-Guihen Queyras.

[BBMmk2]

Rather enjoyed last night's Prom Is something else!

[Pulcinella]

Jean Sibelius.

String Quartet in d minor, 'Intimate Letters'.

This, to my shame, is a work I don't know at all.

Pedants' Paradise comment here, pg.
Surely Intimate voices?
Intimate letters is the subtitle of Janacek's second SQ.

[Pulcinella]

Must have been a nice surprise for you then, PG.

Currently:
Poulenc: Sept Repons Des Tenebres.
Pretre/Carpentier et al.

Who's got lots to tell about the links between Bernstein and Poulenc ?

Poulenc features very little in Humphrey Burton's book on Bernstein.

In April 1963 Bernstein ..... [took] part in a tribute to Poulenc, who had died suddenly in January.
He accompanied Benny Goodman in the world premiere of Poulenc's clarinet sonata.
At Easter, the Philharmonic gave the posthumous premiere of Poulenc's Sept Répons des Ténèbres, commissioned for the first season of Lincoln Center [sic; not The Lincoln Center!].

Burton goes on to say that the work offended the subsantial Jewish section of the audience! Bernstein did not conduct, though, as he was observing Passover.

So, not a lot to tell there, sadly.

[Stanfordian]

Dvořák
'Stabat mater', for four soloists, chorus and orchestra
Erin Wall (soprano); Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo); Christian Elsner (tenor) & Liang Li (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Mariss Jansons
Recorded live 2015 Herkulessaal, Munich
BR Klassik

Ernst von Dohnányi
'Being Earnest' - Ensemble Raro
Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 26
Sextet for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet and horn, Op. 37
Ensemble Raro
Recorded 2016 Bayerischer Rundfunk-Studio 2, Munich
Solo Musica
One of the finest chamber music releases I have heard for some time and not widely known.

[BBMmk2]

Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells, Pts 1 & 2.
Tubular Brass,
arranged and conducted by
Sandy Smith.

Yes, I know brass bands playing this classic but just you wait and see how these guys play! Absolutely amazing to hear. The band captures the album's atmosphere, totally.

Top class transcription.

[pastoralguy]

Pedants' Paradise comment here, pg.
Surely Intimate voices?
Intimate letters is the subtitle of Janacek's second SQ.

Of course it's 'Intimate Voices!' The dangers of writing and talking at the same time.

Thanks.