What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[DracoM]

Syzmanovsky String Quartets.

[Joseph K]

Kyuhee Park is really quite impressive.

[BBMmk2]

Today I've been listening to Giulini's VPO Bruckner 8 and 9... and quite honestly I don't really know why I've allowed myself to be distracted from these recorded performances by others which simply don't measure up to them. I will of course keep trying to find something else that is anywhere near this level, but so far I haven't. This is Bruckner's music as far as I'm concerned. Say what you will.

Goodness! That’s quite a sweeping statement! I will see if it’s music streamed

I see there looks like a rather interesting box set called Giulini in Vienna

[Conchis]

Goodness! That’s quite a sweeping statement! I will see if it’s music streamed

I see there looks like a rather interesting box set called Giulini in Vienna

I bought that last year at a record shop that has now sadly closed down. I bought it princiapally for the Bruckner, but it's all good.

[BBMmk2]

I bought that last year at a record shop that has now sadly closed down. I bought it princiapally for the Bruckner, but it's all good.

Thanks for that Conchis. I see it has the Bruckner works that Richard Barrett mentioned are there as well as other top notch performances.

[Richard Barrett]

This Giulini 8th is possibly even finer (magisterial!)

I shall have to give that a listen for sure.

[Beef Oven!]

I think I prefer the VPO version over the live BPO. They are both stellar of course. I think it may have something to do with the recording more than the performance. I find the strings and timpani much more compelling on the DG VPO CD, for example.

[teamsaint]

William Schuman.
Symphony #3
Seattle SO/Schwarz

Really impressed with this, so impressed that I will have to go back to the Bernstein, as I think I may prefer this overall.

[Stanfordian]

Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Varèse
Ionisation, for percussion ensemble of 13 players
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Mariss Jansons
Reorded live 2013 (Berlioz) & 2010 (Varese), Philharmonie, Munich
BK-Klassik

Wolfgang Rihm
Gedicht des Malers (Poem of the Painter), Concerto for violin and orchestra
Pascal Dusapin
Aufgang (Ascent), Concerto for violin and orchestra
Bruno Mantovani
Jeux d'eau, Concerto for violin and orchestra
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Wiener Symphoniker/Philippe Jordan (Rihm)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Myung-Whun Chung (Dusapin)
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris/Philippe Jordan (Mantovani)
rec. live, 2015 Große Saal, Wiener Konzerthaus (Rihm);
2015 Philharmonie, Paris (Dusapin); 2012 Salle Pleyel, Paris (Mantovani)
Erato

[Richard Barrett]

I think I prefer the VPO version over the live BPO. They are both stellar of course. I think it may have something to do with the recording more than the performance. I find the strings and timpani much more compelling on the DG VPO CD, for example.

Yes indeed. In the VPO recording I have the impression that I'm hearing the finely graduated instrumental balance that Giulini imagined coming from the orchestra; in the Berlin recording, which I listened to some of last night, I'm not so sure about that.

[Bryn]

Bruckner: Study Symphony (Philharmonie Festiva, Gerd Schaller). Looking forward to auditioning the rest of this boxed set, though I had previously downloaded the 8th.

[Arnold Bax]

Now:

Luciano Berio:

A-Ronne

Swingle II

Simpson/Bott/Hall/Hirst/Potter/Swingle/Lubbock/Beavan

conducted by the composer

Decca 425 620-2ZH

This is just one of the most extraordinary pieces of music I've ever heard

[Stanfordian]

Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue - Jazz Band Version – orchestrated Ferde Grofe
Earl Wild
from Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin:
i. Somebody Loves Me
ii. I Got Rhythm
Oscar Levant
Blame it on my Youth
Gershwin
Summertime
Piano Concerto in F
Earl Wild
from Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin
Embraceable You
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra / David Robertson
Recorded Live 2012 Berklee Perfromance Center, Boston, MA
Myrios - new release

Elina Garanca – Mozart – Vivaldi
Arias from Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Così fan tutte, La finta giardiniera, Concert Aria & from Vivaldi’s Bajazet
Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano
Camerata Salzburg / Louis Langrée (Mozart)
Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi (Vivaldi)
Guests: Vivica Genaux mezzo-soprano, Patricia Ciofi soprano, Marijana Mijanovic mezzo-soprano, David Daniels countertenor
Frank Braley, piano (Mozart concert aria)
Recorded 2005 Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg & 2004 Flagey Studio 4, Musica Numeri Brussels
Erato

[Bryn]

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; 3 Preludes; Piano Concerto (Morton Gould and his Orchestra). still my favourite recording of Rhapsody in Blue after all these years.

[BBMmk2]

Jean Sibelius
Piano Quintet in G minor;
String Quartet in D minor, "Voces intimae"
Martin Roscoe, The Coull Quartet.

Johannes Brahms
Trio for violin, horn and Piano, Op.40
Sonata for violin & piano No.1 in G major, Op.78;
Fantasien, Op.116.
Isabelle Faust(violin- Stradivarius Sleeping beauty 1704), Teunis van der Zwart(natural horn),
Alexander Melnkov(Bosendorfer piano, 1875)

A Golden Age of Portugese Music
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers.