What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Serial_Apologist]

Somehow Michelangeli is not a pianist one associates with the Grieg concerto. I'm not sure why but it seems a bit at odds with his rather patrician image but, boy, as Mario says, this is one heck of a performance. Mono recording from the RFH but it ceases to matter when confronted with pianism of this quality - and of such passion. In ABM's hands, this particular snow-filled bon-bon would have melted in a nano-second.

Especially with help from global warming!

[Mario]

[Hitch]

Respighi
Poeme Autunnale for Violin and Orchestra
Julia Fischer
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo/Yakov Kreizberg

[BBMmk2]

Haydn
Die Jahrezeiten
Julie Kaufmann (soprano)
Herbert Lippert (tenor)
Alan Titus (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink

Die Schöpfung
Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink.

Mahler
Symphony No.3 in D minor
Gerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink.

[Bryn]

Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (RCO, Haitink). Wishful thinking of the highest order.

[MickyD]

This is a delightful disc of Schubert from Andreas Staier with choir, which I discovered and found for under 1 euro!

[Mario]

MESSIAEN

La Nativité du Seigneur
N Hakim

I’m trying, I’m really trying…

Mario

[rauschwerk]

This is a delightful disc of Schubert from Andreas Staier with choir, which I discovered and found for under 1 euro!

Some fab pieces on there, including Nachthelle (my favourite). It's not often done, perhaps because it needs a tenor who can float top B flats. Ständchen is gorgeous too.

[HighlandDougie]

Beethoven: Symphony No 9, Op. 125 "Choral"

Irmgard Seefried (Sop.)/Maureen Forrester (Cont.)/Ernst Haefliger (Tenor)/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau(Bar.)/Choir of St Hedwig's Cathedral/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Ferenc Fricsay

Recorded in the wonderful acoustic of the Jesus-Christe-Kirche and, I suppose, overshadowed four/five years later by the HvK recording, this, for my money, rather kicks the latter into touch (there is something a bit hectoring and ultimately rather wearing about the HvK). For a 1958 recording, the Fricsay sounds very more than fine - and the orchestral playing is superb. I'm a great Fricsay admirer so freely admit to being biased in its favour but this recording has to be one of the most inspiring ever made.

[Edgy 2]

Vaughan Williams

A London Symphony
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

[Joseph K]

Bruckner - symphony no. 7 - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink

[MickyD]

Some fab pieces on there, including Nachthelle (my favourite). It's not often done, perhaps because it needs a tenor who can float top B flats. Ständchen is gorgeous too.

Agreed...and Staier's 1825 Fritz fortepiano adds to the ambiance, too.

[Pianoman]

Bruckner 8. - RCO/ Haitink....1969, a very different beast to later ones, the finale in particular (just over 20 minutes !!)

[Joseph K]

One of the best classical guitarists I've heard. His ornamentation is beautiful and very similar to that of a harpsichordist. Shame there is no set list on this video, I'm not sure what this first piece is, other than that it's Baroque (edit - I know now, Kuhnau). But I strongly recommend people check out his recent videos of the Bach lute suites made in various Spanish churches, which are on youtube - only one more to come (1006, I think).

[gurnemanz]

Bach Cantata BWV 1 Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern - two versions:

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Chorus Viennensis (Chorus), Wiener Sängerknaben, 1971
Pieter Jan Leusink - Netherlands Bach Collegium, 1991

I found Leusink's sprightly 7.18 timing in the opening chorus by far preferable to Harnoncourt's 9.36