What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[jayne lee wilson]

The perfect coupling, gorgeously played and recorded, with a completely new Debussy Pelleas Suite by Nott himself, far more fulfilling than the based-on-preludes versions. A great listen!
The Schoenberg is probably my least favourite work of his, but the track listing is laid out (again by Nott) to guide you through its 4-movement structure with references to the programmed narrative.... so I'll have another go (or two)....
But well worth your attention for the Debussy/Nott alone.....



Debussy & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott

• Released on 12/11/2021 by PentaTone
• QOBUZ 24/96

[AuntDaisy]

"The Fairy Queen" Henry Purcell, yesterday's finale of Tage Alter Musik Herne 21 (PDF brochure & vocal text).
Available to listen to on https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/progr...-14112021.html

SO 14. NOVEMBER 2021 / 19.00 UHR
KULTURZENTRUM
ELFENKÖNIGIN
HENRY PURCELL (1659 – 1695)
THE FAIRY-QUEEN (London 1692)
Libretto von Thomas Betterton
SOLISTINNEN UND SOLISTEN DES WDR RUNDFUNKCHORS
A Fairy, Attendant of Oberon: BENITA BORBONUS / Sopran
A Fairy, Spring: SIMONE KRAMPE / Sopran
Night, Plain: INSUN MIN-NEUBURGER / Sopran
Mystery, Nymph: NADEZDA SENTATSKAYA / Sopran
Mopsa, Secrecy, Summer: DAVID FELDMAN / Countertenor
Attendant of Titania, Autumn: JOACHIM STECKFUSS / Tenor
Chinese Man: YOU ZUO / Tenor
Phoebus: THOMAS JAKOBS / Tenor
Poet, Coridon: RICHARD LOGIEWA / Bariton
Attendant of Titania, Hymen: ALEXANDER SCHMIDT / Bariton
Sleep, Winter: MANFRED BITTNER / Bass
WDR RUNDFUNKCHOR
CHRISTIAN ROHRBACH / Einstudierung
L’ARTE DEL MONDO

[Alison]

Beethoven Piano Sonatas 30 to 32

Maurizio Pollini

Glazunov Piano Sonatas 1 & 2
Lyadov Variations on a Polish Folk Theme
Arensky 6 Caprices

Martin Cousin

My sort of combo Edge

Arensky is so delightful in this cruel and baffling world.

[BBMmk2]

The perfect coupling, gorgeously played and recorded, with a completely new Debussy Pelleas Suite by Nott himself, far more fulfilling than the based-on-preludes versions. A great listen!
The Schoenberg is probably my least favourite work of his, but the track listing is laid out (again by Nott) to guide you through its 4-movement structure with references to the programmed narrative.... so I'll have another go (or two)....
But well worth your attention for the Debussy/Nott alone.....



Debussy & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott

• Released on 12/11/2021 by PentaTone
• QOBUZ 24/96

Thank you for this!

Bartok & Lutoslawski
Concerti for Orchestra.
Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi.

Bruckner
Symphony No.4 in Eb major
Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi

[Stanfordian]

Sabine Devieilhe – 'Bach, Handel'
J.S. Bach
Cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
Cantata – Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
Sacred song – Mein Jesu! was für Seelenweh, BWV 487
Sinfonia – Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal, BWV 146
Handel
Two arias from oratorio – Brockes Passion, HWV 48
Two arias from opera – Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17
Aria from oratorio – Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Pygmalion (period instruments) / Raphaël Pichon (direction)
with Stéphane Degout (baritone) and Thomas Dunford (theorbo)
Recorded 2020 Temple du St-Esprit, Paris
Erato, new release

[Bryn]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011lmt

Good to hear hard beaters for the timps in the Beethoven. Much else to recommend it, too.

[Joseph K]

Scriabin - piano sonata no. 1 - Maltempo

[Edgy 2]

My sort of combo Edge

Arensky is so delightful in this cruel and baffling world.

Absolutely

[Stanfordian]

'Camille Saint-Saëns Edition'
Stereo/Mono
Warner Classics - Newly released box set (34 CDs)

Still dipping into this set.

[Joseph K]

Scriabin - piano sonata no. 1 - Maltempo

No. 2 now.

[Mario]

STRAUSS R

Don Juan Op 20

Comparing

Amsterdam C O – H v Karajan (1943)
Berlin P O – H v Karajan (1983)
NBC S O – Toscanini A (1939)
NBC S O – Toscanini A (1951)

Mario

[gradus]

'Camille Saint-Saëns Edition'
Stereo/Mono
Warner Classics - Newly released box set (34 CDs)

Still dipping into this set.

Havanaise/Kogan/Monteux. Just great.

[BBMmk2]

Dvorak
Serenade for Strings in E major, Op.42
Czech Suite, Op.39
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Josef Vlach

Slavonic Dancrs, Opp.48 & 72
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Behlalohvek.

[Mario]

Mahler G

Kindertotenlieder

Comparing

VPO – Hampson T – Bernstein L
VPO – Ferrier K – Walter B
Boston S O – Forrester M – Munch C

Mario

[BBMmk2]

Richard Strauss - The Tone Poems
CD 1
Don Quixote
(Jan Hlinka, viola, Kurt Reher, cello
Los Angeles PO, Mehta)
Don Juan, Op.20
(Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel)
Macbeth, Op.23
(Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati)
CD 2
Aus Italian, Op.16
(Cleveland Orchestr, Vladimir Ashkenazy)
Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
(LAPO, Zubin Mehta)
CD 3
Sinfonia Domestica, Op.53
Tod und Verklärung, Op.24
(LAPO, Zubin Mehta)
Salomé, Dance of the 7 Veils
(Cleveland Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy)