What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Today’s listening.

Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op.35
(Oleg Dolgov, tenor, Iurii Samoilov, baritone)
BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka)
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch.Henry J Wood)
(BBC NOW, François-Xavier Roth)

Szymanowski
Violin Concerti
No.1, Op.35 (1916)
No.2, Op.61 (1932-33)
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Violin Concerto in A major, Op.8 (1902)
Tasmin Little, (violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner

Szymanowski
Concert Overture, Op.12
Symphony No.4, Op.60 ‘Symphonie Concertante’
Symphony No.2, Op.19
Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner

Josef Suk
A Summer’s Tale, Op.29 (1907-09)
Prague, Op.26 (1904)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Behlalohvek.

[jayne lee wilson]

Mozart
Violin Concertos 1-5; Sinfonia Concertante K364.
Zehetmair/Killius/Orchestra of the 18thC/Bruggen. Glossa CDs

Zehetmair leads from the violin in nos. 1, 4 and 5; on release, I found these lacked some impetus compared to Bruggen's direction of the others. But now, the sheer beauty of this orchestra's sound, the spacious acoustics used, and that classic Bruggen-inspired lyrically-moulded phrasing only inspire a deepening love.
This is especially telling in such a movement as the gorgeous adagio of No.1 (one of my Mozart Top Ten). So I've returned to the whole set, again and again recently, with great and repeated pleasure.

[Joseph K]

Stravinsky - Canticum sacrum - Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Philip Jones Ensemble/Simon Preston

[DoctorT]

Brahms
Symphony no. 3
ORR/John Eliot Gardiner
After Schiff’s Piano Concertos, in the mood for more HIPP Brahms

[BBMmk2]

Mozart
Violin Concertos 1-5; Sinfonia Concertante K364.
Zehetmair/Killius/Orchestra of the 18thC/Bruggen. Glossa CDs

Zehetmair leads from the violin in nos. 1, 4 and 5; on release, I found these lacked some impetus compared to Bruggen's direction of the others. But now, the sheer beauty of this orchestra's sound, the spacious acoustics used, and that classic Bruggen-inspired lyrically-moulded phrasing only inspire a deepening love.
This is especially telling in such a movement as the gorgeous adagio of No.1 (one of my Mozart Top Ten). So I've returned to the whole set, again and again recently, with great and repeated pleasure.

Have you heard Andras Schiff’s recording of Brahms’s PCs with this orchestra?

[Mario]

ELGAR E

Enigma Variations on an original theme Op36
NBC S O = Toscanini A (1951)

Mario

[Bryn]

Have you heard Andras Schiff’s recording of Brahms’s PCs with this orchestra?

jlw has not only heard it but also pretty much raved about it here, and rightly so.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?23172-Schiff%E2%80%99s-Brahms-Concertos-Archetypal-classics&p=851863#post851863

[MickyD]

Have you heard Andras Schiff’s recording of Brahms’s PCs with this orchestra?

But it's with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, not the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.

[Mario]

ELGAR E

Enigma Variations on an original theme Op36
NBC S O = Toscanini A (1951)

Mario

And for comparison

ELGAR E

Enigma Variations on an original theme Op36
RPO – Sir C Mackerras

Mario

[Stanfordian]

Nathalie Manfrino – ‘French Heroines’
Airs d'opéras français – Gounod, Massenet, Delibes, Bizet, Debussy, Lalo & Chausson
Nathalie Manfrino (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo / Emmanuel Villaume
Recorded 2007 Auditorium Rainier III, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Decca

Capuçon, Moreau & Chamayou – Saint-Saëns – ‘Sonates & Trio’
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 92
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75
Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Edgar Moreau (cello)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Recorded July 2020, Studio, Cité de la Musique et de la Danse, Soissons, France
Erato (Warner Classics)

[Joseph K]

Stravinsky - Threni - The Philharmonia et al./Craft

[Mandryka]

Every aspect of this performance of the second French suite is original - the relation of the voices in the more contrapuntal movements, the rubato, the speed of the basic pulse, the timbre of the instrument - all new, all fresh.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 383-386

M Tippett:
Suite in D for the Birthday of Prince Charles
Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage
Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli
Piano Concerto
Symphony No 2
The Vision of St Augustine (vocal score)
Symphony No 3
Symphony No 4
Triple Concerto

E Varese:
Integrales

[Quarky]

For the jaded Beethoven palate::
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), Ferdinand Ries (arranger)
Symphony No 3 in E flat major Op 55 'Eroica' arr. Piano Quartet.

Courtesy of Through the Night.

[Stanfordian]

‘La Francesina – Handel’s Nightingale’ – Sophie Junker
Tribute to ‘La Francesina’ French soprano Élisabeth Duparc, known as Handel’s Nightingale.
Handel opera and oratorio arias from: Faramondo, Serse, Deidamia, Imeneo, Semele, Hercules, Saul, Joseph & his Brethren
Instrumental pieces from Belshazzar, Semele & The Occasional Oratorio
Sophie Junker (soprano)
Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu / Franck-Emmanuel Comte (direction / harpsichord)
Recorded 2019 Temple Lanterne, Lyon, France
Aparté

Jean Martinon - 'Roussel & Ravel'
Roussel
Bacchus and Ariadne, Suite No. 2
Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Jean Martinon
Recorded 1965, Symphony Hall, Chicago
RCA Victor Red Seal