What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

I really do not know. My guess is for somewhere between habit and a straight musical decision. It's not heavyweight Hollywood vibrato. Far more delicate and nuanced. I still think Morty might have preferred no vibrato, but then, his erstwhile muse, Karen Phillips, was wont to use a fair bit of vibrato when playing works he composed for her.

[edashtav]

Ah! Different from Seascape and Harvest, then, which I have lined up to play from youtube (with Rattle/CBSO)? Will give it a try (especially at that price) . But I also have the Violin and Horn Concerto disc to play.

Thanks for the tip-off, the LP was once a favourite recording. I may have bought the last, cheap copy!

[gradus]

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1: S 514, Earl Wild

One of the tracks on this weeks's free download from Classic Select World. Very good playing.
I used to listen to this a lot - but not this version.

Ever heard the ridiculously over the top Horowitz live performance?

[Stanfordian]

Saint-Saëns – ‘Oeuvre Chorales’
Messe de Requiem, Op. 54
10 Part-songs
Marie-Paule Dotti (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano),
Luca Lombardo (tenor), Nicolas Testé (bass)
Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Diego Fasolis
Recorded 2001, Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Genoa (Requiem)
& Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano, Switzerland (Partsongs)
Chandos CD

Maurice Emmanuel – ‘Chamber Music’
Cello Sonata, Op. 2
Sonata for flute, clarinet & piano, Op. 11
Suite sur des airs populaires grecs, for violin & piano, Op. 10
Bugle Sonata in B flat major, Op. 29
String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 8
Ensemble Stanislas
Quatour Stanislas
Recording 2009, Salle Poirel, Nancy
Timpani CD

[AuntDaisy]

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Mahler Lieder - EMI DFD "The Lieder Singer" box set (slowly working through it).
Is it controversial to say I'm not enjoying the Mahler disk as much as the earlier ones? Give me Schubert every time.
And, annoyingly, the promised PDF translations are missing from CD11 (I'll avoid an emoji, since I might use it incorrectly).

[Mario]

SCHUMANN R

S No 01 in Bb Maj “Spring” Op 38
BPO – Karajan H v (1971)

Mario

[jayne lee wilson]

...pre prom follow prom....

Britta Bystrom Invisible Cities
Malmo SO/Blendulf. Daphne CD.

Hindemith Symphony: Mathis der Maler; Concerto for Trumpet and Bassoon.
Sols/Dresden Philharmonic/Kegel. Berlin Classics/Brilliant Classics CDs.
The BC/Edel sets have long been my favourite Hindemith recordings, with their wonderful full, textured echt-German strings, and recorded in the Lukaskirche...
Brass and percussion glorious!

[Bryn]

...pre prom follow prom....

Britta Bystrom Invisible Cities
Malmo SO/Blendulf. Daphne CD.

Hindemith Symphony: Mathis der Maler; Concerto for Trumpet and Bassoon.
Sols/Dresden Philharmonic/Kegel. Berlin Classics/Brilliant Classics CDs.
The BC/Edel sets have long been my favourite Hindemith recordings, with their wonderful full, textured echt-German strings, and recorded in the Lukaskirche...
Brass and percussion glorious!

Planning on streaming the Kubelik recording of Mathis der Maler (the opera) later. Also tempted by the Simone Young.

[BBMmk2]

Mahler
Symphony No.4 in G major
Songs from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Mathias Goerne (baritone)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly

[MickyD]

I think that what there was, in terms of negative reviews of early Hanover Band recordings, was very much conditioned by antipathy towards Nimbus's recording ethos. Those Schumann recordings were, of course, not by Nimbus. I never had a problem with the Nimbus approach, however. I found the more blatant inclusion of the recording venues' acoustics entirely welcome.

Couldn't agree more!

[Stanfordian]

Couldn't agree more!

I agree too about the sound quality. I have tended to avoid Nimbus, as do several friends.

[Stanfordian]

Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, ballet
London Symphony Chorus,
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn
Recorded 1981, Abbey Road, London
EMI, reissued on Warner Classics

Natalie Dessay – Debussy – 'Clair de Lune'
19 Mélodies
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Philippe Cassard (piano)
Recorded 2011 Salle Colonne, Paris
Virgin Classics

[BBMmk2]

Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, ballet
London Symphony Chorus,
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn
Recorded 1981, Abbey Road, London
EMI, reissued on Warner Classics

[B]

I do rather like this Ravel/Orevin disc.

Carrying on with my theme this morning of recordings celebrating the artistry of Riccardo Chailly.

Brahms
Symphonies
Gewandhausorchester
Riccardo Chailly

[Mario]

Tavener J

The Protecting Veil
BBC S O – Isserlis S – Rozhdestvensky G

Mario

[Serial_Apologist]

Alfredo Casella - Partita for Piano and Orchestra (1924/5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUkkkk9lu4

Redfaced admission of my love for this uplifting work. Composed in the new Neo-Classical manner first heard in the ballet music La Giara 3 years earlier, this work, brim-full of Lord Berners-like impudent warmth and optimism, could, with knowledge of its historical circumstances, almost be seen and heard as Il Duce's welcome to power piece. Most of Italy's leading composers of the generation up to Dallapiccola adopted either craven submission or accommodation to the Fascist régime, Casella being one, and I have always had mixed feelings about this work since first hearing it in the 1960s: I find its Neo-classicism (more Neo-Baroque) far more palatable than that of Stravinsky, and the major turn reminiscence of Mahler's Das Knaben Wunderhorn spirit midway through the middle movement does not suffer for it.

G.F. Malipiero was another who went out of his way to ingratiate himself with Mussolini - in his case unsuccessfully, which is perhaps one excuse I can give for offering here his Violin Concerto of 1932. Somehow the austere yet touching modal idiom evokes Italian landscapes, rather as does that of Vaughan Williams's near-contemporary work Job, and I can hear nothing "fascist" in its gentle evocativeness. The modulation just prior to the final rush to the finishing post is one to die for. Here it is linked with the VC of Casella, which I might give a listen later.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMOuWFIoGqbG-wSiqZZAtg