What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Serial_Apologist]

Schoenberg. Pierrot Lunaire.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, voice.

The Pat Kop Ensemble.

Still trying with this piece. Alas, it still eludes me.

Huge respects for still trying, though, PG - one day it will "click", possibly by way of another work of Schoenberg's. Such things are not unknown.

[Stanfordian]

Schoenberg. Pierrot Lunaire.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, voice.

The Pat Kop Ensemble.

Still trying with this piece. Alas, it still eludes me.

Hiya pastoralguy,

I'm not sure about this recording with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. I admit the score is an acquired taste for many but I have really engaged with Pierrot Lunaire when attending live performances in Munich and in Berlin when the narration was undertaken by professional actors, which makes a big difference to me.

[pastoralguy]

Huge respects for still trying, though, PG - one day it will "click", possibly by way of another work of Schoenberg's. Such things are not unknown.

Thanks.

If the public libraries ever open again I’ll try to borrow a score. Mind you, I listened to Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto many times with a score and I’m none the wiser.

[pastoralguy]

Hiya pastoralguy,

I'm not sure about this recording with Patricia Kopatchinskaja. I admit the score is an acquired taste for many but I have really engaged with Pierrot Lunaire when attending live performances in Munich and in Berlin when the narration was undertaken by professional actors.

I have half a dozen other recordings by various ensembles which I’ve listened to but none are preferable to the other. I’ll keep trying!

[Stanfordian]

Thanks.

If the public libraries ever open again I’ll try to borrow a score. Mind you, I listened to Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto many times with a score and I’m none the wiser.

Hiya pastoralguy,

For me Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto is one of the toughest works I ever heard. I'm not sure I would reach for it to play again.

[pastoralguy]

Does it start skipping after the second moment of the G Minor?

Plays beautifully!

[pastoralguy]

Did you manage to revive your Haitink Mahler 6?

I’m listening now. Hmm. It’s very clean with everything in the correct order but, for me, it misses that slightly manic and chaotic character I look out for in these works.

[Stanfordian]

‘Ludovic Tézier sings Verdi’
Arias from Nabucco, Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La traviata,
Don Carlos, Un ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Otello, Falstaff.
Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Frédéric Chaslin
Recorded 2020 Teatro Auditorium Manzoni, Bologna
Sony CD

Telemann
Frankfurt Sonatas No’s 1–6
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin), Annekatrin Beller (cello),
Torsten Johann (harpsichord / positive organ), Thomas C. Boysen (theorbo)
Recorded 2018 Ensemblehaus, Freiburg
Aparté CD

[ahinton]

Hiya pastoralguy,

For me Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto is one of the toughest works I ever heard. I'm not sure I would reach for it to play again.

I confess that for years I just couldn't make head or tail of it but the revelation came when listening to the recording by Hilary Hahn (which is curiously coupled with the Sibelius Concerto!) which I heartily recomend, especially to anyone who finds the piece borderline impenetrable...

[ahinton]

I’m listening now. Hmm. It’s very clean with everything in the correct order but, for me, it misses that slightly manic and chaotic character I look out for in these works.

"Everything in the correct order"? Even the middle movements? (Well, they are for me, but...)...

[Stanfordian]

I confess that for years I just couldn't make head or tail of it but the revelation came when listening to the recording by Hilary Hahn (which is curiously coupled with the Sibelius Concerto!) which I heartily recomend, especially to anyone who finds the piece borderline impenetrable...

Hiya ahinton,

Yes, I have that Hahn recording. She is certainly a super player.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 412-414

G Verdi:
Simon Boccanegra (1881 version) - (vocal score)
La forza del destino (1869 version) - (vocal score)
Aida (vocal score)

[Stanfordian]

Barbara Hendricks – ‘Mélodies’
from Fauré, Gounod, Bizet, Chabrier, Massenet,
Duparc, Delibes, Bachelet, Martini, Chausson & Hahn
Chausson
Chanson perpétuelle, mélodie, for piano & string quartet, Op. 37
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Michel Dalberto (piano)
Christoph Richter (cello)
Cherubini Quartet
Recorded 1989, Salle de Châtonneyre, Corseaux, Switzerland (CD 1)
& 1995, Musical théâtre, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (CD 2)
EMI Classics (2 CDs)

Pierre Boulez - Debussy
3 Nocturnes for Orchestra
Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
Franklin Cohen (clarinet)
Jeux
La mer
Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
Recording 1993 Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland, USA
Deutsche Grammophon

[BBMmk2]

Sibelius
Symphonies Nos.1-7
Luonotar
Violin Concerto
Zino Francescatti (violin)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein.

[Bryn]

Sibelius
Symphonies Nos.1-7
Luonotar
Violin Concerto
Zino Francescatti (violin)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein.

I was encouraged to get the Sony set of the Symphonies, in an HMV sale, by an American PhD student who interviewed me in relation to her thesis on the Scratch Orchestra. I had not even considered Bernstein as a Sibelian. How wrong I was. Sadly, only the 5th Symphony and Violin Concerto from that selection made it to the big Bernstein Remastered box.