What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Alison]

Brahms:Sym 3 BostonSO Haitink

[cloughie]

I’ll play No2 then No1 when I’ve found them! No4 hopefully on its way from an Amazon merchant in the USA!

[Joseph K]

They are all so wonderful that savouring just one a day seems an excellent idea.

Agreed.

I'm about to put number 9 on.

[Jonathan]

Earlier - assorted odds and ends from my hard drive - Greig Lyric pieces, Wagner overtures, Liszt late works - all while working on the shells.

[Petrushka]

I’ll play No2 then No1 when I’ve found them! No4 hopefully on its way from an Amazon merchant in the USA!

I have the Boston SO/Haitink cycle and it is excellent. No 4 not (yet) amongst my duplicates. My favourite Haitink Brahms 2 is the one from the LSO cycle, a very fine performance indeed.

[DoctorT]

Haydn
Symphony 101 ‘The Clock’
COE/Harnoncourt (live)
Another enjoyable box from ICA

[Joseph K]

Barraqué: Chant apres chant

Really enjoying this. Only just getting round to reading the notes in the booklet. I like this: '... deprived of the possibility of ending (while, in another sense, ending all the time)' - captures his music quite well.

And of course how the Death of Virgil is quite central to his oeuvre...

[Bryn]

Barraqué: Chant apres chant

Really enjoying this. Only just getting round to reading the notes in the booklet. I like this: '... deprived of the possibility of ending (while, in another sense, ending all the time)' - captures his music quite well.

And of course how the Death of Virgil is quite central to his oeuvre...

Cued up for after the current Royal Institution Christmas lecture on BBC FOUR, Barraqué: Piano Sonata (Yvone Loriod).

[Edgy 2]

Rachmaninov

Cello Sonata

Gautier Capucon, Yuja Wang

Preludes, Piano Sonata No 2

Vladimir Ashkenazy

[Alison]

I’ll play No2 then No1 when I’ve found them! No4 hopefully on its way from an Amazon merchant in the USA!

I like the Boston Fourth :-)

Reminds me I’ve still not listened to Brahms symphonies from the Solti Chicago box.

[RichardB]

Beethoven, String Quartet in A minor op.132, by the Quatuor Mosaïques. Possibly to be followed by several other quartets.

[cloughie]

I like the Boston Fourth :-)

Reminds me I’ve still not listened to Brahms symphonies from the Solti Chicago box.

They’re good too!

[Stanfordian]

Messiaen
‘The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ’ for mixed choir, 7 instrumental soloists & large orchestra
‘Poèmes pour Mi’ for soprano & orchestra
‘Chronochromie’ for large orchestra
Jenny Daviet (soprano)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Kent Nagano.
BR-Klassik 3 CD set, recent release

[RichardB]

Beethoven, String Quartet in A minor op.132, by the Quatuor Mosaïques. Possibly to be followed by several other quartets.

In fact it was followed by going to bed early.

Thanks for that reminder, Stan. I started listening to that Transfiguration a few weeks ago when it came out, but didn't get very far owing to not being in the right frame of mind to concentrate on it. What an awe-inspiring piece of work.

[Bryn]

Messiaen
‘The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ’ for mixed choir, 7 instrumental soloists & large orchestra
‘Poèmes pour Mi’ for soprano & orchestra
‘Chronochromie’ for large orchestra
Jenny Daviet (soprano)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Kent Nagano.
BR-Klassik 3 CD set, recent release

I had, somehow, missed that release (currently being imported from QOBUZ). I have found Nagano to have a good affinity with Messian's music, since being much taken with his performance of Éclairs sur l'au-delà with the LSO (the first UK performance, IIRC).