What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Edgy 2]

Elgar Brahms

Enigma Variations, Haydn Variations

LSO / Eugen Jochum

[BBMmk2]

Elgar Brahms

Enigma Variations, Haydn Variations

LSO / Eugen Jochum

I rather like this one!

Listening to

Icon: Guido Cantelli
Various orchestras
Guido Cantelli.

[Bryn]

Prokofiev: Symnphony No. 5 (MRSO, Rozhdstvensky). What a cheeky final movement. Brilliant!

[cloughie]

Prokofiev: Symnphony No. 5 (MRSO, Rozhdstvensky). What a cheeky final movement. Brilliant!

OK Bryn - Rub it in!

[Bryn]

OK Bryn - Rub it in!

Look like it used to be on QOBUZ but no longer is. Curious.

[pastoralguy]

A DECCA Eloquence twofer I’ve long had my eye on in my local Oxfam shop. (Pretty expensive at £6.99 but it’s pay day!)

OVERTURES IN HI-FI.

Albert Wolff conducting The Paris Orchestra and the Orchestre de L’Opéra-Comique, Paris in Overtures by Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, Adam, Hérold, Rezniček, Suppe, Nicolai and Auber. Recorded in 1951 and 1955 and released in this edition by DECCA in 2010. I looked for reviews in Gramophone but couldn’t find anything.

To be honest, not the greatest of sound but the performances are pretty perky. Must read the notes.

[cloughie]

Look like it used to be on QOBUZ but no longer is. Curious.

Found it on Spotify but the listing is in Russian - really good performance!

[Bryn]

from last night's TtN:

Igor Stravinsky

Scherzo a la Russe - arranged for piano forty hands
Music Arranger: Maarten Bon. Ensemble: Twenty Grand Pianos.

[Stanfordian]

George Onslow
String Quartet No. 28 in E flat major, op. 54
String Quartet No. 29 in D minor, op. 55
String Quartet No. 30 in C minor, op. 56
Quatuor Diotima
Recorded 2009 MC2, Grenoble, France
Naïve

Wagner, Berg & Mahler – ‘Orchestral Songs’ Anja Harteros
Wagner
Wesendonck-Lieder
Berg
Sieben frühe Lieder
Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Anja Harteros (soprano)
Münchner Philharmoniker/Valery Gergiev
Recorded 2018 (Wagner); 2020 (Berg); 2019 (Mahler), Philharmonie, Munich
Münchner Philharmoniker MPHIL, own label

[BBMmk2]

Today and tomorrow.

Sir Charles Mackerras: Life With Czech Music
Dvorak - Smetana
CD 1
Dvorak -
Slavonic Dances, Op.46 (1st Series, 1878)
Slavonic Dances, Op.72 (2nd Series, 1886-87)
CD 2
Symphonic Variations, Op.78 (1870)
Symphony No.6 in D major, Op.60 (1880)
(Czech Philharmonic Orchestra,
Sir Charles Mackerras)
CD 3
Symphony No.8 in G major, Op.88 (1889)
Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95, “From the New World” (1893)
(Prague Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Charles Mackerras)
CD 4
Legends, Op.59 (1881)
Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66 (1883)
In Nature’s Realm, concert overture, Op.91 (1891)
Česká Filharmonien (1-11),
Prague Symphony Orchestra ((12),
Sir Charles Mackerras.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Finally finished following my latest score acquisitions:

Score following - Days 469-479

F Berwald:
Symphony No 3 in C major 'Sinfonie Singuliere'

Humperdinck:
Hansel & Gretel (vocal score)

L Janacek:
Glagolitic Mass

L Lajtha:
Symphony No 5

J MacMillan:
The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

B Martinu:
Piano Concerto No 3

E Mehul:
Symphony No 2 in D major

O Messiaen:
Chant des Deportes

W A Mozart:
Symphony No 22 in C major
Symphony No 23 in D major
Symphony No 24 in B flat major
Symphony No 25 in G minor
Symphony No 26 in E flat major
Symphony No 27 in G major
Symphony No 28 in C major
Symphony No 29 in A major
Symphony No 30 in D major
Symphony No 31 in D major 'Paris'
Symphony No 32 in G major
Symphony No 33 in B flat major
Symphony No 34 in C major

H Parry:
Ode on the Nativity (vocal score)

F Poulenc:
Concert Champetre

H Purcell:
Ode on St Cecilia's Day (1692) - (vocal score)

M Ravel:
Introduction & Allegro

E Rubbra:
Symphony No 2 op45
Symphony No 7 op88

E Satie:
Socrate

[jayne lee wilson]

On Repeat, a Thing of Beauty.......



Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concertos - Overtures - Fantasias

Antoine Tamestit, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sabine Fehlandt, Bernhard Forck

• Released on 07/01/2022 by harmonia mundi
• QOBUZ 24/96

[HighlandDougie]

On Repeat, a Thing of Beauty.......



Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concertos - Overtures - Fantasias

Antoine Tamestit, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sabine Fehlandt, Bernhard Forck

• Released on 07/01/2022 by harmonia mundi
• QOBUZ 24/96

Ditto. At least Qobuz provides a better return to the artists so they'll be getting two times whatever it might be at the moment. It is delightful - great, characterful playing, bringing out the originality of GFT's scoring and a lovely recording.

[Joseph K]

Quatuor Mosaïques:

[pastoralguy]

Mozart. Piano Concertos 19 & 20

Rudolf Serkin, piano. The Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by George Szell.

One of those CBS ‘Great Performance’ discs with those covers that emulate newspaper headings. I’m quite partial to them.
Alas, the Gramophone from 1961 was not really impressed and were very lukewarm. Perhaps, Compared to Uchida and Periah they lack the imagination and sparkle those artists bring but I find them them very persuasive of the Mozart from that period of performance.

Charity shop bargain at £2!