What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Today’s listening has been this marvellous set.

Tchaikovsky
The Symphonies
Capriccio Italien, Op.48
Ouverture Solenelle “1812”, Op.49
Swan Lake Suite, Op.20
Slavonic March, Op.31
Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a
Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta

[gradus]

Schnabel playing Beethoven op 111 - still good piano sound. Along with Solomon and Bishop Kovacevic the only pianists I've listened to who play the Arietta as slowly I like it.

[cloughie]

Today’s listening has been this marvellous set.

Tchaikovsky
The Symphonies
Capriccio Italien, Op.48
Ouverture Solenelle “1812”, Op.49
Swan Lake Suite, Op.20
Slavonic March, Op.31
Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a
Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta

When this 1812 was first released the Gramophone reviewer described as ‘not a record for small machines or semi-detached houses’. The Symphonies set was very much underrated when first released - his Decca recordings with the LAPO and IPO in the 60s and 70s were mostly very good indeed, particularly his Richard Strauss!

[Stanfordian]

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9
Concerto for piano, trumpet, & string orchestra
Yefim Bronfman (piano), Hannes Läubin (trumpet)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
Recorded Live 2011 Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, Austria (Op. 70):
2012 Herkulessaal, Munich, Germany (Op. 35)
BR-Klassik, recent CD release

[Bryn]

A delightfully constructed programme.

[RichardB]

Rameau, Pièces de clavecin en concert, with the Kuijken brothers and Robert Kohnen. While proofreading a score. (I don't like to be distracted by thinking about what the music sounds like, at this stage in the process!)

[cloughie]

Rameau, Pièces de clavecin en concert, with the Kuijken brothers and Robert Kohnen. While proofreading a score. (I don't like to be distracted by thinking about what the music sounds like, at this stage in the process!)

I guess composers work in mysterious ways but how on earth can you proof read a score, which presumably is a note check, whilst listening to something completely different?

[RichardB]

I guess composers work in mysterious ways but how on earth can you proof read a score, which presumably is a note check, whilst listening to something completely different?

I'm checking the typeset score against my handwritten sketch. I find that I'm much more accurate if I just think of the notes as dots on the page rather than sounds, and one (quite pleasant) way of doing that is to have other sounds floating around in my mind.

[cloughie]

I'm checking the typeset score against my handwritten sketch. I find that I'm much more accurate if I just think of the notes as dots on the page rather than sounds, and one (quite pleasant) way of doing that is to have other sounds floating around in my mind.

Right!

[Joseph K]

[NickBz]

Pierre Hantai, Goldberg. The 1992 recording. Probably the most relaxing harpsichord music I've come across. This is not like saying it's like the most enjoyable direct nuclear strike. Don't be cruel. Things have changed since Wanda Landowska and Ralph Kirkpatrick. This is fairly soft-focus - you can lower the volume and get the original (probably fictitious) experience of Count Kaiserling, as though Goldberg were playing in the next room. Truly lovely.

[NickBz]

I've long been a fan of Boulez doing Bartok. What a line-up!

[teamsaint]

Right!

Oh that old trick. DSCH used to do this with the saturday afternoon footy commentary and the Radio Moscow sports report rattling away in the background.

[cloughie]

Oh that old trick. DSCH used to do this with the saturday afternoon footy commentary and the Radio Moscow sports report rattling away in the background.

Is that how the Lone Ranger got into Sym 15?

[RichardB]

Oh that old trick. DSCH used to do this with the saturday afternoon footy commentary and the Radio Moscow sports report rattling away in the background.

I prefer baroque music myself. Anyway the job is now done, thank heavens, I just managed to finish it before coming down with the c-word, so I guess I'll be lolling around listening to more music today. Before that, unfortunately, I have a crucial meeting with someone from HR at the conservatoire. I'm really not in any condition to be driving a hard bargain.