What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Mario]

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS R

S No 1 A Sea Symphony

RLPO & Ch – Handley V

Mario

[Pulcinella]

Vaughan Williams

Job
The Wasps (suite)
LPO/Boult
(Decca Eloquence)

Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
*Job
Vronsky/Babin/LPO/Boult
*LSO/Boult
(EMI)

[cloughie]

Vaughan Williams

Job
The Wasps (suite)
LPO/Boult
(Decca Eloquence)

Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
*Job
Vronsky/Babin/LPO/Boult
*LSO/Boult
(EMI)

Those Boult recordings of Job 50s mono Decca or 60s Stereo EMI each superb, Pulc.

[Serial_Apologist]

I am utterly overjoyed to have just discovered on youtube the Maggini's wonderful recording (with score!) of what has probably become my favourite British string quartet - Frank Bridge's Fourth. It - composition and performance - sums up all that is best in the composer's more advanced post-1924 style, and more - the thematic/melodic writing outshines earlier works in its robust confidence; the first and especially second movements come his closest anywhere to Schoenberg, and yet the triumphantly uplifting eventual return to a clearer tonal definition in the third has fully integrated all that the composer had achieved in expansion of means and methods, and, unlike some erstwhile modernists who have forsaken the regions beyond easy cadential closure, feels truly earned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W-Jkm8Zczo

[Serial_Apologist]

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS R

S No 1 A Sea Symphony

RLPO & Ch – Handley V

Mario

[Pulcinella]

Those Boult recordings of Job 50s mono Decca or 60s Stereo EMI each superb, Pulc.

What a piece to have had dedicated to you, too!

[pastoralguy]

Nico Muhley. Shrink. Concerto for violin and strings.

Pekka Kuusisto, violin. Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Pentatone.

[Joseph K]

Disk 1 of the Haydn 2032 Vol. 1 - 10 Symphonies box, comprising symphonies 39, 49 and 1, as well as Gluck's Don Juan ballet, performed by Il Giardino Armonico under Antonini.

Got the Gluck on as I type. It's good.

[Petrushka]

Johann & Josef Strauss:

Selection of Overtures, Waltzes, Polkas and Marches

Wiener Philharmoniker
Clemens Krauss

These are taken from the recent 'Complete Decca Recordings of Clemens Krauss' box but are also available on an Eloquence two disc set. Recorded in the early 1950s this is the real Strauss VPO sound, here set down with a generous clutch of repeats. Wonderful music and superbly done.

[Edgy 2]

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS R

S No 1 A Sea Symphony

RLPO & Ch – Handley V

Mario

Vaughan Williams

Job
The Wasps (suite)
LPO/Boult
(Decca Eloquence)

Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
*Job
Vronsky/Babin/LPO/Boult
*LSO/Boult
(EMI)

[Edgy 2]

I am utterly overjoyed to have just discovered on youtube the Maggini's wonderful recording (with score!) of what has probably become my favourite British string quartet - Frank Bridge's Fourth. It - composition and performance - sums up all that is best in the composer's more advanced post-1924 style, and more - the thematic/melodic writing outshines earlier works in its robust confidence; the first and especially second movements come his closest anywhere to Schoenberg, and yet the triumphantly uplifting eventual return to a clearer tonal definition in the third has fully integrated all that the composer had achieved in expansion of means and methods, and, unlike some erstwhile modernists who have forsaken the regions beyond easy cadential closure, feels truly earned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W-Jkm8Zczo

Thanks S_A

I have all the Maggini's British string quartet recordings, all are excellent but their Frank Bridge is very special indeed

[Mandryka]

Uchida, Diabelli Variations - it’s quite a distinctive performance.

[Bryn]

Uchida, Diabelli Variations - it’s quite a distinctive performance.

Sorry to say that, as with many others of her recordings, the term "mannered" came to mind, for me. There is no great doubt about her technique, however, and her Debussy Etudes are very special, in the positive sense.

[BBMmk2]

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS R

S No 1 A Sea Symphony

RLPO & Ch – Handley V

Mario

Fabulous!


Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
RIAS-Symphonieorchester
Ferenc Fricsay.

Vaughan Williams
Job
The Wasps Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult.

[Stanfordian]

Donizetti
‘Emilia Di Liverpool’ - dramma semi-serio in two acts (1824)
'L’Eremitaggio Di Liwerpool' - dramma semi-serio in two acts (1829)
Emilia - Yvonne Kenny (sop); Candida - Anne Mason (sop);
Luigia (Bettina) - Bronwen Mills (sop); Don Romuldo (Count Asdrubale) - Sesto Bruscantini (Buffa);
Claudio di Liverpool - Geoffrey Dolton (bar); Federico (Colonel Villars) - Chris Merritt (ten);
Count (Giacomo) Christopher Thornton-Holmes (bar)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir,
Philharmonia Orchestra / David Parry
Recorded 1986 Conway Hall, London
Opera Rara, 3 CDs