What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Alison]

Lovely stories Pet and Richard.

[Joseph K]

Since you've mentioned your mother it's time for me once more to trot out my own Panic anecdote since there are still a few people in the world who haven't heard it. After that LNOtP I was talking to my own late mother on the phone and she asked me if I'd heard of someone called Harrison Birtwistle, to which I replied yes, of course, he's regarded as a very important figure in the contemporary composition world. When I asked why she was asking she told me she and my father had seen a piece of his on the TV broadcast. I asked what she thought of it, and her unforgettable reply was "it was quite bad, but not as bad as what you do."

Classic.

[Joseph K]

The double CD album (Decca "The British Music Collection" is a handy way of getting several essential Birtwistle recordings:

I have that, though I also have the same recording on the disk shown in #17141.

Thanks to silvestrione for bringing to our attention another recording which I didn't know of.

[Mandryka]

Continuing my exploration of Rihm’s Artaud inspired music with Seraphin- Symphonie I. I think it’s a fabulous piece of inspired music actually. Here




And I’m asking myself, do I really want to read Artaud?

[Mandryka]

Am I in the mood for this? . . . Well so far so good, I’m surviving.

This was rather amazing until the scream from the audience, and then seemed to become tamer.

[Stanfordian]

Donizetti
‘Dom Sebastien, roi de Portugal’ opera in 5 acts
Zayda, a Moorish girl - Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo); Dom Sébastien,
King of Portugal - Giuseppe Filianoti (ten); Dom Juam de Sylva,
Grand Inquisitor - Alastair Miles (bass); Abayaldos, a chieftain -
Simon Keenlyside (bar); Camoëns, a poet - Carmelo Corrado Caruso (bass);
Dom Henrique - Robert Gleadow (bass); Dom Antonio - Lee Hickenbottom
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, London / Mark Elder
Recorded 2005 Royal Opera House & Cadogan Hall, London (ballet music)
Opera Rara, 3 CD set

[pastoralguy]

Martinú. ‘Cello sonatas 1, 2 and 3.

Steven Isserlis, ‘cello and Peter Evens, piano. Hyperion. 1988

[edashtav]

Lovely stories Pet and Richard.

Yes, indeed!

[edashtav]

Let’s Blame Britten!

Quotation from the Radio 3 website

“Luke Styles
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op 31
Performer: Iain Ballamy. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Fiona Monbet.”

Well, I listened to its f.p. last evening, and although it was awfully conservative, it was a saxophone concerto superbly played by Iain Bellamy on a TENOR SAXOPHONE, it in no manner plagiarised BB’s Serenade! BBC NOW under Fiona Monbet played their part(s) well but the piece added nothing memorable to Classical, Jazz, or Crossover genres. Did other listeners find its third movement as slight as I did? I found it as perfunctory as the finale of Max Bruch’s G minor Violin Concerto.

[Joseph K]

[Pulcinella]

Last night:

Janáček: Glagolitic Mass and Sinfonietta
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Adam Plachetka (baritone), Malin Byström (soprano), Johann Vexo (organ), Ladislav Elgr (tenor), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno
Marko Letonja

See the resurrected BaL thread.

[BBMmk2]

Last night:

Janáček: Glagolitic Mass and Sinfonietta
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Adam Plachetka (baritone), Malin Byström (soprano), Johann Vexo (organ), Ladislav Elgr (tenor), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno
Marko Letonja

See the resurrected BaL thread.

Hi there Pulcie! How’s how’s this?

Today more Frank Martin.

Frank Martin
Symphonie
Symphonie Concertante
Passacaille
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mathias Bamert.

[Pulcinella]

Hi there Pulcie! How’s how’s this?
....

See Bryn's comment and my follow-up on the resurrected BaL thread.

[BBMmk2]

See Bryn's comment and my follow-up on the resurrected BaL thread.

Cheers!

More Freank Martin.

Frank Martin
Les Quatre Éléements
In Terra Pax
Judith Howarth (soprano)
Della Jones (contralto)
Brighton Festival Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mathias Bamert

Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments
Études for Strings
Erasmi monumentum*
Leslie Pearson (organ)

“Ballades”
For piano & orchestra
Trombone & orchestra
Cello & orchestra
Viola, wind, harp, harpsichord, Timpani & Percussion
Flute & Piano
Soloists, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mathias Bamert

Der Sturm Suite*
(David Wilson-Johnson, baritone)
Maria-Tripychon
(Linda Russell, soprano,
Duncan Riddell, violin)
6 Monologues from Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann
(David Wilson-Johnson, baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mathias Bamert.

[DoctorT]

Finzi
Lo, The Full Final Sacrifice and other choral works
Choir of St John’s College Cambridge
Christopher Whitton (organ)
Christopher Robinson