What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

This should also be in the bargains thread but no time right now.

"The Trench Cello" (Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih), a current eClassical download bargain. Not sure yet re. the provenance of the piano, but the cello is indeed a trench instrument, taking HIPP to a new level.

a trench instrument Bryn?

[Bryn]

a trench instrument Bryn?

That's right. Google it, "trench cello" that is. Quite amazing, the quality of sound and expression Isserlis coaxes from it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And here's a Trench Horn:

[BBMmk2]

Many thanks Ferney!

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Flos Campi*; Oboe Concerto**; Symphony No.5 in D.
Christopher Palmer *(viola), Jonathan Small**(oboe)
RLPO & Choir, Vernon Handley.

Sir Hubert Parry
Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy; Symphony no.2 in F major, "Cambridge";
Symphonic Variations.
RSNO, Andrew Penny.

[pastoralguy]

And here's a Trench Horn:

Wasn't that Dennis Brains' Instrument before being restored?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wasn't that Dennis Brains' Instrument before being restored?

[Bryn]

Thanks. The copy and paste facility on this mobile phone is very unreliable, so I avoid even trying.

[Pianorak]

Radio 3 Lunchtime concert 13:00 today

Chopin: Two Nocturnes, Op.37
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5, Op.53

Vadym Kholodenko (piano).

Sheer magic - esp. the Scriabin!

[Pulcinella]

Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges

Soloists/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/LSO/Previn

An EMI Eminence release, which includes the libretto in its booklet.

[pastoralguy]

Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 5

Herbert von Karajan conducting Die Berliner Philharmoniker. (1960's recording from the DG '1960's' box).

I'd put a post-it note on the envelope and saw I last listened to it exactly 3 years ago!

And now onto Symphony no. 6

[Arnold Bax]

Playing:

Antonio Vivaldi:

Concertos for 2 mandolins, lute, recorders, violin, trumpets, cellos, flutes etc

New London Consort/Pickett
Bach Ensemble/Rifkin
Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood

Decca Editions de L'Oiseau Lyre 455 703-2OF2

This was an absolute bargain, 14 Vivaldi concertos on 2 CDs, for two of your English pounds in a second hand CD shop in Notting Hill. Life is sweet!

[Joseph K]

Ferneyhough - Plötzlichkeit.

Stellar stuff.

[Beef Oven!]

Donated by a very kind fellow forum member - thanks

[Petrushka]

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Mozart: Symphony No 40

[interval]

Dvorak: Symphony No 8

Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

More from the Decca 1960s box.