What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Maurice Ravel
Complete Orchestral Works.
LSO Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

Carrying on with my theme of recordings, celebrating the artistry of Claudio Abbado, who who would’ve been 89.

[Mandryka]

Reger violin sonata 9, Pina Camirelli and Rudolph Serkin. Just stumbled across it on Spotify. It is amazing, astonishing, wonderful . . .

https://open.spotify.com/album/4KrN210nxTV65c0fP7tjrr

[Stanfordian]

‘Stella di Napoli’ – Joyce DiDonato
Bel Canto Opera Arias from Rossini, Bellini, Pacini, Carafa, Mercadante, Donizetti & Valentini
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra de Lyon / Riccardo Minasi
with Rémi Mathieu (tenor), Héloise Mas (mezzo), Nabil Suliman (baritone)
Recorded 2013, Opéra de Lyon, France
Erato, CD

Beethoven – ‘The Late Piano Sonatas’ – Igor Levit
Piano Sonatas No’s. 28, 29 'Hammerklavier', 30, 31 & 32
Igor Levit (piano)
Recorded 2013 Siemensvilla, Berlin
Sony Classical

[Mario]

HAYDN F J

S No 45 in F# min Sturm und drang “Abscheid” H I/45

Comparing

ASMV – Brown I
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester – Davies D R
Philharmonia Hungarica – Dorati A
Schlierbacher Kammerorchester – Fey T
Radio S O of Zagreb – Janigro A

PS. Listening to the "Life & Works" 4CDs with Jeremy Siepmann, he says that, as far as he knows, this is the only symphony ever written in this key. Don’t know why, but if so, I find that surprising.

[Serial_Apologist]

Reger violin sonata 9, Pina Camirelli and Rudolph Serkin. Just stumbled across it on Spotify. It is amazing, astonishing, wonderful . . .

https://open.spotify.com/album/4KrN210nxTV65c0fP7tjrr

I don't know this particular work, but I'm glad someone else here likes Reger's music. He trod the ground that Brahms tacitly acknowledged in his own work but rarely trod himself, while pointing the way forward for Schoenberg and the Second Viennese school.

[Pulcinella]

HAYDN F J

S No 45 in F# min Sturm und drang “Abscheid” H I/45

Comparing

ASMV – Brown I
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester – Davies D R
Philharmonia Hungarica – Dorati A
Schlierbacher Kammerorchester – Fey T
Radio S O of Zagreb – Janigro A

PS. Listening to the "Life & Works" 4CDs with Jeremy Siepmann, he says that, as far as he knows, this is the only symphony ever written in this key. Don’t know why, but if so, I find that surprising.

He didn't spent much time doing a search then!
Admittedly not many, but more than just Haydn 45:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symphonies_in_F-sharp_minor

I've got recordings of the Glazunov and Myaskovsky, so must dig them out.

[BBMmk2]

Schubert
Piano Trio No.1 in Bb, D898
Piano Trio No.2 in Eb, D929.
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
Lyn Harrell (cello)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Beethoven The Symphonies
CD 1
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Symphony No.3 in Eb major, Op.53 “Eroica”
CD 2
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
Symphony No.4 in Bb major, Op.60
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado

Carrying on with my theme, today, of celebrating the artistry of Claudio Abbado. As it would’ve been his birthday, last Sunday.

[Joseph K]

Got the fourth on now. It's very nice.

The fifth Brouwer guitar sonata on now. Going to listen to the sixth and final one after.

[BBMmk2]

Schubert
Piano Trio No.1 in Bb, D898
Piano Trio No.2 in Eb, D929.
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
Lyn Harrell (cello)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Beethoven The Symphonies
CD 1
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Symphony No.3 in Eb major, Op.53 “Eroica”
CD 2
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
Symphony No.4 in Bb major, Op.60
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado

Carrying on with my theme, today, of celebrating the artistry of Claudio Abbado. As it would’ve been his birthday, last Sunday.

Still my Abbado theme

Beethoven’s The Symphonies
Symphonies Nos.5-9
Karita Matilla (soprano)
Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado

[RichardB]

as far as he knows, this is the only symphony ever written in this key. Don’t know why, but if so, I find that surprising.

It certainly would have been at the time when he wrote it, and well into the following century too, the reason being that F# minor is an extremely awkward key for 18th century woodwind instruments, and impossible for 18th century brass instruments - Haydn had to order extra tubing for the horns in order to transpose them down by a semitone.

[Stanfordian]

Mozart
‘Le nozze di Figaro’ - opera buffa in four acts
Collegium Vocale Gent,
Concerto Köln / René Jacobs (direction)
Figaro - Lorenzo Regazzo; Susanna - Patrizia Ciofi;
Conte Almaviva - Simon Keenlyside;
Contessa Almaviva - Véronique Gens;
Cherubino - Angelika Kirchschlager;
Marcellina - Marie McLaughlin; Bartolo - Antonio Abete;
Basilio - Kobie van Rensburg; Curzio - Kobie van Rensburg;
Antonio - Antonio Abete; Barbarina - Núria Rial
Recorded studio: 2003 Stolberger Saal, Cologne,
Harmonia Mundi, 3 CD set

Richard Strauss
Wind Serenade, Op. 7 (1881)
Sonatina No. 2 for winds ‘Happy workshop’ Op. posth. (1945-46)
Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble / George Vosburgh
Recorded 2019, Kresge Theatre, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Reference Recordings, new CD

[Pulcinella]

Ravel: Piano concerto in G
Schoenberg: Piano concerto
Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques

Francesco Piemontesi, Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9337271--messiaen-oiseaux-exotiques-ravel-piano-concerto-in-g-major-schoenberg-piano-concerto

A new Pentatone release, with a good review in today's Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/francesco-piemontesi-review-wb9xq22w0?shareToken=db226bd71caa4cb430ddecafa6cf6405

[Serial_Apologist]

Ravel: Piano concerto in G
Schoenberg: Piano concerto
Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques

Francesco Piemontesi, Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9337271--messiaen-oiseaux-exotiques-ravel-piano-concerto-in-g-major-schoenberg-piano-concerto

A new Pentatone release, with a good review in today's Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f...ddecafa6cf6405

Talk about catering to different tastes!

[Bryn]

Talk about catering to different tastes!

All three fall easily within my taste.

[Pulcinella]

Talk about catering to different tastes!

At least with streaming you can listen to just the bits you want to hear, without having paid full price for the CD and only playing a bit before hitting Eject (or for a concert ticket and leaving at the interval).

The Times review does mention the somewhat unusual choices of coupling!