What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Frank Bridge
Quintet for string quartet and piano
Three Sketches for piano: April, Rosemary, Valse Capricieuse
Phantasie in F minor for string quartet
Pensiero for viola and piano
Allegro Appassionato for viola and piano
Sonata for violin and piano (completed by Paul Hindmarsh)
Spring Song, for cello and piano
London Bridge Ensemble: (Daniel Tong (piano); Benjamin Nabarro (violin);
Lucy Gould (violin); Tom Dunn (viola); Kate Gould (cello)
Recorded 2009 Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth
Dutton Epoch

Havergal Brian
Symphony No. 3
Andrew Ball (piano), Julian Jacobson (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Lionel Friend
Recorded 1988, Studio 1, BBC Maida Vale, London
Hyperion Helios, CD

[Mandryka]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iV7CcVxpRtk&feature=emb_logo

Georg Friedrich Haas’s latest, Ungefähr Ganz Genau

[Mandryka]

I ought to scrape away at them to reveal the inside of the sounds,.

Does this mean that he thought that you should somehow start exploring the timbres, the overtones, made when the instruments play the pitches you wrote?

This was the last Hepos thing I listened to, Canzone

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjUADZRjQY&feature=emb_logo

It seems OK and very much in the same spirit as things by Lachenmann.

[BBMmk2]

Frank Bridge
Quintet for string quartet and piano
Three Sketches for piano: April, Rosemary, Valse Capricieuse
Phantasie in F minor for string quartet
Pensiero for viola and piano
Allegro Appassionato for viola and piano
Sonata for violin and piano (completed by Paul Hindmarsh)
Spring Song, for cello and piano
London Bridge Ensemble: (Daniel Tong (piano); Benjamin Nabarro (violin);
Lucy Gould (violin); Tom Dunn (viola); Kate Gould (cello)
Recorded 2009 Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth
Dutton Epoch

Havergal Brian
Symphony No. 3
Andrew Ball (piano), Julian Jacobson (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Lionel Friend
Recorded 1988, Studio 1, BBC Maida Vale, London
Hyperion Helios, CD

What marvellous listening!

John Adams
Harmonium
Rachmaninov
The Bells
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Kent Dent (tenor)
Victor Leadbetter (baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Robert Shaw.

Poulenc
Gloria *
Concerto for Organ, Strings & Timpani in G minor **
Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms
Sylvia McNair (soprano) *
Michael Murray (organ) **
Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Robert Shaw.

[Joseph K]

Boulez - Répons

[pastoralguy]

John Williams. Violin Concerto.

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin.

The composer conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (DG)

I’ve tried to resist buying this but since I’m a big Anne-Sophie Mutter fan I suppose it was inevitable. Listened to it twice now and I’m afraid it just doesn’t speak to me. It’s just not… memorable. Bit of a mush mash of styles. The playing is as fabulous as you would expect but it’s just not doing it.

[pastoralguy]

Beethoven. The Symphonies.


The Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Yannick Nézet-Seguin. Deutsche Grammophon.

A bit grand to say I’m listening to them all however this is the first opportunity I’ve had to listen to ‘properly’ as opposed to using the PRESTO app on my ‘phone whilst I do paperwork at work! I dread to think how many sets I must have of these monumental works but, as always, my justification is do I hear new details I’ve not noticed before? And the answer is Yes! Even half listening to the ‘phone has made me think ‘Oh, I’ve not noticed THAT before’.

We’re going to hear Nézet-Séguin’ conduct the Ninth with the Philadelphia Orchestra soon so it’ll be interesting to hear how his interpretation develops. Fantastic recording too.

[Joseph K]

Boulez - Répons

Dialogue de l'ombre double now.

[Mandryka]

Dialogue de l'ombre double now.

I once heard a version of that for bassoon which was particularly sensual and thrilling.

[BBMmk2]

Having a day of recordings of Riccardo Muti conducting.

Riccardo Muti Conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Beethoven
Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68
Chabrier
Espagna
Ravel
Rapsodie Espagnole
Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings, Op.48
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op.35
Respighi
Pini di Roma
Debussy
La Mer
Stravinsky
The Firebird
Franck
Le Chasseur Maudit
Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti.

[BBMmk2]

Today’s listening.

Bach
The Art of Fugue.
Angela Hewitt (piano)

Bach Handel Scarlatti
Gamba Sonatas
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Richard Egarr (harpsichord).

[Stanfordian]

Holst, Bowen, Spain-Dunk, Jacob, Jenkins, McEwen – Wind Quintets
York Bowen
Miniature Suite for flute, oboe, two clarinets & bassoon, Op. 113 (1944)
Susan Spain-Dunk
Rhapsody Quintet (c. 1920) ed. by Peter Cigleris (2021)
Gordon Jacob
Swansea Town, for wind quintet (1973)
Karl Jenkins
Chums! for wind quintet (2004)
John Blackwood McEwen
Under Northern Skies (1939) ed. by Peter Cigleris (2021)
York Bowen
Burlesque (1956)
Debutante (1956)
Gustav Holst
Wind Quintet in A flat, Op. 14 (1903)
Camarilla Ensemble
with Peter Sparks (clarinet), Miniature Suite
Recorded 2021, St. George's Headstone, Harrow, Gr. London
Dutton Epoch, SACD

John Ireland – ‘The Songs with Piano’
Benjamin Luxon (baritone); John Mitchinson (tenor);
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) with Alan Rowlands (piano)
Recorded 1972-78 St John’s Smith Square, London
Lyrita, 3 CD set

[richardfinegold]

Mendelssohn, Lobgesang Symphony, Y NS and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. I never had much appreciation for this work prior, having obtained a few versions as part of complete editions, by YNS makes me a believer (pun unintentional). It is pretty frankly Operatic, and the others in my collection seem to treat it as a Church Devotional, but I think that the no holds barred approach works here. I can’t wait for my next opportunity to spin it

[Cockney Sparrow]

Mendelssohn, Lobgesang Symphony, Y NS and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. I never had much appreciation for this work prior, having obtained a few versions as part of complete editions, by YNS makes me a believer (pun unintentional). It is pretty frankly Operatic, and the others in my collection seem to treat it as a Church Devotional, but I think that the no holds barred approach works here. I can’t wait for my next opportunity to spin it

I agree with you ” no holds barred”. I got the recording, having listened on streaming, not long after taking part in a ( similarly committed) performance. I've listened to it a number of times since with pleasure. In fact, I think I'll listen again in the next day or two.

[Pulcinella]

Lamentations

The latest (somewhat unseasonal) BBC MM CD.

As mentioned by jonfan elsewhere (Royal Music Prom):

On the latest BBC Music Mag cd is superb choral singing of ‘Lamentations’, Tudor to the present day, conducted by Peter Philips. It’s worthy to compare with specialist choral groups such as the Sixteen or Tenebrae.

Tallis: Lamentations I and II
Dominique Phinot: Lamentations
Nico Muhly: Recordare domine
Brumel: Heth. Cogitavit Dominus
White: Lamentations a 5
Matthew Martin: The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Peter Phillips, directing, has certainly tamed the BBC Singers.

Dominique Phinot was a name that was new to me.
I've recommended the CD to our choir music director as it's the sort of programme he likes to plan.