What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Jodie Devos – ‘Bijoux Perdus’
Opéra Airs by Meyerbeer, Massé, Thomas, Halévy, Adam & Auber
Jodie Devos (soprano),
Flemish Radio Choir,
Brussels Philharmonic / Pierre Bleuse
Recorded 2022 Studio 4, Flagey, Brussels
Alpha Classics CD. Splendid new release

Koechlin – ‘Danses Pour Ginger Rogers
Danse lente from the Five Danses pour Ginger,
Eight pieces selected from Les Heures Persanes,
La priere de l’homme, from Album de Lilian, vol. 2
Quatre nouvelles sonatines
Boaz Sharon (piano)
Recorded 1983 Sprague Hall, New Haven, Connecticut
Arcobaleno, CD

[Mandryka]

Georg Friedrich Haas, weiter und weiter und weiter, from Donaueschinger on the 16th of this month. Surprisingly exciting and loud! A bit long for me at 40 minutes, but I should be able to stay with it I think.

And now Stockhausen's Klavierstuck XII, where the pianist intones weiter . . . weiter . . . weiter

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on with my theme, celebrating the legacy that Bernard Haitink left behind.

Bernard Haitink - Portrait
CDs4 & 5
Joseph Haydn
Die Jahreszeiten, oratorio.
Julie Kaufmann (soprano)
Herbert Liperrt (tenor)
Alan Titus (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink.

[pastoralguy]

Brahms. Piano Concerto No.1 in d minor.

John Ogdon, piano. The American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

An October 1969 live performance from New York.

The disc also includes rehearsals from all three movements.

The sound quality isn’t that wonderful but it’s the great John Ogdon at his absolute best. Has anyone else heard this disc? I picked it up from my local Oxfam shop this afternoon.

[Joseph K]

This evening a break from Scriabin, and picking up where I left off in my journey through the Boulez DG box:

[smittims]

I've just finished re-hearing that Messiaen set. 'la Transfiguration' is still my favourite. I enjoyed 'echoes sur au-dela' but didn't care for the 'concerto a quatre'.

[Joseph K]

I've just finished re-hearing that Messiaen set.

Which one?

[Bryn]

I've just finished re-hearing that Messiaen set. 'la Transfiguration' is still my favourite. I enjoyed 'echoes sur au-dela' but didn't care for the 'concerto a quatre'.

Not the same box, surely? Are not the La Transfiguration . . . discs (with Myung -Whun Chung at the helm) from the DG Messiaen (not quite*) Complete Edition, rather than the Boulez box that JK refers to? The disc JK mentioned can be found in both boxes. I, too, like Éclairs . . . .

* I have added a CD-R compilation, of works discovered or realised since its release, to the DG Complete Messiaen box.

[Joseph K]

Not the same box, surely? Are not the La Transfiguration . . . discs (with Myung -Whun Chung at the helm) from the DG Messiaen (not quite*) Complete Edition, rather than the Boulez box that JK refers to? The disc JK mentioned can be found in both boxes.

* I have added a CD-R compilation, of works discovered or realised since its release, to the DG Complete Messiaen box.

Perhaps smittims means the Cambreling box I mentioned several pages back in #18335?

[Bryn]

Perhaps smittims means the Cambreling box I mentioned several pages back in #18335?

With a recording of La Transfiguration . . . that I prefer to the Chung. The Cambreling box does not have the Concert a quatre, by the way.

[Joseph K]

With a recording of La Transfiguration . . . that I prefer to the Chung. The Cambreling box does not have the Concert a quatre, by the way.

Oh, ok.

[Pulcinella]

RVW
Vaughan Williams Live, Volume 2

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9371759--vaughan-williams-live-vol-2

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on with my theme, celebrating the legacy of the first anniversary of the passing of Bernard Haitink.

Bernard Haitink - Portrait
CD 6 & 7
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung
Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass-baritone)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink

CD 8 & 9
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.3 in D minor
Gerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink

CD 11
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.9
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink
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[smittims]

Sorry for any confusion. The Messiaen set I was thinking of was the DG collector 10 disc box conducted by Boulez and Chung. It contains the Boulez disc illustrated above.

Another interesting Messiaen set, containing older recordings, was on Decca, and included the old Dorati recording of La Transfiguration, the three song cycles with piano, in Argo recordings , and a barnstorming Visions de l'Amen by the Ogdons.

[Mandryka]

Yuki Matsuzawa playing the Chopin etude op 25/7. I've fallen in love, I am a Matsuzawa op 27/7 addict, I can die happy. It's so elegant. So intelligent. That Chopopopin rag!

https://open.spotify.com/track/5HhftrENf0EXkQDjLNCUq2?si=2a86a2f423384870