What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

MTT and SFSO, Bryn!

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...-of-spring-etc

If using Windows and Firefox, just right-click o the image, select "copy image link" and post that as if an image.



Just how many times Salonen recorded the work, and for how many different labels?

[Pulcinella]

Rough night, Bryn?
Not only mixing up EPS and MTT, but posting a duplicate message?

In sympathy, I'm listening to a Naxos anthology, All shall be well.

Gorecki: Totus Tuus, Op. 60
Holst: Nunc dimittis, H127
Mäntyjärvi: O magnum mysterium
Nystedt: Stabat Mater, Op. 111
Panufnik, R: All Shall Be Well
Rachmaninov: Vespers, Op. 37: Bogoroditse Devo (Rejoice, O Virgin)
Tavener: Svyati 'O Holy One'
Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth
Villette: Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8006485--all-shall-be-well#related

Hope all well with you!

[Bryn]

Rough night, Bryn?
Not only mixing up EPS and MTT, but posting a duplicate message?

In sympathy, I'm listening to a Naxos anthology, All shall be well.

Gorecki: Totus Tuus, Op. 60
Holst: Nunc dimittis, H127
Mäntyjärvi: O magnum mysterium
Nystedt: Stabat Mater, Op. 111
Panufnik, R: All Shall Be Well
Rachmaninov: Vespers, Op. 37: Bogoroditse Devo (Rejoice, O Virgin)
Tavener: Svyati 'O Holy One'
Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth
Villette: Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8006485--all-shall-be-well#related

Hope all well with you!

Well, strictly, I simply typed "The LAPO recording is one of DGs." (later edited from "recording" to "SACD") without specifically claiming ti was the one RichardB referred to.

Admittedly, I was not even aware of the existence of the SFS recording. I will now import it from QOBUZ. Trying to multitask posting here with editing an ambisonic recording of Friday night's "The Caravan Moves On" concert at Norley College by the Ligeti Quartet with Lotte Betts-Dean (Mezzo-sop) and Jo Cooper (folk fiddle). Exporting to stereo or 5.1 surround derivations is fairly quick but exporting as binaural takes a great deal longer and uses sufficient processing power to seriously slow down all other concurrent processes, such as posting here.

[Joseph K]

After reading parts of Anthony Storr's Music and the Mind where he is quite enthusiastic about Haydn, I thought I'd pick one string quartet at random - op. 64, no. 5, 'The Lark', Festetics Quartet.

Though I am reminded now of the fact that Presto never did get back to me about the missing movement from the so-called complete symphonies of Haydn set.

[pastoralguy]

J.S. Bach. Goldberg Variations.

Fretwork. Hyperion.

[Pulcinella]

J.S. Bach. Goldberg Variations.

Fretwork. Hyperion.

Why?
Not you: Them!

PS: Presumably this (Harmonia Mundi, not Hyperion)?

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8003432--bach-j-s-goldberg-variations-bwv988

[Pulcinella]

Three Rites:

Philharmonia/Salonen
SFSO/MTT
LAPO/Salonen

And then I spotted another MTT version in the big Decca box, with the Boston Symphony, so that's saved up for later.

Earlier today:

Leighton: Cathedral Music (St Paul's/Scott)

And just now:

Awake my glory, a compilation sung by the Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7968436--awake-my-glory

[Bryn]

Three Rites:

Philharmonia/Salonen
SFSO/MTT
LAPO/Salonen

And then I spotted another MTT version in the big Decca box, with the Boston Symphony, so that's saved up for later. . . .

That old Boston recording was much lauded in its time. Another DG job.

[RichardB]

That old Boston recording was much lauded in its time. Another DG job.

Indeed. That was my own first LP of the Sacre. It opened with Zvezdoliki, which was a very nice combination. But I still prefer the San Francisco one. Not forgetting that the Perséphone it's combined with is far and away the best recording of that work until now, in my opinion.

[Bryn]

Indeed. That was my own first LP of the Sacre. It opened with Zvezdoliki, which was a very nice combination. But I still prefer the San Francisco one. Not forgetting that the Perséphone it's combined with is far and away the best recording of that work until now, in my opinion.

A couple of different Monteux, a Dorati, and several others preceded that MTT for me. I eventually got it on a cassette, IIRC. I have just been listening to the MTT LAPO live SACD. Very much an MTT interpretation - decidedly 'jazzy' at times. Not always strictly in line with the rhythmic notation employed by Stravinsky. Some very interesting timbres, though. Now it's the turn of the SFS. Rather closer to the 'norm', so far. Very slick.

[teamsaint]

Haydn SQs Op 33 #5, and op 76#4.
From the Quartetto Italiano box set, which I am really enjoying.

[HighlandDougie]

I have just been listening to the MTT LAPO live SACD. Very much an MTT interpretation - decidedly 'jazzy' at times. Not always strictly in line with the rhythmic notation employed by Stravinsky. Some very interesting timbres, though. Now it's the turn of the SFS. Rather closer to the 'norm', so far. Very slick.

Eh? What MTT LAPO live SACD? There is a Salonen LAPO live SACD on DG but not - although I'm happy to be proven wrong - an MTT LAPO live SACD. MTT SFSO live CD, yes. Anyway, give me F-X R and Les Siècles anyday.

[Bryn]

Eh? What MTT LAPO live SACD? There is a Salonen LAPO live SACD on DG but not - although I'm happy to be proven wrong - an MTT LAPO live SACD. MTT SFSO live CD, yes. Anyway, give me F-X R and Les Siècles anyday.

Sorry. Trying to do far too many things at the same time. The recordings are what I was comparing. It's the conductor attributions that I got in a mess, if that makes sense.

[BBMmk2]

New week, new theme. Celebrating the artistry of Zubin Mehta.

Richard Strauss Symphonic Music from the Operas
Waltz Sequence from “Der Rosenkavalier”
Symphonisches Fragment aus “Die Liebe Der Danae”
Symphonies Zwischenspiele aus “Intermezzo”
Symphonische Fantasie aus “Die Frau Ohne Schatten”.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Zubin Mehta.

[Pulcinella]

british modern (sic) vol 1

Louisville Orchestra

Four world premiere recordings, two of which were commissions (*)

Bliss: Discourse for orchestra (*)
Rubbra: Improvisation for violin and orchestra (*)
Arnold: Concerto for two violins and string orchestra
Addison: Concerto for trumpet and strings