What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

Hmm. Maybe from the other Boulez box? I don't remember listening to that recently, but I could well be mistaken...

Probably longer ago than I'm remembering, but someone here was really struck by it on first hearing, I'm pretty sure.
Like you, I have the Boulez Sony/CBS and DG versions (amongst others); I must compare and contrast at some point!

[Joseph K]

Probably longer ago than I'm remembering, but someone here was really struck by it on first hearing, I'm pretty sure.
Like you, I have the Boulez Sony/CBS and DG versions (amongst others); I must compare and contrast at some point!

At any rate, I am listening to Une Barque... now and yes - wonderful.

[Pulcinella]

At any rate, I am listening to Une Barque... now and yes - wonderful.

It WAS you.
This is your post (#102) on the YouTube with score thread.

A beautiful work with which hitherto I was unfamiliar.

(Admittedly longer ago than I'd remembered!)

[ahinton]

Elgar: Symphony No 3 elaborated by Tony Payne

Sapporo Symphony Orchestra/Tadaaki Otaka

Signum Classics SIGCD 118

An early christmas present from a friend, and as I already have the recording with Goldilocks with the BBC SO on NMC (I mean who hasn't, darling?) I must make space for it on my heaving bookcase somehow

Especially when it is coupled with the Pomp and Circumstance No 6 (again, a Payne effort)...

I well remember attending the world premières of both!

[Joseph K]

It WAS you.
This is your post (#102) on the YouTube with score thread.




(Admittedly longer ago than I'd remembered!)

Well remembered!

[Pulcinella]

Well remembered!

No: a bit of sleuthing once I remembered having found the score!

[jayne lee wilson]

Disappointed by the LCP 3 and 4, I held back on the original 2004 release of this, but what a discovery it is is now!

Such infinite and expressive care over dynamics and instrumental detail, so (as Cowan noted) the inner movements of No.3 are unusually involving and exciting. (The Rhine especially!). Nothing in this cycle ever seems rushed or tardy, the beautifully-judged pacing crowned by truly thrilling, blazingly brassy climaxes. About the only observable indulgence is some rhetorical flourishes in ralls and rits in the outer-movement codas. The 4th is given here in its 1841 version; Norrington emphasises the lighter, more transparent scoring very strikingly in the large, modern-orchestral context. What a partnership this was.

The great SWR Stuttgart (one of my all-time favourite bands...I've not heard much of them since the merger....wonder how they're doing now...Currentzis is the current principal, Roth takes over in 2025) is as usual, given state-of-the-art German Radio sound. This has quickly become one of the best cycles I know; and will be first off the shelf for a while to come. (Live cycle, with deserved and very enthusiastic applause!).





Schumann: Complete Symphonies (Live)

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Roger Norrington

• Released on 14/01/2022 by SWR Classic
• Main artist: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR Roger Norrington
• QOBUZ 16/44.1/CD

[Serial_Apologist]

Elgar: Symphony No 3 elaborated by Tony Payne

Sapporo Symphony Orchestra/Tadaaki Otaka

Signum Classics SIGCD 118

An early christmas present from a friend, and as I already have the recording with Goldilocks with the BBC SO on NMC (I mean who hasn't, darling?) I must make space for it on my heaving bookcase somehow

Especially when it is coupled with the Pomp and Circumstance No 6 (again, a Payne effort)...

By remarkable coincidence, only yesterday I was listening to the fascinatingly revealing interview with Payne on Radio 3 while he was still at work on the "Elgar 3", in which he was talking about the various conundrums in supplying linking passages for which probable solutions had to be drawn from elsewhere in Elgar's oeuvre.

[ahinton]

By remarkable coincidence, only yesterday I was listening to the fascinatingly revealing interview with Payne on Radio 3 while he was still at work on the "Elgar 3", in which he was talking about the various conundrums in supplying linking passages for which probable solutions had to be drawn from elsewhere in Elgar's oeuvre.

As yes, I remember it well; he told me that, when doing this, he had become convinced that there was no way in which these many pages of disjointed sketches could be drawn together in the creation of a symphony but that immediately afterwards one connection after another dawned upon him and off he went with work on it - and the rest, as they say, is history...

[RichardB]

Well, TS (I think) has been a cheer-leader for his music on the forum as I can't think why else I would have bought the Supraphon set of his symphonies. A good recommendation - music well worth hearing - as is much else from countries to the east of the Oder-Neisse line. The wretched "Iron Curtain" did much damage to Western exposure to so much inventive music, as RB implies.

Not much time for Kabelač yesterday evening because I was preparing for today's voyaging, but the symphonies and the disc referred to by ts are in the phone and ready for this morning's flight. I had a somewhat unconcentrated go at the first few symphonies yesterday evening... no.1 for strings and percussion seems a bit generic, no.2 had me stopping what I was doing every now and again, nos. 3 and 4 went by without my paying much attention but I don't think that's their fault. Looking forward to a closer listen today (if I stay awake; my flight is at 6.40 so I've been up since stupid o'clock).

[BBMmk2]

A day of listening to the orchestral music of Handel.

Handel - Orchestral Works
Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351
Water Music suites
Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Nos.1-12
Concerto a due cori No.1in Bb major
Concerto Grosso, Op.3 Nos.1-6
Organ Concertos, Op.7 Nos.1-6
Organ Concertos, Op.4 Nos.1-6
Organ Concerto No.13 in F “Cuckoo & the Nightingale”
Organ Concertos Nos.14-16
Oboe Concertos Nos.1-3
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Concerto Grosso in C, HWV 318 “Alexander’s Feast”
Concerto a due cori, in F major HWV333 & HWV334
Roger Lord (oboe)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner.

[RichardB]

(if I stay awake; my flight is at 6.40 so I've been up since stupid o'clock)

I didn't!

[Serial_Apologist]

I didn't!

[BBMmk2]

As it was Berlioz’s birthday, a couple of days ago, I thought it be a good idea, to play some of his music.

Berlioz - Rediscovered
Messe Solonelle
Donna Brown (soprano)
Jean-Luc Viala (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (bass-baritone)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Harold en Italie, Op.16
Tristia, Op.18
Gérard Caussé (viola)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir Elliot Gardiner

Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

[Stanfordian]

Weber – ‘Chamber Works’
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op. 34, J182
Trio in G minor for flute, cello & piano, Op. 63, J259
Piano Quartet in B flat major J76
The Gaudier Ensemble
Recorded 2004 Potton Hall, Suffolk
Hyperion, CD

‘Ludovic Tézier sings Verdi’
Italian arias from Nabucco, Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La traviata,
Don Carlos, Un ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Otello, Falstaff
Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Frédéric Chaslin
Recorded 2020 Teatro Auditorium Manzoni, Bologna
Sony CD, new release