What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Joseph K]

Messiaen - Illuminations of the Beyond - SWR Sinfonie-Orchester/Cambreling

On movement 8 of this. Despite only listening to a movement here and there, I am happy to report I am enjoying this work immensely, especially this movement.

edit - on last movement now, triangles are audible, FWIW... such sublime music, this...

[smittims]

Arthur Benjamin: Ballade for string orchestra

Bernard Stevens: Sinfonietta.

Both played by the Boyd Neel Orchestra, recordings from the Richard Itter Broadcast Collection. What a debt of gratitude I owe to that man for his indefatigable endeavours!

[Joseph K]

Beethoven - sonata no. 23 'Appassionata' - Brautigam

[Hitch]

Kurtág - Stele, Op. 33

SWR Sinfonieorchester, Michael Gielen
SWR Music

[Petrushka]

It's 50 years ago today since I bought my very first Haitink LP and that (in its CD incarnation) is what I've just played:

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink

I still have that LP.

[smittims]

Stravinsky's 1960 recording of 'The Rite of Spring'.

I've always thought of it as a historic (i.e. old ) recording, yet it was made only nine years before the Cleveland/Boulez which I think of as 'recent'. The 'sixties seemed to last a long time to me, and , like the 1930s, they've been so analysed and explained by historians that it can be hard to recall that they lasted only ten years .

[Stanfordian]

Brahms – ‘Serenades’
Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Riccardo Chailly
Recorded 2014 Gewandhaus, Leipzig
Decca, CD

[smittims]

Those Brahms serenades are wonderful, and underrated. I'm glad Sir Adrian Boult got around to recording them before he retired.

I've just been hearing Gordon Jacob's Concerto for three hands, adn Matyas Seiber's serenade for wind sextet.

[Pulcinella]

Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Vienna Phil/Levine

Had intended to follow with the libretto in preparation for going to Opera North's production on Saturday, but just listening instead.
Might have more time later in the week. It's time I delved into my big Solti Strauss box.

[Stanfordian]

Those Brahms serenades are wonderful, and underrated. I'm glad Sir Adrian Boult got around to recording them before he retired.

I've just been hearing Gordon Jacob's Concerto for three hands, adn Matyas Seiber's serenade for wind sextet.

Hello smittims,
I’ve just listened to Jacob's Concerto for three hands played by Phyllis and Cyril on YouTube. Jacob is a composer who often disappoints me, however this work did engaged me, I really enjoyed it and will certainly play it again.

[cloughie]

Stravinsky's 1960 recording of 'The Rite of Spring'.

I've always thought of it as a historic (i.e. old ) recording, yet it was made only nine years before the Cleveland/Boulez which I think of as 'recent'. The 'sixties seemed to last a long time to me, and , like the 1930s, they've been so analysed and explained by historians that it can be hard to recall that they lasted only ten years .

The sixties was the decade when the Stereo LP was really established - recording techniques became more perfected and stereo systems became affordable, often with a bit of diy put together, and I now see things labelled historical which I remember being released. In those days historical recordings were those that started life in the pre 33 and a third era.

[richardfinegold]

The sixties was the decade when the Stereo LP was really established - recording techniques became more perfected and stereo systems became affordable, often with a bit of diy put together, and I now see things labelled historical which I remember being released. In those days historical recordings were those that started life in the pre 33 and a third era.

I am in a book group, most of the members are my contemporarires but there is a woman in her late thirties. It was her turn to nominate a book and she wanted a "classic" so she chose Vonnegut Slaughter House Five. I still remember reading that when I was 11 years old and then sneaking into the movie theatre to watch it

[Joseph K]

[Mandryka]

Listening to Cerha’s Bruchstück. He has sadly died. Appropriately there is a passage in Bruchstück which sounds a little bit like a passing bell.

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/a-tribute-to-friedrich-cerha-who-has-died-at-the-age-of-96

[Stanfordian]

Charlotte Sohy - ‘Composer of the Belle Époque’
CD 1 of 3
Autour du Piano
Fantaisie for solo piano, Op. 3
Chants de la lande for mezzo-soprano & solo piano, Op. 4
Sonate for solo piano, Op. 6
Octobre for cello & piano, Op. 23, No. 1
Quatre Pièces romantiques for solo piano, Op. 30
Trio for violin, cello & piano, Op. 24
Marie-Laure Garnier (soprano), David Kadouch (piano), Héloïse Luzzati (cello),
Nikola Nikolov (violin), Célia Oneto Bensaid (piano), Xavier Phillips (cello),
Marie Vermeulin (piano)
Recorded 2021/22 La Maison de l’Orchestre national d’Île de France
La Boîte à Pépites label, part of 3 CD box set