What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[smittims]

Petrushka - Ansermet, and Transfigured Night (1943 version) - Barenboim's second (Chicago) recording.

[richardfinegold]

Beethoven, PCs 3-5; Azhkenazy/Solti Chicago SO Blu Ray Audio. This is a Beethoven set that has fallen by the wayside in the past 50 years with the subsequent 2000 or so sets released in the intervening time, but it’s good to be reminded of the superb musicianship here. Solti was much better as a Beethoven accompanist than in the Symphonies, and the Blu Ray is marvelous in detail, revealing abundant instrumental color

[Bryn]

Beethoven, PCs 3-5; Azhkenazy/Solti Chicago SO Blu Ray Audio. This is a Beethoven set that has fallen by the wayside in the past 50 years with the subsequent 2000 or so sets released in the intervening time, but it’s good to be reminded of the superb musicianship here. Solti was much better as a Beethoven accompanist than in the Symphonies, and the Blu Ray is marvelous in detail, revealing abundant instrumental color

On Cassette, those, along with Concertos 1 and 2, were among the few recordings of any kind I had available while temporarily living in Cardiff in 1974. I got the Blu-ray a year or so ago, out of nostalgia.

[Joseph K]

Stockhausen - Punkte for Orchestra - WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln/Eotvos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWd_LsF06cA

[silvestrione]

On Cassette, those, along with Concertos 1 and 2, were among the few recordings of any kind I had available while temporarily living in Cardiff in 1974. I got the Blu-ray a year or so ago, out of nostalgia.

The 4thBeethoven Ashkenazy/Solti was once a BAL winner too! Not sure of the date, but years ago.

[jayne lee wilson]

Bruckner
Symphony No.6; Symphony No.7
USSRMoCSO/Rozhdestvensky. Venezia CDs (rec. Melodiya, Mid-1980s).

As one might expect from Rozh, a 6th of profound warmth, humour, imagination, pastoral and birdsong; a high point of his cycle, even if he seems to alter the timpani beats at the very end to to match the rhythm of the motto theme (not the only time I've suspected him of retouching).

The 7th is distinguished by a darkly sonorous, exceptionally beautiful adagio, and here Rozh omits the percussion at the slow movement's climax. I must admit, the older I get and the more I return to it, the odder this sounds. The documentary evidence for it is ambiguous. Pleased then to read in Carragan's Red Book that, Haas having excluded it upon "slender evidence", "most scholars today agree that all the percussion should be kept".

[pastoralguy]

Malcolm Arnold! .

Clarinet Concerto No.1.

Divertimento No.2

Commonwealth Christmas Overture.

Larch Trees.

Philharmonic Concerto.

The Padstow Lifeboat.

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba.

Michael Collins, clarinet.

Chandos.

I bought this for Mrs. PG for Valentines Day since she plays the clarinet and Padstow Lifeboat is a piece she’s very fond of.

Beautiful playing from all concerned and a superb recording.

[Pulcinella]

William Walton.

Clarinet Concerto No.1.

Divertimento No.2

Commonwealth Christmas Overture.

Larch Trees.

Philharmonic Concerto.

The Padstow Lifeboat.

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba.

Michael Collins, clarinet.

Chandos.

I bought this for Mrs. PG for Valentines Day since she plays the clarinet and Padstow Lifeboat is a piece she’s very fond of.

Beautiful playing from all concerned and a superb recording.

Something tells me the composer is Malcolm Arnold, pg, not Walton.

[pastoralguy]

Something tells me the composer is Malcolm Arnold, pg, not Walton.

Thanks.


I’d just been reading the Walton Viola Concerto thread! I turn 60 next week so that is, I suppose, what’s call a senior moment!

[Pulcinella]

Thanks.


I’d just been reading the Walton Viola Concerto thread! I turn 60 next week so that is, I suppose, what’s call a senior moment!

One of the younger forumites then, I imagine!
What's Mrs pg getting you for your birthday?
Not that you need much with all your charity shop hauls!

[pastoralguy]

One of the younger forumites then, I imagine!
What's Mrs pg getting you for your birthday?
Not that you need much with all your charity shop hauls!

Well, we’re going to London for our joint 60ths so I suppose it’ll depend what’s on offer in the big city! (We were born 3 days apart so she’s 3 days older than me!)

A friend in the London Symphony Orchestra has got us tickets to hear Vilde Frang play the DSCH 1st concerto so that’s going to be pretty fabulous.

She’s already given me a charity gift shop pre-paid card for £50 that I can use in the Shelter Shop so I’ll maybe have a look around the Shelter shops in London. Although I’ve been to London many times before, I’ve never visited Abbey Road so I intend to make that pilgrimage!

[Stanfordian]

Charlotte Sohy – ‘Composer of the Belle Époque’
CD 2 of 3
Autour du Quatuor
Premier Quatuor, Op. 25
Deuxième Quatuor, Op. 33
Triptyque champêtre, for flute, violin, viola, cello & harp, Op. 21
Quatuor Hermès, Mathilde Calderini (flute), Constance Luzzati (harp)
Recorded 2021 La Maison de l’Orchestre national d’Île de France
La Boîte à Pépites label, recently released 3 CD box set

Marina Viotti – ‘A Tribute to Pauline Viardot’
Arias by Gluck, Bellini, Massenet, Halévy, Rossini, Donizetti, Gounod & Saint-Saëns
Marina Viotti (mezzo-soprano),
Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset
Recorded 2021, Conservatoire Jean-Baptiste Lully de Puteaux, Paris
Aparté, recently released CD

[pastoralguy]

Gabriel Prokofiev.

Bass Drum Concerto.

Wow! What a piece!

Joby Burgess, bass drum.

Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexei Bogorad

[Petrushka]

Another notable anniversary date: It's 50 years today since I bought my very first Mahler record. There have been a good number since!

Therefore, playing later this evening:

Mahler: Symphony No 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink

Recorded in May 1972.

[jayne lee wilson]

Gabriel Prokofiev.

Bass Drum Concerto.

Wow! What a piece!

Joby Burgess, bass drum.

Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexei Bogorad

This is a lotta fun too....it has what one might call an arresting opening....
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/ga.../cenoqia5px9wb