What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

I've been re-exploring an 'Intensemedia' box of Lorin Maazel's early recordings, today Schubert's unfinished and sixth and fifth symphonies.
Are there any Maazel fans here? I've never thought him more than competent, but it's interesting that DG thought enough of him to let him make so many recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic when he was not quite 30. At any rate, these 1960-ish recordings of symphonies from Mozart to Tchaikovsky are fresh and enjoyable.

Maazel's recordings of the Ravel operas are very special (R.T.F. National Orchestre, not the BPO, though).

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7924574--ravel-lenfant-et-les-sortileges-lheure-espagnole

[Pulcinella]

Ravel
Piano concerto in G
Piano concerto for the left hand
Jean-Phillipe Collard/O Nat de France/Maazel

c/w
Pavane pour une infante défunte (Collard)
Jeux d'eaux (Collard)
La valse (Collard/Béroff)

This recording of the concertos doesn't often get a mention, but the 2009 Penguin Guide likes it a lot (and so do I!).
Not DG though: EMI/Warner.

[vinteuil]

Maazel's recordings of the Ravel operas are very special (R.T.F. National Orchestre, not the BPO, though).

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...eure-espagnole

... and it's Maazel's recordings of the operas that are used in the Decca 'Complete Edition' -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravel-Complete-%C2%8Coeuvres-Compl%C3%A8tes-Maurice/dp/B008KGWWL6

.

[smittims]

On with 'Little Maazel' as he was called when at the age of eleven he conducted the NBC S.O.

Beethoven fifth and sixth. Very enjoyable, esp. the Andante in the Fifth, slower than many take it (don't tell Bryn!). Probably recorded in the Jesus-Christus Kirche, these pre-date Herbert's famous 'post-wall' recordings. I wonder if H. listened to them.

[HighlandDougie]

On with 'Little Maazel' as he was called when at the age of eleven he conducted the NBC S.O.

Beethoven fifth and sixth. Very enjoyable, esp. the Andante in the Fifth, slower than many take it (don't tell Bryn!). Probably recorded in the Jesus-Christus Kirche, these pre-date Herbert's famous 'post-wall' recordings. I wonder if H. listened to them.

I have the DG 'Original Masters' box and, yes, all the BPO performances were recorded in the Jesus-Christus Kirche. From memory (the box is in Scotland), they still sound not at all bad.

[Joseph K]

I'm enjoying this.

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

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm enjoying this.

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

Congrats for finding this - I must find out more about Ms Lim.

[Stanfordian]

Mackerras conducts Schubert & Mozart at Frauenkirche, Dresden
Schubert
Mass No. 6 in E flat major, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, D950
Mozart
Vesperae solennes de confessore, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K339
Soloists, Choir of State Opera Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden/Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded live 2008, Frauenkirche, Dresden
Carus, CD

[Pulcinella]

BaL preparatory listening.

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Concertgebouw/Ashkenazy
BBCNOW/Elts (a BBC MM CD)

Handel: Water music
NYPO/Boulez
(Not quite how I'd remembered: maybe it's the Fireworks that really made me chuckle!)

[teamsaint]

Bruckner 8.
Bruckner Orchester Linz.
Dennis Russell Davies.

Sit back and enjoy after a long day, I think.

[TBuckley]

Frank Martin - Polyptyque, Etudes, Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments
Blankestijn, COE, Fischer
DG, 1992

Out of the very top drawer.

[HighlandDougie]

Frank Martin - Polyptyque, Etudes, Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments
Blankestijn, COE, Fischer
DG, 1992

Out of the very top drawer.

A favourite CD

[gradus]

Ben Grosvenor's lovely arrangement of Schumann's Abendlied on his new album of Kreisleriana and the Third Sonata.

[smittims]

I'm rehearing a box of Carl Schuricht, uneven but interesting: Bruckner 7 today.

[Stanfordian]

Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Adagio appassionato Op. 57
Barber
Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Vieuxtemps
Souvenir d'Amérique on 'Yankee Doodle', Op. 17
Esther Yoo (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko
Recorded 2021 Watford Colosseum & Henry Wood Hall, London
Deutsche Grammophon, CD (recent release)