What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pianorak]

Earlier today 13:00 Radio 3 from the Wigmore Hall:

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero plays Schumann's Kinderszenen and Shostakovich's Second Piano Sonata, plus her own improvisations.

Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Schumann: Kinderszenen
Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No 2
Gabriela Montero: Improvisations

Gabriela Montero (piano).

Superb playing - one of the best Kinderszenen I have heard in a long time.

[vinteuil]

Also reminding me that I played in the Scottish Premier of Eine Alpinesinfonie!

... ahh - the McAlpine Sinfonie, nae doot!

[ ... and was Sir Robert of that ilk of the party? ]

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[pastoralguy]

... ahh - the McAlpine Sinfonie, nae doot!

[ ... and was Sir Robert of that ilk of the party? ]

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[BBMmk2]

Handel
Ode for St Cecilia's Day.
Felicity Lott, Anthony Rolfe Johnson,
English Concert and Choir,
Trevor Pinnock.

[Joseph K]

Carter - first string quartet - Arditti string quartet.

[Stanfordian]

Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Genia Kühmeier (soprano)
Münchner Philharmoniker/Valery Gergiev
Recorded Live March 2017, Philharmonie, Munich
MPHIL – New release - One of the best Mahler 4's I've heard

Brahms
Horn Trio, Op.40
Aho
Solo X
Ligeti
Horn Trio - 'Homage to Brahms'
Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn), Antje Weithaas (violin) & Silke Avenhaus (piano)
Recorded 2010, Studio Gartnerstrasse, Berlin & 2011, Osteraker Church, Sweden
BIS

[pastoralguy]

Dvorak. String Quintet in Eb. Op. 97. 'The America'.

This time, it's the turn of The Emerson Quartet with Paul Neubauer, viola.

(DG, 2010).

Very fine playing if, perhaps, not quite catching the ache that the Pavel Haas group bring.

[Bryn]

Shostakovich: Symphonies 1 and 15 (Staatskapelle Dresden, Rozhdestvensky) from yesterday's Afternoon on 3. Not the tightest of bands on this occasion, but worth catching.

[BBMmk2]

Walton
improvisations on a theme of Britten;
Cello Concerto*; Dymphony No.2.
Paul Watkin(cello*), BBC SO, Edward Gardner.

[pastoralguy]

Dmitri Shostakovitch. Violin concertos 1 & 2

Dmitri Sitkovetsky, violin.

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

Virgin Classics. 1990.

(A 50p charity shop disc!)

[Stanfordian]

Dmitri Shostakovitch. Violin concertos 1 & 2

Dmitri Sitkovetsky, violin.

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

Virgin Classics. 1990.

(A 50p charity shop disc!)

Seems like charity shop nirvana for CDs up there in Edinburgh. In my neck of the woods the only CDs I ever see in charity shops are the usual offerings from Bobby Crush, James Last, Chartbuster and The Nolans.

[pastoralguy]

We're very lucky here in Edinburgh. (Although Glasgow can be good too). Quite a lot of well heeled music lovers who discard discs when space runs low.

[Alison]

Seems like charity shop nirvana for CDs up there in Edinburgh. In my neck of the woods the only CDs I ever see in charity shops are the usual offerings from Bobby Crush, James Last, Chartbuster and The Nolans.

I’ve noticed Pan Pipes feature quite strongly too.

[Petrushka]

Seems like charity shop nirvana for CDs up there in Edinburgh. In my neck of the woods the only CDs I ever see in charity shops are the usual offerings from Bobby Crush, James Last, Chartbuster and The Nolans.

Charity shops are closing down in this neck of the woods. Can't work out whether that's a good sign or bad.

[pastoralguy]

Charity shops are closing down in this neck of the woods. Can't work out whether that's a good sign or bad.

No sooner does a 'real' shop close down in Edinburgh but a Charity Shop opens in its place. I wonder how long it'll be until Princes Street has a charity shop.