What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Berlioz: Les nuits d'été*

[interval]

Mahler: Symphony No 7

Ann Murray (soprano)*
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink

Given in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, on March 19 1999* and November 16 1969.

From the RCO125 set.

Pet, see my post re Mahler 7. Same recording as you played. Quite frankly I was gosmacked by it!

Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty.
LSO/Previn.

I thought it was high time I returned to the the major ballets of Tchaikovsky. I have the RCA box with LSO/Previn. He certainly had The Midas Touch, to everything he did in his time with the LSO.

[Stanfordian]

Anna Moffo - Arias by Meyerbeer, Gounod, Puccini, Bizet, Rossini & Delibes
Arias from Faust, La boheme, Dinorah, Carmen, Semiramide, Turandot & Lakme
Anna Moffo (soprano)
Rome Opera Orchestra/Tullio Serafin
Recorded 1960 Rome
RCA Victor Living Stereo

Elgar
Violin Concerto
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Staatskapelle Dresden/Sir Colin Davis
Recorded 2009 Lukaskirche, Dresden
RCA Red Seal

[Bryn]

This morning:
Symphonische Etuden and Wakdzsenen , from the same box.

Captivating playing, and highly recommended.

And what a fine modern instrument that CFX is! Currently listening to Davidsbündlertänze from disc 3.

[Bryn]

Yes indeed. I was thinking a bit about how the relationship between the quality of the instrument and the final recorded results. I don't recall reading anything about the instrument in the booklet, ( shame incidentally about the lack of English and other translations of the movement titles, but that is a small detail especially at the price we paid) but maybe I missed something.

Go to the back pages. There's a colour photo/advertisement and in the final page credits, "Pianos Yamaha CFX préparé par Kazumza Suziki, Takuro Hanada & Pierre Malbos".

[Pianorak]

And what a fine modern instrument that CFX is! . . .

Lovely instrument and well recorded. In his later years Richter preferred it to a Steinway.

[Beef Oven!]

DSCH 6
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko.
Naxos. 16 bit CD quality download, Qobuz.

[Stanfordian]

Weinberg
Symphony No. 4
Violin Concerto
Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Warsaw Philharmonic/Jacek Kaspszyk
Recorded 2014 Warsaw
Warner

Rachmaninov
8 Études-Tableaux, for piano, Op. 33
9 Études-Tableaux, for piano, Op. 39
Nicholas Angelich (piano)
rec. 1994
Harmonia Mundi

[Bryn]

Watching and listening to Glass/Wilson/Childs: Einstein on the Beach (Blu-ray of the Théâtre du Châtelet performances, January 2014).

[gmw]

I am no particular connoisseur of the fiddle but I am finding this absolutely wonderful ...

[Petrushka]

Schubert: Symphony No 8

[interval]

Bruckner: Symphony No 3

Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli

[pastoralguy]

I am no particular connoisseur of the fiddle but I am finding this absolutely wonderful ...

I ordered this from Germany about three weeks ago and am still waiting.

[Bryn]

Listening via QOBUZ FLAC stream. 2 channel stereo can't really do these works full justice, so I await the release of the Blu-ray before buying. Rather short duration though.

[Beef Oven!]

I don't think I've ever heard Terretektorh.

[Bryn]

I don't think I've ever heard Terretektorh.

Nor had I. Come to that I was not aware of the problematic birth of Metastaseis.

[Beef Oven!]

Nor had I.

I'm in good company

Come to that I was not aware of the problematic birth of Metastaseis.

I remain ignorant