What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

‘Heart’s Delight’ - The Songs Of Richard Tauber - Piotr Beczala
Songs from Operetta Lehár, Stolz, Ralph, Romberg, Sieczynski, Tauber, C. Bohm, Kálmán
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
with Anna Netrebko (soprano), Avi Avital (mandolin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Lukasz Borowicz
Recorded 2012 Angel Recording Studios, London
Deutsche Grammophon

Mozart
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K478
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K493
Éder Quartet members with Dezső Ránki (piano)
Recorded 1979 Casino Zögernitz, Vienna
Warner Apex

[Arnold Bax]

Peter Maxwell Davies

Miss Donnithorne's Maggot

followed quickly on with:

Eight Songs for a Mad King

Thomas/Eastman

The Fires of London/the Composer

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9052

This is brilliant stuff, from the sixties and early seventies, and so much more in your face and therefore wonderful than the later symphonies and the Strathclyde Concertos etc etc. It was a shame that I had to miss the live performance of '8 Songs' last Proms, but I couldn't quite find out where Peckham was, but this CD will do, and Mary Thomas is an extraordinary singer...

[BBMmk2]

Couldn't agree with you more than that Arnold. I saw quite a moving performance of Eight Songs on TV, years ago.

George Frederick Handel
Messiah
Maurice Murphy(trumpet),
Mary Heggarty(soprano),
Carole Wilson(mezzo-soprano),
Aled Hall(tenor(, Gidon Saks(bass),
Halifax Choral Society,
Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J Childs.

Messiah as you never heard it before. Played by one of the top brass bands in the country. Singing not too bad, all a question of affordability probably.

[Stanfordian]

Mahler
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
Soloists: Orla Boylan (soprano), Celena Shafer (soprano), Amy Owens (soprano),
Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano), Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano),
Barry Banks (tenor), Markus Werba (baritone), Jordan Bisch (bass)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir & The Madeleine Choir School
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Thierry Fischer
Recorded Live 2016 Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah
Reference Recordings SACD – New release

[BBMmk2]

Mahler
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
Soloists: Orla Boylan (soprano), Celena Shafer (soprano), Amy Owens (soprano),
Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano), Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano),
Barry Banks (tenor), Markus Werba (baritone), Jordan Bisch (bass)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir & The Madeleine Choir School
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Thierry Fischer
Recorded Live 2016 Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah
Reference Recordings SACD – New release

Any good?

Rimsky-Korsakov
Christmas Eve Suite(from the opera)
Armenian PO. Loris Tjeknavorian.
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.1 in G minor, op.13, "Winter Daydreams"
Vienna PO, Maazel.

[pastoralguy]

UB40 UNPLUGGED

Groovy!

[BBMmk2]

UB40 UNPLUGGED

Groovy!

Only classical music here please PG. I might have to amend the title?

[Stanfordian]

Surely Clara Schumann wouldn't have played this like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqXvrVX6lU4&list=RDMMYqXvrVX6lU4

Quite amazing how everything is kept in place! Just!

[pastoralguy]

Only classical music here please PG. I might have to amend the title?

So no Sex Pistols..?

[HighlandDougie]

Tsk, tsk - UB40 indeed (I'm envious - I hope that it had you dancing around the living room, singing along).

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37 & Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58

Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)/Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Hermann Scherchen

From the recent DG box, a reminder of how fine a pianist is P B-S. All pre him being HIPP but its contents are a delight.

[pastoralguy]

Tsk, tsk - UB40 indeed (I'm envious - I hope that it had you dancing around the living room, singing along).

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37 & Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58

Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)/Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Hermann Scherchen

From the recent DG box, a reminder of how fine a pianist is P B-S. All pre him being HIPP but its contents are a delight.

The Beethoven piano concertos are works I never tire of hearing.

[silvestrione]

Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos, K.448. Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan. Lugano 2016

What a delight! Not sure I'd ever heard it before.

[pastoralguy]

George Gershwin. Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture, Porgy and Bess Suite & An American in Paris.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine. By coincidence, I found this in a charity shop for 99p today. I'm managing to enjoy it without being influenced by recent revelations. In fact, one of my all time favourite recordings is Levine conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony.

Very sad situation.

[pastoralguy]

Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos, K.448. Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan. Lugano 2016

What a delight! Not sure I'd ever heard it before.

This performance or the work, silvestione?

[Stanfordian]

George Gershwin. Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture, Porgy and Bess Suite & An American in Paris.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine. By coincidence, I found this in a charity shop for 99p today. I'm managing to enjoy it without being influenced by recent revelations. In fact, one of my all time favourite recordings is Levine conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony.

Very sad situation.

You are not wrong, the Saint-Saens Third Symphony by Levine is excellent!