What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

or not Arts Council funded.

Not if it's the "close-up recording" that's doing the "highlighting". (Though the reference to "provincial playing" does indeed suggest that the reviewer has had Arts Council Funding experience.)

[teamsaint]

just for clarity, it was the P word that got my goat.

Which I something I doubt you can get in the big city.

[Beef Oven!]

David Matthews - Symphony no.3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martin Brabbins

Part way though this symphony and I must say there are some beautiful music episodes in this work.

[ahinton]

David Matthews - Symphony no.3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martin Brabbins

Part way though this symphony and I must say there are some beautiful music episodes in this work.

Agreed, but I'm sure that such a statement won't go down well with cetain members of this forum...

[Beef Oven!]

Agreed, but I'm sure that such a statement won't go down well with cetain members of this forum...

That's neither here nor there.

[EdgeleyRob]

David Matthews - Symphony no.3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martin Brabbins

Part way though this symphony and I must say there are some beautiful music episodes in this work.

If I'm being picky Beefster this should be on the neglected Brits thread ,nevertheless it's a from me.

[Beef Oven!]

If I'm being picky Beefster this should be on the neglected Brits thread ,nevertheless it's a from me.

Yup, you're right

[Stanfordian]

‘Eternamente’ – The Verismo Album – Angela Gheorghiu
Arias from Mascagni, Donaudy, Puccini, Boito, Mascheroni, Refice, Ponchielli, Giordano
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Prague Philharmonic Choir,
PKF - Prague Philharmonia/Emmanuel Vilaume
Recorded 2016 Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague
Warner Classics

Ravel & Scriabin - HJ Lim
Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Sonatine, Op. 45
La Valse
Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 4 in F sharp, Op. 30
Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
Waltz in A flat, Op. 38
Deux Poèmes, Op. 32
HJ Lim (piano)
Recorded 2012, The Friary, Liverpool
Warner Classics

[pastoralguy]

Korngold. Piano Sonatas.

Geoffrey Tozer, piano.

Chandos. 1995.

[Joseph K]

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - John Eliot Gardiner.

[Beef Oven!]

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - John Eliot Gardiner.

I chose to play the Norrington recently. I also have the JEG CD, so it will be that one when I next listen to SF.

[teamsaint]

Krzystof Meyer.
String Quartet #2.
( 1969)
Wieniawski Quartet.
A rather spare work this one, but has the usual Meyer knack of keeping you interested and engaged.

His SQ cycle is well worth dipping into.

[jayne lee wilson]

Mozart The Essential Symphonies SWR Stuttgart/Norrington. Live recordings 2006. Hänssler on Qobuz HiFi.

Seeking more on Norrington’s Mozart ( a gap in my collection) I discovered that the SWR cycle of “Essential Symphonies” consists of 8 live lunchtime concerts (6 CDs) recorded across just two weeks. They were played by “small alternating orchestras drawn from the SWR Stuttgart…. with the exact orchestra size as used at the first performances”, ranging from 18 players in the early works to a “double orchestra” with 24 strings and 16 winds for the last 4!
In those last symphonies Norrington says that only half the band play the piano sections,then everyone comes in for the fortes. They kept rehearsals to a minimum - one the previous evening, and a morning run-through - then the lunchtime concert.

The resultant spontaneity is immediately obvious and very compelling -
Listening to 22, 28, 31 and 32 on Qobuz was something of a revelation for me - I quickly ordered the CD boxset!
34 is athletic then serene, energetic, poised yet exultant; 25 remarkably thoughtful and probing, finding light and shade in a way I’ve never heard in this work before - extraordinarily subtle performance with some surprisingly moderate tempi (eg in the minuet, where the trio becomes a vividly individualised wind serenade)…in (i) Norrington doesn’t plunge in urgently; quite gentle at first, only increasing the tension gradually, then easing off again… really draws you in. He’s always a far more inventive, imaginative artist than his detractors imagine (“Imagine” is the word… they can’t have listened to his work much)…

Can't keep away from this on Qobuz.... but I’m saving up the later symphonies for when the CDs arrive!
Spending money on CDs of Mozart Symphonies...? It's amazing what a BaL can lead to....

[EdgeleyRob]

Krzystof Meyer.
String Quartet #2.
( 1969)
Wieniawski Quartet.
A rather spare work this one, but has the usual Meyer knack of keeping you interested and engaged.

His SQ cycle is well worth dipping into.

Worth much more than just a dip IMVHO

[Joseph K]

The first year of Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage. I am impressed by the harmonies and the novel way in which chords are distributed across the piano.