What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Richard Barrett]

That's a very tough question and I can't say.

That sort of question can't be answered honestly, there's more in that score than can be revealed by any one performance, it's not the only such piece of course, but psychologically it's so complex that there's no pinning it down to one "interpretation" or another, if you think you have it worked out you aren't looking closely enough... I'm very pleased to report that it's being performed by my local band at the end of this month, for which I'm intending to go along to as many rehearsals as I can manage as well as the concert.

I would very rarely listen to the same performance of it twice in succession, since I have a shelf full of them. The last one I listened to was Jonathan Nott's, which I hereby recommend highly.

[Beef Oven!]

That sort of question can't be answered honestly, there's more in that score than can be revealed by any one performance, it's not the only such piece of course, but psychologically it's so complex that there's no pinning it down to one "interpretation" or another, if you think you have it worked out you aren't looking closely enough... I'm very pleased to report that it's being performed by my local band at the end of this month, for which I'm intending to go along to as many rehearsals as I can manage as well as the concert.
Richard, who's your local band?
I would very rarely listen to the same performance of it twice in succession, since I have a shelf full of them. The last one I listened to was Jonathan Nott's, which I hereby recommend highly.

Richard, who's your local band?

I don't know the Nott.

[Richard Barrett]

Richard, who's your local band?

I don't know the Nott.

My local band is the Belgrade Philharmonic, in which my nearest and dearest is principal harpist. The Nott is excellent. I've just lined up a few of his other Mahler symphonies on Qobuz for listening soon (2, 3, 4 and 7); strangely, his 9th isn't shown there.

I note that Mr Hurwitz has this to say about Nott's 9th: "There was a time when it was difficult to find a mediocre performance of this symphony, but no longer." So clearly it must be a performance and recording of the highest quality.

[gradus]

The Jochum/Bavarian recording of the Parsifal prelude. The recording sounds great but is getting on a bit - difficult to imagine it more powerfully played or more movingly performed in those profound closing bars.
A beautiful recording of Bethlehem Down by Guildford Cathedral choir.
Jose Feliciano but I suppose he's not supposed to appear here.

[Alison]

The Nott 7th is outstanding.

[Joseph K]

Place in my heart for Glorious John's EMI (pretty intense, on reflection).

Barbirolli? That was the performance with which I got to know Mahler's ninth. It's a glorious work, one of my favourites by any composer. I still remember hearing it and being deeply affected by its mixture of Eastern-sounding pentatonicism with heavy chromaticism. It sounds other-worldly.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

ferney, any chance of starting a Mahler 9 thread in Composers (Mahler section)? Kicking off with post #2639 from here.
Plus RB's previous comment.

Done!

[Jonathan]

Lazar Berman. Who is the pianist in the CD you mention?

I think Liszt does melancholy like no other composer.

He does but he can also be very joyous! Good choice of performer, by the way. The pianist on my Liszt transcription disc is called Risto-Matti Marin who also did a super disc of Wagner transcriptions by various composers.

[Petrushka]

New Year's Day Concert 1989

Wiener Philharmoniker
Carlos Kleiber

Playing on CD though I do have the DVD too.

[jayne lee wilson]

[QUOTE=Brassbandmaestro;657535]Beefy, what's your favourite Mahler 9?

Bruckner
Symphony No.6.
Bavarian RSO, Haitgink.

In the past I never really "warmed" to this Bruckner Symphony but with this recording an entirel;y different matter! Wow!] QUOTE Brassbandmaestro]

No way I can listen to Mahler 9 now, but after the excitement it has generated, I'm going to have to hear this B6 aren't I? Still, Bruckner fits in well with Mozart and Tippett....and it's a while since I bought a hi-res download...

[BBMmk2]

[QUOTE=jayne lee wilson;657640]

Beefy, what's your favourite Mahler 9?

Bruckner
Symphony No.6.
Bavarian RSO, Haitgink.

In the past I never really "warmed" to this Bruckner Symphony but with this recording an entirel;y different matter! Wow!] QUOTE Brassbandmaestro]

No way I can listen to Mahler 9 now, but after the excitement it has generated, I'm going to have to hear this B6 aren't I? Still, Bruckner fits in well with Mozart and Tippett....and it's a while since I bought a hi-res download...

That be good to treat yourself with this. Especially as it's a recording that has made me appreciate the work more.

Brahms
Trio for violin, horn and piano, in Eb major, Op.40
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in G major, Op.78
7 Fanstasias, Op.116
Isabelle Faust(violin), Teunis van der Swaart(horn), Alexander Meinikov(piano)
Variations on a theme of Haydn,Op.56b
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34.
Live from The Lugano Festival 2005
Martha Argerich, etc.

Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64*
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto in G minor,Op.26*
Mahler
Symphony no.9 in D**
*Schlomo Mintz(violin), Chicago SO
**Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado

[Stanfordian]

Brahms
String Sextet No. 1, Op. 18
String Sextet No. 2, Op. 36
Renaud Capuçon, Christoph Koncz (violins), Gérard Caussé, Marie Chilemme (violas) & Gautier Capuçon, Clemens Hagen (cellos)
Recorded live 2016, Easter Festival, Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence
Erato

'Silence & Music'
Music by Stanford, Elgar, Vaughn Williams, Howells, Grainger, MacMillan, Dove, Britten & Warlock
Robert Murray (tenor) & Neal Davies (baritone)
Tim Roberts (harmonium)
Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh
Recorded 2016, Charterhouse School Chapel, Surrey
Signum Classics

[teamsaint]

Hmmm, that Brahms sounds very tempting Stan.

Currently.

Percy Grainger. In a Nutshell.

CBSO/Rattle.

Which to my untutored ears sounds very classy indeed.

[Beef Oven!]

Bruckner - Symphony #6
Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim.

[Pianoman]

Ha - just listened to ....Bruckner -Symphony 6 - Berlin PO Barenboim