What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[teamsaint]

Thanks for the recommendations both , (also for not flagging up my trypo !!)
I was looking at the Diotima last night, so that was on my radar already. It's available on youtube.
Currently trying the Gringolts # 2,( released Sept 2017 it seems) and really enjoying the vocal performance of Malin Hartelius.

[jayne lee wilson]

Hmmmm, interesting.

I was listening to the second Schoenberg SQ last night (Ardittis, on youtube) and was looking around for a well recommended alternative listen to the Lasalles in the quartets .

Can't find a thread on hear that seems to cover it, so any thoughts welcome.

My luxury option for Schoenberg Quartets is the Leipzigers, but then they are my choice in almost anything if they've recorded it.....trouble is, MDG are very sparing in their streamability.
Some time since I played through the set... previously liked the New Vienna Quartet on a 1999 Philips Duo (rec. 1967), the Juilliards mono one (1950-52) on United Archives....

Latest release I recall of the intégrale was this one from the Asasello Quartet -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schonberg-Insights-Asasello-Quartett-CLASSICS/dp/B01G3JQP4G/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1516136522&sr=1-7&keywords=schoenberg+string+quartets

.... haven't heard it, but it reviewed well. (Gramophone 9/16, Editor's Choice. PC's review goes into some detail, and finally he seems to feel that it's honours even with the Diotimas (6/16))
Very tempting, and here I am trying to cut expenditure....

[ahinton]

Pricey but superb:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schoenberg-Berg-Webern-Complete-Quartet/dp/B01872MKD2

... and, if you can find it anywhere:

https://www.allmusic.com/album/arnol...s-mw0001858098

I have both of these. The Aron are marvellous if somewhat reserved and occasionally lacking in that final milligram of passion; the Diotima give the finest performances of all of this repertoire that I have ever heard (and I once heard them live playing the C# minor quartet of a composer whose name doesn't even need to be mentioned - and I had to be scraped off the back wall of the hall thereafter, so searingly beautiful was it)...

[Beef Oven!]

James Macmillan - String Quartet no.1 'Visions of a November Spring'
Emperor String Quartet. BIS. Qobuz download.

[teamsaint]

The recommendations for the Diotima are well founded it seems. ( well of course they are.....)

The fourth mvt of the second quartet is quite magical. And not just that movement , obviously......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Recently:

Martinu: Fourth Symphony; BBCSO/Belohlavek
Dahl: Rows; Ensemble Skogen/the Composer
Alwyn: First Symphony; LPO/the Composer
Cage: Winter Music; Knoop, Laws, Thomas, Tilbury (pianos)
Bach: English Suite #1 (Bob van Asperen); Violin Sonata #1 in B minor (Luis Santos & Pieter-Jan Belder); Gamba Sonatas arranged from the Organ Trio Sonatas (Hille Perl, Lee Santana, Christine Schornsheim)
Parsons: Patterns of Connection; Apartment House
RVW: A Pilgrim's Progress; Boult
Schreker: Irrelohe; VSO/Gulke

And, to celebrate today:

Ferneyhough: Shadowtime; Prometheus; La Chute d'Icare; On Stellar Magnitudes; Superscriptio; Carceri d'Invenzione III; Third String Quartet.

With to JosephK

[Beef Oven!]

... some £31 for five discs ain't too pricey.

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£15.99 Qobuz 16 bit CD quality download

And £7.19 for the Aron quartett

[Stanfordian]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Wiener Symphoniker/Philippe Jordan
Recorded live 2017, Goldener Saal, Musikverein, Vienna
Solo Musica

Schubert
Mass No. 6 in E flat major. D950
Mozart
Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K339
Genia Kühmeier (soprano); Christa Mayer (alto); Timothy Robinson, Oliver Ringelhaln (tenors); Matthew Rose (bass)
Staatsopernchor Dresden; Staatskapelle Dresden/Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded 2008 live, Frauenkirche, Dresden
Carus

[teamsaint]

£15.99 Qobuz 16 bit CD quality download

And £7.19 for the Aron quartett

Well spotted Beefy .

You've done this before, haven't you ?!

[Beef Oven!]

Well spotted Beefy .

You've done this before, haven't you ?!

[Joseph K]

Beethoven - Symphony no. 4 - LSO under Bernard Haitink.

[Alison]

Beethoven - Symphony no. 4 - LSO under Bernard Haitink.

Adore that performance

[Joseph K]

Adore that performance

Me too!

Now: symphony no. 8.

[BBMmk2]

Beethoven
Piano Sonata in A major, Op.101
Piano Sonata No.29 in Bb major, Op.106, "Hammerklavier"
Emil Gilels, piano.

15 Variations & Fugue in E major, Op.35, "Eroica";
6 Variations in F, Op.34; Rondos, in C major, Op.51/1
in G, Op.51/2; Fur Elise.
Louis Lortie(piano).

[BBMmk2]

Beethoven
Piano Sonata in A major, Op.101
Piano Sonata No.29 in Bb major, Op.106, "Hammerklavier"
Emil Gilels, piano.

15 Variations & Fugue in E major, Op.35, "Eroica";
6 Variations in F, Op.34; Rondos, in C major, Op.51/1
in G, Op.51/2; Fur Elise.
Louis Lortie(piano).

Brahms
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor, Op.60
Piano Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.26
Renaud Capucon, Gautier Capucon, Geraud Causs,
Nikolas Angelich.