What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Lat-Literal]

This is my penultimate post of a seven day exercise:

Ludovic Lamothe - Valse Aux Etoiles/Libellule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWtU_XWH-Wk

Elena Kats-Chernin - Fast Blue Air No 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c422vOtiENA

Jón Leifs - Geysir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndf2kGf82oU

Mason Bates - Mothership

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0K1kJOins4

[Lat-Literal]

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa7GhdVLg1c

Frederick Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDh36azgnU

Gabriel Fauré - Requiem in D Minor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYC2uyxSC60

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhKq8W9xhrU

.....I left my super top favourites to the very last post.

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Very difficult to remember such detail after 40 years, Alison, especially as I heard Haitink perform the Elgar 2 again with the Philharmonia in March 1984, around the time of the recording. I was just three months short of my 24th birthday as well, so a long time ago!

Only a few years older than me then, Pet

Wagner Orchestral Transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski
Die Walkure: Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music
Tristan & Isolde: Symphonic Synthesis
Parsifal: Symphonic Synthesis from Act III.
BBC PO, Mathias Bamert.

[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

Telemann - 'Concerti per molti stromenti'
Concerto for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes, strings & basso continuo, TWV 54: D3
Concerto for 2 flutes, calchedon, strings & basso (Dresden Version), TWV 53: h1
Concerto for 3 oboes, 3 violins & basso, TWV 44: 43
Sonata for 2 violins, 2 violas, violoncello & basso, TWV 44: 32
Concerto for mandolin, hammered dulcimer, harp, strings & basso
(from Tafelmusik, arr. Peter Huth), TWV 53: F1
Concerto for 2 oboes, bassoon, strings & basso, TWV 53: d1
Concerto for 3 horns, violin, strings & basso, TWV 54: D2
Concerto for 2 violins, viola, violoncello & basso: Adagio, TWV 43: G5
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Recorded 2016 Teldex Studio, Berlin
Harmonia Mundi

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Brahms
Eine Deutsche Requiem.
Katherine Fuge(soprano), Matthew Brook(baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique,
Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

I saw the five star rating fior this recording and so I thought I'd buy it. I have Nikolaus Harnoncourt's too but my goodness!

[Bryn]

Tonight, having earlier backed up my DVDs of the whole opera, I have been mostly listening to, and watching, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives, easily my favourite late 20th Century opera. O.K., the video techniques look decidedly dated and low definition by today's standards, but in 1984 this was truly cutting edge. What a year that was. The first compete performance of Cardew's The Great Learning, and Ashley's Perfect Lives. I recall how Chanel 4 viewers were endured to record each episode of Perfect Lives as it was broadcast late each evening for a week. Not only did I do so (Philips 2000 format, so long eclipsed) but also bought the audio cassettes when they were release, then the CDs, then, eventually the DVDs. I expect the opera still gets the occasional outing on Sky Arts, but I gave up that well over two decades ago.

[Stanfordian]

Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto No. 3
La Muse et le Poète for violin, cello and orchestra
Cello Concerto No. 1
Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Lionel Bringuier
Recorded 2013 Salle Pleyel & Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Erato

Magnard
‘Complete Chamber Music - Centenary Edition’
Violin Sonata in G major
Cello Sonata in A major
Piano Trio
Quintet for piano and winds
String Quartet in E minor
Laurent Wagschal, piano; Solenne Païdassi, violin; Camille Thomas, cello
Quatuor Élysée Ensemble Initium
Recorded 2014 Cœur de ville, Vincennes
Timpani

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The Leonard Bernstein Collection Volume 1 Part 1
Beethoven
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Symphony No.3 in Eb,Op.55, "Eroica"
Symphony No.2 in D, Op.36
Symphony No.4 in Bb, Op.60
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
Weiner Philharmnoniker, Leonard Bernsrtein.

[Bryn]

Currently, Mozart: 'Gran Partita' (Amadeus Winds, Hogwood).

Later, Keith Rowe / John Tilbury: 'enough still not to know'

[Petrushka]

Last night:

Bruckner: Symphony No 6
Wiener Philharmoniker
Horst Stein

This is a very fine performance indeed with the huge advantage of the unique tonal lustre of the VPO and a 1974 vintage Decca recording. A very close call with the latest Haitink.

Tonight:

Mozart: Symphony No 39

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Mahler: Symphony No 4
Kiri te Kanawa (soprano)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti

[Stanfordian]

Haydn
Symphony No. 43, ‘Mercury’
Symphony No. 50
Symphony No. 58
Symphony No. 59 ‘Fire’
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Frans Brüggen
Recorded 1996 Blackheath Concert Halls, London
Philips

‘Gedankenverloren’ – Katharina Konradi
Songs by Schubert, Trojahn, Debussy, Krenek, Lili Boulanger, Rachmaninov, Laitmann & Richard Strauss
Katharina Konradi, soprano
Gerold Huber, piano
Andreas Lipp, clarinet (Laitmann)
Recorded 2017 Bethanienkirche, Leipzig
Genuin

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Brahms
Eine Deutsche Requiem.
Katherine Fuge(soprano), Matthew Brook(baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique,
Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

I saw the five star rating fior this recording and so I thought I'd buy it. I have Nikolaus Harnoncourt's too but my goodness!

Playing this again today. I really love this recording. I think it's probably the best one yet!

Then I will be back to that Bernstein box set! Wow!

Rodney Newton
Complete Orchestral Music Vol.1.
SymphonyNo.1(197-69)
Symphony No.4(1975).
Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra,
Paul Martin.

An enterprising company lie a Toccata Classics like this deserves a thumbs up for producing a cd like this.
A very rewarding listen. Newton’s music has inspiration derived from RVW and Alan Rawsthirne but of course has his mark on it as well.

[ahinton]

Magnard
‘Complete Chamber Music - Centenary Edition’
Violin Sonata in G major
Cello Sonata in A major
Piano Trio
Quintet for piano and winds
String Quartet in E minor
Laurent Wagschal, piano; Solenne Païdassi, violin; Camille Thomas, cello
Quatuor Élysée Ensemble Initium
Recorded 2014 Cœur de ville, Vincennes
Timpani

Wonderful works all, especially the string quartet! All of them should, however, be far better known and more widely performed than is the case.

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The Leonard Bernstein Collection Volume 1 Part 1
Beethoven
Symphony No.6 in F, Op.68.
Symphony No.7 in A minor, Op.92
Symphony No.8 in F minor, Op.93
Weiner Philharmoniker Leonard Bernstein.

[Petrushka]

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Prelude to Act 1
Mahler: Symphony No 7

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti