What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti

I'm writing an arrangement of the Wagner for concert band at the moment.

[Petrushka]

I'm writing an arrangement of the Wagner for concert band at the moment.

Good luck with that, BBM. I particularly like the tuba playing the Mastersingers theme in the counterpoint section. This comes across splendidly in the LSO/Dorati recording.

[Joseph K]

Thoroughly enjoying this:

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Good luck with that, BBM. I particularly like the tuba playing the Mastersingers theme in the counterpoint section. This comes across splendidly in the LSO/Dorati recording.

Ah right! is that still available? I have the Chicago Symphony/Barenboim, amongst others, and the tuba player(can't think who he was then), comes over very well too)

I am having a great time going through this
Leonard Bernstein The Collection Volume 1 Part One
Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92
Symphony No.8 in C, Op.93
Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 "Choral"
Gwyneth Jones, Hanna Schwarz, Rene Koll, Kurt Moll,
Wienna Staatsopenchor, Weiner Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein.

[Stanfordian]

Mahler
'Das Lied von der Erde'
Iris Vermillion (contralto); Keith Lewis (tenor)
Staatskapelle Dresden/Giuseppe Sinopoli
Recorded 1996, Lukaskirche, Dresden
Deutsche Grammophon

‘Rhapsodie Roumaine’ – George Enescu - Béla Bartók
Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 (arranged for piano quartet by Thomas Wally)
Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’
Nocturne for piano quartet ‘Ville d’Avrayen’
Bartók
‘An Evening in the Village’ for violin & piano
8 Duos for 2 violins, Sz. 98 (arranged for 2 violas)
6 Romanian Folk Dances for violin & piano, Sz. 56
Ensemble Raro
Gilles Apap (violin), Diana Ketler (piano)
Christian Naș, Razvan Popovici (violas)
Recorded 2017 Studio 2, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Solo Musica - recent release

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Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Metropolis 1927
Between the Lines(Kit Turnbull)
Far From Home(Kit Turnbull)
Metropolis 1927(Peter Graham)
Chansons de Normandie(Nigel Hess)
Gallipolo 100 Suite(Martin Ellerby)
Dancereies Set II(Kenneth Hesketh)
Fictitious Folk(Bill Connor)
Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Lt Col. N Grace

This is one great CD. Lt Col Nick Grace's swansong recording with this great band.

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Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Metropolis 1927
Between the Lines(Kit Turnbull)
Far From Home(Kit Turnbull)
Metropolis 1927(Peter Graham)
Chansons de Normandie(Nigel Hess)
Gallipolo 100 Suite(Martin Ellerby)
Dancereies Set II(Kenneth Hesketh)
Fictitious Folk(Bill Connor)
Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Lt Col. N Grace[

This is one great CD. Lt Col Nick Grace's swansong recording with this great band.

Saw, via live music streaming, of the last night of this year’s Mountbatten Festival of Music 2018. I went up there two years ago. What a treat that was! This year was a new era, because the Royal Marines have a new Director of Music, Lt Col. John Ridley, and a new Captain General, HRH Prince Henry of Wales, no less, who was in attendance! How I wish I was there last night! They had a lot of very talented youngsters in the massed bands as well. All five as well!


Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.5 in C# minor.
Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in E minor< Op.64
Oslo PO, Mariss Jansons.

Sibelius
Symphony No.5 No.5 in Eb major, Op.82
CBSO, Sakari Oramo.

Bax
Symphony No.5.
BBC PO/Vernon Handley.

[Stanfordian]

Cantata – ‘Yet Can I Hear’– Bejun Mehta
Solo cantatas from Handel, J.S. Bach, Hoffmann, Vivaldi, J.C. Bach
Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (concertmaster)
Recorded April 2017 Nikodemuskirche, Berlin
Pentatone SACD – new release

Schumann
Violin Sonatas No’s 1, 2 & 3
Ulf Wallin (violin) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Recorded 2009 former Academy of Music, Stockholm, Sweden (No. 1) &
2010, Studio Gärtnerstraße, Berlin (No’s 2 & 3)
BIS SACD

[Bryn]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 (Boston SO, Nelsons), from the DG Complete Recordings box which was on the doorstep, where it had been dumped by Amazon Logistics, when I got home from work this evening. This is, I hope one of the shortest disc in the box. Just 33 minutes and 15 seconds in total! I note that this DSCH 6 comes from live performances given in April and May of last year. It would not be a contender for my first choice in this work.

[teamsaint]

Gluck.
Don Juan.

Tafelmusik Baroque orchestra/ Weil.

Didn’t previously know this, but enjoyed it a great deal.

[Stanfordian]

Mahler
'Das Lied von der Erde'
Iris Vermillion (contralto) & Keith Lewis (tenor)
Staatskapelle Dresden / Giuseppe Sinopoli
Recorded 1996, Lukaskirche, Dresden
Deutsche Grammophon

Buxtehude
Sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo, Op. 1
Manfredo Kraemer, Juan Manuel Quintana, Dane Roberts & Dirk Börner
Recorded 2001 Reitstadel, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany
Harmonia Mundi

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Mahler
'Das Lied von der Erde'
Iris Vermillion (contralto) & Keith Lewis (tenor)
Staatskapelle Dresden / Giuseppe Sinopoli
Recorded 1996, Lukaskirche, Dresden
Deutsche Grammophon

Buxtehude
Sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo, Op. 1
Manfredo Kraemer, Juan Manuel Quintana, Dane Roberts & Dirk Börner
Recorded 2001 Reitstadel, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany
Harmonia Mundi

That Mahler recording looks very interesting Stan!

Prompted by a fellow Forumiter, I forgot I had Sakari Oramo's recordings of Neilsen!

Carl Neilsen
Symphony No.1 in G minor, Op.7
Symphony No.3, Op.27.
Symphony No.2, Op.16, "The Four Temperaments"
Symphony No.6,, "Sinfonia Semplice"
Royal Stockholm PO, Sakari Oramo.

Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings Symphony, for Chorus & Orchestra
in Six Movements.
21st Century Orchestra & Chorus, Ludwig Wicki.

[Stanfordian]

Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 3
Caprice bohémien, symphonic poem
Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 (arr. Rachmaninov)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko
Recorded 2009 & 2010, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
EMI Classics

‘Verismo’ - Krassimira Stoyanova
Versimo Arias from Puccini, Cilea, Mascagni, Catalani & Giordano
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Pavel Baleff
Recorded 2015/16 Studio 1, Bayerischen Rundfunk, Munich
Orfeo – recent release

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Leonard Bernstein - The Collection Volume 1
Music to Geothe's Tragedy "Egmont", Op.84: Overture
Coriolan, Op.82; King Stephen, Op.117; Fidelio, Op.72; Leonore, Op.72a(live);
Piano Concerto No.3 in G minor, Op.37;
Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58;
Piano concerto No.5 in Eb major, Op.73"Emperor".
Krystian Zimerman(piano), Weiner Philharmoniker,
Leonard Bernstein

[Joseph K]

Robert Saxton - Violin Concerto.