What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

JLW, I see on Spotify there is a recording of those symphonies by Roussel, but they had been reissued on the Naive label. I haven't heard the recording yet so I can't quantify on it at the moment.

[Bella Kemp]

With hubby away for the weekend I find myself heading towards the cd shelf and realising how much I still enjoy cds - radio stations and spotify can never really compete and we should support musicians more by keeping on buying them. I love browsing the shelf and reading the sleeve notes and then listening. Tonight it's Bartok's string quartets 1, 3 and 5 played by The Hungarian Quartet. Wonderful.

[jayne lee wilson]

JLW, I see on Spotify there is a recording of those symphonies by Roussel, but they had been reissued on the Naive label. I haven't heard the recording yet so I can't quantify on it at the moment.

No, the Auvidis Valois (Naive) issue is of different live performances from Edinburgh and Paris, in 1964 and 1966 respectively, but with the (somewhat scrappy) ONF rather than the vividly characterised immediacy of the Lamoureux Orchestra on Erato. They seem to me inferior both sonically (No.3 is in mono, No.4 slightly distant fuzzy stereo ) and musically, despite some interesting points of interpretative variation.

Roussel Symphony No.4. Lamoureux Orchestra/Munch. Erato CD 1991 rec.1965...
So,I squeezed in this Erato just now.... wow.... Nobody gets that finger-snapping champagne-fizz to the finale colours and rhythms quite like Munch does here....and those 1960s Parisian trumpets make a musical world-of-a-difference on their own, especially in the Lento Molto climaxes.
No.4 is too often lined up unfavourably as sister-of-the-more-famous 3rd. Really unfairly I feel; its 22 or 23 minutes are crammed with inventive and expressive brilliance. And this performance is the one to uncloud your perceptions.

[BBMmk2]

No, the Auvidis Valois (Naive) issue is of different live performances from Edinburgh and Paris, in 1964 and 1966 respectively, but with the (somewhat scrappy) ONF rather than the vividly characterised immediacy of the Lamoureux Orchestra on Erato. They seem to me inferior both sonically (No.3 is in mono, No.4 slightly distant fuzzy stereo ) and musically, despite some interesting points of interpretative variation.

Roussel Symphony No.4. Lamoureux Orchestra/Munch. Erato CD 1991 rec.1965...
So,I squeezed in this Erato just now.... wow.... Nobody gets that finger-snapping champagne-fizz to the finale colours and rhythms quite like Munch does here....and those 1960s Parisian trumpets make a musical world-of-a-difference on their own, especially in the Lento Molto climaxes.
No.4 is too often lined up unfavourably as sister-of-the-more-famous 3rd. Really unfairly I feel; its 22 or 23 minutes are crammed with inventive and expressive brilliance. And this performance is the one to uncloud your perceptions.

As usual, many thanks.

I was going to go to a concert for the first time in ages this afternoon, the world famous Black Dyke Band(formerly known as the Black dyke Mills band. They have just been recently crowned Yorkshire Champions three years running. How I miss playing in a brass band! My last Brighton & Hove City Brass reached up to the First Section when I played but then internal politics got in the way, unfortunately and I don't like this situation ever and the band are only now climbing up the ladder now.

[soileduk]

Not bad, but if you really want to hear how it should go....https://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphonies-...mphonies+munch
From the mouth of Roussel's chief chevalier.
There are few CDs I treasure more.

Can't see it on Qobuz, maybe Spotify will have it. But the CD is quite cheap and good-sounding (much better than the later over-processed Elatus reissue) - why not spoil yourself. Get momox to fly it over - they're usually pretty quick.
I love the recordings by Janowski, Eschenbach and Cluytens (a French band - especially a 1960s one - is a must in this music), but this Munch reading is the one I go back to most. The ecstatic first climax in the 3rd's adagio (at the end of the fast section) has never been matched, let alone surpassed, for sheer abandoned euphoria. Those trumpets!

Thanks for the steer Jayne. In the mail now.

[Stanfordian]

Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Bernard Haitink
Rrecorded live November 2005 Philharmonie, Munich
BR-Klassik – from a new box of complete symphonies


Mozart - Italian Opera Arias - Peter Schreier
Arias from La Clemenza di Tito, La finta semplice, Ascanio in Alba, Lucio Silla, Il re pastore, Idomemeo, La finta giardiniera
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Staatskapelle Berlin/Otmar Suitner
Recorded 1970 Christuskirche Berlin
Berlin Classics

[Dave2002]

Heiner Goebbels
Songs of Wars I have seen
with words by Gertrude Stein

I thought I'd revisit this, since I found it on my hard drive - and might have inadvertently deleted it!

[richardfinegold]

With hubby away for the weekend I find myself heading towards the cd shelf and realising how much I still enjoy cds - radio stations and spotify can never really compete and we should support musicians more by keeping on buying them. I love browsing the shelf and reading the sleeve notes and then listening. Tonight it's Bartok's string quartets 1, 3 and 5 played by The Hungarian Quartet. Wonderful.

Those Bartok Quartets....what label were they on? I think in the States it was the Vox label, because I remember owning them on a set of lps with so much vinyl noise that that I thought Bartok had even more tricks up his sleeve than what actually is in the score. I’d love to hear them digitally.

[richardfinegold]

JLW, I see on Spotify there is a recording of those symphonies by Roussel, but they had been reissued on the Naive label. I haven't heard the recording yet so I can't quantify on it at the moment.

Has anyone mentioned the Deneve recordings on Naxos? I own them but I have never heard The comparators

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Has anyone mentioned the Deneve recordings on Naxos?

Yup - teamsaint in #3540.

[richardfinegold]

Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Bernard Haitink
Rrecorded live November 2005 Philharmonie, Munich
BR-Klassik – from newly released box of complete symphonies


Mozart - Italian Opera Arias - Peter Schreier
Arias from La Clemenza di Tito, La finta semplice, Ascanio in Alba, Lucio Silla, Il re pastore, Idomemeo, La finta giardiniera
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Staatskapelle Berlin/Otmar SuitnerRecorded 1970 Christuskirche Berlin
Berlin Classics

Stan—what new cycle?

[richardfinegold]

You two aren’t giving much away, are you ?!

Nice cover, for starters. I’ll give it a spin later.

Currently: Roussel Symphony #3.
RSNO. Deneve.

Pretty excellent recording, I would say.

Thanks, Ferney. I do like this recording, and packaging, but as I mentioned, lack any sense of reference here

[Bella Kemp]

Those Bartok Quartets....what label were they on? I think in the States it was the Vox label, because I remember owning them on a set of lps with so much vinyl noise that that I thought Bartok had even more tricks up his sleeve than what actually is in the score. I’d love to hear them digitally.

DG - Legendary Recordings from the DG Catalogue. I think from what I can make out that the original recordings were made in 1962 on Polydor. The vinyl noise has all been edited out - although somehow I think I'd like a bit of old fashioned clicks and hisses for all the sense of time and place that they would conjure!

[Stanfordian]

Stan—what new cycle?

Hello richardfinegold,

It's a new to be released box from 'Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks' of Mahler symphonies 1-9 recorded live on BR-Klassik.

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8426498--mahler-symphonies-1-9-complete

Most of the recordings have been released before but I have not come across the recordings of No's 4 & 8.

Conductors: Sir Colin Davis (No. 8), Daniel Harding (No. 6), Bernard Haitink (No's 3 & 4), Mariss Jansons (No's 2, 5, 7, 9), Yannick Nézet-Seguin (No. 1)
Recorded 1996–2016 Herkulessaal (Sym 1) & Philharmonie, Munich

[BBMmk2]

Hello richardfinegold,

It's a new to be released box from 'Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks' of Mahler symphonies 1-9 recorded live on BR-Klassik.

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8426498--mahler-symphonies-1-9-complete

Most of the recordings have been released before but I have not come across the recordings of No's 4 & 8.

Conductors: Sir Colin Davis (No. 8), Daniel Harding (No. 6), Bernard Haitink (No's 3 & 4), Mariss Jansons (No's 2, 5, 7, 9), Yannick Nézet-Seguin (No. 1)
Recorded 1996–2016 Herkulessaal (Sym 1) & Philharmonie, Munich

I'll have to have a look!