What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[jayne lee wilson]

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

See also #3544, #3558....

You really need to hear the older French Classic accounts in Roussel Symphonies, especially the Erato Lamoureux/Munch, and Paris Conservatoire/Cluytens (EMI, Testament, Toshiba etc) for that instinctive sense of rhythm and pace, and those French orchestral palettes. Jean Martinon's ballet recordings (Erato) are pretty wonderful too.

The Naxos cycle isn't bad at all and well-recorded, but too often I find it goes for weight over subtlety; lacks tautness, warmth and colour. Newer alternatives are scarce, but Eschenbach (Ondine) is outstanding in 1,2 and the ballets; fascinatingly darker and slower in 3 & 4, both very probing, considered readings. Most unusual...!

Don't overlook the Janowski, originally on RCA, which while rather set back in a very spacious acoustic is also very subtle and expressive in phrase and colour; it has a very wide dynamic range but Janowski always controls and grades the power. Those intricate wind counterpoints in the scherzo of 4, say, don't always tell as characterfully as the 1960s Parisian classics but the cycle works wonderfully well on its own terms. But turn it up well (and brace yourself)!

[Petrushka]

Haydn: Symphony No 99

[interval]

Bruckner: Symphony No 9

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink

[EdgeleyRob]

RVW

Hugh the Drover

Tear,Armstrong,RPO Groves et al

[Joseph K]

Schoenberg op 11 three piano pieces.

Incredibly beautiful stuff, especially the second.

[Pianorak]

Claude Debussy: Preludes Book I
Paul Jacobs
Gordon Fergus-Thompson

[Bella Kemp]

An ECM recording. Kurtag: Signs, Games and Messages for solo viola and then Ligeti's sonata for solo viola (Kim Kashkashian)
Perfect for a late Sunday night.
Back to tonality tomorrow when hubby returns (he's a simple soul) when it will probably be Schubert and Haydn piano sonatas played by Brendel - and I will love these also.

[BBMmk2]

Yes indeed

See also #3544, #3558....

You really need to hear the older French Classic accounts in Roussel Symphonies, especially the Erato Lamoureux/Munch, and Paris Conservatoire/Cluytens (EMI, Testament, Toshiba etc) for that instinctive sense of rhythm and pace, and those French orchestral palettes. Jean Martinon's ballet recordings (Erato) are pretty wonderful too.

The Naxos cycle isn't bad at all and well-recorded, but too often I find it goes for weight over subtlety; lacks tautness, warmth and colour. Newer alternatives are scarce, but Eschenbach (Ondine) is outstanding in 1,2 and the ballets; fascinatingly darker and slower in 3 & 4, both very probing, considered readings. Most unusual...!

Don't overlook the Janowski, originally on RCA, which while rather set back in a very spacious acoustic is also very subtle and expressive in phrase and colour; it has a very wide dynamic range but Janowski always controls and grades the power. Those intricate wind counterpoints in the scherzo of 4, say, don't always tell as characterfully as the 1960s Parisian classics but the cycle works wonderfully well on its own terms. But turn it up well (and brace yourself)!

I’ve just seen there’s a Neeme Jarvi recording on Chandos?

[Stanfordian]

Mahler
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
Orla Boylan (soprano), Celena Shafer (soprano), Amy Owens (soprano), Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano),
Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Markus Werba (baritone), Jordan Bisch (bass)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir & The Madeleine Choir School
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Thierry Fischer
Recorded Live 2016 Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah
Reference Recordings SACD – recent release

Reger
String Trio No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77b
String Trio No. 2 in D minor, Op. 141b
Piano Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 133
Trio Lirico with Detlev Eisinger (piano)
Recorded 2016, Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Dahlem, Berlin
Audite – new release

[BBMmk2]

Brahms
Sonata for 2 Pianos in F minor, Op.34b
Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein(pianos)
Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49
Martha Argerich(piano), Renaud (Capucon(violin). Gautier Capucon(cello).

Brahms
The Three Violin Sonatas.
Tasmin Little(violin) Piers Lane(piano).

[richardfinegold]

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 already own the Haitink 3 but that would be the only duplication for me. By coincidence I listened to it last night, a fantastic recording

[richardfinegold]

See also #3544, #3558....

You really need to hear the older French Classic accounts in Roussel Symphonies, especially the Erato Lamoureux/Munch, and Paris Conservatoire/Cluytens (EMI, Testament, Toshiba etc) for that instinctive sense of rhythm and pace, and those French orchestral palettes. Jean Martinon's ballet recordings (Erato) are pretty wonderful too.

The Naxos cycle isn't bad at all and well-recorded, but too often I find it goes for weight over subtlety; lacks tautness, warmth and colour. Newer alternatives are scarce, but Eschenbach (Ondine) is outstanding in 1,2 and the ballets; fascinatingly darker and slower in 3 & 4, both very probing, considered readings. Most unusual...!

Don't overlook the Janowski, originally on RCA, which while rather set back in a very spacious acoustic is also very subtle and expressive in phrase and colour; it has a very wide dynamic range but Janowski always controls and grades the power. Those intricate wind counterpoints in the scherzo of 4, say, don't always tell as characterfully as the 1960s Parisian classics but the cycle works wonderfully well on its own terms. But turn it up well (and brace yourself)!

Interesting. I somehow had the feeling that there is more to this music than I was getting from the Deneve set...

[Alison]

STRAVINSKY : Le baiser de la fee

LPO/Jurowski

Always had a soft spot for this and the playing is sensational.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

STRAVINSKY : Le baiser de la fee

LPO/Jurowski

Always had a soft spot for this and the playing is sensational.

- my favourite Tchaikovsky ballet - and it is exceptionally well-played.

[Alison]

Altogether a concert worth catching with a stellar Tchaikovsky PC1 (Daniil Trifonov).

It’s as if the LPO are a specialist band in this repertoire rather than a multipurpose orchestra, quite breathtaking at times.

[Stanfordian]

Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Britten
Violin Concerto, Op. 15 (1938/39 with later revisions)
Vilde Frang (violin)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony/James Gaffigan
Recorded 2015 Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, Germany
Warner

J.S.Bach
Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Aria, from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
XIV Canons on the Goldberg Ground, BWV 1087
Sonata in G major BWV 1038
Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord), Kiyomi Suga (flute), Ryo Terakado (violin I), Yukie Yamaguchi (violin II and viola), Emmanuel Balssa (cello)
Recorded 2016, Old Catholic Church, The Hague
BIS SACD – new release