What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[cloughie]

And I'd like a more modern recording, too.

Try these Beefy :CO/Ashkenazy, RSNO/Jarvi, DSO/Kempe, SWRSO/F-X Roth, ZTO/Zinman

I've also just ordered another which I never knew existed and have no idea how good by Norman Del Mar - a RSt scholar so could be OK!

[Stanfordian]

Magnard
Symphony No. 4
Chant funèbre
Orchestre Du Capitole De Toulouse / Michel Plasson
Recorded 1983 Halle aux Grains de Toulouse
EMI

Saint-Saëns
‘Chamber Music for Wind Instruments and Piano’
Sonata for oboe and piano in D major, Op. 166
Sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat major, Op. 167
Sonata for bassoon and piano in G major, Op. 168
Romance for flute and piano in D flat major, Op. 37
Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano, Op. 79
Ensemble Villa Musica
Recorded 1991, Furstliche Reitbahn, Bad Arolsen
MDG Gold

[Richard Barrett]

This is the only CD of Koechlin that I have.

It's certainly a good way of getting an idea of what his orchestral music can be like. (Strangely, on the other hand I've never heard a piece of his chamber music that I haven't thought bland and forgettable.) I finished off yesterday evening with his Seven Stars Symphony (each of its seven movements named after a Hollywood star of the time), of which I found a radio broadcast by Ilan Volkov and the BBCSSO on Youtube, preferable I think to either of the CD recordings of this work. I guess I share with quite a few people the experience of hearing Koechlin's Les Bandar-Log coducted by Antal Dorati as the "B-side" of the LP of Messiaen's Chronochromie and Boulez's Le soleil des eaux, and then not hearing anything else by Koechlin for many years. Still very few of the existing recordings involve French orchestras/conductors, I wonder why.

[BBMmk2]

Today is Bach’s birthday, so a JSB. day today!

J S Bach
The Musical Offering
Masaaki Suzuki.
Orchestral Suites.
Bach Collegium japan, Masaaki Suzuki.

Goldberg Variations.
Sir Andras Schiff(piano).

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Symphony No 9
Hilde Güden (soprano), Rosette Anday (contralto)
Julius Patzak (tenor), Alfred Poell (bass)
Wiener Singakademie
Wiener Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Given in the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, on February 3 1952

Strangely, this Tahra release doesn't credit the chorus so had to get that information from the VPO concert archive.

[EdgeleyRob]

Beethoven

Piano concerto No 5

Brendel,Vienna SO,Mehta

Piano Sonata Op 27/2

Walter Klien

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No 5

LSO,Previn

[teamsaint]

Richter live at Carnegie Hall.

Boxing Day 1960
CD 12 . Haydn, Chopin, Rach, Ravel.

[BBMmk2]

Beethoven: Symphony No 9
Hilde Güden (soprano), Rosette Anday (contralto)
Julius Patzak (tenor), Alfred Poell (bass)
Wiener Singakademie
Wiener Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Given in the Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, on February 3 1952

Strangely, this Tahra release doesn't credit the chorus so had to get that information from the VPO concert archive.

Do you have that classic recording Furtwangler made? 1949 was it?

Bruckner Symphony No.9 in D minor
Stuttgart RSO, Carlo Maria Giulini.

[Stanfordian]

Régine Crespin – French Song Cycles
Ravel
Shéhérazade
Berlioz
Les Nuits d'été
Debussy
Trois chansons de Bilitis
Poulenc
7 Chansons
Régine Crespin (soprano)
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet
Recorded 1963 Victoria Hall, Geneva (Ravel, Berloiz), 1967 Kingsway Hall, London (Debussy Poulenc)
Decca ‘The Originals’

Saint-Saëns
Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 41
Piano Quartet in E major, Op. posth
Barcarolle for Piano Quartet, Op. 108
(arranged in 1909 from the Barcarolle for piano, violin, cello & harmonium)
Mozart Piano Quartet:
Recorded 2007/08 Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei, Marienmünster
MDG

[Arnold Bax]

Sir Michael Tippett:

The Midsummer Marriage: Opera in Three Acts, libretto by the composer

Remedios/Carlyle/Herincx/Harwood/Burrows/Watts/Dean/Bainbridge/Daniels

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden

Sir Colin Davis

Lyrita SRCD 2217

Originally released by Philips on LP, it soon suffered the axe and was deleted, and I found it impossible to get. When the Nimbus rep revealed that Lyrita had got the rights and would be re-releasing it on CD, I almost burst in to tears on hearing the glad tidings. Wonderful opera, great performance

[BBMmk2]

Renaissance - Music for Inner Peace
Ceremony and Devotion - Music for the Tudors
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers.

The Road to Paradise
Gabrieli Consort, Paul Mcreesh.

[Stanfordian]

Nina Kotova – Tchaikovsky
Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
Nina Kotova (cello)
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded 2006, Studio 5, State House of Radio Broadcasting and Sound-recording, Moscow
Delos – Outstanding recent release

Glazunov
String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 26
String Quartet No. 5 in D minor, Op. 70
The Fridays cycle for string quartet: Prelude and Fugue (book 1, No. 1) & Kuranta (book 2, No. 6)
The Shostakovich Quartet
Recorded 1974 (Fridays), 1975 (5), 1979 (3), 1975 (5) State Radio and TV Committee of the Moscow Central Recording Studio
Regis (orig. Olympia)

[Stanfordian]

Glazunov
Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 5 ‘Slavyanskaya’
Tchaikovsky Sympgony Orchestra of Moscow Radio / Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded live, 1981 Grand Hall, Moscow Conservatory
Brilliant Classics (originally Melodiya)

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko
Recorded 2010, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Naxos

Fascinating to compare this pair of first symphonies by the teenage Glazunov and Shostakovich.

[BBMmk2]

Glazounov is always one of those composers that are a hit or a miss with me.

[Dave2002]

Schnittke
Symphony 1
Russian State SO, Rhohzdestvensky