What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Turangalîla]

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor: Borodin/Richter

On record review this morning I partially heard a new recording by Piotr Anderszewski and the Belcea Quartet – unfortunately due to various boring domestic obligations it did not get my full attention but I caught enough to find myself later in the day playing playing my only recording- the Borodin/Richter. I am still very tempted to get the Belcea but the download on Presto is not available yet -only the CD/post - so before I put it on my wish list can I ask which other records I should be considering?

[BBMmk2]

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor: Borodin/Richter

On record review this morning I partially heard a new recording by Piotr Anderszewski and the Belcea Quartet – unfortunately due to various boring domestic obligations it did not get my full attention but I caught enough to find myself later in the day playing playing my only recording- the Borodin/Richter. I am still very tempted to get the Belcea but the download on Presto is not available yet -only the CD/post - so before I put it on my wish list can I ask which other records I should be considering?

I must get the Belcea QT, and Piotr Andersewski. the trouble I do have a few now. Would this justify?

[Stanfordian]

Wagner
‘Das Rheingold’
Woglinde: Sarah Tynan, soprano; Wellgunde: Madeleine Shaw, mezzo-soprano; Flosshilde: Leah-Marian Jones, mezzo-soprano; Alberich: Samuel Youn, baritone; Wotan: Iain Paterson, bass-baritone; Fricka: Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano; Freia: Emma Bell, soprano; Fasolt: Reinhard Hagen, bass; Fafner: Clive Bayley, bass; Donner: David Stout, baritone; Froh: David Butt Philip, tenor; Loge: Will Hartmann, tenor; Mime: Nicky Spence, tenor; Erda: Susanne Resmark, mezzo-soprano
Hallé / Sir Mark Elder
Recorded live, 27th November 2016 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Hallé own label - 1st June release

[gurnemanz]

Die Schöne Müllerin - Christoph Prégardien with Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

[teamsaint]

Die Schöne Müllerin - Christoph Prégardien with Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

Been listening to that this week, along with Dichterliebe etc on another disc.

Really fabulous to my ears, but you are the expert.

i can’t think of a better way to introduce a person to Lieder. If their sound doesnt get you, I suspect nothing will.

[gurnemanz]

Been listening to that this week, along with Dichterliebe etc on another disc.

Really fabulous to my ears, but you are the expert.

i can’t think of a better way to introduce a person to Lieder. If their sound doesnt get you, I suspect nothing will.

You nudged me into getting it elsewhere on this board. So thanks a lot!

[BBMmk2]

Haydn Die Schopfung.
Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown,
Michael Schade, Rodney Giltry,
The Monteverdi Choir,
The English Baroque Soloists,
Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

The Art of the Violin
Arcangelo Corelli Violin Sonatas Op.5
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr(harpsichord).

[Stanfordian]

Haydn Die Schopfung.
Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown,
Michael Schade, Rodney Giltry,
The Monteverdi Choir,
The English Baroque Soloists,
Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

The Art of the Violin
Arcangelo Corelli Violin Sonatas Op.5
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr(harpsichord).

Manze and Egarr do a great job with these sonatas!

[jayne lee wilson]

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor: Borodin/Richter

On record review this morning I partially heard a new recording by Piotr Anderszewski and the Belcea Quartet – unfortunately due to various boring domestic obligations it did not get my full attention but I caught enough to find myself later in the day playing playing my only recording- the Borodin/Richter. I am still very tempted to get the Belcea but the download on Presto is not available yet -only the CD/post - so before I put it on my wish list can I ask which other records I should be considering?

Try the Hollywood Quartet with Victor Aller on Testament (c/w the Franck), 1954 mono but very good mono, and a performance which Robert Layton felt remained unsurpassed as late as 1996... and a favourite of mine, but then most of what that group did (in Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Walton or Prokofiev) ranks high with me....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-String-Quartet-Franck-Shostakovich/dp/B000003XJI/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1525627433&sr=1-8&keywords=hollywood+quartet

[HighlandDougie]

Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S. 108

Steve Davislim (tenor), Chorus Sine Nomine, Orchester Wiener Akademie/Martin Haselböck

I'm never 100% sure that Liszt's orchestral oeuvre isn't just a little, err, trashy (I can see Caliban nodding in agreement at the description) but I do very much like the Faust Symphony. I remember one of the usual Hippster suspects extolling the virtues of this recording on a thread a few months ago and, having loved the sound and clarity of a HIPP OAE/Vladimir Jurowski performance a few years ago, I cannot but agree as this type of approach seems to me to work very well in this music. As an adjunct/climax to their series of tone poems, this performance is just as good as its predecessors - thrilling, really.

[EdgeleyRob]

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor: Borodin/Richter

On record review this morning I partially heard a new recording by Piotr Anderszewski and the Belcea Quartet – unfortunately due to various boring domestic obligations it did not get my full attention but I caught enough to find myself later in the day playing playing my only recording- the Borodin/Richter. I am still very tempted to get the Belcea but the download on Presto is not available yet -only the CD/post - so before I put it on my wish list can I ask which other records I should be considering?

Matthias Kirschnereit with the Szymanowski Qt is hard to beat IMO (c/w the astonishing Weinberg Quintet)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weinberg-Piano-Quintet-op18-Shostakovich/dp/B004KDO2U2/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1525643824&sr=1-2&keywords=weinberg+piano+quintet

[Jonathan]

Regarding the Faust Symphony recording #4060 - I agree, it's a super recording, just like the remainder of Haselbock's set. These forces have recorded most of Liszt's orchestral works - there isn't a great amount left to record so I envisage maybe another 2 cds worth and this amazing set will be complete.

[BBMmk2]

Manze and Egarr do a great job with these sonatas!

Absolutely, Stan! Time just passed by so quickly!

[visualnickmos]

Nielsen
Symphony no. 1
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

Excellent playing - full of carefully controlled energy!

Vaughan Williams
Symphony no. 9
Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin

The first time I listened to this set, I wasn't hugely taken with it, but dipping into it again after a few years, I found my view has changed. It is really a rather good RVW 9th. I'm looking forward to continuing my dips!

[Stanfordian]

Dvořák
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A major
(realised & orchestrated by Jarmil Burghauser, cello part revised by Miloš Sádlo)
Cello Concerto (No. 2) in B minor, Op. 104
Miloš Sádlo (cello)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Václav Neumann
Recorded 1976 Rudolfinum Studio, Prague
Supraphon

Dohnányi
String Quartets No’s 1–3
Aviv Quartet
Recorded 2010 St. Anne’s Church, Toronto
Naxos