What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

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William Boyce
Symphonies, Op.2.
AAM, Hogwood.

From:-
Haitink - The Philips Years
Bartok Violin Concerto; Concerto for Orchestra.
Henryk Szeryng(violin), Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Bernard Haitink.

[Joseph K]

Debussy - Jeux - New Philharmonia Orchestra/Boulez.

[Joseph K]

I'm sure that there was an earlier post (or three) about this recording and its various incarnations. The Sony re-mastering (as in their Big Boulez Box) is so much better than that in the 2005 issue that, as I think that I said before, I had to check that it was the same recording. As I see that JK has invested in the Big Box, it'll be interesting to read what he thinks.

I'm now listening to Couleurs de la cite celeste, and can confirm that indeed it is significantly better than the 2005 Warner boxed set.

[jayne lee wilson]

Holmboe Symphony No.7; Symphony No.8
Aarhus SO/Arwel Hughes. BS CDs 1996.

Symphonies 5-8 (1944-50) seem the core, the very heart of Holmboe, as his thematic metamorphoses and large-scale structures become sharper, clearer, and the orchestral imagination still wilder and more daring. 7 and 8 are among the towering jagged peaks and darkest, deepest forests of his output. A riveting "unpredictable inevitability" about them. I've had some sleepless nights with an unpleasant URTI, and these masterpieces have really kept me going.
Marvellously poetic, dramatic, atmospheric music - true 20th-Century classics.

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Holmboe Symphony No.7; Symphony No.8
Aarhus SO/Arwel Hughes. BS CDs 1996.

Symphonies 5-8 (1944-50) seem the core, the very heart of Holmboe, as his thematic metamorphoses and large-scale structures become sharper, clearer, and the orchestral imagination still wilder and more daring. 7 and 8 are among the towering jagged peaks and darkest, deepest forests of his output. A riveting "unpredictable inevitability" about them. I've had some sleepless nights with an unpleasant URTI, and these masterpieces have really kept me going.
Marvellously poetic, dramatic, atmospheric music - true 20th-Century classics.

What’s that Concerto disc like you played earlier. It has his Tuba Concerto on it, which I’m interested in.

[Stanfordian]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Dresdner Philharmonie / Michael Sanderling
Record 2016 Lukaskirche (Beethoven) & 2017 Kulturpalast (Shostakovich), Dresden, Germany
Sony Classical - New CD release

Handel
Sonatas for violin & basso continuo
The Brook Street Band:
Rachel Harris (baroque violin), (Tatty Theo (baroque cello), Carolyn Gibley (harpsichord)
Recored 2018 The Great Barn, Oxnead Hall, Norwich
Avie - CD to be released soon

[BBMmk2]

From:-
Haitink - The Philips Years
Cd1
Bartok Violin Concerto; Concerto for Orchestra.
Henryk Szeryng(violin), Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Bernard Haitink.

Carrying on with this marvellous set.

Cd2
Beethoven
Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello in C, Op.55
Beaux Arts Trio
(Isadore Cohen - violin, Menahem Pressler - piano, Bernhard Greenhouse - cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink.

Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61.
Herman Krebbers(violin), Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Bernard Haitink.

Metropolis 1927
Between the Lines - Kit Turbull; Far From Home - Kit Turnbull;
Metropolis 1927 - Peter Graham; Chansons de Normandie - Nigel Hess;
Gallipoli 100 Suite - Martin Ellerby; Danceries Set II - Kenneth Hesketh;
Fictitious Folk- Bill Connor.
Conducted by Lt Col. Nick Grace.

[Richard Barrett]

Luigi Nono, Risonanze erranti, on a newish CD containing a recent performance plus the original recording from 1986. Honestly this is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes.

[Beef Oven!]

DSCH - String Quartet No.8
Pacifica Quartet

[teamsaint]

Berlioz. Harold in Italy.
Zukerman/ Orchestre de Paris/ Barenboim.
From the big DB box which arrived today.
1st mvt seemed full of beans .

[Beef Oven!]

Weinberg - String Quartet No. 8
Quatuor Danel

[jayne lee wilson]

What’s that Concerto disc like you played earlier. It has his Tuba Concerto on it, which I’m interested in.

The Trumpet and Trombone Concertos are from the series of Chamber Concertos Holmboe wrote in the 40s and early 50s, so in his lighter neo-classical vein: rhythmical, playful, whether walking, dancing or marching; they entertain and relax, they show off and swagger - but with surprising depth in their short slow movements.
The Tuba Concerto is a later one-movement piece from 1974, with several changes of mood and pace; a more exciting and adventurous work, like a fantasia. The soloist it was written for, Jørgen Voight Arnsted (from the Odense SO) visited Holmboe and showed him "every possible trick in the tuba book" - harmonics, double stopping etc - which the concerto takes vivid pleasure in displaying during two extensive, wide-ranging cadenzas. (I never knew the Tuba could go so high; and yes - the lower notes did remind me of the mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...). why not add it to your repertoire, Bbm?

The Tuba is recorded with startling realism on the BIS disc; at a high volume you may excite resonance modes in your room: (un)sympathetic vibrations from windows, glass and metal clocks and ornaments, or if you're really lucky - speaker cabinets....
It'll give your ears a good work-out too.

[BBMmk2]

The Trumpet and Trombone Concertos are from the series of Chamber Concertos Holmboe wrote in the 40s and early 50s, so in his lighter neo-classical vein: rhythmical, playful, whether walking, dancing or marching; they entertain and relax, they show off and swagger - but with surprising depth in their short slow movements.
The Tuba Concerto is a later one-movement piece from 1974, with several changes of mood and pace; a more exciting and adventurous work, like a fantasia. The soloist it was written for, Jørgen Voight Arnsted (from the Odense SO) visited Holmboe and showed him "every possible trick in the tuba book" - harmonics, double stopping etc - which the concerto takes vivid pleasure in displaying during two extensive, wide-ranging cadenzas. (I never knew the Tuba could go so high; and yes - the lower notes did remind me of the mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...). why not add it to your repertoire, Bbm?

The Tuba is recorded with startling realism on the BIS disc; at a high volume you may excite resonance modes in your room: (un)sympathetic vibrations from windows, glass and metal clocks and ornaments, or if you're really lucky - speaker cabinets....
It'll give your ears a good work-out too.

As ever, JLW, many thanks.

[Pianoman]

Xenakis - Troorkh for Trombone and Orchestra - Christian Lindberg; Oslo Phil; Rundel (Bis)

Marvellous performance !

[HighlandDougie]

Luigi Nono, Risonanze erranti, on a newish CD containing a recent performance plus the original recording from 1986. Honestly this is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes.

That’s a recommendation that’s hard to ignore. I find Prometeo to be challenging but rewarding so this adjunct from/to it duly ordered. Thanks, RB