What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Walton
Belshazzar’s Feast
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus (chorus master Arthur Oldham)
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn
Recorded 1972 Kingsway Hall, London
EMI

Frank Bridge
Phantasie Piano Quartet, H94
Phantasie Piano Trio, H79
Quintet for string quartet and piano, H49a
Phantasie in F minor for string quartet, H55
London Bridge Ensemble
Recorded 2007/09, Wathen Hall, St. Paul’s School, London
Dutton Epoch – programme taken from 2 seperate albums

[BBMmk2]

Hoya Stan. Great CDs there. I haven’t the Bridge though. Self recommending?

[Stanfordian]

Hoya Stan. Great CDs there. I haven’t the Bridge though. Self recommending?

The two Bridge chamber music albums by London Bridge Ensemble on Dutton Epoch are top-drawer! High quality music, vastly underrated and wonderfully played, in my view!

[BBMmk2]

The two Bridge chamber music albums by London Bridge Ensemble on Dutton Epoch are top-drawer! High quality music, vastly underrated and wonderfully played, in my view!

Like a lot of his wonderful music is. I must get round to buying this one! Just been looking through for the CDand I came across this one which looks very interesting.

Frank Bridge and Cyril Scott Piano Quintets. Raphael Terroni piano and the Bingham Quartet. It’s on the British Music Society’s label. Recorded in 2012. Sadly it looks as though Raphael Terroni must have passed away during the production of this cd. Can be available on Naxos!

[mahlerei]

Carl RUGGLES
Sun-Treader
Steven STUCKY
Concerto for Orchestra No. 2
John HARBISON
Symphony No. 4
National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic/David Alan Miller
rec. 2017
NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS 8.559836

[Stanfordian]

Like a lot of his wonderful music is. I must get round to buying this one! Just been looking through for the CDand I came across this one which looks very interesting.

Frank Bridge and Cyril Scott Piano Quintets. Raphael Terroni piano and the Bingham Quartet. It’s on the British Music Society’s label. Recorded in 2012. Sadly it looks as though Raphael Terroni must have passed away during the production of this cd. Can be available on Naxos!

I bought this and was rather unimpressed with the playing. Barge-pole comes to mind!

[BBMmk2]

I bought this and was rather unimpressed with the playing. Barge-pole comes to mind!

Thanks for that! What a pity. I don't know if these works have been recorded elsewhere?

Haitink The Philips Years CD4
Symphony no.1 in in C major, Op.21
Symphony no.3 in Eb major, Op.55, "Eroica"
LPO, Bernard Haitink.

Stan, I found this in my collection!

Frank Bridge
Piano Quintet in D Minor; Noveletten 1 - 3;
Trio, rhapsody; Cherry Ripe;
Sir Roger de Coverley, "A Christmas Dance".
The Bridge String Quartet.

[Beef Oven!]

Brahms 2
VPO, Monteux. Eloquence.

[BBMmk2]

Carl RUGGLES
Sun-Treader
Steven STUCKY
Concerto for Orchestra No. 2
John HARBISON
Symphony No. 4
National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic/David Alan Miller
rec. 2017
NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS 8.559836

I've always wanted to hear this. I haven't as yet.

[mahlerei]

I've always wanted to hear this. I haven't as yet.

Yo ‘stro

Out on 15 June, so not too long to wait. Conductor David Alan Miller very impressive; he first came to my notice with these three new concertos by Michael Daugherty:

Trail of Tears, for flute and orchestra (2010)
Dreamachine, for solo percussion and orchestra (2014)
Reflections on the Mississippi, for tuba and orchestra(2013)
Amy Porter (flute)
Dame Evelyn Glennie (percussion)
Carol Jantsch (tuba)
Albany Symphony/David Alan Miller
NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS 8.559807

[Joseph K]

Bartok- Music for strings percussion and celesta - BBCSO/Boulez

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5
Clifford Curzon (piano)

[interval]

Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1
Kirsten Flagstad (Sieglinde), Set Svanholm (Siegmund), Arnold van Mill (Hunding)

Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch

[Beef Oven!]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5
Clifford Curzon (piano)

[interval]

Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1
Kirsten Flagstad (Sieglinde), Set Svanholm (Siegmund), Arnold van Mill (bass)

Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch

You didn't fancy the Tennstedt LPO Walküre Act 1?

[Petrushka]

You didn't fancy the Tennstedt LPO Walküre Act 1?

That's a wonderful disc! Such a shame that Tennstedt didn't leave us with at least one complete Wagner opera recording.

[Stanfordian]

'Visions' – Véronique Gens
Romantic opera arias (Saint-Saëns, Niedermeyer, Halévy, Godard, Février),
opéra-comique (David), oratorios (Franck, Massenet) & cantatas (Bizet, Bruneau)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester/Hervé Niquet
Recorded 2017, Studio 1, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Alpha Classics

Chausson
Concert for violin, piano and string quartet, Op.21
Itzhak Perlman (violin) & Jorge Bolet (piano)
Juilliard Quartet
Recorded 1983
CBS Masterworks – I cannot imagine a better recording of this masterwork than this glorious performance!