What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[DublinJimbo]

Grieg: Violin Sonatas 1, 2 & 3
Franzisk Pietsch (violin), Detlev Eisinger (piano)

Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the composer's birth today. What fine works these are — especially number 3.

[BBMmk2]

Yesterday after the Stephen Hough album:-

The Art of Brass
The Cory Band, Philip Harper.
Featured “Gallery”, by Howard Snell.

[Stanfordian]

Verdi
Ernani - Lyric drama in four parts
Ernani, a bandit (Don Juan of Aragon) – Ramón Vargas (tenor); Don Carlo, later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor – Ludovic Tézier (baritone); Don Ruy de Silva, a Spanish grandee, guardian of Elvira – Alexander Vinogradov (bass); Doña Elvira, Silva’s niece – Svetla Vassilieva (soprano);
Giovanna, her nurse – Karine Ohanyan; Don Riccardo, Don Carlo's equerry – Maurizio Pace; Jago, Don Ruy's equerry – Gabriele Ribis
Monte-Carlo Opera Chorus (chorus master – Stefano Visconti)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo / Daniele Callegari
rec. Live 2014 Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Stage director – Jean-Louis Grinda; Set design – Isabelle Partiot-Pieri; Costume design – Teresa Acone
Arthaus Musik (Blu-ray)

[Pianorak]

Eugene Onegin

Radio 3: Scottish Opera present one of the greatest of all Russian operas, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in a new production by Covent Garden director Oliver Mears.
An excellent Tatyana (Natalya Romaniw - soprano)

[Lat-Literal]

Whatever his somewhat dubious political leanings, the most remarkable (and not a little filmic/rockist) of the Icelandic composers:

Jon Leifs - Hekla - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQ24wuylqI

Naturally, YouTube rolls it to what those of us who don't enjoy Bax in depth recognise a bit predictably as a masterpiece - for Rob:

Arnold Bax - Tintagel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixF5f2cqIKo

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 in F minor,Op.36
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition.
Concertgebouworkest, Antal Dorati.

Stephen Hough’s English Piano Album
Alan Rawsthorne Bagatelles
Stephen Reynolds Valse Enigmatique No’s.1 & 2
Elgar in Smyrna
Stephen Reynolds Two Poems in Hommage to Faurè
Bantock arr.Hough Songof the Seals
York Bowen Reverie d,Amour; Serious Dance; The Way to Polden
Frank Bridge The Dew Fairy; Heart’s Ease
Kenneth Leighton six Studies(Study-Variations)
Stephen Hough, Piano.

The Kenneth Leighton work is something else!

Hi bbm - While Steve Hough is keen on contemporary marketing - ie "The French Album" which isn't quite French - I really rate him : he is definitely "substance" imho.

If you want more Leighton - - there is a CD out there where he is offset by Ruth Gipps. I crowdfund for her - but only in my head as I don't believe in crowdfunding.

Stephen Hough - Moscow Nights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHYon-cTMcQ

Alisdair Hogarth interviews pianist Stephen Hough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Fmqv7XHLI

(I like him as a talker - always very interesting)

[Bryn]

Whatever his somewhat dubious political leanings, the most remarkable (and not a little filmic/rockist) of the Icelandic composers:

Jon Leifs - Hekla - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQ24wuylqI

While Leifs was investigated, and indeed held in prison, regarding possible collaboration with the Nazis, it should be born in mind that he got his first (Jewish) wife Annie out of Germany to Sweden regardless of the fact that the marriage was falling apart. They divorced in Sweden. Irracible he cedrtainly was, and very interested in rescuing and promoting Iceland's Nordic cultural past. I think a Scottish verdict applies regarding his political leanings. Very much looking forward to the forthcoming release of the BIS recording of Edda II.

[Lat-Literal]

While Leifs was investigated, and indeed held in prison, regarding possible collaboration with the Nazis, it should be born in mind that he got his first (Jewish) wife Annie out of Germany to Sweden regardless of the fact that the marriage was falling apart. They divorced in Sweden. Irracible he cedrtainly was, and very interested in rescuing and promoting Iceland's Nordic cultural past. I think a Scottish verdict applies regarding his political leanings. Very much looking forward to the forthcoming release of the BIS recording of Edda II.

Well, that is very educational and helpful Bryn.

He is a fantastic composer.

I hope that he will with the new release - and previously released - material be repackaged with a different typeface.

Ludicrous as it will sound, I have a similar issue with the typeface of the Dropkick Murphys.

It is often misleading and plays to ideas of, erm, robustness - the truths are usually more complex.

[BBMmk2]

Whatever his somewhat dubious political leanings, the most remarkable (and not a little filmic/rockist) of the Icelandic composers:

Jon Leifs - Hekla - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQ24wuylqI

Naturally, YouTube rolls it to what those of us who don't enjoy Bax in depth recognise a bit predictably as a masterpiece - for Rob:

Arnold Bax - Tintagel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixF5f2cqIKo


Hi bbm - While Steve Hough is keen on contemporary marketing - ie "The French Album" which isn't quite French - I really rate him : he is definitely "substance" imho.

If you want more Leighton - - there is a CD out there where he is offset by Ruth Gipps. I crowdfund for her - but only in my head as I don't believe in crowdfunding.

Stephen Hough - Moscow Nights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHYon-cTMcQ

Alisdair Hogarth interviews pianist Stephen Hough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Fmqv7XHLI

(I like him as a talker - always very interesting)

Many thanks for this lat. both me and MrsBBM have taken to him quite a lot. Seems quite an affable fellow.

[Richard Tarleton]

Renée Fleming's The Beautiful Voice, her 1999 Grammy Award-winning disc. If this were food, it would be very bad for your teeth (well, she has, like Dame Nellie Melba, had a dessert named for her, in her case it's a chocolate-covered number ). I sought it out for £1 on Amazon as it includes the rendition of The Last Rose of Summer from the soundtrack of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with Osian Ellis on harp. Gorgeous singing, though like the dessert a mistake to down it in one sitting (also includes Marietta's song from Die tote stadt which is a regular on R3).

[Joseph K]

Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe suite no. 2 - Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez.

Absolutely gorgeous.

[BBMmk2]

Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe suite no. 2 - Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez.

Absolutely gorgeous.

Concur!

Roy Harris Concerto for Violin & Orchestra(1949)
John Adams Concerto for Violin & Orchestra(1933)
Tamsin Waley Cohen(violin), BBC SO, Andrew Litton.

John Adams Scheherazade 2.
Loila Josefowicz(violin),
St Louis SO, David Robertson.

Destination Moon
Featuring A Brussels RequiemBert Appermont
Viking Age Thierry Delaruyell
Destination Moon Paul Raphael
Cory Band, Philip Harper.

Neglected Treasures
Gilbert Vinter Symphony of Marches
Wilfred Heaton Partita for Band
Hans Werne Henze Ragtimes & Habeneras
Elgar Howarth Fireworks
Cory Band, Philip Harper.

[Stanfordian]

Concur!

Roy Harris Concerto for Violin & Orchestra(1949)
John Adams Concerto for Violin & Orchestra(1933)
Tamsin Waley Cohen(violin), BBC SO, Andrew Litton.

John Adams Scheherazade 2.
Loila Josefowicz(violin),
St Louis SO, David Robertson.

Destination Moon
Featuring A Brussels RequiemBert Appermont
Viking Age Thierry Delaruyell
Destination Moon Paul Raphael
Cory Band, Philip Harper.

Neglected Treasures
Gilbert Vinter Symphony of Marches
Wilfred Heaton Partita for Band
Hans Werne Henze Ragtimes & Habeneras
Elgar Howarth Fireworks
Cory Band, Philip Harper.

I was at the German premiere of 'Scheherazade point two' at Berlin with John Adams conducting. A most atmospheric work that I enjoyed but it seemed to go on a touch too long for me.

[Stanfordian]

Renée Fleming's The Beautiful Voice, her 1999 Grammy Award-winning disc. If this were food, it would be very bad for your teeth (well, she has, like Dame Nellie Melba, had a dessert named for her, in her case it's a chocolate-covered number ). I sought it out for £1 on Amazon as it includes the rendition of The Last Rose of Summer from the soundtrack of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with Osian Ellis on harp. Gorgeous singing, though like the dessert a mistake to down it in one sitting (also includes Marietta's song from Die tote stadt which is a regular on R3).

I got some nasty security message when using this link.

[BBMmk2]

I was at the German premiere of 'Scheherazade point two' at Berlin with John Adams conducting. A most atmospheric work that I enjoyed but it seemed to go on a touch too long for me.

I was foolish enough to buy this CD at only 47 minutes long, with just this one Work!

[Stanfordian]

Joseph Keilberth – 'The Romantic Aspect in German & Austrian Classics'
Works by Beethoven, Mozart, Richard Strauss, Bruch, Brahms, Weber, Schumann, Goetz, Brahms, Reger, Cornelius, Wolf, Pfitzner, Wagner, Bruckner, Schubert, Bruckner
Joseph Keilberth (conductor)
Soloists: Georg Kulenkampf (violin), Anne Fischer (piano), Rosl Schmid (piano)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Deutsches Philharmonisches Orchester Prag
Recorded 1940-1962
Profil Edition Günter Hänssler - new release

Released to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the German conductor Joseph Keilberth that falls in July 2018.