What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wmtk8

Found sitting on a hard drive. Interestingly assembled programme, mainly from the 'romantic' tradition.

[Stanfordian]

Schubert
String Quartet No. 15, D.887
Berg
String Quartet, Op. 3
Kuss Quartet
Recorded 2010, Siemens Villa, Berlin
Onyx

‘Martha Mödl - Portrait of a Legend’ - Anniversary Edition of Centenary
Wagner
Scenes and arias from Rienzi, Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre & Götterdämmerung
Wesendonck Lieder
Richard Strauss
Scenes and arias from Elektra
Fortner
Scenes and arias from Bluthochzeit
Reimann
Scenes and arias from Melusine
Tchaikovsky
Scenes from Pique Dame
Beethoven
Sechs Lieder von Gellert, Op. 48
Martha Mödl (soprano, mezzo) and others
Recorded 1950/82
Profil label

[Pulcinella]

Bernstein: Symphony 1, Jeremiah
Nan Merriman/Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra/Bernstein
Mono, recorded February 1945

The second movement may be a bit tentative, but, once it gets going, has all the swing that was missing in tonight's Prom's performance.

[Pulcinella]

Just finished listening to the sixth (final) CD in Michael Gielen Edition 5 (Bartok/Stravinsky).
I'm not sure that I'm quite as taken with the performances as Richard B seems to have been, but each piece brought out something I hadn't heard/noticed before, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable set, so thanks for the recommendation.
I particularly enjoyed Canticum Sacrum (apart from the organ: the one in Stravinsky's own recording is similarly dire, though, so perhaps that's what he wanted!), Agon, Requiem Canticles, and Variations (all on CD5).
A bit of a shame that Pulcinella is a live recording, as maybe the odd glitch would have otherwise been 'corrected' in a subsequent studio take.

[jayne lee wilson]

My Proms Plus….
Walton
Violin Concerto. Francescatti/Philadelphia O/Ormandy. Sony CD 2002 rec.1965.
Cello Concerto. Cohen/Bournemouth SO/Litton. Decca CD 2002.
Viola Concerto. Bashmet/LSO/Previn. RCA CD 2002 Rec. 1994.
Sinfonia Concertante (1943 rev.). Katin/LSO/Walton. Lyrita CD 1992. rec. 1971.

After last week's Portsmouth Point, It was Walton-night!
I’d forgotten how much I adore the Violin Concerto, and for all the many merits of Little, Kennedy et al, Francescatti is hard to get past. 5-Star Classic of the Gramophone.

[Serial_Apologist]

I’d forgotten how much I adore the Violin Concerto, and for all the many merits of Little, Kennedy et al

It was the Kennedy recording that got me through my father's death.

[Stanfordian]

My Proms Plus….
Walton
Violin Concerto. Francescatti/Philadelphia O/Ormandy. Sony CD 2002 rec.1965.
Cello Concerto. Cohen/Bournemouth SO/Litton. Decca CD 2002.
Viola Concerto. Bashmet/LSO/Previn. RCA CD 2002 Rec. 1994.
Sinfonia Concertante (1943 rev.). Katin/LSO/Walton. Lyrita CD 1992. rec. 1971.

After last week's Portsmouth Point, It was Walton-night!
I’d forgotten how much I adore the Violin Concerto, and for all the many merits of Little, Kennedy et al, Francescatti is hard to get past. 5-Star Classic of the Gramophone.

The Walton violin concerto is probably my favourite 20th century violin concerto. My recommended accounts are:

1) Menuhin / The Composer (the account with which I got to know the work)
2) Haendel / Berglund (I saw Haendel perform the work at Free Trade Hall)
3) Kennedy / Previn

[Stanfordian]

Korngold
Piano Trio in D major, Op. 1
Schoenberg
Verklarte Nacht, for violin, cello and piano, Op. 4
(arr. Eduard Steuermann)
Mahler
Piano Quartet in one movement
Beethoven Trio, Wien
with Dietrich Cramer (viola)
Recorded 1998 Studio Baumgarten Vienna
Camerata label

Mahler
‘Das Lied von der Erde’
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) & Stuart Skelton (tenor)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded live 2018 Herkulessaal, Munich
BR Klassik - new release

[BBMmk2]

The Mahler up again, Stan. Must be good! Haven’t got round to listening to it yet. The other recording looks interesting.

Listening now or catching up with the ASMF Prom with Joshua Bell.

[Bryn]

Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room (ZKM Version) in lossless 5.1 DVD Audio, from:

[Stanfordian]

The Mahler up again, Stan. Must be good! Haven’t got round to listening to it yet. The other recording looks interesting.

Listening now or catching up with the ASMF Prom with Joshua Bell.

The 'Das Lied von der Erde' sung by Magdalena Kožená & Stuart Skelton is very much to my taste. There is a free video on demand of the whole concert starting with Schumann Symphony No 3 'Rhenish' on the BR website with 'Das Lied von der Erde' starting at point 32.00.

https://www.br-so.com/sir-simon-rattle-26-01-2018/k7816/

I did also see the video on YouTube but it may not be there now.

[Stanfordian]

Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate, KV165
Edith Mathis (soprano),
Staatskapelle Dresden / Bernhard Klee
Recorded pre. 1979 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Coronation Mass, KV317
Missa Brevis, KV220
Ave verum corpus, KV618
Soloists include: Edith Mathis; Norma Procter; Tatiana Troyanos; Donald Grobe, Horst Laubenthal, John Shirley-Quirk
Regensburger Domchor,
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Rafael Kubelik
Recorded pre. 1973 Herkulessaal, Munich
Deutsche Grammophon


Telemann
Concertos and Chamber Music Vol. 2
Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo, TWV 43:D2
Concerto in F major for recorder, bassoon, 2 violins and basso continuo, TWV 52:F1
Sonata in F minor for 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo, TWV 44:32
Sonata in D major for cello and basso continuo, TWV 41:D6
Overture in B minor for solo violin, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo, TWV 55:H4
Ensemble Musica Alta Ripa
Recorded 2003 Oranienburg Schloss, Nordkirchen, Germany
MDG

[Bryn]

Their studio Drumming was very fine but this has all the presence of the live performance it was. On this disc, Drumming is preceded by the performance of Clapping Music involving the composer.

[BBMmk2]

The 'Das Lied von der Erde' sung by Magdalena Kožená & Stuart Skelton is very much to my taste. There is a free video on demand of the whole concert starting with Schumann Symphony No 3 'Rhenish' on the BR website with 'Das Lied von der Erde' starting at point 32.00.

https://www.br-so.com/sir-simon-rattle-26-01-2018/k7816/

I did also see the video on YouTube but it may not be there now.

Oh thanks for that Stan. Looks quite interesting with the Schumann.

Debussy
La Mer
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado.
Mahler
Symphony No.2, "Resurrection".
Eteri Gvazava(soprano), Anna Larsson(contralto)
Orféon Donostiarra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado.

One of my favourite Mahler 2nd’s. But if I had to be the LSO/Solti.

[jayne lee wilson]

Sibelius Symphony No.5 (original 1915 version). Lahti SO/Vanska. BIS CD 1995.

Very instructive, indeed crucial, to appreciate that transition...that ending...
Hearing it last night, I couldn't help feeling - how did he ever think this was finished..? (There was even an "intermediate version" performed in 12/1916...!)
But if it was all that had come down to us....? Ah, if....

Check out the Original 1903/4 Sibelius Violin Concerto too...(BIS CD-500) perhaps less revelatory but still well worth your listening time...