What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Alison]

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

[cloughie]

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.

This is a superb 2CD set. There are many good Mahler 2s but I think I got to know it through the first Abbado recording with the Chicago SO, with Carol Neblett and Marilyn Horne as soloists. Not often lauded on these boards but it is very good, as is his VPO no4 with Frederika von Stade as soloist.

[BBMmk2]

This is a superb 2CD set. There are many good Mahler 2s but I think I got to know it through the first Abbado recording with the Chicago SO, with Carol Neblett and Marilyn Horne as soloists. Not often lauded on these boards but it is very good, as is his VPO no4 with Frederika von Stade as soloist.

Yes, Cloughie, concur. I am always mesmerised by the experience this recording has to offer. Maybe being a live performance makes the difference.

[BBMmk2]

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...

I heard about this in the interval talk, re the original version of the 5th. Not too sure if I have that now?

[Bryn]

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.

[BBMmk2]

Thanks for that Bryn. I found that I have the DVD of just the Mahler 2! Phew! I'll have to watch that again then!

[Bryn]

Thanks for that Bryn. I found that I have the DVD of just the Mahler 2! Phew! I'll have to watch that again then!

Please note that the front cover of the Debussy DVD lists the orchestras in a different order to their conductors. Abbado conducts the LFO, and Barenboim the CSO.

[jayne lee wilson]

I heard about this in the interval talk, re the original version of the 5th. Not too sure if I have that now?

It was first released on BIS CD-800, c/w the original 1892 En Saga.... ...but it was later rereleased c/w the final version of the 5th instead...

The first CD had the nicer design I think...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Symphony-No-En-Saga/dp/B000025UVS/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1534280634&sr=1-4&keywords=Sibelius+5+vanska

[Bryn]

It was first released on BIS CD-800, c/w the original 1892 En Saga.... ...but it was later rereleased with the final version of the 5th instead...

Indeed, it was also later issued coupled with the final version:



Has the second version ever been recorded?

[BBMmk2]

Indeed, it was also later issued coupled with the final version:



Has the second version ever been recorded?

I’ll have to hear both sometime.

Holst
The Planets Suite
BBCSO, Sir Andrew Davis

Vaughan Williams
Dona Nobis Pacem.
Christina Pier(soprano), Matthew Brook(baritone)
Bach Choir, Bournemouth SO, David Hill.

Walton
Belshazzar's Feast.
Bryn Terfel(bass-baritone),
BBCSO & Chorus,
Sir Andrew Davis.

[Stanfordian]

Alisa Weilerstein – Haydn & Schoenberg – 'Transfigured Night'
Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major (1761)
Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major (1783)
Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht (1899/1916) (first string orchestra version (1917, revised 1943)
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists / Geir Inge Lotsberg (concertmaster)
Recorded 2018 Selbu Kirke, Trondheim, Norway
Pentatone SACD - new release

Great Singers Live - Lucia Popp
Handel, Mozart, Smetana, Donizetti, Lortzing, Rossini, Weber Lehar, Stolz
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Regensburg Cathedral Choir
Munich Radio Orchestra / various conductors
Recorded 1968/82 Live Sunday concerts, Munich
BR Klassik

[jayne lee wilson]

Proms forward, Proms back....

Nørgård Symphony No.3.

Danish NSO & Chorus/Dausgaard, Da Capo CD 2008.

Danish NRSO & Chorus/Segerstam. Chandos CD 1996.

Bernstein Symphony No.1. "Jeremiah". Cano/Baltimore SO/Alsop. Naxos CD 2016.
Surprised how negative ES was about this - I think it's a lovely recording, lyrical and more spacious foil to LB's own ungainsayably "authentic" NYPO one...and it does have a sweeter, lighter mezzo; the spectacular, impassioned new Pappano offers us yet another heavy, operatic throbbing variety...

[BBMmk2]

Proms forward, Proms back....

Nørgård Symphony No.3.

Danish NSO & Chorus/Dausgaard, Da Capo CD 2008.

Danish NRSO & Chorus/Segerstam. Chandos CD 1996.

Bernstein Symphony No.1. "Jeremiah". Cano/Baltimore SO/Alsop. Naxos CD 2016.
Surprised how negative ES was about this - I think it's a lovely recording, lyrical and more spacious foil to LB's own ungainsayably "authentic" NYPO one...and it does have a sweeter, lighter mezzo; the spectacular, impassioned new Pappano offers us yet another heavy, operatic throbbing variety...

I need to catch up on this Prom, with AP. His recording had very good reviews.

[Stanfordian]

José Cura - Puccini
21 arias Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, La Rondine, La Fanciulla del West,
Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Edgar, Le Villi
José Cura (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra / Placido Domingo (conductor)
Recorded 1997 Air Studios, London
Erato

Vivaldi
6 Concerti ‘con organo obbligato’ RV541, 542, 779, 766, 767, 554
Roberto Loreggian (organ)
L'Arte dell'Arco / Federico Guglielmo (baroque violin /direction)
Recorded 2007 Sala superiore (Capitolo della Confraternita), Oratorio di S. Bovo (XVII sec), Padua
Brilliant Classics - these superb concertos with organ accompaniment are new to me.

[Bryn]

Vivaldi: Op. 3 (AAM, Hogwood) from:



which arrived yesterday. Though nominally only a little over £2 a disc (pro rata), for me it worked out more like £3, due to my already having 5 disc's worth in the Florilegium "The Baroque Era" box. Still very much a bargain with playing and recording quality like this. A valuable supplement to the Naïve series.