What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[pastoralguy]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schubert-So.../dp/B07DRYD964

"Very inexpensive" is right: so much so that the 5 disc set costs a little over half the price I paid for the EMI References 2-disc set of the "late" Sonatas a quarter of a century ago. I think you've prompted me into a little "New Year's Day" present, pasto!

Believe me, Ferney, it's a tenner well spent!

[HighlandDougie]

I recommended it too!

BBM

Deepest apologies! Very grateful to you, too, for the recommendation (and, as I've just been listening to the Vivaldi disc, for your espousal of the Andrew Manze 'Art of the Violin' Harmonia Mundi bargain box - great stuff).

[BBMmk2]

BBM

Deepest apologies! Very grateful to you, too, for the recommendation (and, as I've just been listening to the Vivaldi disc, for your espousal of the Andrew Manze 'Art of the Violin' Harmonia Mundi bargain box - great stuff).

Anytime. Glad you are enjoying that Vivaldi.

Wagner Tristan und Isolde.
Placido Domingo, Nina Stemme, Mihoko Fujimura, Olaf Bär René Pape,
The Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Covent Garden,
Sir Antonio Pappano.

I see that people do not play much opera, or if they do, they do not post. Unless there's a separate thread I have missed?

[Stanfordian]

Mozart
Symphony No. 40
Symphony No. 41 ‘Jupiter’
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Herbert Blomstedt
Recorded Live, Jan 2013 (No. 40) & Dec 2017 (No. 41) Herkulessaal, Munich
BR Klassik - new release

J.S. Bach
‘Motettten’
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226
Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227
Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228
Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Howard Arman
Recorded Live, Nov 2017 & March 2018 Herkulessaal, Munich
BR Klassik - new release

[Bryn]

The edition used for the Glagolitic Mass is that which Jiří Bělohlávek conducted at the First Night of the Proms 2011, but this time without the dreadful dynamic limitation imposed for the broadcast and iPlayer offerings, and with the Czech Philharmonic et al, rather than the BBCSO . . .

[Joseph K]

Elektra - Richard Strauss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhRa3cmeYIg

[BBMmk2]

The edition used for the Glagolitic Mass is that which Jiří Bělohlávek conducted at the First Night of the Proms 2011, but this time without the dreadful dynamic limitation imposed for the broadcast and iPlayer offerings, and with the Czech Philharmonic et al, rather than the BBCSO . . .

I’ll have to give that one a listen.

[Bryn]

I’ll have to give that one a listen.

Presto Classical have it at a very fair price at the moment.

[BBMmk2]

Beefy, I heard the Janacek/Behlohlavek on Radio 3, well the extracts, it sounded quite lacklustre, imo.

John Adams
Absolute Jest*; Naïve and Sentimental Music.
*Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian.

[Stanfordian]

Ravel & Duparc ‘Aimer et mourir’ - Danses et mélodies
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, suite No. 2
Valses nobles et sentimentales, suite for orchestra
Duparc
Orchestral Songs:
L'invitation au voyage
Au pays où se fait la guerre
Chanson triste
Phidylé
Aux étoiles, for orchestra
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Robin Ticciati
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded December 2017 Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Dahlem, Berlin
Linn - new release

JS Bach
6 Solo Cello Suites
Pieter Wispelwey (baroque cello)
Recorded 2012, Serendipitous Studio, Mechelen, Belgium
Evil Penguin Records

[Beef Oven!]

After a most excellent Hear & Now, I am listening to:

Goffredo Petrassi - Ottavo Concerto, 1970-72 (Concerto For Orchestra No. 8)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra - Arturo Tamayo

Where would we be without Arturo Tamayo, Pioneer conductor of so much deserving non-mainstream repertoire?

I have owned this set for quite a few years, but I'm still to make my mind up as to which concerto is my favourite.

[jayne lee wilson]

Classic set, yes... did you ever hear the BBCSO/Milan RAI/Hungarica/Zoltán Peskó set?.... on Warner Fonit, less perfectly played or recorded, a bit uneven but the best of it (1-4, 7-8) has an earthier, grittier intensity that is about the only thing that lovely Tamayo one lacks...
The Milan 5 and 6 are rather studio-bound, slightly dry; still an indispensable set though.

My favourite Petrassi away from the Great 8 are the Flute and Piano Concertos both on Naxos and Stradivarius... Strad best for the piano, honours even for the Flute... and Naxos also did the amazing Coro di Morti...

[Beef Oven!]

Classic set, yes... did you ever hear the BBCSO/Milan RAI/Hungarica/Zoltán Peskó set?.... on Warner Fonit, less perfectly played or recorded, a bit uneven but the best of it (1-4, 7-8) has an earthier, grittier intensity that is about the only thing that lovely Tamayo one lacks...
The Milan 5 and 6 are rather studio-bound, slightly dry; still an indispensable set though.

My favourite Petrassi away from the Great 8 are the Flute and Piano Concertos both on Naxos and Stradivarius... Strad best for the piano, honours even for the Flute... and Naxos also did the amazing Coro di Morti...

No, I've never heard the Milan RAI/Peskó set and I don't think I'll search it out because I think that it will still be quite a few years before I properly get my ears around the Nederlands RSO/Tamayo set.

I also have the Naxos CD of the flute and piano concertos, wouldn't be without it!

[jayne lee wilson]

Just stumbled across this....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/petrassi-coro-di-morti-noche-oscura-psalm-ix-live-various-artists/r37wlw1proqkb

The Chandos disc with the Salmo IX is fine in itself (c/w the Magnificat, one of two Noseda Petrassi releases), but the couplings look more compelling on the new one... the choral idiom is similar to Stravinsky's late sacred works, or you may think of Oedipus Rex...and Les Noces.

I find the Petrassi "a better listen" though...that Italian passion and intensity about it. Coro di Morti is a masterpiece.
Seek it out on Qobuz.

[Beef Oven!]

Just stumbled across this....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/petrassi-coro-di-morti-noche-oscura-psalm-ix-live-various-artists/r37wlw1proqkb

The Chandos disc with the Salmo IX is fine in itself (c/w the Magnificat, one of two Noseda Petrassi releases), but the couplings look more compelling on the new one... the choral idiom is similar to Stravinsky's late sacred works, or you may think of Oedipus Rex...and Les Noces.

I find the Petrassi "a better listen" though...that Italian passion and intensity about it. Coro di Morti is a masterpiece.
Seek it out on Qobuz.

At £7.99 on Qobuz it's worth a punt

But no booklet