What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Debussy Préludes du 2e Livre; La Mer(trans.Debussy).
Alexander Melnikov and Olga Paschenko(in La Mer)

[Stanfordian]

Scriabin
Symphony No. 1, Op. 26
Symphony No. 5 (Prometheus, Poem of Fire), Op. 60
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano); Alexey Dolgov (tenor)
Oslo Philharmonic Choir,
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko
Recorded May & September 2017 Oslo Concert Hall, Norway
Lawo - new release


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

[Pianoman]

Debussy Préludes du 2e Livre; La Mer(trans.Debussy).
Alexander Melnikov and Olga Paschenko(in La Mer)

I love this disc !

[BBMmk2]

I love this disc !

As do I! One of the best Debussy discs this year!

Bernstein
Symphonies Nos.1-3.
Marie Nocle Lemieux, Beatrice Rana,
Nadine Sierre, Josehine Barstow,
Orchetra, Coro e Voci Bianche dell@acemdemia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia,
Sir Antonio Pappano.

Hubert Parry
12 Sets of English Lyrics Vol.2
Sarah Fox(soprano), James Gilchrist(tenor),
Roderick Williams(baritone)
Andrew West(piano).

[jayne lee wilson]

At £7.99 on Qobuz it's worth a punt

But no booklet

A serious omission, given that the conductors seem to be Maderna and Petrassi himself, of real historical value... but the tracks are still greyed-out on the streamer....

[BBMmk2]

Juano Mena's new recording of Messiaen's monster Turangalila Symphonie seems worth a shot?


Hiya Stan, that Scriabin/Peterenko looks tempting?

[mahlerei]

Morning maestro

If you mean Mena's Hyperion recording from a few years back it is superb in every way. One of the very best IMO.

[Bryn]

Juano Mena's new recording of Messiaen's monster Turangalila Symphonie seems worth a shot?

Do tell. I only know of the Bergen recording, issued a little over 6 years ago . It's currently priced on amazon.co.uk at over twice that direct from Hyperion. At £6.50 for either the CD or lossless download from Hyperion, it is a clear 'no-brainer'.

[There is, of course, a more recent recording, though not commercially released, that being of the 2015 Proms performance with the BBCPO (Hartmann-Claverie, rather than Millar on ondes martenot).]

[Pulcinella]

Villa-Lobos
Slowly working my way through the String Quartet (in numerical/chronological oder) and Choros (in CD order) box sets, which both arrived last week, and enjoying what I've heard so far.
Thanks for the tips.
The recording mentioned by mahlerei in post #4988 looks intriguing too!

[BBMmk2]

Do tell. I only know of the Bergen recording, issued a little over 6 years ago . It's currently priced on amazon.co.uk at over twice that direct from Hyperion. At £6.50 for either the CD or lossless download from Hyperion, it is a clear 'no-brainer'.

[There is, of course, a more recent recording, though not commercially released, that being of the 2015 Proms performance with the BBCPO (Hartmann-Claverie, rather than Millar on ondes martenot).]

Unfortunately Bryn, I haven't bought it as of yet but I will tell, once I have!

Gustav Mahler Symphony No.3
Susan Graham(mezzo-soprano)
CBSO Youth Chorus, CBSO Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons.


This is an absolute stonker of a performance, from the Proms yesterday.

[Richard Barrett]

On Qobuz: Shostakovich - Symphony no.8, with the SWR-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg conducted by Heinz Holliger, a live performance from 2005.

I found the combination of Holliger and Shostakovich unlikely and highly intriguing, expecting the performance to extract the maximum timbral subtlety from Shostakovich's orchestration, especially in the slow movement and the very end, but perhaps to miss the element of rawness which comes to the fore earlier in the symphony, and that was exactly what I heard in it. I liked the fact that Holliger isn't trying to put across some particular idea of what the piece is "about" but instead concentrates on the sound in all its expressive equivocation. I hereby commend this recording to interested forum members.

[pastoralguy]

Bach. Motetts.

Flemish Radio Choir directed by Bo Holten.

[gurnemanz]

Ockeghem songs: Katelijne Van Laethem with ensemble Romanesque.

[Petrushka]

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
John Bogart (alto)
Camerata Singers
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein

[interval]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 (1905)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

[Beef Oven!]

DSCH - Symphony #15
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko. Naxos