What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Duspin: At-Swim-Two-Birds (double concerto for violin and cello), via YouTube. It's being done at the RFH tomorrow night.

[pastoralguy]

The new Cecilia Bartoli Vivaldi album. To be really honest, I'm not much of a fan of the human voice but I absolutely adore Cecilia's singing. This is wonderful music making, imvho!

[Beef Oven!]

Crème brûlée - Plink Selon Plonk
Halina Lukomska, Soprano; Paul Myers, Producer; Paul Stingl, Guitar; Hugo D'Alton, Mandolin; Maria Bergmann, Piano; Christopher Parker, Recorder;BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boulez.

[Pulcinella]

Hindemith: Piano Concerto
Idil Biret/Yale Symphony Orchestra/Shimada
Naxos

Some Hindemith I like a lot; other works leave me a bit cold.
I'm on the cold side with this, but it's the first hearing, so I might get to like/appreciate it more next time.

[Bryn]

Relaxing in the lounge area of the RFH between two free concerts (Borough and City University) listening to the binaural mix m4a of the 2017 Prom of Mahler 6 (Vienna Phil., Harding) on Bose CS25s fed from my little Dodocool DA106.

[jayne lee wilson]

Hindemith: Piano Concerto
Idil Biret/Yale Symphony Orchestra/Shimada
Naxos

Some Hindemith I like a lot; other works leave me a bit cold.
I'm on the cold side with this, but it's the first hearing, so I might get to like/appreciate it more next time.

You know The Four Temperaments? More attractive "piano concerto" than the concerto itself, and on a really lovely album....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/concerto-pour-violoncelle-et-orchestre-theme-et-variation-les-quatres-tempreraments-paul-hindemith/0095115912423

The Cello Concerto's gorgeous slow movement was of course the source for the Walton Hindemith Variations....

[Dave2002]

Beethoven
Kreutzer Sonata (2nd movement), Efrem Zimbalist (violin) and Harold Bauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vDJMChiils

I came across the name Zimbalist a few days ago in connection with another musician. I thought it rang bells. However, I wasn't aware of a Zimbalist musician, and as the name seems quite unusual I looked it up. It became clear that the Zimbalist I was aware of was in 77 Sunset Strip, and Zimbalist the violinist was his father. It seems he was considered to be at the top of his profession in the first half of the 20th Century. His wife Alma founded the Curtis Institute, and he became its director.

I'm not a violinist, but I gather some are approving of his style and technique, and also that in the video both players play without music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist

[gurnemanz]

Lovely live rendition from Nicholas Mulroy of Schubert's inspired creation, Die Gebüsche, on In Tune just now. Also, a good evening concert coming up. We heard it at Wigmore on Saturday.

[Pulcinella]

You know The Four Temperaments? More attractive "piano concerto" than the concerto itself, and on a really lovely album....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/concerto-pour-violoncelle-et-orchestre-theme-et-variation-les-quatres-tempreraments-paul-hindemith/0095115912423

The Cello Concerto's gorgeous slow movement was of course the source for the Walton Hindemith Variations....

Yes, jane; they are amongst the pieces I like.
I have that Chandos Four Temperaments/Cello concerto coupling (BBCPO/Tortelier), and also a Budapest recording of the Cello concerto.

PS
Now listening to the remainder of the Naxos collection:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8034158--hindemith-the-complete-piano-concertos

[BBMmk2]

Pulcie, a very good series from Chandos there!

Carl Neilsen
Symphony No.1 in G minor, Op.7*
Symphony No.2, Op.16, "The Four Temperaments"*
Symphony No.3, Op.60, "Sinfonia Espansiva”
Symphony No.4, Op.29, “The Inextinguishable”
Symphony No.5, Op.50
Gothenburg SO, Myung-Whun Chung.

[Stanfordian]

Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune
Images pour orchestre
Printemps, suite symphonique
The Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
Recorded 1991 Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio
Deutsche Grammophon

Magnard - ‘Complete Chamber Music - Centenary Edition’
Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 13
Cello Sonata in A major Op. 20
Piano Trio, Op. 18
Quintet for piano and winds, Op. 8
String Quartet in E minor, Op. 16
Laurent Wagschal (piano) (Opp. 8, 13, 18, 20);
Solenne Païdassi (violin) (Opp. 13, 18); Camille Thomas (cello)
(opp. 20, 18); Quatuor Élysée (Op. 16); Ensemble Initium (Op. 8)
Recorded 2014 Cœur de ville, Vincennes, France
Timpani

[BBMmk2]

Love that DG. Debussy recording Stan!

[pastoralguy]

Tchaikovsky. Symphony no.1. 'Winter Daydreams'.

Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

I picked up Mehta's set plus the usual extras for £3.15 on eBay. Free p&p.

[Stanfordian]

Mitsuko Uchida – Berliner Philharmoniker – Sir Simon Rattle
Beethoven Piano Concertos 1–5
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker / Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded Live, February 2010 Philharmonie, Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings - new release
3 Audio CDs; 1 Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc; 1 Concert Video Blu-Ray Disc; Download Code of high resolution audio files.

[Bryn]

Reich: Sextet; Piano Phase, Eight Lines (The London Steve Reich Ensemble, Kevin Griffiths).

Reich: Double Sextet (eighth blackbird).

(Trying to decide whether to add the new Ekkozone, Mathias Reumert recording of the Sextet and Double Sextet, on Mode, to those already at hand. I think I will hod back.)