What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

I got the BPO/Rattle Beethoven symphony set direct from the BPO online shop https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-...mpaign=dropnav but they are also available from Presto and Amazon. They aren't cheap though! The LvB symphony set is much, much better than the earlier EMI cycle with the VPO.

Agreed on all counts. From what I recall, buying direct from the Berliner Philharmoniker site is kinder on the bank balance than other routes and the carriage is both tracked and insured, if a trifle costlier than from other German suppliers. I have ordered the Sibelius and Beethoven Piano Concerto sets (CDs + Blu-ray) as a Saturnalia present to myself.

[ahinton]

The concerto for orchestra is something I will look forward to. Do you have any idea where it will be premiered?

Yes; 25 May next year, Chipping Campden Festival (see http://www.david-matthews.co.uk/news/default.asp )

Regarding the 10th, if he's not superstitious, he needn't plan for it. But if he is superstitious, he needs to get onto writing it!

Neatly put!

[Stanfordian]

Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2
Suite from JS Bach’s Partita for Violin in E major, BMV 1006
(arranged for piano by Rachmaninov)
Piano Concerto No. 4
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Recorded 2015/18, Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia
Deutsche Grammophon

Piotr Beczala - Slavic Opera Arias
Arensky, Borodin, Dvorák, Moniuszko, Nowowiejski, Rachmaninov,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Żeleński
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Łukasz Borowicz
Recorded 2009 Witold Lutosławski Concert, Warsaw
Orfeo

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2
Suite from JS Bach’s Partita for Violin in E major, BMV 1006
(arranged for piano by Rachmaninov)
Piano Concerto No. 4
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Recorded 2015/18, Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia
Deutsche Grammophon

- I really enjoy this disc; it nearly made my "favourite recordings of the year" list, but even Dani can't make the Fourth Concerto a complete success for me, though he gets me closest to it.

[BBMmk2]

- I really enjoy this disc; it nearly made my "favourite recordings of the year" list, but even Dani can't make the Fourth Concerto a complete success for me, though he gets me closest to it.

Thank you Ferney. I will be listening too this shortly!

[BBMmk2]

Classical Dyke Vol.1: Elgar
Severn Suite, Op.87*
Enigma Variations. Black Dyke Band,
*Sir Colin Davis, Dr Nicholas J Childs.

Wilfred Heaton
Contest Music; Partita.
Black Dyke Band, Dr Nicholas J Childs

I’m hearing this again today, as I wasn’t feeling very well, yesterday.

I decided that perhaps hearing the Heaton first, and the Elgar would be better.

[Bryn]

- I really enjoy this disc; it nearly made my "favourite recordings of the year" list, but even Dani can't make the Fourth Concerto a complete success for me, though he gets me closest to it.

[Stanfordian]

I’m hearing this again today, as I wasn’t feeling very well, yesterday.

I decided that perhaps hearing the Heaton first, and the Elgar would be better.

Best wishes BBM. I'm confident in the healing properties of both prayer and music.

[BBMmk2]

Best wishes BBM. I'm confident in the healing properties of both prayer and music.

Thank you Stan!

Olivier Messiaen
La Nativite du Seignour
Richard Gowers(organ - King's College Cambridge Chapel.

[Stanfordian]

Thank you Stan!

Olivier Messiaen
La Nativite du Seignour
Richard Gowers(organ - King's College Cambridge Chapel.

Later I'm having a dose of Trifonov playing Rachmaninov.

I saw Trifonov in Dresden with the Concertgebouw back in May and he was terrific playing the Prokofiev Third Concerto.

[pastoralguy]

Samuel Barber. Vanessa

I heard a snippet of this on the radio a couple of weeks ago and was intrigued. So I borrowed the Mitropoules recording on Orfeo from the public library. The 1958 radio recording is not the best and there's applause and 'noises off' but it's interesting.

[Joseph K]

https://furtlogic.bandcamp.com/album/function

then -

[HighlandDougie]

Ligeti: Lontano for Large Orchestra

(i) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Jonathan Nott; (ii) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/George Benjamin; (iii) SWR Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Bour; (iv) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu; (v) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth

Intrigued by the differences in timing between, say, Nott and Lintu (almost 4 minutes slower then Nott in a work which usually lasts for about 12 minutes), a mini-BaL of the versions I have to hand of a work which has very much got under my skin. They all work - Roth gets my vote but that's today - Lintu might be what I want to hear tomorrow. We are fortunate to be able to have the luxury of so much choice (never heard Günter Wand but I am intrigued).

Followed by:

Maderna: Aura

NDR Symphony Orchestra/Giuseppe Sinopoli

Simply, a great work - in an excellent performance

[jayne lee wilson]

I'm sorry I never got around to elaborating a recent post on Maderna, the demands of The Real Life currently somewhat overwhelming (paperwork and hard copy at that...), listening at a premium (and a minimum...) but HD, have you heard the NEOS Maderna series? All wonderful & gorgeously recorded, my top choices the Quadrivium, Grande Aulodia and the Violin Concerto...(and a more intense, more polished and better recorded Aura too...)..
The visionary effect of the closing minutes of Quadrivium is marvellous - unlike anything else I know, with a wonderful sense of arrival; as in its own way is the double-concerto-style Aulodia....

TBH once I'd got to know the other late masterpieces ( & I really believe they are just that) I began to find Aura a shade too strict in its more obviously multi-sectional structure. For me Maderna's at his best when he's more flowing and improvised in feel, singing through solo winds, or asking the percussionists to let rip (aleatorically or written-out...)...but preferably both across the same work...!

[Richard Barrett]

Ligeti: Lontano for Large Orchestra

(i) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Jonathan Nott; (ii) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/George Benjamin; (iii) SWR Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Bour; (iv) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu; (v) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth

As it happens I listened to the Lintu recording myself today (and the rest of the CD). I appreciate the broader duration - given that there are so few "events" to grasp hold of, it doesn't seem to me slower as such, merely longer, and the sound of it is so beautiful I can never get enough of it. I don't know the Benjamin or Roth recordings but I find the Nott a bit unfocused - I do want to be able to "listen into the sound" and focus on the complexity of the blended timbres. If I'm not mistaken, Roth's concert programme interspersed the three movements of Debussy's Images with Lontano and Atmosphères... I'm not sure I would have liked that much.