What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[cloughie]

More often than not, I find a non-recommendation more interesting to me than the 'winner'. In the case of Prok vc1, I already own the recording that is tops for me.

Listening from my MacBook with its sound card disabled by an Oppo DAC feeding a pair of AKG 702s. It doesn't get better than that! The orchestral detail that Previn finds is orgasmic! That's to say nothing of the outstanding Miss Kyung-Wha Chung!

It sounds pretty good played as a CD through a standard hifi system also!

[Beef Oven!]

It sounds pretty good played as a CD through a standard hifi system also!

[BBMmk2]

Beefy, I see nothing wrong with this either!

Thanks to Member Jayne Lee Wilson for inspiring me to play this:-

Carl Nielsen

Symphony No.1, in G minor,Op.7, FS16
Symphony No.2, “The Four Temperaments”, Op.16 FS29
BBC PO, John Storgards.

[teamsaint]

Liszt. Transcendental Etudes.
Claudio Arrau.

Thoughts on these or other interpretations welcome. I’m enjoying these in any case.

[BBMmk2]

Beefy, I see nothing wrong with this either!

Thanks to Member Jayne Lee Wilson for inspiring me to play this:-

Carl Nielsen

Symphony No.1, in G minor,Op.7, FS16
Symphony No.2, “The Four Temperaments”, Op.16 FS29
BBC PO, John Storgards.

Following on

Carl Nielsen
Symphony No.3, Op.27 FS60, “Sinfonia Espansiva”
Symphony No.4, Op.29 FS76, “The Inextinguishable”*
Symphony No.5, Op.50 FS97**
Symphony No.6, FS116 “Sinfonia Semplice”
*Paul Turner, Geraint Daniel(Timpani),
Gillian Keith(soprano), Mark Stone(Baritone)
** John Bradbury(Clarinet), Paul Patrick(side drum)
BBC PO, John Storgards.

[bluestateprommer]

Currently listening to WRTI's Sunday program of the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Emmanuelle Haïm guest-conducting from the harpsichord, and guest soprano Lennike Ruiten:

http://www.wrti.org/post/philadelphia-orchestra-wrti-901-baroque-delight-music-handel-and-purcell

[teamsaint]

Liszt. Transcendental Etudes.
Claudio Arrau.

Thoughts on these or other interpretations welcome. I’m enjoying these in any case.

Now giving the Trifonov a spin on Apple Music. And have dug out the Yukoyama from a Sony nox for a possible listen later. He’ll be interesting. Possibly !!

[Petrushka]

Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Leon Fleisher (piano)
The Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell

[interval]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Kurt Masur

[pastoralguy]

Since I was 14, I've always loved Igor Oistrakh's playing. In fact, if I had to choose ONE recording for the Desert Island, it would be his recording of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto where the conductor is his father David, with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since cd first appeared, I've waited in vain for this recording to be issued. So, last year, I came across an open Reel Tape which I had professionally transferred to cd by a company in Wales who did an excellent job.

Spurred on by this, I've bought other Igor Oistrakh vinyls which, as funds allow, l'll have transferred to cd. The most recent is his recording of [IBeethoven's Violin Concerto [/I]where his father conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra which, after 30 odd years of waiting, I'm now listening to!

Very RUSSIAN playing with intense vibrato and a real 'no nonsense' approach but FABULOUS violin playing! Well worth the wait. If anyone would like a copy, please pm me.

[Joseph K]

Bach - English and French suites etc. - Richter

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

[Richard Barrett]

Now playing: Sciarrino, Un'immagine di Arpocrate, the recent recording with the BRSO conducted by Susanna Mälkki with Tamara Stevanovich playing the solo piano part. This was the first Sciarrino piece I ever heard, back in 1982 on a then-new LP I'd bought on spec never having heard of this composer before. What a revelation that was. Listening to it now takes me back to experiencing it for the first time; nowadays of course his soundworld is a familiar part of the musical landscape (especially given the extent to which it's been imitated).

[jayne lee wilson]

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli The Warsaw Recital 1955. Altara CD. (Scarlatti/Beethoven/Schumann/Chopin).

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/arturo-benedetti-michelangeli-the-warsaw-recital-1955-arturo-benedetti-michelangeli/x9dsqtyishl8b

A lovely, deeply involving yet light-as-air Beethoven Op.2 NO.3 is the highlight here, but it's all special...
(and turquoise cover art is not something you see too often...)

Vladimir Sofronitsky
Mozart Fantasia k475; Schubert Impromptus D899; Schumann Sonata No.1 Op.11. "Russian Piano School", Melodiya CDs. Rec. 1946-60.
The poet-pianist I turn to most often after Richter or Michelangeli....

Never got around to Sciarrino - looks a good bet for a Qobuz search & A new listening project, but there's that tax return to drag my grudging, lazy consciousness into the orbit of....
January is the Cruellest month...

[mahlerei]

Liszt. Transcendental Etudes.
Claudio Arrau.

Thoughts on these or other interpretations welcome. I’m enjoying these in any case.

Hi ts

Try this if you can:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Jul/Liszt_transcendante_MYR019.htm

[jayne lee wilson]

Storgårds' wonderful all-stands-revealed Nielsen set, especially the stunning 6th, gave me an appetite for this....

Martinu Symphony No.5. Prague Radio SO/Vladimir Valek. Supraphon CD. Rec. 2008.

From a true outlier among Martinu cycles, this 5th is slower than most others by several minutes, the music seemingly stretched out before you, allowing microscopic inspection of the cross-rhythmic counterpoints, making their enmeshing cogs and wheels far clearer than usual. But as the rhythms are always very clearly defined, and given the hyper-detailed, metallic transparency of the splendidly brassy studio recording (the room comes alive at the big moments...) the effect is mesmerising. What remarkable work it is.

So here, it sounds more "modernistic" than usual, less a symphony, more of a machine made of notes....very aptly too; making it my favourite Martinu 5th of all, and by some distance.

[teamsaint]

Hi ts

Try this if you can:

http://www.musicweb-international.co...nte_MYR019.htm

Thanks M. I did a little bit of reading around recordings of this today, and the Gerstein gets some good comments.
Just downloading it from Apple Music.

Nice bit of a read too.......