What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

The Arnold String Quartets (Maginnis). These are quite new to me and I am finding them a real delight. Thanks due to those who brought them to attention here,

[BBMmk2]

There has been talk on a Facebook group I belong to contrasting the symphonies of Bax and Sibelius. I might just see and find out.

[Stanfordian]

‘Offenbach Colorature’ – Jodie Devos
Coloratura soprano arias from Offenbach’s: Boule de neige, Vert-Vert, Orphée aux Enfers, Un Mari à la porte, Fantasio, Les Bavards, Mesdames de La Halle, Le Roi Carotte, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Robinson Crusoé, Boule de neige, Le Voyage dans la Lune & Les Bergers overture
Jodie Devos (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Laurent Campellone
with Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded 2018, Studio 1, Bayerischen Rundfunk, Munich
Alpha Classics
Marking the two hundredth anniversary year of Offenbach - Really enjoyable new album

Bruckner
Symphony No. 9
(1894 original version, edited by Leopold Nowak, 1951)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
Recorded Live, January 2014 Philharmonie, Munich
BR-Klassik - new release

[Stanfordian]

The Arnold String Quartets (Maginnis). These are quite new to me and I am finding them a real delight. Thanks due to those who brought them to attention here,

I agree those Arnold String Quartets are excellent works. I just prefer the McCapra Quartet on Chandos to the Maggini Quartet on Naxos but both are splendid performances.

[BBMmk2]

Sir Edward Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor(1918)
Sir Arnold Bax Violin Sonata No.2 in D minor(1915)
Tasmin Little(Violin), Martin Roscoe, (Piano).

I was having a chat with Tasmin,recently, and she was enthusing about the Bax work, so I haven’t the recording, so I bought it and here it is.

[visualnickmos]

At the moment spinning -

Beethoven
Piano concerto no. 5 "Emperor"

Krystian Zimerman, Leonard Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker (DG rec. 1989)

Rather enjoying this one - however I doubt it will be mentioned on BaL......

[teamsaint]

At the moment spinning -

Beethoven
Piano concerto no. 5 "Emperor"

Krystian Zimerman, Leonard Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker (DG rec. 1989)

Rather enjoying this one - however I doubt it will be mentioned on BaL......

Tweet a request, you never know your luck.

[pastoralguy]

Beethoven. Piano concerto No.4

Eric Lu, piano.

Edward Gardner conducting the Hallé Orchestra.

EMI.

Definitely a 'souvenir' rather than a competitor to those luminaries who recorded this work before.

[Stanfordian]

‘Anne Sofie Von Otter Sings Offenbach’
Arias and Scenes from Offenbach operettas and operas: Barbe-Bleue, La belle Hélène, Le Carnaval des Revues, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Fantasio, La Fille du Tambour-Major, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lischen et Fritzchen, La Vie Parisienne, Madame l'Archiduc, La Périchole
Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano)
Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble / Marc Minkowski
Recorded Live 2001 Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Deutsche Grammophon

Lekeu
‘Chamber music’
Molto adagio sempre cantante doloroso, for string quartet (1887)
Andante piu tosto adagio - 'Vouloir' for violin and piano (1888)
Meditation: Adagio molto religioso cantante traquillo for string quartet (1887)
Piano Quartet (unfinshed) (1894)
Eugène Ysaÿe Ensemble
Recorded 1991 Studio Steurbaut, Ghent
Brilliant Classics

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 9
(1894 original version, edited by Leopold Nowak, 1951)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
Recorded Live, January 2014 Philharmonie, Munich
BR-Klassik - new release

Self recommending Stan? I’ve just bought the Lucerne/Abbado recording. Comparison time?

[Stanfordian]

Self recommending Stan? I’ve just bought the Lucerne/Abbado recording. Comparison time?

Bruckner 9 - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
1. 23.56
2. 11.06
3. 22.08

For what its worth my first choices are:
Günter Wand conducting Berliner Philharmoniker recorded live 1998 Philharmonie, Berlin on RCA Red Seal
Claudio Abbado conducting Lucerne Festival Orchestra recorded live 2013 Lucerne Concert Hall on Deutsche Grammophon

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner 9 - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
1. 23.56
2. 11.06
3. 22.08

For what its worth my first choices are:
Günter Wand conducting Berliner Philharmoniker recorded live 1998 Philharmonie, Berlin on RCA Red Seal
Claudio Abbado conducting Lucerne Festival Orchestra recorded live 2013 Lucerne Concert Hall on Deutsche Grammophon

I’ve never heard any of Wand’s Bruckner, as of yet! That will change!

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.9 in D minor.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

This is the beginning of my project to play the Symphonies of Sibelius and Bax in conjunction with one another, to assimilate the styles.

Sibelius
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.52
Finlandia, Op.26
CBSO, Sakari Oramo.

Sir Arnold Bax
First Symphony(1921-22)
Third Symphony(1928-29)
BBC PO, Vernon Handley

[jayne lee wilson]

Schumann
Violin Sonatas 1-3. Widman/Várjon. ECM CD.
I've sent more than one recording of these sublime works back, as too rich, forward, close etc. If not actually HIPPs, I need space, leanness and distance here. Which this recording rewards me with.

CPE Bach Berlin Symphonies Wq 173-180.
Les Amis de Philippe/Ludger Rémy. CPO CD.
Still my favourite CPE single-issue of these.

***
Nielsen
Symphony No.5....
Various! Including Bernstein, C Davis, Gilbert etc.....

[pastoralguy]

J.S.Bach. The 'cello suites.


Yo-Yo Ma, 'cello.

The most recent recording from Sony.

[Petrushka]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov

Don't really care for this one very much largely on account of the very backwardly placed recorded sound (1995). Turned the volume well up but there's still too much loss of detail. Not the way I like my recordings at all. The 1968 Svetlanov sounds much better than this.