What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[jayne lee wilson]

Good to know. Actually I didn't know Pinnock had recorded these either, but yes the Leonhardt is a bit dull.

Sorry Richard, just checked (and corrected) - it was Manze of course...still stand by the comments above though, as I've been comparing them all today....

[Bryn]

CPE Bach
Symphonies Wq 183 1-4.

Kammerorchester "CPE Bach"/Hartmut Haenchen. Phoenix CDs.
and...
Solamente Naturali/Miloš Valent. Brilliant Classics. Qobuz Studio.

Despite the modern instruments, I've always warmed to HH and his band. They serve CPE devotedly well.
But delighted to discover the Bratislavan Naturali (searching around tonight...!) as there aren't many complete Wq 183s on period instruments, and I find Pinnock and Leonhard dull, stiff and uninspiring.
The Solamente really bring out the warmth and the fun of this wonderful music (which I often begin, and end, my day with).
And I just found a 2ndhand CD for under a fiver delivered!

Nielsen Symphony No.5. Odense SO/Serov. KONTRAPUNKT CD.
Remarkable, unusual 5th, way off-the-beaten, but showing in its bigboned fullness, subtlety and warmth, how much more to this music there is than the usually played-out extremes. (Not that drums or brass hold back - anything but!!) More on the Nielsen thread soon I hope.

Is the conductor for the Brilliant Classics Wq 183 1-4 not Didier Talpain, and Valent the leader/concert master?

[jayne lee wilson]

Is the conductor for the Brilliant Classics Wq 183 1-4 not Didier Talpain, and Valent the leader/concert master?

It does appear to be so from the CD cover/inlay, yes, thanks.... (but I'd read off the online notes (which don't include cover or inlay!) that Valent was "Artistic Director", and as he contributes the note on the group he founded, & how he arrived at their name, I transcribed it off that...)

[vinteuil]

Is the conductor for the Brilliant Classics Wq 183 1-4 not Didier Talpain, and Valent the leader/concert master?

... this one, I think :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZBSQ7SU

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003BLFZIM

Also available as part of :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FP45RV8

.

[Richard Barrett]

Sorry Richard, just checked (and corrected) - it was Manze of course...still stand by the comments above though, as I've been comparing them all today....

Right. I wasn't that keen on the Manze recording now that you remind me. But this one by SN is the business. I've just arrived in foreign parts after a long and tiring trip, sat down in my room and powered Qobuz up - even on laptop speakers (and actually those on recent MacBook Pro machines are massively better than any others I've heard) it's clear that this is the recording to have. It's a bit strange that performers who put all the necessary fire into the Wq182 set go all pastel-shady when they do these ones. (Leonhardt conducted four of the Wq182 set with the Collegium Aureum which was the first time I heard those works, and it set off a lifelong enthusiasm for CPE.)

[Bryn]

... this one, I think :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZBSQ7SU

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003BLFZIM

Also available as part of :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FP45RV8

.

It's worth noting that if one prefers to stream the recordings in this 30 CD boxed set, the booklet text is downloadable from the Brilliant Classic site.

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on back with my Bax and Sibelius cycle.

Bax Symphony No.2(1924-26)
BBC PO, Vernon Handley

Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43
Symphony No.4 in A minor, Op.63
CBSO, Sakari Oramo.

[Bryn]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Melvyn Tan, LCP, Roger Norrington), on headphones as I head by train to a funeral in Axminster.

[Alison]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Melvyn Tan, LCP, Roger Norrington), on headphones as I head by train to a funeral in Axminster.

Best wishes Nethersage.

At least it’s a bit warmer today.

[Stanfordian]

‘Aimer et mourir – Danses et mélodies’
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé (1909-12) – Suite No. 2 (1913)
Valses nobles et sentimentales, suite for orchestra
Duparc
Mélodies, orchestrated by the composer:
L'invitation au voyage
Au pays où se fait la guerre
Chanson triste
Phidylé
Aux étoiles, for orchestra
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano),
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Robin Ticciati
Recorded 2017, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem, Berlin
Linn

Saint-Saëns
String Quartet No 1 in E minor, Op. 112
String Quartet No 2 in G major, Op. 153
The Medici String Quartet
Recorded 1997 Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
Koch Schwann

[Bryn]

Best wishes Nethersage.

At least it’s a bit warmer today.

Thanks Alison,

The funeral is for Robert Coleridge, a musician known, perhaps, to one or two others here. His page on the Music Now site run by Bridged and Laurie Scott-Baker has not been updated as yet. In addition to being a composer, he was also a fine keyboard player. He became closely associated with the organ parts in Cardew's The Great Learning.

[Alison]

Thanks Alison,

The funeral is for Robert Coleridge, a musician known, perhaps, to one or two others here. His page on the Music Now site run by Bridged and Laurie Scott-Baker has not been updated as yet. In addition to being a composer, he was also a fine keyboard player. He became closely associated with the organ parts in Cardew's The Great Learning.

Any details on funeral, including music, would be of interest.

[pastoralguy]

Beethoven. Violin Sonatas.

Igor and Natalia Oistrakh.

I'm listening very nervously since these are CD transcriptions of Lps I bought at great expense before having them transferred at even greater expense! Why nervous? Well, these are old vinyls so, inevitably, there are inherent flaws such as surface noise and 'snap, crackle and pop' but, worst of all are the 'jumps' which have ruined so many listening experiences. (And why I'm so anti vinyl and was one of the earliest embracers of cd.)

Having recently had an Lp of Alan Loveday playing the Beethoven violin concerto transferred only to discover that there was a 'jump' in the soloists first entry I've become quite wary of the whole process. (A friend who knows more about Lps than me chided me for expecting too much from an ancient SAGA vinyl which he advised me were the cheapest of the cheap!)

Since none of these recordings are likely to be released on cd by their original producers soon, I feel I've no choice but to go down this road. (I doubt the Loveday master tapes still exist.)

I can't wait for this listening experience to be over!!

[Richard Barrett]

The funeral is for Robert Coleridge, a musician known, perhaps, to one or two others here. His page on the Music Now site run by Bridged and Laurie Scott-Baker has not been updated as yet. In addition to being a composer, he was also a fine keyboard player. He became closely associated with the organ parts in Cardew's The Great Learning.

My condolences. I remember him principally from the latter aspect of his work of course.

[Joseph K]

Schoenberg - Verkaerte Nacht (version for string orchestra) - NYPO/Boulez