What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[vinteuil]

Reasonable so, £47.72 (including p&p) from amazon.it. I think it has gone up a little in the interim.

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... many thanks. I suspected the best choice wd be amazon.it. It'll now work out at nearer £53. Quite a lot of duplication for me, but I don't think i'll be able to resist...

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[Bryn]

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... many thanks. I suspected the best choice wd be amazon.it. It'll now work out at nearer £53. Quite a lot of duplication for me, but I don't think i'll be able to resist...

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A minor source of ennui is that there is a lack of content metadata on the discs. All you get is track numbers. I would have hoped that ths far into the 21st Century they might make a proper job if it. There is a fair bit of duplication for me too, but fortunately I don't have that many Warner/EMI Berlioz recordings. Most of mine come from what is now the Universal stable, or LSO 'live'. [That said, a good many of the recordings in the new Warner box are licenced from Universal/DECCA/DG, though not ones I already have, in general.]

[frankbridge]

Jonathan Harvey: Bhakti

Spectrum/Guy Protheroe

NMC D001

I'm a great fan of his music, and of course I was at the Proms in 1986 for the world premiere of his wonderful 'Madonna of Winter and Spring', coupled with Messaien 'Poeme pour Mi' and the first London performance of Harry Birtwistle 'Earth Dances'. Quite a concert!

[BBMmk2]

Francoise Couperin Les Nations.
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset.

A lovely collection here. Glad I have this.

[visualnickmos]

Beethoven
Piano concertos nos. 1 & 2
Krystian Zimerman, Wiener Philharmoniker/Leonard Bernstein

DG rec. 1991

[Richard Barrett]

Francoise Couperin

Are you sure?

NP: Schubert, Sonata in B flat D960 played by András Schiff. Currently my favourite recorded performance of this sonata I think.

[Bryn]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Ronald Brautigam, NSO, Andrew Parrott). They opt for a sort of half-way house regarding the tempo for the 'slow' movement, at 6'19", as against van Barthold's 4'24", Tan's 5'47" and Lubin's 7'38". Gould and Stockie take a little over 9 minutes and are by no means the worst, in that respect.

[ChrisBennell]

Mendelssohn - Concerto for Piano and Violin - I've never come across this before - very interesting and enjoyable.

On LSO Live - Youtube channel - live concert with LSO - John Eliot Gardiner - with Isobel Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout. Concert also includes Schumann Symphony No3 (which the LSO will play standing up!)

This channel is a great resource for anyone who has not encountered it. Sound is pretty good too.

[Richard Barrett]

NP (Qobuz): Brahms, Violin Sonatas, played by Leila Schayegh and Jan Schultsz (on Glossa). Not one for HIPP-haters who will probably find it utterly repellent. As for me I'm hearing these pieces come alive for the first time. Jayne, Bryn - get on it!!!

[jayne lee wilson]

NP (Qobuz): Brahms, Violin Sonatas, played by Leila Schayegh and Jan Schultsz (on Glossa). Not one for HIPP-haters who will probably find it utterly repellent. As for me I'm hearing these pieces come alive for the first time. Jayne, Bryn - get on it!!!

Wow, yes!
Just begun listening to this..... Wonderful recommendation Richard... Schayegh has such delicacy and range....her sheer freedom of expression, so-natural rubato and extensive portamento reminds me very much of Ironwood's remarkable ABC album of Op.34 c/w Op.25.

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/brahms-tones-of-romantic-extravagance-piano-quartet-no-1-piano-quintet-ironwood/0002894814684

Unusually compelling pianism from Schultsz (1879 Streicher, similar to Brahms' own), very fluid, mellow and coloristic - nothing much of the stuffy drawing room about this one!

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/brahms-violin-sonatas-leila-schayegh-jan-schultsz/l533ovmecatkb

Look what you made me do......
I need this music in my life, in the bedroom, in the kitchen....so I Swiftly ordered the CD...(which cost me...£7! There was a long-forgotten Amazon credit lying in wait......yeah!

[BBMmk2]

Are you sure?

Ah, François Couperin(without the e, on the end. My mistake.

[Stanfordian]

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 7 ‘Leningrad’
Hallé / Sir Mark Elder
Recorded live 2013 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Hallé own label

Tchaikovsky
String Quartet No. 1, Op .11
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 22
Borodin Quartet
Recorded 1993 Teldec Studios, Berlin & Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
Warner Classics Elatus

[vinteuil]

NP (Qobuz): Brahms, Violin Sonatas, played by Leila Schayegh and Jan Schultsz (on Glossa). Not one for HIPP-haters who will probably find it utterly repellent. As for me I'm hearing these pieces come alive for the first time. Jayne, Bryn - get on it!!!

... also available as a CD -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FPK5WSH

Many thanks for the nudge, Richard!


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[Richard Barrett]

Many thanks for the nudge, Richard!

Sorry, I should have included you by name in the nudge... a friend mentioned it to me in an email yesterday evening and said I might like to sample one movement in particular, but what I actually did was listen to the whole disc twice.

[Bryn]

Sorry, I should have included you by name in the nudge... a friend mentioned it to me in an email yesterday evening and said I might like to sample one movement in particular, but what I actually did was listen to the whole disc twice.

I'll add my thanks, too. Just listened via QOBUZ. Very fine indeed, including the collection of overtures.