What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[mahlerei]

Gustav MAHLER
Symphony No. 3
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Women's choir of Schola Heidelberg
Young singers of the Kölner Dom
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln/François-Xavier Roth
HARMONIA MUNDI HMM90531415

Now, if you thought his Fifth was good...

[BBMmk2]

Gustav MAHLER
Symphony No. 3
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Women's choir of Schola Heidelberg
Young singers of the Kölner Dom
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln/François-Xavier Roth
HARMONIA MUNDI HMM90531415

Now, if you thought his Fifth was good...

I haven’t heard either yet. I rather like this conductor too. Thanks Mahlerei!

[HighlandDougie]

Gustav MAHLER
Symphony No. 3
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Women's choir of Schola Heidelberg
Young singers of the Kölner Dom
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln/François-Xavier Roth
HARMONIA MUNDI HMM90531415

Now, if you thought his Fifth was good...

As noted in the “Recent Mahler” thread, change of recording venue to the Kölner Philharmonie a big improvement on the 5th. He paces the music really well, Sara Mingardo is an excellent soloist, he doesn’t overdo the hinaufziehen and the orchestral detail is a joy to hear.

[Stanfordian]

Jean Martinon - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - The Complete Recordings
Ravel, Roussel, Varese, Martin, Nielsen, Bizet, Lalo, Massenet, Bartok, Hindemith, Martinon, Mennin, Weber, Mendelssohn, Casadeus, Paganini
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Jean Martinon
Recorded 1964/69 Orchestra Hall & Medinah Temple, Chicago
RCA Red Seal Box 10 CDs
I’m dipping into this box today; full of delights!

‘Visions’ - Véronique Gens
Soprano arias: Saint-Saëns, Niedermeyer, Halévy, Godard, Février, David, Franck, Massenet, Bizet, Bruneau
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Hervé Niquet
Recorded 2017 Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Alpha Classics - A glorious collection with Véronique Gens in outstanding form

[pastoralguy]

Shostakovich. Violin Concerto No.1

Igor Oistrakh, violin

The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maxim Shostakovich.

Another Lp I've had transcribed to cd. This one is phenomenal! I'd be amazed if there was any paint left on the studio walls after this recording was made.

Listening to this again. Tremendous music making.

[BBMmk2]

Bartók
Violin Concerto No.1*
Enescu**
Octet in C major, Op.7
*Vilde Frang(Violin),
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Mikko Franck
**Vilde Frang, Roseanne Philippens, Gabrielle Le Magadire Erik Schumann (Violins)
Lawrence Power, Lily Frances(Violas),
Jan-Erik Gustavsson, Nicolas Alsredt(Cellos)

[jayne lee wilson]

Biber Harmonia artificioso-ariosa: diversi mode accordata.
Musica Antiqua Köln/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv CD.

(Sorry I failed to respond to your earlier ask, Bbm2)...Keep playing this...still hoping to fall in love.... a rather austere, if very original, masterpiece, perhaps?
But it is the only recording I know well... so I'll have to try the Rare Fruits (much favoured by J F-A) and others (there aren't very many) at some point...

"Rich pickings but Rare Fruits win by a short stalk" was J F-A's lovely comment back in 9/1996, comparing with Purcell & Tafelmusik

[Bryn]

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 and 5 (Minnaar/de Vriend). I particularly like Minnaar's cadenza for the first movement of the 4th.

[BBMmk2]

Biber Harmonia artificioso-ariosa: diversi mode accordata.
Musica Antiqua Köln/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv CD.

(Sorry I failed to respond to your earlier ask, Bbm2)...Keep playing this...still hoping to fall in love.... a rather austere, if very original, masterpiece, perhaps?
But it is the only recording I know well... so I'll have to try the Rare Fruits (much favoured by J F-A) and others (there aren't very many) at some point...

"Rich pickings but Rare Fruits win by a short stalk" was J F-A's lovely comment back in 9/1996, comparing with Purcell & Tafelmusik

I love Biber's music. I haven't heard his music for ages. Must be time for a session!

[Joseph K]

Beethoven violin sonatas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xMJ1t6QeE

[teamsaint]

Beethoven violin sonatas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xMJ1t6QeE

No 10 is the one I choose to listen to more than any other.

Anybody got a favourite performance of this one?

[cloughie]

No 10 is the one I choose to listen to more than any other.

Anybody got a favourite performance of this one?

The 1950s Fuchs and Balsam. I wouldn’t dare suggest Szeryng Haebler.

[pastoralguy]

No 10 is the one I choose to listen to more than any other.

Anybody got a favourite performance of this one?

Inevitably, the 'Kreutzer' was always my favourite and my pianist friend and I used to knock the living daylights out of it as students, but as I've got older I've found myself enjoying No.10 a lot more. The first time I was conscious of it was in the terrible winter of 2010 when I couldn't get home from the hospital where I worked. I ended up staying there for 3 days in an empty room where I listened to the one CD I had with me which I'd recently bought in a charity shop of Peter Cropper playing it with pianist Martin Roscoe. I must have played it at least 20 times on continuous play so I got to know it really well.

The Perlman/Ashkenazy version is terrific but, to be honest, I'd be hard pressed to find a bad recording of it.

[pastoralguy]

I wouldn’t dare suggest Szeryng Haebler.

Ooh! Why not? I've got it in my Szeryng big box so I may pop it on now!

[teamsaint]

The 1950s Fuchs and Balsam. I wouldn’t dare suggest Szeryng Haebler.

Who ?

( still set for 8 March delivery....................................)