What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[pastoralguy]

A comparison with Zukerman and the StPaul Chamber Orcestra (Sony) might prove an interesting and possibly revealing exercise...

I have a few cycles of these concertos and, iirc, the Zukerman with the ECO who are wonderful in these works. The best I can say is they sound a bit 'flat' in characterisation. Then again, I'm feeling a bit flat myself!

[Lat-Literal]

Helen Hopekirk - Nordsee Lieder No. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAZ0idzFz7c
Cecile Chaminade - Pierette Air - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgqFcJTWVNg
Germaine Tailleferre - Rêverie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5gqDMVNbjQ
Violet Archer - Four Songs - M Forrester - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFd0DZiiyjk

Alexander Tcherepnin - Piano Concerto No. 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-s52cSAZrk
Nikolai Tcherepnin - Old Russian Song (perf Hayk Melikyan) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56nFPTOw8f8
Nikolai Tcherepnin - The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxhdtWi3jw
Alexander Tcherepnin - Sonatine Romantique - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYi1WEJmiNM*

(*A magnificent piece in my humble opinion)

[EdgeleyRob]

Khrennikov

Symphonies and concertos

Over the last couple of days

Marvellous set

[David-G]

The Kleiber "Otello" posted by Prommer. Terrific!!

[BBMmk2]

Currently listening to my piano being tuned (at last!)

May beautiful sounds resound!!

[Stanfordian]

Telemann
'The Messiah' oratorio, TWV 6:4
Veronika Winter (soprano), Marion Eckstein (contralto), Jan Kobow (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass)
Partie, in A minor for 2 recorders, 2 oboes, 2 violins & basso continuo, TWV 44:42
Sonata, in F major for 2 violins, 2 violas & basso continuo, TWV 44:21
Concerto, in E flat major for strings (2 violins, viola & basso continuo, TWV 43:Es 1
Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein/Ludger Rémy
Recorded 2001/02 Bartholomauskirche, Blankenburg am Harz, Germany
CPO

Dvorák
Serenade for Strings
Wind Serenade
Four Miniatures for two violins and viola, op. 74a
Virtuosi di Praga/Oldrich Vlcek
Recorded 1993 Prague
Discover

Beethoven
String Trios No’s 1-3, op. 9
Trio Zimmermann
Recorded 2010 Stockholm & Berlin,
BIS SACD

[BBMmk2]

Great to see that programme Stan!

Currently on Radio 3's Essential Classics Poulenc's Mass in G minor, with their Artist of the Week segment, Tenebrae, Nigel Short. I might buy this recording, to add to The Sixteen, I already have.

Hugo Alfven
Upsalarrapsodi, Op.24("Swedish Rhapsody No.2");
Symphony No.1, in F minor, Op.7.
Drapa, Op.27.
Royal Stockholm PO, Neeme Jarvi.

Joachim Raff
Dame Kobold, Op.154; Rhapsody, Op.163b,"Abends"(Evening)
DornroshenWoO19: Prelude; Die Eifersuchtigen, WoO54;
Symphony no.5 in E major, Op.177, "Leonore".
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi.

In his 80th year, there has been no other conductor who has promoted the music of composers, who would hardly ever see the light of day.

[Petrushka]

Schubert: Symphony No 5

[interval]

Mendelssohn: Overture and Incidental Music to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Heather Harper (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Chorus

Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer

[Pianorak]

Beethoven: Fidelio
1979 Glyndebourne production LPO/Haitink (DVD)
Soederstroem, Appelgren, Gale, Allman, de Ridder

[Alison]

Beethoven: Fidelio
1979 Glyndebourne production LPO/Haitink (DVD)
Soederstroem, Appelgren, Gale, Allman, de Ridder

[EdgeleyRob]

Earlier this evening,Radio 3 in concert.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard playing a very interesting programme of piano dance music.

The piano did sound a bit twangy at times though.

[Stanfordian]

Handel
Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion)
oratorio in two parts, HWV 46a (1707) - Sung in Italian
Bellezza – Sabine Devieilhe
Piacere – Franco Fagioli
Disinganno – Sara Mingardo
Tempo – Michael Spyres
Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
Stage director – Krzysztof Warlikowski
Set and costume design – Malgorzata Szczesniak
Filmed live July 2016 Théâtre de l'Archevêché, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Erato Blu-ray

[BBMmk2]

Hiya Stan! How was the Handel?

Kurt Atterberg
Orchestral Music Vo.2
Symphony No.2 in F major,Op.Op.6
Symphony no.8 in E minor, Op.48.
Gothenberg SO, Neeme Jarvi

[jayne lee wilson]

Telemann
selections from... Tafelmusik Productions 1-3. CMW/Harnoncourt. DAS ALTE WERK CDs 2014 rec. 1986/8.
Unable to find original-issue CDs of this I was pleased to find these sound just as good as the 1994 issue of the Darmstadt Overtures, also recorded in Casino Zögernitz, in 1980. It's the first commercial set I've ever owned of the Table Music, hitherto relying on off-air tapes (which I can't find now, or play if I did...).


Schubert
Symphony No.8 d.759. (compl. Newbould) OAE/Mackerras. Virgin Veritas CD 1992.
I long to believe in this as a 4-movement work... the scherzo is splendid but the entr'acte-as-finale, well... it seems to find the right mood of energy and defiance, but doesn't drive on or develop it enough. Still this stunning-sounding original CD (I really was staggered at the OAE's playing, and the sonics!) is the best possible way to hear it.

Currently attending to the new Basle SO/Venzago (compl. Venzago) version, also very well recorded, in which Venzago expands both scherzo and finale to a more satisfying length and "breadth'' by bringing in more music from Rosamunde... more soon I hope, but life will keep on getting in the way...
But I ended up feeling that the Schubert 8th should be played in 4-movements more often, especially if the finale can be played with all possible drive and drama.

[Petrushka]

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Act 3
Hans Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs)
Torsten Ralf (Walther von Stolzing)
Eugen Fuchs (Sixtus Beckmesser)
Margarete Teschemacher (Eva)
Helene Jung (Magdalene)
Martin Kremer(David)
Sven Nilsson (Pogner)
Arno Schellenberg (Kothner)
Rudolf Dittrich (Vogelgesang), Hanns Lange (Moser), Hermann Greiner (Schwarz), Serge Smirnoff (Folz), Rudolf Schmalnauer (Zorn),Ludwig Eybisch (Ortel), Robert Büssell (Nachtigall)

Chor der Staatsoper Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Karl Böhm

Recorded in August 1938