What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Mary Verney (1798 Broadwood), Hanover Band.

[Pulcinella]

Martinu: Toccata e due canzoni
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Honegger: Symphony 4 (Deliciae basiliensis)

Kammerorchesterbasel/Hogwood

Nothing like as dull as the review that I found after I had ordered this CD thought it, so I'm happy to have it as an interesting record of first performances (21 January 1947), but I'm still very grateful to jlw for steering me towards Luisi for the Honegger.

[jayne lee wilson]

Martinu: Toccata e due canzoni
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Honegger: Symphony 4 (Deliciae basiliensis)

Kammerorchesterbasel/Hogwood

Nothing like as dull as the review that I found after I had ordered this CD thought it, so I'm happy to have it as an interesting record of first performances (21 January 1947), but I'm still very grateful to jlw for steering me towards Luisi for the Honegger.

What a shame if you never heard Munch in his classic Honegger 4th (Erato, Apex etc...) or in the 2nd and 5th with the Boston SO. He is the doyen of recorded Honegger Symphonies for me (though beware the much less recommendable live Naive issues - worth a listen, but...).

Munch's later O. de Paris stereo 2nd (much slower & gloomier) is pretty good too, as on the EMI GROC... but Boston is the classic account for idiomatic intensity. Their 5th simply pins you to the chair... (especially in the Japanese RCA transfer)....

This one but shop around etc...the stunning Roussel leaves shockwaves in its trail....(haven't checked Qobuz yet...)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HONEGGER-SYMPHONIES-ROUSSEL-BACHUS-2009-09-30/dp/B01G666HHG/ref=sr_1_14?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1553269664&sr=1-14&keywords=munch+honegger

One of my all-time favourite CDs....

[Pulcinella]

What a shame if you never heard Munch in his classic Honegger 4th (Erato, Apex etc...) or in the 2nd and 5th with the Boston SO. He is the doyen of recorded Honegger Symphonies for me (though beware the much less recommendable live Naive issues - worth a listen, but...).

Munch's later O. de Paris stereo 2nd (much slower & gloomier) is pretty good too, as on the EMI GROC... but Boston is the classic account for idiomatic intensity. Their 5th simply pins you to the chair... (especially in the Japanese RCA transfer)....

I have very little Munch in my collection, but on a 2CD set that I do have is his BSO Martinu 6, from 1956, which I think you may have mentioned.

[jayne lee wilson]

I have very little Munch in my collection, but on a 2CD set that I do have is his BSO Martinu 6, from 1956, which I think you may have mentioned.

Gosh yes, a true age-defying classic again which I also have on the Japanese Edition...
A fair bit of Munch's Honegger on Qobuz for adventurous souls to sort through, but I can vouch for this one (terrific c/w!)...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/dutilleux-symphony-no-2-le-double-metaboles-honegger-symphony-no-4-deliciae-basiliensis-charles-munch/jvmxmg8md3ffc

[jayne lee wilson]

Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1 in D Minor. Hardy Rittner (Erard 1854) /L'arte del Mondo/Ehrhardt. MDGCD 2011.

Extraordinary live performance, rare-Brahms-HIPPS with period instruments, will post a longer/dedicated post/thread soon...
Absolutely as radical/essential as the recent Brahms Violin Sonatas from Schayegh/Schultsz (Glossa).

[BBMmk2]

Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1 in D Minor. Hardy Rittner (Erard 1854) /L'arte del Mondo/Ehrhardt. MDGCD 2011.

Extraordinary live performance, rare-Brahms-HIPPS with period instruments, will post a longer/dedicated post/thread soon...
Absolutely as radical/essential as the recent Brahms Violin Sonatas from Schayegh/Schultsz (Glossa).

I expect there’s quite a difference with this HIPPS recording, compared to say modern symphony orchestras?

Holst’s: Transcriptions and Original Works
A Moorside Suite: III March; The Perfect Fool: Dance of the Spirits of Fire
First Suite in Eb, Op.28/1; Suite No.2 in F, Op.28/2, fir military band
Christmas Day; Hammersmith, Op.52; Brook Green Suite;
The Planets Suite.
US Air Force Bands and Groups.

[Joseph K]

Beethoven's piano trio op. 1 no. 2.

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

[teamsaint]

Xenakis - DOX-ORKH for violin and orchestra - Arditti/ Moscow Phil/ Nott

Didn't know this piece at all but a great discovery !

An excellent recommendation.I’m listening to the same recording . This would make an excellent Proms work, IMO, and a very good introduction to Xenakis I should think.

Good , helpful review here.

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/dox-orkh-for-violin-89-musicians-mc0002662426

[Petrushka]

Bach: Motet - Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227
Vocalconsort Berlin
Marcus Creed

[interval]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 ('Leningrad')
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

[Dave2002]

Schumann
Symphonies 2 and 3, Sawallisch, Dresden SO.

[Richard Barrett]

An excellent recommendation.I’m listening to the same recording . This would make an excellent Proms work, IMO, and a very good introduction to Xenakis I should think.

Good , helpful review here.

That review is by Jim Harley who has also written a quite approachable book on Xenakis's music which contains a section on every single work - very valuable indeed.

[teamsaint]

That review is by Jim Harley who has also written a quite approachable book on Xenakis's music which contains a section on every single work - very valuable indeed.

Ah, thanks for that Richard. I don’t know much Xenakis, so the book and some listening will be a good way to go.

It may have to go on top of my pile of Xmas books and stuff from work I am skimming............

Edit. Blimey, it’s free on Kindle.what a bargain !

[Pianoman]

That review is by Jim Harley who has also written a quite approachable book on Xenakis's music which contains a section on every single work - very valuable indeed.

Thanks- I still refer to a book by Matossian but this looks like a better bet.

[Pianoman]

Now listening to Stravinsky: Persephone; Tokyo PO/ Lazarev

Lovely music and one of those silly-cheap bargains on Qobuz - a whole £2.16 (!!) for a recent digital release from Exton, great sound quality and very passable performance

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/stravinsky-persephone-various-artists/a8bx6iqfkaona