What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

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Beethoven
Choral Fantasy in C major, Op.80.
Triple Concerto in C Major, Op.56
Thomas Zehetmair, Clemens hagen, Pierre Laurent Aimard
Soli, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, COE,
Nikoluas Harnoncourt

[Bryn]

Have just ordered this, so will be interesting to see if I get a booklet or not...

Do you not already have the Life with Czech Music box? Everything is in there, except that two items are on DVD rather than CD.

[Serial_Apologist]

Tony Coe
Zeitgeist, (1976) for big band and chamber ensemble (incl. Alan Hacker), Cond. Bob Cornford, with Mary Thomas and Norma Winstone, vocals, to poems by Jill Robin. Sleeve notes by Richard Rodney Bennett.

Egon Wellesz
Sonette der Elisabeth Barrett Browning, for soprano for string quartet
(Wellesz, Zeisl)
Decca

Good to see a fellow jazzer "moonlighting" on Egon Wellesz, particularly this rather lovely piece, btw.

[mahlerei]

Do you not already have the Life in Czech Music box? Everything is in there, except that two items are on DVD rather than CD.

Alas, I don't. Been on my wishlist for ages but so many other things have intervened....

[Richard Barrett]

Bob Cornford

That's a name one doesn't hear very often these days. I met Bob when I was working in a record shop in London in 1980 or so, and thereafter worked for him quite regularly as a copyist for his film/TV music projects until his sudden death at the age of 43 three years later. He was someone who could move without taking a breath from playing jazz piano à la Bill Evans to discussing the finer points of Webern. I learned an enormous amount from him. Thanks for the (albeit unsuspecting) reminder.

[Petrushka]

I have this set and there is booklet in the case. The booket content is mainly an interview with Sir Charles Mackerras.

I've e-mailed Supraphon at info@supraphon.com so will see what happens.

[pastoralguy]

I've e-mailed Supraphon at info@supraphon.com so will see what happens.

Glad to hear, Pet.

[pastoralguy]

Bach. Goldberg Variations.

Angela Hewitt's 1999 Hyperion recording. I'm hoping Mrs. PG will give me her latest thoughts on this work for Christmas.

Absolute perfection, imho.

[Bryn]

Alas, I don't. Been on my wishlist for ages but so many other things have intervened....

Just to add, and in the process clarify earlier comments, discs 1 and 2 of the "Life with Czech Music" set comprise the entire content of SU 3739 2 032 with the addition of an interview with Srt Charles Mackerras. So the Jealousy and Taras Bulba recordings appear in the set on CD and DVD video format. Unfortunately the Wingfield edition of the Glagolitic Mass is only found on the DVD. There is no CD version of that recording. However, as the audio for the DVD is LPCM 48/16, is should, in theory, be very slightly better definition, in frequency range terms, than a CD version.

[I got SU 3739 2 032 some considerable time before "Life with Czech Music" was released.]

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Johann David Heinichen:
Concerti Grandi.
Musica Antiqua Koln, Rheinhard Goebel.

[Stanfordian]

Hyperion Schubert Edition Complete Songs Vol. 21
24 Lieder
Edith Mathis (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Recorded 1992
Hyperion

Mozart
Clarinet Quintet, KV581
String Quintet, KV516
Amadeus Quartet,
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Cecil Abramowitz (2nd viola)
No recording details
Deutsche Grammophon

[Petrushka]

I've e-mailed Supraphon at info@supraphon.com so will see what happens.

How about this for a quick and positive response? Received the following e-mail timed at 10.18 this morning:

Dear ** ******,

thank you for your e-mail and interest in our recordings. Requested booklet will be send to you within next week.

Best wishes from sunny Prague,

Lukáš Kadeřábek

marketing & PR

Bravo Lukas!

[Alison]

Good result Pet!

[pastoralguy]

Good result Pet!

[teamsaint]

Cecilia Bartoli/ Gyorgy Fischer.

Arie Antiche.
Se tu m'ami

The usual superb standard, and a lovely collection of songs.