What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Sir James MacMillan
Stabat Mater.
The Sixteen Choir
Harry Christophers

Following in on from this

Howells
Stabat Mater
Neil Archer
LSO & Chorus
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.

[Richard Barrett]

You want contemporary easy-listening

That would be a no.

[Bryn]

That would be a no.

But I rather like your work.

[Stanfordian]

Franck
Symphony in D minor
Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter, Overture on Russian themes
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Kirill Kondrashin
Recorded Live 1980 Herkulessaal, Munich
BR-Klassik - newly reissued

Néère’ – Véronique Gens
French Song Recital – Hahn, Duparc & Chausson
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Susan Manoff (piano)
Recorded 2015 Studio Teldex, Berlin
Alpha Classics
Véronique Gens - A stunning recital!

[jayne lee wilson]

Well, it ain't squeaky gate music, Jayne, it's a gateway to nowhere new, a land from which Professor Adrian Thomas has run away. Eclecticism rules, O.K.?

Ever heard of....Classics for Pleasure...?
The Błażewicz Guitar Concerto is playing through the house now... it's really lovely..... but I'm off back out to the Sun, or at least the shade, the iced Vodka and the Cat(s)....
I might even buy this one....

As Carrie Bradshaw might have said, Is Contemporary-Easy-Listening the real subversion...?

(Next up....Guillaume Connesson...)

[edashtav]

You write:"The Błażewicz Guitar Concerto is playing through the house now... it's really lovely..... but I'm off back out to the Sun, or at least the shade, the iced Vodka and the Cat(s)....."

Who gets the Rights of Spring, Jayne?
Błażewicz or Rodrigo?
Phew, there's plenty of plagiarism in the air.

[Bryn]

You write:"The Błażewicz Guitar Concerto is playing through the house now... it's really lovely..... but I'm off back out to the Sun, or at least the shade, the iced Vodka and the Cat(s)....."

Who gets the Rights of Spring, Jayne?
Błażewicz or Rodrigo?
Phew, there's plenty of plagiarism in the air.

A bit ironic, citing plagiarism with allusions to magpie Igor, what? Anyone for Petrushka?

[edashtav]

A bit ironic, citing plagiarism with allusions to magpie Igor, what? Anyone for Petrushka?

But... Petrushka is iconic and has stood the test of time, pet, whilst being plagiarised, but not to death, by composers from Popov through Ireland to Wordsworth.

[Bryn]

But... Petrushka is iconic and has stood the test of time, pet, whilst being plagiarised, but not to death, by composers from Popov through Ireland to Wordsworth.

And Stravinsky's plagiarism in that work cost him dearly, as it did Frank Zappa when he quoted the plagiarised ditty in his own performances, mistakenly citing Stravinsky as its source. "Elle avait une jambe de bois", anyone?

[LezLee]

Always a sucker for a guitar concerto, I listened to the Blażewicz waiting for it to be 'lovely'. Didn't happen, disappointed. Could be just me? Sorry!

[Petrushka]

Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

[interval]

Mahler: Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)
Elly Ameling (soprano), Aafje Heynis (contralto)
Netherlands Radio Chorus

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink

[BBMmk2]

Mahler
Symphony No.2 in C minor, “Resurrection”
Eteri Gvazava, Anna Larsson,
Orfeon Donostiarra
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

[jayne lee wilson]

The more I play this the more I love it...


...so a shame to report a few glitch-clicks on the stream of the highly diverting Czarnecki Concerto Lendinum.....
...a Lublin-folksong-based concerto for Violin/Cello/Strings, richly sonorous and gleefully inventive, which I'm growing rather fond of....

Fascinating process familiarisation. I'm picking up darker more serious moods I scarcely noticed before. The guitar in the Błażewicz is balanced very close (literally between the speakers ), but thrumming bassily against full-tilt strings makes for quite a thrill-ride! Really gorgeous slow movement....

[Stanfordian]

‘Regula Mühlemann - Cleopatra - Baroque Arias’
Cleopatra arias by Handel, Graun, Legrenzi, Scarlatti, Mattheson, Hasse, Sartorio & Vivaldi
Regula Mühlemann (soprano)
La Folia Barockorchester (period instruments) / Robin Peter Müller
Recorded 2016, Altes Stadtbad Annaberg-Buchholz
Sony

Godard
‘The Complete String Quartets’
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 33
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 37
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 136
Quatuor Élysée
Recorded 2014, Rennes Conservatoire, France
Timpani

[Edgy 2]

Rachmaninov

Preludes Op 23
Moments Musicaux Op 10

Nikolai Lugansky

Symphony No 3
Symphonic Dances

LSO,Andre Previn