What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Unfortunate for me how I cannot appreciate Glazunov’s music.

Richard Strauss
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.8
Don Quixote, Op.35
James Ehnes(Violin)
Melbourne SO
Sir Andrew Davis

I have to admit that neither of those two would entice me into attending a concert mainly featuring their work.

[pastoralguy]

Khatchaturian. Violin Concerto.

Igor Oistrakh, violin.

The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goosens. (Recorded 1953)

From the very recent 'Milestones of a Violin Legend' box set featuring the playing of Igor Oistrakh. A slightly dim recording but fabulous playing from all concerned!

[Stanfordian]

Khatchaturian. Violin Concerto.

Igor Oistrakh, violin.

The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goosens. (Recorded 1953)

From the very recent 'Milestones of a Violin Legend' box set featuring the playing of Igor Oistrakh. A slightly dim recording but fabulous playing from all concerned!

I've not heard the Khatchaturian violin concerto for a while. I'll make a point of getting a recording if it out soon.

[pastoralguy]

I've not heard the Khatchaturian violin concerto for a while. I'll make a point of getting a recording if it out soon.

This box is a real bargain! Well worth hearing.

[cloughie]

Unfortunate for me how I cannot appreciate Glazunov’s music.

Richard Strauss
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.8
Don Quixote, Op.35
James Ehnes(Violin)
Melbourne SO
Sir Andrew Davis

What not even the Seasons bbm?

[silvestrione]

Beethoven 'Waldstein' Sonata, played by Daniel Barenboim in Salzburg in 1970, on Orfeo. Such exquisite playing! Plenty of vigour too, when it's needed. Before he defected fully to conducting, never quite so good again, in my view.

Beethoven Sonata No 25 on G, op 79. Maurizio Pollini on DG in 1989. I love this underrated piece.

[Petrushka]

Mozart: Divertimento in D major K334
Members of the Wiener Oktett
Willi Boskovsky, Philipp Matheis (violins)
Günter Breitenbach (viola)
Nikolaus Hübner (cello)
Johann Krump (double bass)
Josef Veleba, Otto Nitsch (horns)

[interval]

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Clemens Krauss

Recorded June 1950 (Mozart) and September 1952 (Strauss)

[Stanfordian]

Unfortunate for me how I cannot appreciate Glazunov’s music.

Richard Strauss
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.8
Don Quixote, Op.35
James Ehnes(Violin)
Melbourne SO
Sir Andrew Davis

I think you are missing out!

[BBMmk2]

I think you are missing out!

Oh right! I didn’t know!

Handel
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day
Felicity Lott(soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson(tenor)
The English Concert & Choir
Trevor Pinnock

[Stanfordian]

Faure
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108
Shlomo Mintz (violin) & Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Recorded 1986 Sendesaal, Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
Deutsche Grammophon - This is a recently obtained album. Exceptional performances of such gorgeous works.

Magdalena Kožená - Mozart Arias
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded 2005 Air Studios, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Archiv Produktion

[Edgy 2]

Elgar

Enigma Variations
Grania and Diarmid
Falstaff

CSBO,Rattle

Brahms

Viola Sonatas

Zukerman,Barenboim

RVW

Symphonies 3 & 4

RLPO,Handley

[Stanfordian]

Gliere
Sextet, Op. 11
Octet, Op. 5
Berlin Philharmonic String Quartet
Recorded 2002 Andreas Kirche, Berlin
MDG

Prokofiev
Violin Sonatas No’s 1 & 2
Shlomo Mintz (violin) & Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Recorded 1897 Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
Deutsche Grammophon

[BBMmk2]

ER great listening session there, plus also Stan!

Stravinsky
Petrushka
Jeux de Cartes

Shostakovich
Symphony No.7 in C major, Op.60

Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev

[Dave2002]

Erwin Schulhoff
In Futurum
from 5 Pittoresken

[BBMmk2]

Sibelius
Lemminkäiknen Suite, Op.22
Spring Sing, Op.16
Belshazzar’s Feast, Op.51.
BBCSO, Sakari Oramo.