What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber

Terrific performance and recording and one of the classics of the gramophone, This was taken from the Kleiber Decca box and the 1953 sound is excellent, had to pinch myself it wasn't in stereo (but not, obviously). Well defined timps for the period, too.

[Stanfordian]

Chausson
Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Chanson Perpétuelle
Mélodies
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo / Armin Jordan
Michel Dalberto, piano (Mélodies)
Recorded 1982 Palais des Congrès, Monte Carlo
Erato (Warner Apex)

Schubert
4 Impromptus, D 899
4 Impromptus, D 935
Radu Lupu (piano)
Recorded 1982 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
Decca Legends - These certainly are legendary Performances

[gurnemanz]

Very enjoyable Kurt Weill playlist on Spotify. Nice mixture of favourites and less familiar items.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX74N43vTfWDz?si=rCf7j5hJRUqVlhiO3yq7lQ

[visualnickmos]

Chausson
Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Chanson Perpétuelle
Mélodies
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo / Armin Jordan
Michel Dalberto, piano (Mélodies)
Recorded 1982 Palais des Congrès, Monte Carlo
Erato (Warner Apex)

Schubert
4 Impromptus, D 899
4 Impromptus, D 935
Radu Lupu (piano)
Recorded 1982 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
Decca Legends - These certainly are legendary Performances

Radu Lupu - perhaps one of the most engaging pianists one could listen to. Eveything of his, that I've ever heard (including a Beethoven 'Emperor' at the Barbican in the 1990s) is pure gold.

[cloughie]

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber

Terrific performance and recording and one of the classics of the gramophone, This was taken from the Kleiber Decca box and the 1953 sound is excellent, had to pinch myself it wasn't in stereo (but not, obviously). Well defined timps for the period, too.

I may not remember correctly but I think the original Ace of Clubs LP split the funeral march over two sides as did Cluytens on HMV.

[richardfinegold]

He just announced that he is officially retiring. His disc of late Brahms has always been my favorite of that repertoire.
I saw him in recital about 20 years ago. Exquisite playing but not much of a stage presence, unfortunately. I was dating a woman at the time who kept comparing him to a hedgehog

[jayne lee wilson]

He just announced that he is officially retiring. His disc of late Brahms has always been my favorite of that repertoire.
I saw him in recital about 20 years ago. Exquisite playing but not much of a stage presence, unfortunately. I was dating a woman at the time who kept comparing him to a hedgehog

I guess you mean Lupu....(fame etc, difficult to deal with.....).....A comparison to Hogs (doing well in my garden this year, thank God) frequently applied to Harrison Birtwistle....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[Stanfordian]

Verdi Opera Scenes - Sondra Radvanovsky - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlo
Encores: Puccini, Dvorak, Mozart
Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano) & Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Philharmonia of Russia / Constantine Orbelian
Recorded Live June 2008 Great hall, Moscow Conservtory
Delos

Buxtehude
Complete Chamber Music Volume 3: Six Sonatas without Opus Numbers
John Holloway and Ursula Weiss (violin), Jaap ter Linden,
Mogens Rasmussen (viola da gamba), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord & organ)
Recorded 1994 Radio House, Copenhagen
Naxos (previously released on Decapo)

[pastoralguy]

Brahms. Sonata in F. Op.120. No.1. Sonata No.1 in G op.78

The Five Violin Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol.1

Ulf Wallin, violin.

Roland Pöntinen, piano. BIS, 2019

[BBMmk2]

Prokofiev
Symphony No.1 in D major, Op.25, ‘Classical’
Symphony No.5 in Bb major, Op.100.
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
James Gaffigen

Mahler
Symphony No.9 in D major
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt.

[Stanfordian]

Verdi
Luisa Miller - opera in three acts
Anna Moffo (soprano) – Luisa; Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) – Rodolfo; Cornell MacNeil (baritone) – Miller; Giorgio Tozzi (bass) – Il Conte di Walter; Ezio Flagello (bass) – Wurm; Shirley Verrett (mezzo) – Federica; Gabriella Carturan (mezzo) – Laura; Piero de Palma (tenor)
RCA Italiana Opera Chorus and Opera Orchestra / Fausto Cleva
Recorded 1964 RCA Italiana Studios, Rome
Sony Classical

[Joseph K]

Ravel - Bolero, Rapsodie espagnole, Ma mere l'Oye, Pavane pour une Infante defunte - LSO/Abbado

[sgjames]

Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Aerial
Various Artists
Deutsche Grammophon 2014 CD.

If this remarkable CD turns out to be a pointer to one of the many directions in which Modern Composition might
move forward, I would not complain.

[Joseph K]

Mozart - String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K. 515

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI7WBFPqTWg