What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[pastoralguy]

Ravel. Miroirs.

Jean - Yves Thibaudet, piano.

I'm very much looking forward to hearing Beatrice Rana play this in a fortnight but since it's not a piece I know well, if at all, I'd better listen to it!

[Bryn]

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 (Alexander Buzlov, Tartarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Sladkovsky) via QOBUZ 44.1/16 streaming.

[HighlandDougie]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D

Musikcollegium Wintherthur/Douglas Boyd

Perfect music for a lovely summer's evening after a somewhat frantic day. Dougie Boyd clearly loves this music - as do I!

[Stanfordian]

‘A Tribute to Gilbert Duprez’ - John Osborn
French Grand Opera arias from Verdi, Donizetti, Berlioz, Rossini
John Osborn (tenor)
Kaunas State Chorus
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra / Constantine Orbelian
Recorded 2016, Kaunas Philharmonic, Lithuania
Delos

Debussy
Cello Sonata
Syrinx, for solo flute
Violin Sonata
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Piano Trio
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Edgar Moreau (cello),
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Gerard Caussé (viola) & Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)
Recorded 2016, Salle Colonne (flute works), 2017, Studios Davot (other works), Paris
Erato

[BBMmk2]

Hi Stan. That Debussy recording is a fabulous one. One to savour!

Elgar
The Music Makers, Op.69
The Spirit of England, Op.80.
Dame Sarah Connolly
Andrew Staples
BBC Chorus & SO
Sir Andrew Davis.

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.7, ‘Sinfonia Antarctica’
4 Four Last Songs *
Concerto for Two Pianos in C major.**
*Roderick Williams(baritone)
**Hélène Mercier, Louis Lortei(Pianists)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis.

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VYX05DopGs

Scriabin - sonata 10, Yuja Wang

[Richard Barrett]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VYX05DopGs

Scriabin - sonata 10, Yuja Wang

Good find, JK. Looking forward to listening to that. I've just been away on holiday for two weeks without any internet except for the occasional dash to an internet café for some urgent stuff or other. Looking at this thread and the New Releases there seems to be a massive amount to catch up on. Jayne's description of the new Schumann Violin Sonatas disc makes it sound very tempting since (unlike the Scriabin) that's music I hardly know as yet.

[Joseph K]

Good find, JK. Looking forward to listening to that. I've just been away on holiday for two weeks without any internet except for the occasional dash to an internet café for some urgent stuff or other. Looking at this thread and the New Releases there seems to be a massive amount to catch up on. Jayne's description of the new Schumann Violin Sonatas disc makes it sound very tempting since (unlike the Scriabin) that's music I hardly know as yet.

I very much enjoyed Yuja Wang's interpretation of that piece.

[jayne lee wilson]

PROMS FOLLOW-UPS....

Mozart
Piano Concerto No.15. Brautigam (McNulty after Walter ca 1805)/Kolner Akademie/Willens. BIS 16/44.1 Qobuz-S.

Schumann
Symphony No.4 (1841). ORR/JEG. Archiv CD from Collectors Edition.

That's more like it! - wonderful sonic brilliance, inner animation and colour.
The Schumann gets the performance of its life and leaves you floored in your chair
(as it were...)

Insomniac delight, on a
Hot, Hot night...

Makes a lovely program without further addition...
Time for an encore or two...

[Joseph K]

Concerto Grosso after Corelli's 'La Folia' Sonata, Op.5 No.12 - Francesco Geminiani

Currently on radio 3.

[Joseph K]

I found JEG conducting Schumann 4, but it appears to be later version than the one Jayne mentions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS2JVHRREww

[Stanfordian]

Kathleen Battle - French Opera Arias
Arias from Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict, Donizetti: La fille du régiment, Massenet: Manon,
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, Thomas: Hamlet, Mignon, Offenbach: La Belle Lurette,
Charpentier: Louise
Kathleen Battle (soprano)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra Bastille / Myung-Whun Chung
Recorded 1993/94 Salle Gounod, Opéra Bastille, Paris
Deutsche Grammophon

Richard Strauss
Concerto No. 1 for horn and orchestra, Op. 11
Serenade for thirteen wind instruments, Op. 7
Sonatina No. 1 for sixteen wind instruments ‘Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden’ (‘From an invalid’s workshop’)
Metamorphosen, study for twenty-three solo strings
Robert Langbein (horn)
Staatskapelle Dresden / Christian Thielemann
Recorded Live 2014 Semperoper, Dresden
Edition Staatskapelle Dresden – Volume 44
Profil

[BBMmk2]

George Butterworth
On Banks of Green Willow
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.2, ‘A London Symphony’
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox

John Ireland
A Downland Suite(arr G. Bush)
Orchestral Poem in A minor
Concerto Pastorale
Two Symphonic Studies(arr. G. Bush)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox.

[Petrushka]

Last night...

Suk: Asrael Symphony
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek

The new recording on Decca. Fantastic performance and recording. Disc of the year so far and unlikely to be beaten. JLW you must hear this!

[jayne lee wilson]

Last night...

Suk: Asrael Symphony
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek

The new recording on Decca. Fantastic performance and recording. Disc of the year so far and unlikely to be beaten. JLW you must hear this!

Yes, I saw that appear.... but facing that devastating, personally-iconic thing again... well.... Belohlavek's Chandos recording was the very first I ever bought, on a cassette...I had no idea.... that was some first encounter....