What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[teamsaint]

Yoshimatsu: And birds are still

Had never even heard of the composer until a dinner guest on Wednesday mentioned this piece.
He's just sent the link (which I will post on the YouTube with score thread too).

https://youtu.be/ebnxjFTYFVg

Chandos have recorded a fair bit of his music; does anyone else know/recommend it?

I have a feeling there may have been a brief forum conversation about him at some point. Suffolk Coastal was quite keen on a couple of the symphonies, so I have lined the 3rd up for a play.
What did you make of the work(s) you listened to ?

( managed a 5.5 k training run today.......)

[cloughie]

Mussourgsky-Stokowski: Pictures at an exhibition NPO Stokowski

Wonderful!

[Pulcinella]

Yoshimatsu: And birds are still

Had never even heard of the composer until a dinner guest on Wednesday mentioned this piece.
He's just sent the link (which I will post on the YouTube with score thread too).

https://youtu.be/ebnxjFTYFVg

Chandos have recorded a fair bit of his music; does anyone else know/recommend it?

I have a feeling there may have been a brief forum conversation about him at some point. Suffolk Coastal was quite keen on a couple of the symphonies, so I have lined the 3rd up for a play.
What did you make of the work(s) you listened to ?

( managed a 5.5 k training run today.......)

Certainly taken by the sounds and textures sufficiently to investigate the whole CD, which is on order.
I read though (Amazon review of another CD of his music) of a certain 'sameness' to his pieces, so will be interested to hear what you think of S3.

[BBMmk2]

PROMS FOLLOW-UP.....

Mendelssohn Symphony No.3
Freiburg Baroque/Heras-Casado. HM, Qobuz-S, 24/96.

Not my top 3rd, but a lovely, impulsive performance, not too neat and tidy, and with gorgeous wide-open, layered, mellow sonorities...

***
BTW, this.....


...is still top of my non-Proms playlist...see above, but now getting into the Cello Concerto here (last, longest and most searching work on the album)... remarkable..... how often do you hear a new piece and think....god that's wonderful.... I've really never heard anything quite like that before...

Do seek out it out....

Ludovic Morlot, I think is fast becoming one of those conductors to be reckoned with.

I’ve liked everything he has done so far.

[Stanfordian]

Schubert
String Quartet No. 14, D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
String Quartet No. 13, D804 ‘Rosamunde’
String Quartet No. 15, D887
Artemis Quartet
Recorded 2009 Siemensvilla, Berlin
Virgin Classics

Handel - Arias - Magdalena Kožená
Alcina, Hercules, Agrippina, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Joshua, Ariodante,
Theodora, Amadigi di Gaula, Orlando, Ariodante, Rinaldo
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon
Recorded 2006, Gustav Mahler Saal, Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel, Toblach
Archiv Produktion

[Petrushka]

Just heard the finale of Villa Lobos Choros No 10 on In Tune before the Prom started. What terrific stuff! Must seek this out.

[Pulcinella]

Just heard the finale of Villa Lobos Choros No 10 on In Tune before the Prom started. What terrific stuff! Must seek this out.

You could do a lot worse than this (though I don't think I paid as much!):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Villa-Lobos-Complete-Choros-Bachianas-Brasileiras/dp/B002CAOVVK/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3FRZZ4ZXKNR6D&keywords=villa+lobos+choros&qid=1566240567&s=gateway&sprefix=Villa+lobos+cho%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-3

[Petrushka]

You could do a lot worse than this (though I don't think I paid as much!):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Villa-Lobos...s%2C139&sr=8-3

Thanks, but a rather a steep price! The Eduardo Mata recording was used on In Tune. I'll look around.

[cloughie]

Thanks, but a rather a steep price! The Eduardo Mata recording was used on In Tune. I'll look around.

Not that steep for a 7 CD set!

[Petrushka]

Not that steep for a 7 CD set!

Sorry, didn't look properly! Was in a bit of a hurry while listening between pieces to the Prom. Just £6 a disc so not bad after all.

[Pulcinella]

Sorry, didn't look properly! Was in a bit of a hurry while listening between pieces to the Prom. Just £6 a disc so not bad after all.

It's all the Choros and Bachianas.
Take the plunge!
I think they're more interesting than the piano concertos, which coincidentally I listened to this afternoon.

[johnb]

If you are happy with downloads the V-L Bachianas Brasileiras set is available on Qobuz for £15.99.

[gurnemanz]

I also recommend the BIS Villa-Lobos box. You do get a decent booklet with the disc box which is worth having especially since the box contained (for me) many new or unfamiliar works.

Talking of disc boxes I took the Sofronitsky Brilliant box off the shelf this morning more or less at random. Just enjoying Chopin Mazurkas.

[Stanfordian]

Weinberg
‘String Quartets’ Vol. 3
String Quartet No. 11, Op. 89
String Quartet No. 12, Op. 103
String Quartet No. 13, Op. 118
Silesian Quartet
Recorded 2018 Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice
Accord

‘French Arias’ - Magdalena Kožená
French opera arias from Auber, Verdi, Berloiz, Massenet, Thomas, Gounod, Boiëldieu, Bizet
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Marc Minkowski
Recorded 2002 Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris
Deutsche Grammophon

[Stanfordian]

Weinberg
'String Quartets' Vol. 2
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 66
String Quartet No. 9 in F sharp minor, Op. 80
String Quartet No. 10 in A minor, Op. 85
Silesian Quartet
Recorded 2016 Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice
Accord

‘Offenbach Colorature’ – Jodie Devos
Coloratura soprano arias from Offenbach’s Boule de neige, Vert-Vert, Orphée aux Enfers, Un Mari à la porte, Fantasio, Les Bavards, Mesdames de La Halle, Le Roi Carotte, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Robinson Crusoé, Boule de neige, Le Voyage dans la Lune & Les Bergers overture
Jodie Devos (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Laurent Campellone
with Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded 2018, Studio 1, Bayerischen Rundfunk, Munich
Alpha Classics - Super recent album