What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[DublinJimbo]

First up today. Some people have been giving a lot of time to this new recording. I can see why!

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Symphony No.7,”Angel of Light”
Flute Concerto, Op.63
Petri Alanko(flute)
Laities SO
Osmo Vänskä

I'm confused. Is this a new recording? If it's the Lahti SO you mean and the release also includes the Cantus arcticus, this came out in 1999.

[Stanfordian]

I'm confused. Is this a new recording? If it's the Lahti SO you mean and the release also includes the Cantus arcticus, this came out in 1999.

Yes, I too have had this recording since it's release in 1999. C/w Cantus arcticus.

[DublinJimbo]

A terrific addition to the Weinberg discography —

Weinberg 1945
Piano Trio op. 24
Cello Sonata No. 1 op. 21
Two Songs Without Words for Violin and Piano
Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes for Violin and Piano op. 47 no. 3

Trio Khnopff

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YKmb7_y3E8

Beethoven - 'Kreutzer' sonata for violin and piano.

[frankbridge]

Now:

Michael Torke

Color Music

Green/Purple/Esctatic Orange/Ash/Bright Blue Music

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

David Zinman

Decca Argo 433 071-2ZH

Bizarre, but wonderful

[Stanfordian]

‘Visions’ – Véronique Gens
Soprano arias by Saint-Saëns, Niedermeyer, Halévy, Godard, Février, David, Franck, Massenet, Bizet, Bruneau
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Hervé Niquet
Recorded 2017 Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Alpha Classics

Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No. 3 for large orchestra
Symphony No. 4 for large orchestra
Symphony No. 5 for large orchestra
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski
Recorded 2010 Haus des Rundfunks, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin
Wergo

[BBMmk2]

Thank you Stan and DJ.

Respighi
Vetrate di Chiesa
Brazilian Impressions
Philharmonia Orchestra
Geoffrey Simon.

[BBMmk2]

J S Bach
Goldberg Variations
Mahan Esfahni,Harpsichord.

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
Emanuel Ax (piano)

Bruckner: Symphony No 7

Wiener Philharmoniker
Bernard Haitink

Given at the Lucerne Festival, September 6 2019

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9239-afscheidsconcert-bernard-haitink

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans; Bolshoi/All-Union TV & Radio soloists, chorus, & orchestra/Rozhdestvensky.

Noisy piece.

[pastoralguy]

I'm doing a Side by side comparison of the Brahms Violin Sonatas.

Alina Ibragimova, violin and Cédric Tiberghian, piano. (Hyperion)

Tasmin Little, violin and Piers Lane, piano. (Chandos)

If I had to choose, I think I'd go for the Chandos disc. Much as I admire Ibragimova as an artist, I feel Little has a stronger grasp of the music's character. Coupled with the fact that her sound is very 'full fat' and the Chandos recording really reproduces this whilst allowing the piano to really come through.

A very pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

[Joseph K]

Disk 5 of the Schornsheim/Haydn keyboard sonatas.

No. 38 in F major is a particularly lovely thing (even amongst lovely things).

[jayne lee wilson]

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 1 (VIENNA 1891 revision). LUCERNE FO/ABBADO live KKL 2012.
Accentus 24/48 New Release, Qobuz Studio.

An 1891 Bruckner 1 so different as to be essentially hors concours; as if Abbado, so aware of his own mortality, needed to dwell the more lovingly on every lyrical episode among the brassier, more energetic splendours. In the finale especially there is a very wide rubato and tempo variabile, the music coming almost to a standstill at its midpoint. Nothing jars or feels unnatural though, and for me at least on this late, late Brucknerian occasion, it works.

With its layering in of detail and regularised rhythms, this Vienna version of Bruckner’s 1st (one of my least favourite editions of any Bruckner Symphony) still sounds fussy and often (literally) overwritten to me; early Bruckner in the style of late Bruckner and to neither’s advantage. (The passage from the 1st movement’s recap to its end sounds almost grotesque; the freshness, continuity and spontaneity of the Linz is lost).

But this is a special document of a special occasion and at least some of the time, one suspends textual disbelief in the beauty and intensity of the moment.

[pastoralguy]

J.S. Bach. Concertos for violin, violin & oboe and the 'Double Concerto'

Oscar Shumsky, violin with The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Miller, oboe and John Tunnell, violin.

Nimbus.

[Bryn]

Prompted by a mention in another thread, La Monte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano: