What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
Sherrill Milnes (narrator)
Men of the New England Conservatory Chorus

Beethoven: Symphony No 9
Jane Marsh (soprano), Josehine Veasey (mezzo-soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor), Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
CHorus Pro Musica
New England Conservatory Chorus

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf

I saw Erich Leinsdorf conduct Beethoven’s 9th at the Proms, late 60s, would that have been?

Alexander Scriabin
Complete Piano Sonatas
Fantasie, Op.28
Sonate-Fantasie In G# minor, op.posth.
Marc-Andre Hamelin, Piano.

[Bryn]

Schönberg (arr. Webern): Chamber Symphony Op. 9; Schönberg (arr. Eisler/Stein/Schönberg): Six Sogs Op. 8; Webern (arr. Webern): Six Pieces Op. 6 (Linos Ensemble).

[vinteuil]

Vivaldi – Music for Mandolin, Chitarra Barocca & Lute
Concerto for 2 mandolins, strings and basso continuo in G major, RV 532
Trio for violin, lute and basso continuo in G minor, RV 85
Concerto for mandolin, strings and basso continuo in C major, RV 425
Concerto for viola d’amore, lute, strings and basso continuo in D minor, RV 540
Trio for violin, lute and basso continuo in C major, RV 82
Concerto for 2 violins, lute and basso continuo in D major, RV 93
Rolf Lislevand (mandolin, chitarra barocca & lute)
Ensemble Kapsberger
Recorded 1996 & 2006 Studio Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland
Naïve - a treasured release from my collection

... some used copies still available -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vivaldi-Concertos-Mandolin-Antonio/dp/B003GW1OTU/

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[Stanfordian]

... some used copies still available -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vivaldi-Concertos-Mandolin-Antonio/dp/B003GW1OTU/

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This is the one I have from 2007:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vivaldi-Musica-mandolino-Rolf-Lislevand/dp/B000LE0TEC/ref=sr_1_16?crid=46571VEIS9K8&keywords=rolf+lislevand&qid=1570202808&s=music&sprefix=rolf%2Cpopular%2C148&sr=1-16

I see the law of supply and demand working here.

[vinteuil]

This is the one I have from 2007:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vivaldi-Musica-mandolino-Rolf-Lislevand/dp/B000LE0TEC/ref=sr_1_16?crid=46571VEIS9K8&keywords=rolf+lislevand&qid=1570202808&s=music&sprefix=rolf%2Cpopular%2C148&sr=1-16

I see the law of supply and demand working here.

... ah, you're lucky! Have you seen the prices those ones can command?

But the content on the cheaper version I posted is, I think, identical.

I envy you your one - it wd match better with the others I have in the series...


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[Stanfordian]

... ah, you're lucky! Have you seen the prices those ones can command?

But the content on the cheaper version I posted is, I think, identical.

I envy you your one - it wd match better with the others I have in the series...


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Mine was a CD I received for review on 2007.

It's certainly a wonderful Vivaldi series on Naïve. I have a dozen or so of the series that are all out of the top drawer.

I you admire Rolf Lislevand you should like 'Belle Homicide: Manuscrit barbe':

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Belle-Homicide-Manuscrit-Rolf-Lislevand/dp/B00009W3RF/ref=sr_1_18?qid=1570203778&refinements=p_32%3ARolf+Lislevand&s=music&sr=1-18

Recorded at night I love the inclusion of bird and animal sounds.

For what it's worth it was my 'record of the year' for 2008

[sgjames]

Stravinsky - Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, Four Etudes for Orchestra
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Dorati
Mercury, 1993 (CD).

Stravinsky, Dorati and Mercury at their considerable best.

[visualnickmos]

Stravinsky - Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, Four Etudes for Orchestra
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Dorati
Mercury, 1993 (CD).

Stravinsky, Dorati and Mercury at their considerable best.

And as chance would have it:

Stravinsky
The Firebird
The Rite of Spring
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky (Sony Classics)

What a stunning performance it is, too.....

[Joseph K]

Brahms, second string quintet (Brandis Quartet with Bret Dean on viola). One of his greatest works IMO.

[BBMmk2]

Beethoven
Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elsa Calveti
Ernst Haefliger, Otto Edelmann l
Lucerne Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Wilhem Furtwängler

[Stanfordian]

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
'The Travelling Companion' – opera in four acts, Op. 146 (1916, premièred 1925)
Libretto by Henry Newbolt after a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
David Horton, Julien Van Mellaerts, Kate Valentine, Pauls Putnins, Ian Beadle, Felix Kemp, Tamzin Barnett, Lucy Urquhart,
New Sussex Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Toby Purser
Recorded Live 2018 Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex
Somm Céleste series (2 CDs)

[HighlandDougie]

Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques, H. 343 (Symphony No. 6)

Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra/Vojtech Spurny (recorded 2015, Zlin, Czech Republic)

One of the "add-ons" to the Martinu PCs order from Prague, at the Charles Munch end of the scale in terms of tempi, rather than, say, Jiří Bělohlávek. Excellent modern recording.

[pastoralguy]

J.S. Bach. 'Cello Suites arranged for violin by Rachel Podger

I bought these discs from PRESTO the day they were released but they've stayed in their plastic wrapping until today. If I had to chose ONE recording to take to the Desert Island it would probably be Fournier's recording of these works. And so it's been a real leap of faith for la Podger to play them on the fiddle. I was pretty sure I'd either love them or absolutely hate them.

Well, I'm thrilled to find that they are wonderful! They really DANCE as opposed to being somewhat lumbering on the violincello. And beautifully played!

[un barbu]

"Lux Feminae" Montserrat Figueras. Bliss.

[Petrushka]

Tippett: Symphony No 4 (UK premiere)

[interval]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique)
Rossini: Overture - The Barber of Seville (encore)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti

Given in the Royal Albert Hall, London, on September 4 1978

Recording generously provided by a fellow Forumista and at which I was present.