What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Surely M, Saint-Saens?

These days considered a less likely candidate, I think.

[Bryn]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 and Die Wiehe des Hauses Overture (Anima Eterna, Immerseel). This the ZIG ZAG manifestation, rather than the re-issue under the Alpha label.

[vinteuil]

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Thanks M. Pierné .

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Surely M, Saint-Saens?

... in Proust's letter of 20 April 1918 to Jacques de Lacretelle he says : "Il n'y a pas de clefs pour les personnages de ce livre: ou bien il y en a huit ou dix pour un seul ... / ... Dans la mesure où la réalité m'a servi, mesure très faible à vrai dire, la petite phrase de cette Sonate, et je ne l'ai jamais dit à personne, est (pour commencer par la fin), dans la Soirée Sainte-Euverte, la phrase charmante mais enfin médiocre d'une Sonate pour piano et violon de Saint-Saëns, musicien que je n'aime pas. (Je vous indiquerai exactement le passage qui vient plusieurs fois et qui était le triomphe de Jacques Thibaud). Dans la même soirée un peu plus loin, je ne serais pas surpris qu'en parlant de la petite phrase j'eusse pensé à l'Enchantement du Vendredi Saint. Dans cette même soirée encore quand le piano et le violon gémissent comme deux oiseaux qui se répondent j'ai pensé à la Sonate de Franck surtout jouée par Enesco (dont le quatuor apparaît dans un des volumes suivants). Les trémolos qui couvrent la petite phrase chez les Verdurin m'ont été suggérés par un prélude de Lohengrin mais elle-même à ce moment-là par une chose de Schubert. Elle est dans la meme soirée Verdurin un ravissant morceau de piano de Fauré."

The Pierné theory is here, I think :

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/30/marcel-proust-music-puzzle-solved

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonate_de_Vinteuil

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[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLzUnLye7c

Haydn - symphony no. 102 - Brueggen

[BBMmk2]

Bax
Symphony No.4
Tintagel
Ulster Orchestra
Bryden Thomson

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in minor, Op.64
Oslo PO
Mariss Jansons

Rachmaninov
Elegiac Trios Nos.1 & 2
The Brodsky Trio

Herbert Howells
An English Mass
Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis ‘Collegium Regale’
Six Pieces for Organ VI Paen
Three Rhapsodies, Op.17 No.3 in C#minor
Choir of KCC
Stephen Cleobury.

[BBMmk2]

Bax
Symphony No.4
Tintagel
Ulster Orchestra
Bryden Thomson

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in minor, Op.64
Oslo PO
Mariss Jansons

Rachmaninov
Elegiac Trios Nos.1 & 2
The Brodsky Trio

Herbert Howells
An English Mass
Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis ‘Collegium Regale’
Six Pieces for Organ VI Paen
Three Rhapsodies, Op.17 No.3 in C#minor
Choir of KCC
Stephen Cleobury.

The above was yesterday’s listening.
Today’s is

Frank Bridge
Piano Quintet, H49a
Three Idylls, H67
String Quartet, H188
Piers Lane
Goldner Quartet.

[Pulcinella]

Yesterday afternoon:
Handel
Dixit Dominus
Laudate Pueri
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury

Now:
I heard a voice (Weelkes, Gibbons, Tomkins)
Choir of King's College, Stephen Cleobury, Fretwork

I find that I have very few other Cleobury recordings (an Argo Howells collection, Faure and Duruflé Requiems, a compilation called Credo), with the highlight probably being the compilation of commissions for the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols (On Christmas Day).

It is worth starting a new thread: Stephen Cleobury's recorded legacy?

[frankbridge]

Robert Moran

Arias and Inventions from Desert of Roses

West/Balanescu/Piano Circus Band/Smith

Decca Argo 436 128-2ZH

[Petrushka]

Reubke: Sonata on the 94th Psalm
Stephen Cleobury at the organ of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Durufle: Requiem
Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Tom Etheridge & Richard Gowers (organ)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Cleobury

[Pulcinella]

Reubke: Sonata on the 94th Psalm
Stephen Cleobury at the organ of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Durufle: Requiem
Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Tom Etheridge & Richard Gowers (organ)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Cleobury

Stephen Cleobury was the organist in the 1974 St John's Cambridge recording of the Duruflé, the one that had me rushing to buy it after I heard an excerpt (Sanctus) on Record Review. I had forgotten about this later release from King's, but I have the earlier one with the ECO on EMI.

[HighlandDougie]

Stockhausen: Kontakte Nr 12 1/2

Original Tape Mix/George Barton (Percussion)/Siwan Rhys (Piano)

Never heard the work in this guise before - and am much impressed. I'm sure someone has mentioned this new(ish) download on another thread (Bryn?) - anyway, much recommended. Andrew Clements in the Grauniad even made it his release of the week, sometimes the kiss of death but not, I think, in this case.

[DublinJimbo]

"Saga" — Ballads by Schumann, Loewe, Jensen Schubert
Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Doriana Tchakarova (piano)

Alpha Classics release. 2019 recording.

It's been a great pleasure to return to this (it appeared on Qobuz about a month ago). Singer and accompanist work wonderfully well together (indeed, 'accompanist' is a churlish word to use considering the vital role the piano plays in this repertoire). From the piano intro to Carl Loewe's haunting Tom der Reimer which opens the recital, it's proved even more difficult to stop listening this time round. Konstantin Krimmel is blessed with a wonderful baritone voice which he can vary at will to suit the atmosphere of each song, and his diction is superb throughout. Similarly, Doriana Tchakarova effortlessly employs story-telling mode. That opening track is a highlight, but then Loewe's setting of Geothe's Erlkönig is also a bit of a show-stopper, and the three songs by Adolf Jensen totally justify the inclusion of this composer, who was previously unknown to me.

[teamsaint]

Bruckner 7 Sinopoli / Staatskapelle Dresden.

And I have the “Saga” disc recommended by DublinJimbo above lined up for a listen. What a desperately unimaginative cover the CD has though.

[Stanfordian]

Britten
War Requiem,
Emily Magee (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone),
Tölzer Knabenchor,
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
Recorded Live March 2013 Philharmonie, Munich,
BR Klassik

Handel - Kenneth Gilbert
No’s 1-8, Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin (Chamber Suites for the harpsichord)
Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord)
Recorded 1976 Salle des Gardes du Château de Maintenon, France
Harmonia Mundi

[vinteuil]

Handel - Kenneth Gilbert
No’s 1-8, Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin (Chamber Suites for the harpsichord)
Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord)
Recorded 1976 Salle des Gardes du Château de Maintenon, France
Harmonia Mundi

... Kenneth Gilbert particularly liked the acoustics of the Salle des Gardes at Maintenon : as the name implies, it was the hall where the king's guards used to hang around while waiting for orders - they indulged in tobacco among other things, so the hall was lined with leather to absorb the noisome smells. And this produces, so he felt, an ideal acoustic for harpsichord playing. I don't know whether he is still there, but he used to live in one wing of the château ...

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