What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Oh I love this opera Stan. I expect this is self recommending?

Richard Strauss
Till Euienspiegels lütige streiche
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Die jungfrau Fantasie in drei sätzen
Luxembourg Orchestre Philharmonique
Emanuel Krivine

Beethoven
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.22
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
Danish Chamber Orchestra
Àdam Fischer

[Stanfordian]

Oh I love this opera Stan. I expect this is self recommending?

Richard Strauss
Till Euienspiegels lütige streiche
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Die jungfrau Fantasie in drei sätzen
Luxembourg Orchestre Philharmonique
Emanuel Krivine

Beethoven
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.22
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
Danish Chamber Orchestra
Àdam Fischer

It certainly is!

[DublinJimbo]

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas nos. 3, 6, 7 & 8
Lorenzo Gatto (violin), Julien Libeer (piano)

I couldn't resist it: I just had to return to this wonderful recording I first posted about here. Music-making as good as this can never grow stale.

All through the four sonatas (the final disc in this partnership's survey of them all), I hung on every note, marvelling not only at the artistry of the musicians but also (as it should be) at Beethoven's genius. By the time I reached the wonderful Allegro vivace final movement of the 8th (such joyous music!) my original opinion that this is one of the discs of the year was triumphantly reinforced. This is life-enhancing stuff.

[jayne lee wilson]

....tales of mystery and imagination....

Per Nørgård Symphony No.4 "Indian Rose Garden/Chinese Witches Lake"(1981)
Oslo PO/Storgårds. DaCapo SACD/CD.

Lutosławski Symphony No.1. (1947)
Finnish RSO/Lintu. Ondine SACD/CD.

[BBMmk2]

....tales of mystery and imagination....

Per Nørgård Symphony No.4 "Indian Rose Garden/Chinese Witches Lake"(1981)
Oslo PO/Storgårds. DaCapo SACD/CD.

Lutosławski Symphony No.1. (1947)
Finnish RSO/Lintu. Ondine SACD/CD.

The Lutoslawski I must hear. The Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu certainly is very enterprising.

[Stanfordian]

Richard Strauss Gala Concert Semperoper Dresden
Richard Strauss
Four Last Songs & Malvern (orch. Rihm)
An Alpine Symphony
Wolfgang Rihm
Ernster Gesang (Serious Song) for orchestra
Anja Harteros (soprano)
Staastkapelle Dresden / Christian Thielemann
Recorded 2014 live, Semperoper, Dresden,
C Major Blu-ray
An amazing concert. A treasured record of a special night I had in Dresden!

[BBMmk2]

Zemlinsky
Die Jungfrau
Psalm 13, Op.24
Psalm 23, Op.15
Ernst Senff Chamber Choir
Deutsches Symphonieorchester
Riccardo Chailly

A much better recording

[Joseph K]

Disk 12 of the Messiaen complete box - starts with Livre d'orgue.

[jayne lee wilson]

....20CCS continues....

Bartok Violin Concerto No.2 (plus alternative finale -1st version - very excitingly done);
Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2 (plus alternative versions).
Kelemen/Hungarian NPO/Kocsis. Hungaroton Bartok New Sereis SACD/CD.

Much recorded masterpiece, many great ones, this is probably still my favourite....gets the earthy/ethereal balance right, but still gets wild & unpredictable where it needs to......

(Otherwise... Tetzlaff/Lintu)...

[teamsaint]

Schumann.
Frauenliebe und Leben

Schubert . Lieder.

Schumann . Liederkreis.

Elly Ameling/Dalton Baldwin.

Proper singing. CD from the fantastic Philips Classics 50 CD box, which seems to have gone through the roof price wise now.

One of the best boxes I have ever bought, and this is a top CD IMO.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Elly Ameling ...
Proper singing.

[gurnemanz]

Schumann.
Frauenliebe und Leben

Schubert . Lieder.

Schumann . Liederkreis.

Elly Ameling/Dalton Baldwin.

Proper singing. CD from the fantastic Philips Classics 50 CD box, which seems to have gone through the roof price wise now.

One of the best boxes I have ever bought, and this is a top CD IMO.

Love Elly. Coincidentally, I went to Wigmore for today's lunchtime performance (link), always having wanted to hear Elisabeth Kulman in the flesh. (One of the most enjoyble and rewarding song recitals I have attended in a while, incidentally). When got back I had to play some of her recordings, including her Frauenliebe which I didn't know and did find marvellous. Süsser Freund is such a restrained yet still sexy expression of marital love and I can't remember hearing the widow's emptiness of the last song Nun hast du mir done so movingly, with such exquisite sadness. It's on youtube.

[Petrushka]

Mozart: Symphony No 35
Bruckner: Symphony No 5

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

Given in the Royal Festival Hall, London, on October 11 2011. I was very lucky to be present at this.

[Stanfordian]

JS Bach
Adventskantaten - BWV 36, 61 & 62
Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass)
Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe
Recorded 1996
Harmonia Mundi (France) - Superb album - Herreweghe is my guide in Bach cantatas.

Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Robin Ticciati
Recorded 2018 Philharmonie, Berlin (Live, Beethoven); 2018 Großer Sendesaal, Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin (Sibelius)
Ondine - new release, first class!

[gurnemanz]

Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin
Thomas Meglioranza, baritone, with Reiko Uchida on a Viennese Anton Zierer fortepiano from 1829