What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Petrushka]

Bach: Partita - Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig BWV 768
Peter Hurford at the organ of New College, Oxford.

[interval]

Bruckner: Symphony No 8
Tonhalle Zürich
Rudolf Kempe

[pastoralguy]

Mr. Frank Sinatra. Greatest Hits.

Absolutely wonderful arrangements, playing and vocalising from the baritone soloist.

[cloughie]

Mr. Frank Sinatra. Greatest Hits.

Absolutely wonderful arrangements, playing and vocalising from the baritone soloist.

Are these the Billy May, Nelson Riddle (among others) arrangements?

[edashtav]

And a Munch too!

I hope that BBMmk2 didn't suffer an attack of 'Munchies' as he came down from on high.

[edashtav]

Oh, I don't know, what with various versions of the Sabre Dance, then The Onedin Line's Sparticus Adagio and 2001, too, Khachaturian had his fair bit of popular promotion in 'the west'. He did conduct recordings of some of his works in London and Vienna IIRC.

I remember spending my Christmas money one year on a spectacular Decca LP of Aram conducting the splendid V.P.O. in his Second Symphony "The Bell" all about the Glory of War with a guarantee that he'd left all its gory bits to the 'Glums' (DSCH and his Leningrad Pals) .

[jayne lee wilson]

Bruckner
Symphony No.1 ("1865-6" on inlay; Berky has it as 1877 Linz with Revisions, ed Nowak.).
Musica Saeculorum/Philipp Von Steinaecker. FB CD rec. live 2013.

Thrillingly confrontational, leaving shock-waves in its trail..... auf originalinstrumenten, this Bruckner 1st restores its startling originality. Close to the ragged edge, with wonderful pummelling momentum in the finale - that Great Moment in Bruckner, the recap, arrives with terrific impact: head thrown back, arms imploring - yet there is still delicacy and tenderness from the strings in the andante too.

Wonderful full, mellow sonorities from the HIPPs-ancien band(**), fast and tight in sound of vivid immediacy, but with space to resonate....
The Spirit of Volkmar Andreae walks The Earth once more....

(**)drawn largely from members of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra...)

[pastoralguy]

Are these the Billy May, Nelson Riddle (among others) arrangements?

Mainly Nelson Riddle, cloughie.

This disc has always been one of my Hi-Fi demonstration discs. I drive Mrs. PG crazy since I always buy a copy when I see it in a charity shop which is often! I think I've got around 40 copies!

[cloughie]

Mainly Nelson Riddle, cloughie.

This disc has always been one of my Hi-Fi demonstration discs. I drive Mrs. PG crazy since I always buy a copy when I see it in a charity shop which is often! I think I've got around 40 copies!

Now that is a real serious CD Buyers Anonymous case!

[BBMmk2]

I hope that BBMmk2 didn't suffer an attack of 'Munchies' as he came down from on high.

BBM be fine Eadashtv. Everyone calls me that.

Absolutely not. Never have enough.

[Pulcinella]

Mainly Nelson Riddle, cloughie.

This disc has always been one of my Hi-Fi demonstration discs. I drive Mrs. PG crazy since I always buy a copy when I see it in a charity shop which is often! I think I've got around 40 copies!

Why?
Are you trying to take them out of general circulation, like the Brexit 50p coins?

[Bryn]

Why?
Are you trying to take them out of general circulation, like the Brexit 50p coins?

Don't ask why. Just accept it a . . .

[Stanfordian]

Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor ‘Organ’
Poulenc
Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani
Iveta Apkalna (organ)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
Recorded Live, March 2019, Philharmonie, Munich
BR Klassik - new release

'The Verdi Album' - Sonya Yoncheva
Arias from Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, La forza del destino,
Nabucco, Don Carlo, Otello, Stiffelio, Luisa Miller, Attila
Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Massimo Zanetti
Recorded 2017, Studio 1, Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich
Sony Classical

[BBMmk2]

Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor ‘Organ’
Poulenc
Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani
Iveta Apkalna (organ)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
Recorded Live, March 2019, Philharmonie, Munich
BR Klassik - new release

This looks stupendous!

Claudio Abbado The Decca Years
CD1
Beethoven
Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92
Overture - The Creatures of Prometheus, Op.43
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
CD 2
Brahms
Rinaldo, Op.50
Schickslied, Op.54(Song of Destiny)
James King(tenor)
Ambrosian Chorus
New Philharmonia
Claudio Abbado

[pastoralguy]

Why?
Are you trying to take them out of general circulation, like the Brexit 50p coins?

I have an ambition that, when I've one the lottery, I'll have a room with lots of inexpensive CDs players all playing the same disc at different points on repeat. I have the CDs, all I need is for the lottery to cough up...

[BBMmk2]

This looks stupendous!

Claudio Abbado The Decca Years
CD1
Beethoven
Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92
Overture - The Creatures of Prometheus, Op.43
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
CD 2
Brahms
Rinaldo, Op.50
Schickslied, Op.54(Song of Destiny)
James King(tenor)
Ambrosian Chorus
New Philharmonia
Claudio Abbado

Cd4
Mendelssohn
Symphony No.3 in A minor, “Scottish”
Symphony No.4 in A major, “Italian “
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado.