What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[cloughie]

Yes indeed, there are. I also took delivery of Mozart symphonies with Jochum and the Concertgebouw at the same time. It's not as if I've got a shortage of Bruckner discs but I just had to get the Kna set.

Talking of Jochum and the Concertgebouw, their set of Beethoven symphonies could do with reissue especially as I don't have it!

I agree with you about the Jochum Beethoven - I have an incomplete set from earlier issues and the Philips box is incredibly expensive. I saw the Knappertsbusch Bruckner reissue and as I only lack the 4th may get the Testament CD.

[BBMmk2]

Wagner: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral March

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Bruckner: Symphony No 4 (1888 Revised by Ferdinand Loewe. ed Albert Guttman 1889)

Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch

Is this the Bruckner set on Eloquence?

[cloughie]

Is this the Bruckner set on Eloquence?

#10156!

[BBMmk2]

#10156!

Ok

Bruckner Ed Nowak
Symphony No.9 in D minor.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Hoeneck.

[HighlandDougie]

I agree with you about the Jochum Beethoven - I have an incomplete set from earlier issues and the Philips box is incredibly expensive.

Thanks, Pet and Cloughie for the reminders of this LvB cycle. I'd forgotten all about this set - failing memory as I used to have some of it on Philips Universo LPs or simply too many LvB cycles to remember. As I really liked it (great 7th), a used copy of the CD set (I think Japanese?) ordered from an Amazon Japan Marketplace seller for a reasonable price (just under £40). Such sellers are usually very reliable (I got the Haitink LPO cycle via a similar route), with the somewhat lax approach adopted by La Poste to ordinary postage from Japan and customs duties helping cost-wise.

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner Ed Nowak
Symphony No.9 in D minor.
Richard Strauss
Electra, Suite(arr. M. Hoeneck & T. Ille)
Der Rosenkavalier, Symphonic Suite(arr. Rodzinski)
Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 No.5 in D minor, Op.47
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Dvorak
Symphony No.8 in C minor
Janacek
Symphonic Suite from Jenufa
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Hoeneck.

[Stanfordian]

Schubert
Mass No. 6 in E flat major. D950
Mozart
Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K339
Genia Kühmeier (soprano); Christa Mayer (alto); Timothy Robinson, Oliver Ringelhaln (tenors), Matthew Rose (bass)
Staatsopernchor Dresden
Staatskapelle Dresden / Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded live 2008 Frauenkirche, Dresden
Carus - A favourite sacred choral album

Reger
String Quartets No’s 1 & 2
Piano Quartet
Trio Lirico with Detlev Eisnger (piano)
Recorded 2016 Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Audite

[BBMmk2]

Poulenc
Gloria
Honegger
Symphonie No.3 “Symphonie Liturgique”
Luba Organosva(soprano)
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Royal Concertgebouworkest
Mariss Jansons.

Dvorak arr Honeck & T Ille
Rusalka’s Fantasy
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck.

Szymanowski
Violin Concerti Nos1 &2
Karlowicz
Violin Concerto in A major, Op.8
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC SO
Edward Gardner.

[Joseph K]

Beethoven PC 4 - Gilels, Cleveland Orchestra/Szell

No. 5 currently.

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5

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Bruckner: Symphony No 5 (1896 Edition [Doblingler] Revision by Franz Schalk)

Clifford Curzon (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch

Just about to encounter this version of the Bruckner 5 for the first time. At JLW's suggestion a glass of something strong is to hand beside my listening chair. I've a feeling I might need it.

[cloughie]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5

[interval]

Bruckner: Symphony No 5 (1896 Edition [Doblingler] Revision by Franz Schalk)

Clifford Curzon (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch

Just about to encounter this version of the Bruckner 5 for the first time. At JLW's suggestion a glass of something strong is to hand beside my listening chair. I've a feeling I might need it.

How did you get on with it? - I’ve never had problems with it, but then I have not got J L-W’s Bruckner fine toothcomb!

[Petrushka]

How did you get on with it? - I’ve never had problems with it, but then I have not got J L-W’s Bruckner fine toothcomb!

I've known and loved the 5th for some 45 years now so it came as something of a shock to hear/not hear the Schalk re-orchestrations and swingeing cuts. I only lost my way once, though, in the finale when I completely lost track for a brief moment.

It's all a great shame because the VPO play finely for Kna and had he given us the unadulterated version then it would have been one of the great Bruckner recordings.

[DracoM]

https://areena.yle.fi/radio/ohjelmat/yle-klassinen/

- Finnish online station.

Q: why is it that so many of the online classical stations play so much more adventurous programmes than BBC R3?
I regularly hear pieces / composers I have never heard before.

[BBMmk2]

RCA Living Stereo 60 CD Collection Vol.2
CD 26
Schubert
Piano Sonata in D major, D850
Emil Gilels(piano)
Recording January 16 & 2
Town Hall NY City
CD27
Beethoven
Serenade for Violin & Cello, in D major, Op.8
Jascha Heifetz(violin)
William Primrose(Viola)
Gregor Piatigorsky(cello)
Kodály
Duo for violin and cello, Op.7
Jascha Heifetz(violin)
Gregor Piatigorsky(cello)
Beethoven
Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello, in D major, Op.9/2
Bach
Sinfonia No.4 in D minor, BWV790
Sinfonia No.9 in F minor, BWV795
Sinfonia No.3 in D major, BWV 789
Schubert
Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello in Bb major, D851
Jascha Heifetz(violin)
William Primrose (Viola)
Gregor Piatigorsky(cello).
Recording RCA Studios Hollywood, USA
August 17/22 1960 -Beethoven
August 15:16 & 18 1960 - Schubert
Fréderic Chopin
My Favourite Chopin
Van Cliburn
Recording Webster Hall, NY City May 1961)

[HighlandDougie]

I agree with you about the Jochum Beethoven - I have an incomplete set from earlier issues and the Philips box is incredibly expensive.

Thanks to a tip-off from a fellow Forumista, I see that Eloquence have announced the forthcoming release of a box of Jochum's Philips recordings, including the LvB cycle.