What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[silvestrione]

Piotr Beczala - ‘The French Collection’
Opera arias from Massenet, Berlioz, Verdi, Boieldieu, Donizetti, Gounod, Bizet
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon/Alain Altinoglu
with Diana Damrau, soprano (Manon duet)
Recorded 2014 Auditorium Maurice-Ravel, Lyon
Deutsche Grammophon

Vlado Perlemuter - Debussy - ‘Pour le piano’
Images sets 1 & 2
Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin
Vlado Perlemuter (piano)
Recorded 1968 (Debussy) & 1970 (Ravel) BBC Studio, London
BBC Music Magazine CD

Ah Perlemuter! I was trying to find his earlier Chopin recordings the other day, without much luck. Bought a batch on download that turned out to be more recent, on Nimbus, and IMHO, not very good. I loved his rubato and recreation of the music on an old EP I had once. I imagine the Debussy and Ravel are good!

[Stanfordian]

Ah Perlemuter! I was trying to find his earlier Chopin recordings the other day, without much luck. Bought a batch on download that turned out to be more recent, on Nimbus, and IMHO, not very good. I loved his rubato and recreation of the music on an old EP I had once. I imagine the Debussy and Ravel are good!

Yes I do like Perlemuter. I also admire Michelangeli, Arrau & Pierre-Laurent Aimard in his repertoire too.

[Bryn]

Ah Perlemuter! I was trying to find his earlier Chopin recordings the other day, without much luck. Bought a batch on download that turned out to be more recent, on Nimbus, and IMHO, not very good. I loved his rubato and recreation of the music on an old EP I had once. I imagine the Debussy and Ravel are good!

I well remember his recordings on Concert Hall' in my youth (my father took out a subscription on my behalf). All that seems to have survived is one 33.333 RPM 7" 'LP' of Chopin favourites (somewhere in the loft). His Ravel on Nimbus was a bit of a disappointment, too.

[Bryn]

Rousseau: Le Devin du Village (Gabriela Bürgler, Michael Feyfar, Dominik Wörner, Cantus Firmus Kammerchor, Cantus Firmus Consort, Adndreas Reize.

[jayne lee wilson]

Haydn Symphony No.86
Berlin Symphony/Sanderling. RCACD.
So beautifully played, so elegant, so charming, so unto itself...but...."I knew it was too good to be true" I thought....more gut more punch desired....
Back in the time machine for Harnoncourt, epic & tragic & lyric & ....


Sibelius Symphony No.6
Berlin Symphony/Sanderling. Deutsche Schallplatten/King Record Japan Remaster CD.
Sublime as could be in the cruel, real world. Of "The Peace which passeth understanding..."

[KLawrence]

Edgar Varese - The Varese Album
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Craft
Wounded Bird, 2007 (2xCD)

This set collects the Varese recordings that Robert Craft made in 1960-62 on two Columbia
Masterworks LPs.

[Bryn]

Edgar Varese - The Varese Album
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Craft
Wounded Bird, 2007 (2xCD)

This set collects the Varese recordings that Robert Craft made in 1960-62 on two Columbia
Masterworks LPs.

On LP, I only ever has the second disc with Déserts, Offrandes and Arcana, so I was really happy when the 'Wounded Bird' double CD album was issued by Sony:BMG back in 2007. I nearly bought the first LP album in Exeter in 1965 but was a couple of Shillings short of the asking price at the time. I did, however, record a Third Programme broadcast of Poème électronique from the first disc. I know it was from that disc (then in the Philips label in the UK) because whoever spun it dropped the stylus somewhat early and caught the last few chords of Hyperprism. Ah well, nobody's perfect. Indeed, for years I thought those closing chords of Hyperprism were, indeed, the opening of Poème électronique.

[DoctorT]

Mahler
Symphony no. 9
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
David Zinman

[jayne lee wilson]

Officium
Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble. ECM lossless/Qobuz-S.

"Never stopped loving you"...floating through the house.......apt to the mood and the heat...

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 56 & 57

Sir Arthur Bliss:
Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks' (vocal score)
Morning Heroes (vocal score)
Quintet for Clarinet & Strings
Suite from the film 'Things to Come'
Violin Concerto

[jayne lee wilson]

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[peterthekeys]

Stephen Oliver's music for "The Lord of the Rings":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-TpGJoucQ

Oddly enough, it was the Cyrillus Kreek "Whilst great is our poverty" on Record Review (fabulous piece) which reminded me irresistibly (and no doubt coincidentally) of the Aragorn section of the LoTW music ("Seek for the sword that was broken" - starts at 16:05 on the youtube link.)

"The Road goes ever on" and the idea of an apparently hopeless fight against an apparently invincible enemy seems particularly apt at the moment ...

Stephen Oliver taught at Huddersfield School of Music - unfortunately I missed him by a year (I arrived in 1976). I heard from ex-students that he used to hum the tunes of things that he was working on. Tragically, he died of AIDS in 1992 - possibly caught from nursing a friend who was dying from it. His marvellous music for LoTW is infinitely better than Howard Shore's scores.

(BTW the singer in "Sam's song" is Oz Clarke)

[BBMmk2]

Arnold Bax Works for Piano
Piano Sonata in Eb major
Legend
Piano Sonata No.2 in G major
John McCabe(piano)

Bax: Piano Duos
Sonata for 2 Pianos
Red Autumn
Hardanger
The Poisoned Fountain
The Devil that tempted St Anthony
Moy Mell, “The Pleasant Plain, an Irish Tone Poem”
Jeremy Brown, Seta Tanyel(pianos)

[jayne lee wilson]

Sibelius
Symphony No.4.
COE/Berglund. Finlandia CD.
Great and radical 4th, personal favourite...excellent sound. Kept away from 4 for a long time, really need it now....

Beethoven
Symphony No.1
Piano Concerto No.3
Wallisch/OWA/Haselböck. CPO CD.
Terrific performances. Physically, sonorously, Fiery finale to the 3rd!
Had fun here converting to DSD... useful extra warmth and body, especially in those lovely lower Graf registers, at the expense of a little space, but there's plenty to go around....! Best of all... my appetite for LvB is still keen....

[Bryn]

Shostakovich: Violin Concertos (Alina Ibragimova/'Svetlanov Orchestra'/Jurowski)

Phew! She really makes that instrument speak and sing.