What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Edgy 2]

A great Youtube discovery tonight.
Chary Nurymov's Piano Concerto with score. Admittedly the score is for the two piano reduction, but nevertheless, a rare treat for Nurymov fans.
I didn't know the concerto, as the only other performance I have heard was a hopelessly scratchy vinyl download.

this recording is pretty decent though. Much of the usual Nurymov soundworld, but rather more Russian /Rachmaninoff influence here, especially in the first movement.

Enjoy !!

( I was due to hear Nurymov's second symphony in Poole in May. Hoping that Karabits will reschedule one day).

Thoroughly enjoyed that,thanks ts

[BBMmk2]

Franz Liszt
Années de Pèlerinage, cpte.
Louis Lortie, piano.

Mahler
Symphony No.1 in D major
(Including ‘Blumine’)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski

[Stanfordian]

Bruckner
Mass No. 2 in E minor for double choir and winds
(2nd version of 1882, revised 1885, 1896)
Stravinsky
Mass, for choir and winds (1948)
Rundfunkchor Berlin,
Wind players of Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Gijs Leenaars
Recorded 2019, Großer Sendesaal, Haus des Rundfunks, RBB, Berlin
Pentatone - recent release

Jan Vogler - ‘Cello Concertos’
Nico Muhly / Sven Helbig / Zhou Long
‘Three Continents’ Cello Concerto (2019):
1) Cello Cycles
2) Aria
3) Tipsy Poet
Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 2
Jan Vogler (cello)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln / Cristian Măcelaru (‘Three Continents’)
Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (Shostakovich)
Recorded January 2020 Kölner Philharmonie (‘Three Continents’)
& Live June 2019 Konzerthaus, Berlin (Shostakovich)
Sony - new release

[silvestrione]

Score following - Days 109, 110 & 111

David Diamond:
Symphony No 4
Symphony No 5
Symphony No 8

Dohnanyi:
Variations on a Nursery Song for Piano & Orchestra op25

Dukas:
The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Dvorak:
String Quintet in G major op77
Piano Quintet No 2 in A major op81
Piano Trio No 4 in E minor op90 'Dumky'

You own these scores, or you're finding them online?

[Bryn]

Dave Smith: 5th Piano Concert (as given at the then BMIC recital room at 10 Stratford Place, 5th July 2001). This is a particularly evocative recording of the work, due partly to the heavy cloudburst which can clearly be heard, along with the accompanying thunder, towards the close of this 86+ minute performance by the composer.

[Stanfordian]

Marilyn Horne - ‘Recital’
French arias by Offenbach, Cherubini, Saint-Saens, Auber, Gounod, Massenet, Donizetti, Godard
Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo / Lawrence Foster
Recorded 1984, Palais des Congrès, Monte-Carlo
Erato

Debussy - ‘Sonatas & Trio’
Cello Sonata
Syrinx, for solo flute
Violin Sonata
Sonata for flute, viola & harp
Piano Trio
Renaud Capuçon (violin); Bertrand Chamayou (piano); Edgar Moreau (cello);
Emmanuel Pahud (flute); Gerard Caussé (viola); Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)
Recorded 2016 Salle Colonne (works with flute), 2017, Studios Davout (remainder), Paris
Erato

[BBMmk2]

Handel
Brockes-Passion
Elizabeth Watts, Ruby Hughes, Philippa Hyde(sopranos)
Rachel Lloyd(mezzo-soprano) Kate Symonds-Joy(alto),
Tim Mead(counter-tenor),
Gwilym Bowen, Robert Murray, Nicky Spence,(tenors)
Cody Quattlebaum(Bass-baritone)
AAM Choir
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr

[Bryn]

The new BBCMM cover disc, an all-Bartok programme of the 2 Pictures, 5th SQ and Out of Doors. I'm only a few minutes into the first of the 2 Pictures at the moment but am suitably impressed (BBCSO, Gergely Madaras). Other performers are available (on the other 'tracks').

[Pulcinella]

The new BBCMM cover disc, an all-Bartok programme of the 2 Pictures, 5th SQ and Out of Doors. I'm only a few minutes into the first of the 2 Pictures at the moment but am suitably impressed (BBCSO, Gergely Madaras). Other performers are available (on the other 'tracks').

SNAP!
Not so impressed with the SQ; perhaps too resonant a recording/venue?
Enjoying Out of Doors (not much of that going on for me and many others, I imagine!) though.

[KLawrence]

Terry Jennings, John Cage - Lost Daylight
John Tilbury, Piano; Sebastian Lexer, Electronics (Cage only)
Another Timbre, 2010 (CD).

This CD consists of five solo piano pieces by Jennings, composed between 1958 & 1965, and Electronic Music
for Piano by Cage, from 1964. The spare and beautiful Jennings pieces are characteristic of his early compositional
style (he died in 1981 aged 41). It is Jennings early work which attracted the attention of luminaries such as La Monte
Young and which also influenced several current composers, for example Peter Garland & Howard Skempton.

This valuable CD contains the only music by Jennings currently in the catalogue. It has now been re-printed after the
initial run sold out, and so it would seem that Terry Jennings, the 'Forgotten Minimalist', is still some way from being
entirely forgotten.

[Nick Armstrong]

Going to investigate the new(ish) Chandos recording of The Planets (& Also Sprach...) by the National Youth Orchestra under Edward Gardner, having happened to stumble on Jupiter on “In Tune”....

... Wow! Rooted me to the spot. Seemed to be how I’ve always wanted it to go but had never yet heard. Talk about a rejuvenating shot in the withers of an old war horse...

Happily the performances are on Qobuz so that’s my imminent listening sorted

https://www.qobuz.com/be-nl/album/holst-the-planets-r-strauss-also-sprach-zarathustra-edward-gardner-national-youth-orchestra-of-great-britain/0095115517925

(Sean Chattery seemed to suggest it was hot off the presses, but that link indicates it was released in 2017)

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 112, 113 & 114

Dvorak:
Mass in D major op86 (original version) - vocal score
Stabat Mater op58 - vocal score
Serenade in D minor op44
The Water Goblin op107
The Noon Witch op108
Cello Concerto in B minor op104
Symphony No 6 in D major op60

[Pulcinella]

Going to investigate the new(ish) Chandos recording of The Planets (& Also Sprach...) by the National Youth Orchestra under Edward Gardner, having happened to stumble on Jupiter on “In Tune”....

... Wow! Rooted me to the spot. Seemed to be how I’ve always wanted it to go but had never yet heard. Talk about a rejuvenating shot in the withers of an old war horse...

Happily the performances are on Qobuz so that’s my imminent listening sorted

https://www.qobuz.com/be-nl/album/holst-the-planets-r-strauss-also-sprach-zarathustra-edward-gardner-national-youth-orchestra-of-great-britain/0095115517925

(Sean Chattery seemed to suggest it was hot off the presses, but that link indicates it was released in 2017)

Recorded in Birmingham, 8–9 August 2016, and released 27 January 2017, according to Presto:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8256589--edward-gardner-conducts-holst-richard-strauss

[Stanfordian]

Anna Netrebko - ‘Sempre libera’
Arias by Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi,
Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
with Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano), Saimir Pirgu (tenor), Nicola Ulivieri (bass-baritone),
Andrea Concetti (bass), Sascha Reckart (glass harmonica)
Recorded 2004 Teatro Municipale Valli di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Deutsche Grammophon SACD

Koechlin - ‘Works for Ensembles’
Paysages et Marine, Op. 63
Sonatine for oboe d'amore with flute, clarinet, harpsichord & string sextet, Op. 194/1
Sonatine for oboe d'amore with flute, clarinet, harpsichord & string sextet, Op. 194/2
Wind Septet (1937)
Sonate a 7, Op. 221
Ensemble Contraste,
Ensemble Initium
Recorded 2011 Vincennes, France
Timpani

[BBMmk2]

Going to investigate the new(ish) Chandos recording of The Planets (& Also Sprach...) by the National Youth Orchestra under Edward Gardner, having happened to stumble on Jupiter on “In Tune”....

... Wow! Rooted me to the spot. Seemed to be how I’ve always wanted it to go but had never yet heard. Talk about a rejuvenating shot in the withers of an old war horse...

Happily the performances are on Qobuz so that’s my imminent listening sorted

https://www.qobuz.com/be-nl/album/holst-the-planets-r-strauss-also-sprach-zarathustra-edward-gardner-national-youth-orchestra-of-great-britain/0095115517925

(Sean Chattery seemed to suggest it was hot off the presses, but that link indicates it was released in 2017)

I might get that!

Today having a Hannu Lintu session.

Sibelius Kullervo, Op.7
Johanna Rusanen(soprano)
Ville Rusanen(baritone)
Estonian National Male Choir
Polytech Male Choir
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu.

Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22
Pohjola’s Daughter, Op.49.
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu.