What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Piotr Beczala - ‘Salut!’
French & Italian arias from Gounod, Massenet, Donizetti, Verdi, Bazin, Maillart, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Offenbach
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Ion Marin
Recorded 2007 Studio 1, Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich
Orfeo

Chaminade
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 11
Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 34
Trois Morceaux, Op. 31
Capriccio, Op. 18
Romanza appassionata
Sommeil d’enfant
Trio Parnassus
Recorded 2016, Konzerthaus der Abteikirche, Marienmünster
MDG

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 115,116 & 117

Dvorak:
Symphony No 7 in D minor op70
Symphony No 8 in G Major op88
Symphony No 9 in E minor 'from the New World' op95
String Quartet No 1 in A major op2
String Quartet No 3 in D major

[BBMmk2]

Last evening.

Alessandro Scarlatti
Con eco d’amore
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
The English Concert
Laurence Cummings

À la russe
Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.28
Tchaikovsky18 Pieces,Op.72 , TH 151: Méditation
Stravinsky The Firebird (arr. A Agosti for piano)
Tchaikovsky Two Pieces, Op.1/1 Scerzo à la russe
Balakirev Islamey
Alexandre Kantarow, (piano)

Vaughan Williams
Piano Quintet in C minor
Six Studies in English Folksong
Romance for Viola & Piano
London Soloists Ensemble

Herbert Howells
The Chosen Few
Piano Quartet No.1 in A minor, Op.21
Phantasy String Quartet, Op.25
Rhapsodic Quintet, for Clarinet & String Quartet, Op.31.
The Lyric Quartet
Andrew West, Michael Collins.

[Stanfordian]

Saint-Saëns
Le timbre d'argent (The Silver Bell) drame lyrique en quatre actes
(1865, premiere Paris 1877)
French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Soloists: Hélène Guilmette, Jodie Devos, Edgaras Montvidas,
Yu Shao, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean-Yves Ravoux, Matthieu Chapuis,
Accentus, chorus
Les Siècles, orchestra / François-Xavier Roth
Recorded June 2017 Studio de la Philharmonie de Paris
Bru Zane, Opéra français CD-book series, Volume 25

Forthcoming release - world premiere recording

[Pulcinella]

Yesterday evening (and listening to the Lanners again as I type):

Rorem: Piano sonatas 1–3
Thomas Lanners

Rorem: Piano sonata 2
Julius Katchen
(The first recording of any of Rorem's music, according to his book Knowing when to stop.)

Britten: Diversions
Julius Katchen/LSO/Britten

[teamsaint]

Yesterday evening (and listening to the Lanners again as I type):

Rorem: Piano sonatas 1–3
Thomas Lanners

Rorem: Piano sonata 2
Julius Katchen
(The first recording of any of Rorem's music, according to his book Knowing when to stop.)

Britten: Diversions
Julius Katchen/LSO/Britten

Be interested in your thoughts on the Rorem sontas, Pulcers.

Currently:
Mischa Maisky and Martha Argerich in Concert.

Stravinsky : Pulcinella Suite
Prokofiev Sonata
DSCH Sonata

Very good Sunday night listen

[Pulcinella]

Be interested in your thoughts on the Rorem sontas, Pulcers.

Currently:
Mischa Maisky and Martha Argerich in Concert.

Stravinsky : Pulcinella Suite
Prokofiev Sonata
DSCH Sonata

Very good Sunday night listen

The Rorem are well worth hearing (imho); I've only just discovered them, and think that they deserve to be better known.
Rorem considered himself a French composer (adoring the Poulenc songs), one of his all-time favourite works being Ravel's L'enfant, though he had no time for the likes of Messiaen and Boulez.

[Bryn]

Florence Price: Symphony no. 3 from the "Essential Symphonies" collection.

[Stanfordian]

Debussy
Prelude a L'apres-midi d'un Faune
Images pour orchestre, No. 2 'Iberia'
'Damoiselle Elue', cantata
Maria Ewing, soprano / mezzo-soprano (Damoiselle)
& Brigitte Balleys, mezzo-soprano (Récitante)
LSO & Chorus / Claudio Abbado
Recorded 1986 All Saints Church, Tooting, London
Deutsche Grammophon (Japan)

Pierne
Piano Quintet
Vierne
String Quartet
Goldner String Quartet
Piers Lane (piano)
Recorded 2013 Potton Hall, Suffolk
Hyperion

[Pulcinella]

Copland: Piano sonata
Sessions: From my diary
Kirchner: Piano sonata
Rorem: 3 barcarolles

Leon Fleisher

[teamsaint]

Mendelssohn.
Midsummer Nights Dream.
CBSO / Gardner.

This is really brilliant.Full of invention and interesting detail.

[Richard Barrett]

Today I've been listening to Stravinsky's own recording of The Soldier's Tale, with posthumous narration by Jeremy Irons, who is excellent, as indeed are the players. I'm busy filling in a few gaps in my Stravinskyology, on account of being immersed in Stephen Walsh's biography of the composer.

[Dave2002]

Today I've been listening to Stravinsky's own recording of The Soldier's Tale, with posthumous narration by Jeremy Irons, who is excellent, as indeed are the players. I'm busy filling in a few gaps in my Stravinskyology, on account of being immersed in Stephen Walsh's biography of the composer.

I assume you mean Stravinsky, as Jeremy Irons does still seem to be alive. You had me worried for a little while.

[gurnemanz]

Today I've been listening to Stravinsky's own recording of The Soldier's Tale, with posthumous narration by Jeremy Irons, who is excellent, as indeed are the players. I'm busy filling in a few gaps in my Stravinskyology, on account of being immersed in Stephen Walsh's biography of the composer.

Reminds me of one my very early Prom visits in 1971 - 49 years ago tomorrow. A staged Soldier's Tale formed Part 2 of an eclectic and very generous threefer event, including various premieres. We started at 7pm with Roberto Gerhard, Bach Violin Concerto with Nona Lidell and Roger Smalley's Beat Music (a BBC commission). Part 3 started at 10pm with Robert Tear doing Tippetts's Songs for Dov, at which point Luciano Berio (for it was he) appeared to conduct his own Laborintus II. Still got the programme, - if not the T shirt - it was quite an evening.

[Richard Barrett]

Reminds me of one my very early Prom visits in 1971 - 49 years ago tomorrow. A staged Soldier's Tale formed Part 2 of an eclectic and very generous threefer event, including various premieres. We started at 7pm with Roberto Gerhard, Bach Violin Concerto with Nona Lidell and Roger Smalley's Beat Music (a BBC commission). Part 3 started at 10pm with Robert Tear doing Tippetts's Songs for Dov, at which point Luciano Berio (for it was he) appeared to conduct his own Laborintus II. Still got the programme, - if not the T shirt - it was quite an evening.

Sounds good. The London Sinfonietta was really a force to be reckoned with in its early days.

Currently playing: Les Noces, OK it is a piece I know quite well, but I hadn't previously heard this fiercely driven performance by Gergiev at the Mariinsky. It's a selling point of the recording that everyone is singing in their native language, which would be a big plus in view of the Esperanto that this piece often sounds like it's being sung in, were it not for the fact that the recorded acoustic is so murky that it's impossible to hear the voices clearly anyway.