What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

It's not one of my favourite Stravinsky, although it's not helped that I'm feeling a bit tired and groggy ...

I'm finding it a bit 'shouty' (competitive singing?) and rather deliberately paced (I wonder actually if the English is not that easy to get across at speed!) but it's certainly an interesting and valuable 'document'.

If it was the only version I'd ever heard, I might be wondering what all the fuss was about.
Hope you have access to others.
Hope you feel a bit brighter soon, too.

[Joseph K]

Thanks and yes - I was wondering what all the fuss was about...

[Bryn]

I'm finding it a bit 'shouty' (competitive singing?) and rather deliberately paced (I wonder actually if the English is not that easy to get across at speed!) but it's certainly an interesting and valuable 'document'.

If it was the only version I'd ever heard, I might be wondering what all the fuss was about.
Hope you have access to others.
Hope you feel a bit brighter soon, too.

I recall that when I got the LP of Les Noces, Renard, and Ragtime for 11 Instrument in my youth, I was much more taken with Renard and the Ragtime than Les Noces. Only later, after hearing other recordings, did the preference for Les Noces take over.

[Pulcinella]

I recall that when I got the LP of Les Noces, Renard, and Ragtime for 11 Instrument in my youth, I was much more taken with Renard and the Ragtime than Les Noces. Only later, after hearing other recordings, did the preference for Les Noces take over.

I got hold of most of the CBS Stravinsky recordings while I was in the sixth form, around 1968, from a small independent record shop in an arcade in Southport, of all unlikely places. They were reasonably priced, but came into the shop in dribs and drabs (overstock? deletions?) and I effectively had a standing order there!
I know I had the Craft version of Les noces (coupled with Mavra)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8114742--stravinsky-mavra-les-noces

and I probably had the (English) Stravinsky one you mention too

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8110875--stravinsky-conducts-stravinsky-les-noces-renard-rag-time

I bought the study score of Les noces on 10 November 1973, so must have been impressed/interested enough to want to get to know it better, but I suspect influenced by the Craft version rather than Stravinsky's own. I don't think that I had another LP version at that point, but can't remember now.

[gradus]

I got hold of most of the CBS Stravinsky recordings while I was in the sixth form, around 1968, from a small independent record shop in an arcade in Southport, of all unlikely places. They were reasonably priced, but came into the shop in dribs and drabs (overstock? deletions?) and I effectively had a standing order there!
I know I had the Craft version of Les noces (coupled with Mavra)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8114742--stravinsky-mavra-les-noces

and I probably had the (English) Stravinsky one you mention too

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8110875--stravinsky-conducts-stravinsky-les-noces-renard-rag-time

I bought the study score of Les noces on 10 November 1973, so must have been impressed/interested enough to want to get to know it better, but I suspect influenced by the Craft version rather than Stravinsky's own. I don't think that I had another LP version at that point, but can't remember now.

Levitt playing the sixth Bach Keyboard Partita, terrific, especially in the extraordinary smouldering Sarabande.

[BBMmk2]

Bernard Haitink- Portrait
Beethoven
Missa Solemnis, Op.123
Genia Kühmeier(soprano)
Elisabeth Kulman(mezzo-soprano)
Mark Padmore(tenor)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann(bass-baritone)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink.

I really love this box set.

[Bryn]

A CD-R of a recital by John White, at Schott Music, Great Marlborough Street, 23 April 2009, which just happened to be my 61st birthday:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata #31, Op. 110
Liszt: Carillon
Liszt: Schlummerlied
Liszt: Ehmals
Liszt: Abendglocken
Liszt: Die Trauergondel II
Karg-Elert: Weite Ebene
Karg-Elert: Junge Farren
Karg-Elert: Junge Birke
Karg-Elert: Falbes Laub im Wind
Karg-Elert: Einsame Kiefer
Karg-Elert: Vogelflug
Karg-Elert: from Partraits, Ritornello (ala Brahms), Poema escaltata (alla Scriabin), Cricifixus etiam pro nobis (alla Reger)
White: Sonata #162
White: Sonata #165
White: Sonata #156
White: Sonata #166 (Country Waltz) dedicated to Michael Parsons
White: Sonata #159 dedicated to yours truly.

[Stanfordian]

Pierre Boulez, Anne Sofie von Otter, Alison Hagley - ‘Ravel & Debussy’
Ravel
Shéhérazade
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Le tombeau de Couperin
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Menuet antique
Debussy
Danses. Danses sacrée et profane
Lisa Wellbaum (harp)
Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire
Trois ballades de François Villon
Alison Hagley (soprano)
Lisa Wellbaum (harp),
Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
Recorded 1999, Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland, USA
Deutsche Grammophon

French’ - Works for Violin and Piano
Saint-Saëns
Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
Franck
Sonate pour violin et piano
Ysaÿe
Caprice d’après l’étude en forme de Valse de Camille Saint-Saëns
Massenet
Méditation de Thaïs
Ravel
Tzigane, rapsodie de concert
Stéphanie-Marie Degand (violin) & Christie Julien (piano)
Recorded 2016, Auditorium du Gennevilliers Conservatory, Paris
NoMadMusic

[BBMmk2]

A Szymanowski theme today.

Karol Szymanowski
Symphony No.4, Op.60(Sinfonia Concertante)
Violin Concerti, Nos.1 & 2
Leif Ove Andsnes(piano)
Thomas Zehetmair(violin)
CBSO
Sir Simon Rattle.

Stabat Mater, Op.53
Litany to the Virgin Mary
Symphony No.3, Op.27, “Song of the Night”
Elizabeita Szmytka(soprano)
Florence Quivar(mezzo-soprano)
John Garrison (tenor)
John Connell (Bass)
CBSO & Chorus
Sir Simon Rattle

[Stanfordian]

Marie-Nicole Lemieux - ‘Ne me refuse pas’
French opera arias from Massenet, Cherubini, Halevy, Berlioz, Wormser, Thomas, Bizet, Saint-Saëns
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Le jeune choeur de Paris
Orchestre National de France / Fabien Gabel
with Francois Lisse (bass) - (track 1 - Herodiade)
Recorded 2010, Studio 103, Maison de la Radio, Paris
Naïve

André Caplet - 'Chamber Music'
Conte fantastique, for harp and string quartet
(after Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death)
Les prières, for voice, harp & string quartet
2 Divertissements, for harp
Septet for three female voices (vocalise) & string quartet
Sharon Coste (Soprano), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sylvie Deguy (mezzo-Soprano),
Ensemble Musique Oblique
Recorded 1992, La Salle de l'Esplanade, L'Arsenal, Metz
Harmonia Mundi

[Alison]

Bernard Haitink- Portrait
Beethoven
Missa Solemnis, Op.123
Genia Kühmeier(soprano)
Elisabeth Kulman(mezzo-soprano)
Mark Padmore(tenor)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann(bass-baritone)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink.

I really love this box set.

[Pulcinella]

I know teamsaint usually posts what he's cooking and then what he might be listening to at the same time on the cooking thread, but I'm doing it the other way round!

Spanish night here:

Falla
A Spanish 2CD set called Lo mejor de Falla

El amor brujo, El sombrero de tres picos, Noches en los jardines de Espana......

Anything to brighten up the incessant rain we've had pretty much all day.

To accompany a chicken (yes, it's that Pedants' Paradise pre-bought chicken leftovers) and chorizo paella, with a bottle of Tempranillo.
But we couldn't wait till 8 or 9 pm to eat.

[Stanfordian]

Vittorio Grigòlo - ‘The Romantic Hero’
French arias from Massenet, Gounod, Bizet, Meyerbeer, Halevy, Offenbach
Vittorio Grigòlo (tenor),
RAI National Symphony Orchestra / Evelino Pidò
with Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) & Alessandra Martines (speaker)
Recorded 2013 RAI Toscanini Auditorium, Turin
Sony

‘Thuille, Poulenc, Françaix - Sextets’
Thuille
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, op. 6
Poulenc
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, FP 100
Françaix
L’heure du Berger for piano and string quintet
Margarita Höhenrieder (piano)
Kammerharmonie der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden
Recorded 2016, Klosterbibliothek Polling, nr. Munich
Solo Musica - First class playing!

[frankbridge]

John Adams: Grand Pianola Music

Solisti New York/Ransom Wilson

EMI Angel CDC 747 331-2

A bit a little in your face, but nevertheless great stuff

[Bryn]

John Adams: Grand Pianola Music

Solisti New York/Ransom Wilson

EMI Angel CDC 747 331-2

A bit a little in your face, but nevertheless great stuff

Have you worked out the sung text?