What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Debussy
Nocturnes for Orchestra
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Scriabin
Symphony No. 4 ‘Poem of Ecstasy’
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
Recorded 1970/71 Symphony Hall, Boston
Deutsche Grammophon ‘Originals’

Stéphanie d’Oustrac - ‘Invitation au Voyage’ - Mélodies Françaises
Mélodies from Duparc, de la Presle, Debussy, Boulanger, Hahn
Stéphanie d’Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) & Pascal Jourdan (piano)
Recorded 2014, Espace culturel C. J. Bonnet, Chapel of Jujurieux, Ambronay
Ambronay Éditions

[Pulcinella]

Last night, before the Prom

Hindemith:
Cello concerto (Wallfisch)
Theme and four variations 'The four temperaments' (Shelley)
BBCPO/Tortelier

This morning (as well as most of the rest of the CD)
Walton:
Variations on a theme by Hindemith
ENP/Daniel

The Walton takes as its basis the opening of the second movement of the Hindemith Cello concerto.

[visualnickmos]

Mahler
Symphony no. 2 'Resurrection'
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
(Philips)

A truly amazing and highly-charged performance, in fabulous recorded sound.
It joins on equal terms, my top version, also on Philips; Royal Concertgebouw / Bernard Haitink

[Petrushka]

Mahler
Symphony no. 2 'Resurrection'
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
(Philips)

A truly amazing and highly-charged performance, in fabulous recorded sound.
It joins on equal terms, my top version, also on Philips; Royal Concertgebouw / Bernard Haitink

I saw Ozawa and the Boston SO perform the 'Resurrection' at the Proms in 1984 but never did get their recording. Might search it out.

[BBMmk2]

Debussy
Nocturnes for Orchestra
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Scriabin
Symphony No. 4 ‘Poem of Ecstasy’
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
Recorded 1970/71 Symphony Hall, Boston
Deutsche Grammophon ‘Originals’

Stéphanie d’Oustrac - ‘Invitation au Voyage’ - Mélodies Françaises
Mélodies from Duparc, de la Presle, Debussy, Boulanger, Hahn
Stéphanie d’Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) & Pascal Jourdan (piano)
Recorded 2014, Espace culturel C. J. Bonnet, Chapel of Jujurieux, Ambronay
Ambronay Éditions

That Debussy/Abbado CD is a favourite one of that composer!

A brass band CD to start the day off, which I haven't heard in ages! A classic, if there ever was one

Enigma
Elgar are Eric Ball
Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Vaughan Williams
Henry V Overture
John Ireland
A Downland Suite
Sir Arthur Bliss
Kenilworth Suite
Fairey Band
Allan Withington

Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Britten
Cello Symphony, Op.68
Truls Mork(cello)
CBSO
Sir Simon Rattle

[Bryn]

Ives: Symphony No. 1 (LAP, Dudamel) to be followed by 2, 3 and 4 (QOBUZ streaming).

[visualnickmos]

I saw Ozawa and the Boston SO perform the 'Resurrection' at the Proms in 1984 but never did get their recording. Might search it out.

I've acquired a fair few of Seiji Ozawa's recordings over the last five years, or so, and I have to say - not a dud yet.

[Richard Barrett]

Ives: Symphony No. 1 (LAP, Dudamel) to be followed by 2, 3 and 4 (QOBUZ streaming).

Yes...? Any good?

[Bryn]

Yes...? Any good?

The 1st is very well done. The others will have to wait until after tonight's Prom broadcasts (I started with Radio 3, then switched to BBC Two). Getting back to the Ives, QOBUZ appears to be alone, so far, in offering 24 bit quantization streaming.

[Bryn]

Now moved on to Ives: Symphony #2. So far, so rather good. In this work, though, it's the final (afterthought) chord which can make or break it for me. That's nearly half an hour off, yet.

Damn it! Dudamel and co. play Bernstein, rather than Ives, for the final chord. There is, for me at least a lack of the appropriate 'bloom' in much of the string playing, too. A case of two ha'porth of tar, I'm afraid.

[BBMmk2]

Peter Graham - Metropolis 1927)
On The Shoulders of Giants (2009)
Radio City2012, text: Philip Couts)
Paramount Rhapsody(2018)
New York Movie(2028)
Metropolis 1927(2014)
Dale Gerrard(narrator)
Philip Cobb(trumpet)
Peter Moore(trombone)
Richard Philips(keyboards
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs Stephen Cobb

The Trumpets of the Angels
The Music of Edward Gregson Vol.4
An Age of Kings
Symphonic Rhapsody for Euphonium & Band
Concerto for Tuba & Band
The Trumpets of the Angels
Black Dyke Band
Dr. Nicholas J Childs

[Jonathan]

Marc-Andre Hamelin's latest disc of Liszt and Thalberg paraphrases.

[gurnemanz]

Genia Kühmeier and Bernarda Fink with pianist Christoph Berner in Dvorak songs and duets. Following up on Composer of the Week a couple of weeks ago where they played one of the Moravian duets.

[Bryn]

Marc-Andre Hamelin's latest disc of Liszt and Thalberg paraphrases.

How do the Thalberg performances compare with Mark Viner's?

[Petrushka]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5
Halle Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

Recorded on February 17 1944 and presumably receiving its first recording?