What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

I can't see any horses - maybe my earlier comment re "manes" has affected you - though there does seem to be a bus - or maybe a lorry.

Very odd cover - there is still a thread for those lurking somewhere I think.

Presumably, you did not see the single quote marks or the pages of manuscript being scattered by the "Wurlitzer"* pantechnicon, either. The reference was to that aspect of the cover image; Stoki at the wheel with Glenn as navigator, carrying Ludwig as a hitch-hiker.

*It is difficult to see in the reduced image, but the badge above the radiator reads "Wurlitzer".

[Stanfordian]

Mirella Freni - ‘The Opera Album’
French & Italian opera arias from Puccini, Verdi, Bellini, Mascagni, Bizet
Mirella Freni (soprano)
with Franco Bonisolli (tenor), Sesto Bruscantini (baritone), Gudrun Schäfer (soprano)
Hamburg State Orchestra / Leone Magiera
Recorded 1974 Hamburg
Berlin State Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Lamberto Gardelli,
Recorded 1973 Berlin
Munich Radio Orchestra / Ino Savini
Recorded 1959 Munich
Acanta (3 CDs)

Charles Koechlin - ‘Chamber Music for Oboe & Other Instruments’
Sonata for oboe & piano, Op. 58
Trio for oboe, clarinet & bassoon, Op. 206
Au Lion - Chant, for cor anglais & piano, Op. 20
Sonate à 7, for oboe, flute, harpsichord, 2 violins, viola & cello, Op. 221
11 Monodies for solo oboe d'amore, Op. 216
Principals from Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks:
Stefan Schilli (oboe/cor anglais/oboe d’amore), Oliver Triendl (piano), Henrik Wiese (flute), Cristina Bianchi (harp), Christopher Corbett (clarinet), Marco Postinghel (bassoon), Daniel Giglberger (violin), Heather Cottrell (violin), Anja Kreynacke (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello)
Recorded 2014/15, Studio 2, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Oehms - A quite wonderful album

[LMcD]

I can't see any horses - maybe my earlier comment re "manes" has affected you - though there does seem to be a bus - or maybe a lorry.

Very odd cover - there is still a thread for those lurking somewhere I think.

Surely any whiff of horses is explained by the fact that they're driving the wrong way up a one-way street having consumed a vast amount of beer at the Nag's Head.

[Bryn]

Yet another Beethoven Fifth Symphony. This time the new Les Siecles/Roth. Spirited start. Let's hear how it progresses. Looking forward to listening to the Gosssec, which I do not know at all.

[Richard Barrett]

Beethoven
Violin Sonatas (Complete). ZZT CDs/Qobuz.
Midori Seiler/Jos van Immerseel.
Just starting on this.....

Now you're talking. Anything Midori Seiler does is OK by me.

Returning to Schubert for a moment, I never liked Richter in that sonata either. So there you go.

[Joseph K]

The talk on the other thread led me to this from 'The Concerto Album' on EMI:

Bartok - piano concerto no. 3 - Argerich/Orchestre Philharmonique de Montréal/Dutoit

[Pulcinella]

Bartok: Concerto for two pianos and percussion
Gold and Fizdale/NYPO/Bernstein

I got to know this orchestrated version before the original Sonata, as it was the coupling for the Music for SPC (NUJMB A-level set work, 1969, which some of my school friends were studying).

https://www.discogs.com/Bartok-Gold-And-Fizdale-New-York-Philharmonic-Bernstein-Bernstein-Conducts-Bartok/release/1741454

[Serial_Apologist]

Bartok: Concerto for two pianos and percussion
Gold and Fizdale/NYPO/Bernstein

I got to know this orchestrated version before the original Sonata, as it was the coupling for the Music for SPC (NUJMB A-level set work, 1969, which some of my school friends were studying).

https://www.discogs.com/Bartok-Gold-...elease/1741454

It always disappoints me, every time I hear it performed, since much of the vital energy and wicked humour of the original seems lost, to me.

[Pulcinella]

It always disappoints me, every time I hear it performed, since much of the vital energy and wicked humour of the original seems lost, to me.

I think you're right, but I still enjoy it from time to time!

[Bryn]

It always disappoints me, every time I hear it performed, since much of the vital energy and wicked humour of the original seems lost, to me.

Ditto.

[Richard Barrett]

Bartok: Concerto for two pianos and percussion
Gold and Fizdale/NYPO/Bernstein

I like it. Maybe because it's familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, but it seems to me that if this were the only version of this music I wouldn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Now spinning: Harnoncourt's Mozart Early Symphonies set. I don't think I'm going to get through all seven CDs, but the first one is exactly what I need this morning. I just love the sound of this ensemble in Mozart and Haydn. I wish NH and friends had made a complete recording of both sets of symphonies.

[kernelbogey]

J S Bach: English Suite No 6 (Andras Schiff).
(In retreat from Breakfast.)

[Quarky]

Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

[Pulcinella]

Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Which recording?

[Quarky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m129k5YcQnU&t=2s

- Orchestra: RIAS Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay

I'm a YouTube addict Pulcinella - I travel light!

.....I tell a lie - I do have a recording with Chicago SO - Boulez conductor - Pierre Boulez conducts Bartok.... I will play it later .....