What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Mine still has to be Ansermet.

Must give the Roth another audition.

[Pulcinella]

Yet another great Daphnis - the work has fared so well on record over the years!

I too like Abbado's Ravel: I guess it got overshadowed at the time by the Dutoit Montreal releases.

[visualnickmos]

Beethoven
Piano sonatas Op2 1/2/3
Glenn Gould

Just perfectly suited to my mood today. Sublime performances, IMVHO. Although 'young' Beethoven, Glenn Gould gives them a wonderfully mature sound.
I have always thought he is sometimes very unfairly maligned.

[Bryn]

Beethoven
Piano sonatas Op2 1/2/3
Glenn Gould

Just perfectly suited to my mood today. Sublime performances, IMVHO. Although 'young' Beethoven, Glenn Gould gives them a wonderfully mature sound.
I have always thought he is sometimes very unfairly maligned.

Who, Gould by some critics or Beethoven by Gould?

[johnb]

So right. Nevertheless my other three favourites are Pierre Monteux/LSO; Munch/Boston SO and Pierre Boulez/Berliner Philharmoniker.

I feel there is something special about the Monteux but I must give the Munch and Boulez a listen.

[Joseph K]

Prompted by the composer of the week thread: Saariaho - Graal Theatre, Chateau de L'ame, Amers.

'Amers', a cello concerto, is the most impressive of these.

[BBMmk2]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.9 in D
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1899 version)
(Magdalena Kozená, mezzo-soprano, Christian Gerhaher, Baritone,
Cleveland Orchestra)
Symphony No.10 in F# major
(Cleveland Orchestra)
Lieder ehnes fahrenden Gesellen
(Thomas Quastoff, Bass-baritone
Wiener Philharmoniker)
Pierre Boulez.

[Jonathan]

Piano music volume 5 by Josef Wieniawski (brother of Henryk) on Acte Prealable.

[Bryn]

https://www.facebook.com/ivoryduopiano/videos/363495691666490

For those with access.

[Mario]

MOZART

Coronation Mass in C Maj K317 – Süddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Chamber Choir of Europe / P Heuvelman / B Werner / B Haller / M Bittner / L Wollenschläger with Nicol Matt

String Quintet in Bb Maj K174 – Chilingirian Q / Inoue Y

Mario

[Pulcinella]

I saw this listed and thought it looks interesting - not just for Job, which is my favourite RVW work but also for an orchestrated version of the Songs of Travel! Just sampled on Spotify - could be the best Job yet!

I wonder if you still think that, cloughie, after listening through.
I found it curiously uninvolving, though that might just be my mood this afternoon.

A shame, since, like you, I can sometimes rate this as my favourite RVW work; but then I hear the fifth symphony again, and that supplants it!
Never mind. Other recordings are available; several are on my shelves.


Lucky Adrian Boult, to have had this score dedicated to him.

[HighlandDougie]

I wonder if you still think that, cloughie, after listening through.
I found it curiously uninvolving, though that might just be my mood this afternoon.

A shame, since, like you, I can sometimes rate this as my favourite RVW work; but then I hear the fifth symphony again, and that supplants it!
Never mind. Other recordings are available; several are on my shelves.


Lucky Adrian Boult, to have had this score dedicated to him.

I’ve now listened to the Elder courtesy of Tidal three times and, apologies, Cloughie but, like Pulcinella, I find it uninvolving to the extent that it almost seems perfunctory. My absolute favourite of the numerous performances to which I have access is an - excellent - off-air recording of Sakari Oramo and the BBC SO at the Proms. The ending, which, with Elder, is just a bit ordinary, is, in Oramo’s hands, a thing of wonder. I’m being unfair to Elder as Oramo is not generally available (pity) but, once heard, never forgotten.

[Bryn]

Downloaded from https://milanazaririchardbarrett.ban...m/album/mirage

Just be aware that if you want to burn it to CD-R you will have to convert it from 48kHz, 24 bit to 44.1kHz, 16 bit first. Oh, and the last of the 5 works on in the download is a binaural mix, so best listened to via headphones. The other four works are from live 2 channel stereo recordings as seen and heard online, recently. Much higher resolution here though.

Actually, come to think of it, some modern CD players can handle FLACs burned to CD-R as a data disc. If you're fortunate enough to have such a player, all five items would fit on a single CD-R in FLAC format.

[cloughie]

I wonder if you still think that, cloughie, after listening through.
I found it curiously uninvolving, though that might just be my mood this afternoon.

A shame, since, like you, I can sometimes rate this as my favourite RVW work; but then I hear the fifth symphony again, and that supplants it!
Never mind. Other recordings are available; several are on my shelves.


Lucky Adrian Boult, to have had this score dedicated to him.

Interesting that thought there has been a number of recordings of Job over the years Boult’s 1954 recording is for me the one to beat. I have not listened through the whole of the Elder, and not with all stops out on the KEFs. So will reserve my potehtial enthusiasm until then!
As for favourite RVW - top 5 Job, S3, S5, S2 and Tallis - Boult (or Barbirolli, where available - pity there is no Job By JB!).

[Suffolkcoastal]

Had a few days break.

Score following - Days 162-164

F J Haydn:
String Quartet in F op55 no2 'Razor'
String Quartet in B flat major op55 no3
String Quartet in C major op64 no1
String Quartet in B minor op64 no2
String Quartet in B flat major op64 no3
String Quartet in G major op64 no4
String Quartet in D major op64 no5 'Lark'
String Quartet in E flat major op64 no6
String Quartet in B flat major op71 no1
String Quartet in D major op71 no2
String Quartet in E flat major op71 no3
String Quartet in C major op74 no1
String Quartet in F major op74 no2
String Quartet in G minor op74 no3 'Rider'