What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Beethoven Op. 101 (Peter Serkin playing a c. 1904/5 'Graf') This I am finding greatly enjoyable. Serkin is truly at home with this instrument and this repertoire.

[Pulcinella]

Prompted by gurnemanz (in the thread he started this morning: Remembering the dead):

Holst: A choral fantasia
(Janet Baker/Purcell Singers/ECO/Imogen Holst, with Ralph Downes, organ)

Lined up for later in the week, by a circuitous route:
Britten:
Cantata academia
Cantata misericordium

The route was Holst Choral fantasia —> Holst Psalm 86 (on the same EMI CD) —> Holst Psalm 86 other recording I have (CLS/Hickox, on Chandos) —> Britten Cantata misericordium, a coupling on that CD.

Investigating (commercial rather than YouTube) recordings, I discovered that there were two for the Cantata misericordium (Hickox and Britten, on Decca) but only one for the Cantata academia (Malcolm, also on Decca).

The Decca recordings appear together on a 2CD set that I have, titled The rarities.
Indeed!
I'm surprised that there are no other recordings of these works, and wonder why they have not gained wider appeal, though the Decca recordings have at least appeared in other compilations/couplings.

[Joseph K]

Debussy La Mer - Cleveland Orchestra/Ashkenazy

[Richard Barrett]

Pulchra es: Affetti in 17th-century Italian Instrumental Music

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I did have a listen to that and found it quite beautiful, BUT after checking out Das Musikalische Garten playing Biber, I investigated their other recordings and found one which I think you'd like a lot, it's called "Á 2 Violin verstimbt" on the Ars Produktion label and consists of a selection of works for 2 violins with and without continuo all featuring different scordatura and ranging from obscure mid-17th-century composers to two early pieces by Telemann. Quite a discovery I thought.

[Jonathan]

Earlier on, a recording from 1997 of Liszt's 2nd Annees de Pelerinage with the original versions of all of the pieces, plus another incomplete version of Sposalizio which I didn't even knew existed.

[Petrushka]

Britten: War Requiem
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Choral Society
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir
Malcolm Hicks (chamber organ); Ralph Downes (organ)
London Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink

Recoded live at a Promenade Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on August 15 1976

[jayne lee wilson]

I did have a listen to that and found it quite beautiful, BUT after checking out Das Musikalische Garten playing Biber, I investigated their other recordings and found one which I think you'd like a lot, it's called "Á 2 Violin verstimbt" on the Ars Produktion label and consists of a selection of works for 2 violins with and without continuo all featuring different scordatura and ranging from obscure mid-17th-century composers to two early pieces by Telemann. Quite a discovery I thought.

Thanks Richard..... lined up for later....and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow....

I do like the Biber Artificioso very much, I have the Köln recording; but I'll take a look at the DMGarten in that too....

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 179 & 180

Hindemith:
Konzertmusik for Piano, Brass & Harps
Der Schwanendreher for Viola & Orchestra
Symphonie: Mathis der Maler
Symphony in E flat
Nobilissima Vision - Suite
Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Weber

[BBMmk2]

Yesterday’s listening had a Remembrance theme about it.

Britten
War Requiem
Galena Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Bach Choir
LSO Chorus
Melos Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten

For the Fallen
Elgar
The Spirit of England, Op.80
A Voice in the Wilderness, Op.77
Grania and Diamid, Op.42 -
Incidental Music
Bax
In Memoriam
Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
Joshua Elicott narrator)
Jennifer France (soprano)
Madeline Shaw(mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder

Today marks the 30th anniversary of The Berlin Wall coming down, so I thought it be good to play that famous recording that Bernstein recorded in a special concert.

Beethoven
Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Members of the Kirov Orchestra, Leningrad
Members of the London Symphony Orchestra
Members of the New York Symphony Orchestra
Members of the Orchestre de Paris
Members of the Staatskapelle Dresden
Leonard Bernstein

[Bryn]

Yesterday’s listening had a Remembrance theme about it.

Britten
War Requiem
Galena Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Bach Choir
LSO Chorus
Melos Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten

. . .

On CD or the Jarman DVD? The latter is quite stunning and the original Decca recording is remastered.

[silvestrione]

Earlier on, a recording from 1997 of Liszt's 2nd Annees de Pelerinage with the original versions of all of the pieces, plus another incomplete version of Sposalizio which I didn't even knew existed.

Leslie Howard?

[jayne lee wilson]

Score following - Days 179 & 180

Hindemith:
Konzertmusik for Piano, Brass & Harps
Der Schwanendreher for Viola & Orchestra
Symphonie: Mathis der Maler
Symphony in E flat
Nobilissima Vision - Suite
Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Weber

What a wonderful sequence from one of my very favourite composers.... the String Quartets and the Clarinet Quintet (ah, but which version....) for you soon perhaps?

[teamsaint]

Haydn . Nelson Mass.

Grete Pedersen conducts Oslo Camerata/Det Norske Blåseensemble & Solistkor Oslo
Berit Norbakken Solset - soprano; Halvor F. Melien - baritone
Additional soloists:
Ingeborg Dalheim - soprano; Amanda Flodin / Astrid Sandvand Dahlen - alto; Mathias Gillebo / Kristian Krokslett - tenor; Olle Holmgren - bass

This is certainly a turbo charged performance. Really enjoying it a lot, but it isn't for the faint hearted........

[jayne lee wilson]

Each time I return the more exceptional this sounds....
The lightness of touch, the delicacy, sensitivity and yet simplicity of tone and phrase, never any over-elaboration; wonderful spontaneity of dialogue between and across the players, living moment-to-moment, in the very moment and movement of the musical expression; so a live and youthful feel, but with deep interpretive care and thoughtfulness....
Excellent recorded sound - vivid and immediate but beautifully balanced.

"The greatest and most original symphonic structures of Mozart, chamber-musical or otherwise...
The G Minor Quintet is as great as the G Minor Symphony, whence it is greater." - Hans Keller.

Record of the Year written all over......


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[Jonathan]

Leslie Howard?

Surprisingly not! Leslie Howard's 2nd annees are spread across about half a dozen discs in his set (in the original individual issues or in the boxed set) and the version of Spozalizio I mentioned I'm certain he hasn't recorded (yet - maybe on New Discoveries bvolume 5 if there is going to be one?). The pianist is Emanuele Arciuli who I'd never heard of before. His tempi are slower than Leslie Howard's generally and, especially in the Dante sonata he is more explosive in the changes in speed and dynamics. Hope this helps.