What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[vinteuil]

... a pianist I had not previously encountered.

... he's done some interesting stuff with some interesting pianos -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=cyril+huve&i=popular&ref=nb_sb_noss

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[BBMmk2]

Seductive fortepiano sonorities, warm and clear and mellow with the hum and the buzz of the baryton, on three different pianos: originals of Müller, Schanz and Graf from 1810 -1827.
But much more than that, a stunning sequence of the most dramatic, poetic sonatas in direct and impassioned readings - straight from the hip and utterly compelling.....Beethoven comme il faut from a pianist I had not previously encountered.

The finale of the Waldstein has an eruptive, irresisitible splendour - the sound of joy, the joy of sound!




Beethoven - Fortepiano Sonatas
Cyril Huvé
Released on 13/11/2020 by Calliope

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It takes a very special recording for me to hear a fortepiano played.

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.3 in D minor
Songs from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’
Birgitte Remmert (contralto)
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle

Beethoven
Christ on the Mount of Olives -Oratorio
Elsa Dreisig(soprano)
Pavol Breslik (tenor)
David Soar (bass-baritone)
LSO Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle.
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[Stanfordian]

Aida Garifullina
Opera arias from Gounod, Delibes, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Solovyov-Sedoy
Aida Garifullina (soprano)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Cornelius Meister
Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra / Vitaly Gnutov (track 15)
Recorded 2015/16, ORF Großen Sendesaal, Vienna
Decca

Debussy
Violin sonata for violin and piano
Franck
Violin sonata for violin and piano
Chausson
Poème for violin and orchestra
Kyung Wha Chung (violin) & Radu Lupu (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Dutoit
Recorded 1977, Kingsway Hall, London
Decca CD

[Pulcinella]

Score following, in preparation for BaL on 28 November 2020

Copland: Clarinet concerto

Or, as described in the score: Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra, with harp and piano.

(1) The June 2004 BaL winner: Richard Hosford/COE/Thierry Fischer

This really won't do: far too tame.

(2) David Shifrin/New York Chamber Symphony/Gerard Schwarz
Much more faithful to the dynamics in the score, but I'd like to hear more of the harp.

(3) Benny Goodman/Columbia Symphony Strings, Laura Newell (harp), Abba Bogin (piano)/Aaron Copland
Harp and piano given due credit, and we can hear them!
Goodman might not be faithful to the dynamics in the solo part, but my goodness, he takes you with him.
This is the one for me (but I'll be interested to see what BaL reveals about other versions).

By the way, anyone with the big Columbia Edition Stravinsky box will have this composer-conducted version: it's on CD41.

[gradus]

Mackerras and the Prague Chamber Orchestra in Mozart syms 34 and 35, delightful sprightly performances and a little overlooked these days in favour of his Scottish Chamber orchestra recordings.

[Edgy 2]

Luck dip listening

A cd plucked out of a drawer

Vlado Perlemuter playing Debussy and Ravel (BBC music mag vol 11 No 10)

[gradus]

I did as Rob and lighted on Dino Ciani's recording of the Schumann Novelettes, strangely neglected repertoire. Cianni plays them with total commitment and the recording delivers full-blooded sound. A minor irritant, the middle/upper register of the piano sounds like they were saving money on tuning, mind you Cianni takes no prisoners.

[teamsaint]

Luck dip listening

A cd plucked out of a drawer

Vlado Perlemuter playing Debussy and Ravel (BBC music mag vol 11 No 10)

Top drawer, ER?

[Edgy 2]

Top drawer, ER?

Yep

[cloughie]

Charles Munch conducting Debussy with the ORTF - Iberia, La mer, L’apres-midi

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 184-186

G Holst:
A Choral Symphony (vocal score)
Egdon Heath
Double Concerto for two Violins & small orchestra
A Choral Fantasia (vocal score)
Lyric Movement for Viola & small orchestra (viola & piano score)

A Honegger:
Pastorale d'ete
Chant de joie
Pacific 231
Symphony No 3 'Liturgique'
Symphony No 4 'Deliciae Basiliensis'
Symphony No 5 'Di-tre-re'

[cloughie]

Beethoven 3 PO Klemperer (1955) - still the best! I also played the 3rd movt of the 9th - 15 minutes plus - lovely!
Des O’Connor and Klemperer’s Beethoven within a couple of hours - the joys of listening!

[teamsaint]

[QUOTE=cloughie;815901]Beethoven 3 PO Klemperer (1955) - still the best! I also played the 3rd movt of the 9th - 15 minutes plus - lovely!
Des O’Connor and Klemperer’s Beethoven within a couple of hours - the joys of listening![/QUOTE]


Christian Wolff followed by Toots and the Maytals here.

[Bryn]

. . . I also played the 3rd movt of the 9th - 15 minutes plus - lovely!
. . .

What's next, The Slow Drag from Joplin's Treemonisha?

[visualnickmos]

Beethoven 3 PO Klemperer (1955) - still the best! I also played the 3rd movt of the 9th - 15 minutes plus - lovely!
Des O’Connor and Klemperer’s Beethoven within a couple of hours - the joys of listening!

It's incredible - the huge difference in that (1955) recording , and the - by comparison - rather plodding stereo re-do just a few years later...