What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[cloughie]

Tchaikovsky vln.conc.on Essential Classics, Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing the last movement at such a breakneck speed that I thought the CD had malfunctioned. Did she do it for a bet?

Earlier I heard the first movt of Mozart’s Haffner Serenade Stuttgart/Norrington - got to say it is probably the most drab and cheerless performance I have heard of the work in a long while!

[jayne lee wilson]

Earlier I heard the first movt of Mozart’s Haffner Serenade Stuttgart/Norrington - got to say it is probably the most drab and cheerless performance I have heard of the work in a long while!

Ever try Willens? Full of life, charm and pathos...not all HIPPS are alike...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/mozart-haffner-serenade-ein-musikalischer-spass-michael-alexander-willens-die-kolner-akademie/fqjc4inyaum8b

One of my top favourites in a work I'm very fond of....

[Bryn]

We heard her play this last year with Mirga G-T egging her on. Yes, it seemed they were doing it for a bet!
Absolutely electrifying.

(Very unusual for me - I even kept the programme)

There's nothing like breathing a bit of life into an old warhorse. There again, single movements presented out of context are no way to assess the quality of their performance. Funnily enough, I just happen to be listening to a David Oistrakh and Kirill Kondrashin recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (all of it) at the moment. Very different, but also valid.

[Bryn]

Bryn - just to clarify: Pat Kop did play all of it!

I was thinking of this morning's broadcast. I have, and very much admire, the recording it was excerpted from.

[cloughie]

Ever try Willens? Full of life, charm and pathos...not all HIPPS are alike...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/mozart-haffner-serenade-ein-musikalischer-spass-michael-alexander-willens-die-kolner-akademie/fqjc4inyaum8b

One of my top favourites in a work I'm very fond of....

I’m not trying to score ancient v modern points - I just love the bright vibrant work that K250 is and Norrington’s falls short here of what I want to hear of one of my favourite works. Yes the Willens is nearer to what I want to hear!

[Pulcinella]

I was thinking of this morning's broadcast. I have, and very much admire, the recording it was excerpted from.

The coupling isn't too bad, either.

[Bryn]

The coupling isn't too bad, either.

O.k., I admit it, I bought it more for that coupling but was very much taken with the Tchaikovsky too:

[Joseph K]

Mozart - String Quintet no. 3 - Van Kuijk Quartet & Adrien La Marca

Via youtube.

[jayne lee wilson]

O.k., I admit it, I bought it more for that coupling but was very much taken with the Tchaikovsky too:

Wonderful album - upvote for Pat Kop's Tchaikovsky from me!

[Petrushka]

Bruckner: Symphony No 5
Wiener Philharmoniker
Lorin Maazel

This was the first recording of the Bruckner 5 I bought back in 1975 and I've recently replaced those LPs with the Decca Eloquence CD having not heard the recording for very many years. One never hears much about this recording but it's terrific with the VPO in outstanding form and in vintage 1970s Decca Sofiensaal sound. 76 minutes that flew by!

[jayne lee wilson]

Sifting through all sorts of Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Barenboim, Lugansky, Bloch, Huvé again) and instrumental music of which there has been an outpouring late in the Autumn....

As for my new passion, the Violin Sonatas...amazing new releases.....watch this space!

[ostuni]

My Qobuz listening has been rather similar to yours. Barenboim's new Beethoven is very disappointing (sluggish tempi, no sparkle); I liked Lugansky's op 101, but found his 109 unpleasantly over-forceful. But what about Tom Beghin's exploration of Beethoven and the French Piano? Fascinating, unexpected, challenging... And a booklet essay that's almost book-length!

This week's Beethoven highlight for me is that Bonet/Visovan violin sonatas recording. I've only really heard Bonet in baroque repertoire (her Corelli op 5 is magnificent), and I've so far only dipped into the Beethoven, but am very much looking forward to a proper listen.

[BBMmk2]

Sifting through all sorts of Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Barenboim, Lugansky, Bloch, Huvé again) and instrumental music of which there has been an outpouring late in the Autumn....

As for my new passion, the Violin Sonatas...amazing new releases.....watch this space!

Looking forward to that!

Yesterday’s listening.Carrying on with my Sir Simon Rattle Season.

Lutoslawski Piano Concerto
Symphony No.2
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker

Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op.35
L’uba Orgonásova (soprano)
Dmytro Popov (tenor)
Mikhail Petrenko (baritone)
Rundfunks Chor, Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Symphonic Dances, Op.45
Berliner Philharmoniker

Dvorak
The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op.109
The Wood Dove, Op.110
The Noon Witch, Op.108
The Water Goblin, Op.107
Berliner Philharmoniker

Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle

Today

Mahler
Symphony No.9 in D major.

Britten
An American Overture
(CBSO)
Ballad for Heroes, Op.14
(Robert Tear, tenor, CBSO & Chorus)
Diversions for Left Hand
(Peter Donohoe, piano, CBSO)
The Building of the House Overture
(CBSO)
Suite on English Folk Tunes
(CBSO)
Canadian Carnival

Debussy
Prélude á l’après midi d’un faune
La Mer
La boîte à joujoux(orch Caplet)
Préludes Livre II
No.7 Ce que le vent d’ouest
No.2 Feuilles mortes
No.12 Feux d’artifice
Berliner Philharmoniker

All conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

[jayne lee wilson]

Run wild, run free!

These two wild-haired young creatures take Beethoven by-the-scruff, to sonic and emotionaL extremes. So the Op.47 Kreutzer goes from the fiercest anger and energy to an irresistible carefree joy. And Yet… and yet they still find that serene philosophical balance-of-probability in the Variations… one of Beethoven’s greatest slow movements, and a personal icon of mine. Utterly wonderful here. The vibrato-less purity of that last high note!

The so lovable Op. 96 is no less remarkable. Playing Now..... And again, and for all time....how it sings and dances through its fantasies, rejoices in its very existence...

It’s not just the freedom of phrase and tempo though. They find a marvellous range of colour in their instruments too, and offer much praise to those who designed and created them.
Everyone should try to hear this, if only once…you won’t forget it howsoever you respond…



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Beethoven: Sonatina Lunatica (Violin Sonatas Nos. 9 & 10)
Lina Tur Bonet & Aurelia Vişovan

• Released on 20/11/2020 by Passacaiile
• QOBUZ 24/96

violin
by Carlo Tononi, Venice, 1724;
historical bow by John Dodd, Cramer model, c. 1780
fortepiano
by Robert Brown, copy after Jakob Bertsche

the newest Bärenreiter Edition 2020 was used for this recording

[BBMmk2]

JLW, WOW!

Mahler
Symphony No.6 in A minor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle

Neglected Treasures
Gilbert Vinter
Symphony of Marches
Wilfred Heaton
Partita for Band
Henze
Ragtimes & Habeneras
Elgar Howarth
Fireworks *
Morgan Jones (narrator) *
Cory Band
Philip Harper.