What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 191-193

J Ireland:
Suite from the Film 'The Overlanders'
Piano Concerto
These Things Shall Be (vocal score)

C Ives:
Symphony No 3 'The Camp Meeting'
Three Places in New England
Robert Browning Overture

Janacek:
Lachian Dances
String Quartet No 1
String Quartet No 2 'Intimate Letters'
Sinfonietta

[Leinster Lass]

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…



Mes favoris
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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

You're right, they're not at all bad as violin sonatas go - indeed, I'd go so far as to say the composer shows distinct promise.

[BBMmk2]

After my Sir Simon Rattle Season, I’m turning my attention to Bax and Bantock this week. Two totally different composers.

Proposed listening today.

Sir Arnold Bax
Four Orchestral Pieces
Phantasy for Viola & Orchestra *
Overture, Elegy & Rondo
Philip Dukes (viola) *
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis

Orchestral Works Vol.1
Violin Concerto *
Cello Concerto **
Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex) ***
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) *
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) **
Margaret Fingerhut (piano) ***
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson.

Symphonic Variations for Piano & Orchestra
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Bryden Thomson

Spring Fire, Symphony
Symphonic Scherzo
Northern No.2
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley.

[Stanfordian]

Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto No. 1
Violin Concerto No. 3
Havanaise
Introduction et Rondo capriccioso
Kyung Wha Chung (violin)
Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal / Charles Dutoit
RPO / Charles Dutoit
LSO / Lawrence Foster
Recorded 1980 L'Eglise de St. Eustache, Montreal (No. 1); 1974/77 Kingsway Hall, London (remainder)
Decca, CD

Lili et Nadia Boulanger – ‘Mélodies’
Nadia Boulanger
Neuf Mélodies pour voix et piano
Lili Boulanger
Quatre Chants pour voix et piano
Nadia Boulanger & Raoul Pugno
Les heures claires pour voix et piano
Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Tristan Raës (piano)
Recorded March 2018, Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice
Aparté, CD

[Pulcinella]

Alain: Organ works
Thomas Trotter (at the organ of the Nieuwe Kerk te Katwjk aan See)

One of his early solo recital discs for Argo.

[jayne lee wilson]

Bruckner String Quintet. Kocian Quartet/Lubomir Maly
Supraphon Lossless/Qobuz.

Florent Schmitt Piano Quintet. Christian Ivaldi/Stanislas Quartet
timpani lossless /Qobuz.

[visualnickmos]

Beethoven
Complete violin sonatas
Vladimir Ashkenazy and Itzhak Perlman (Decca)

Great playing, excellent recording, and I love the 'sound' of the piano. As usual, the brand of piano not mentioned in the notes.

[jayne lee wilson]

Beethoven
Complete violin sonatas
Vladimir Ashkenazy and Itzhak Perlman (Decca)

Great playing, excellent recording, and I love the 'sound' of the piano. As usual, the brand of piano not mentioned in the notes.

Shame....First thing I look for as a fortepiano/early violin addict!
Any pictures to help?

Ashkenazy espressed a devotion to Steinway early on (1957, age 20), and many an album cover displays the very thing, but I don't know if he changed such allegiance later or varied his choice....

[cloughie]

Shame....First thing I look for as a fortepiano/early violin addict!
Any pictures to help?

Ashkenazy espressed a devotion to Steinway early on (1957, age 20), and many an album cover displays the very thing, but I don't know if he changed such allegiance later or varied his choice....

Had a listen to the Balsam/Fuchs Op96 this afternoon - lovely performance - in fairness Jayne I had a listen to your current fave - fortepiano almost sounds like a harp!

[Bryn]

Shame....First thing I look for as a fortepiano/early violin addict!
Any pictures to help?

Ashkenazy espressed a devotion to Steinway early on (1957, age 20), and many an album cover displays the very thing, but I don't know if he changed such allegiance later or varied his choice....

And Steinway have him down as a "Steinway Artist", as in "Ashkenazy has been a Steinway Artist since 1957".

[cloughie]

And Steinway have him down as a "Steinway Artist", as in "Ashkenazy has been a Steinway Artist since 1957".

I suppose he’s now a ‘ Steinway Artist in Retirement’. Great legacy both on the Steinway and the rostrum!

[visualnickmos]

Shame....First thing I look for as a fortepiano/early violin addict!
Any pictures to help?

Ashkenazy espressed a devotion to Steinway early on (1957, age 20), and many an album cover displays the very thing, but I don't know if he changed such allegiance later or varied his choice....

No - no pics. My impression is that it is a Steinway; that beautiful richness of 'tone' that I associate with said brand. The Château Margaux of the piano world!

[jayne lee wilson]

Had a listen to the Balsam/Fuchs Op96 this afternoon - lovely performance - in fairness Jayne I had a listen to your current fave - fortepiano almost sounds like a harp!

Well I have two or three current faves....
Complete bedside companion, listen every day....Seiler/Immerseel.
Stunning New Kids on the block Op.47/96: Bonet/Visovan.
Earlier loves: Zimmerman/Helmchen, Op.12/23....

None of the pianos sound like a harp to these ears though....

[cloughie]

Well I have two or three current faves....
Complete bedside companion, listen every day....Seiler/Immerseel.
Stunning New Kids on the block Op.47/96: Bonet/Visovan.
Earlier loves: Zimmerman/Helmchen, Op.12/23....

None of the pianos sound like a harp to these ears though....

Stunning New Kids!

[BBMmk2]

Sir Granville Bantock
Sappho, Prelude & nine fragments for mezzo-soprano& orchestra *
Sapphic Poem **
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) *
Julian Lloyd-Webber (cello) **
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley

Prelude to “The Song of Songs”
Prelude to “Omar Khayyam”
Camel Caravan from “Omar Khayyam”
Christiona (No.1 of Two Hebridean Sea Poems)
Processional (No.1 of Two Orchestral Scenes
Thalaba the Destroyer
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley