What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Cockney Sparrow]

My first Messiah of the season.

Handel
Messiah
(In the concert edition by Sir Andrew Davis
Erin Wall (soprano)
Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Staples (tenor)
John Relyea (bass)
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis

How did you find it BBM? I've got Hogwood / AAM on CD but am always very content to go back to the Colin Davis/LSO which to my ears is still very acceptable.

Mind you, I'll never be caught knowingly listening to an One Voice Per Part renditions (which extends to the Bach choral works, etc, etc).

[Pulcinella]

How did you find it BBM? I've got Hogwood / AAM on CD but am always very content to go back to the Colin Davis/LSO which to my ears is still very acceptable.

Mind you, I'll never be caught knowingly listening to an One Voice Per Part renditions (which extends to the Bach choral works, etc, etc).

I'm in good company then, as those are the two versions I have!

Supplemented though by a single highlights CD of the ECO/Mackerras recording (Janet Baker singing He was despised).

[Cockney Sparrow]

I'm in good company then, as those are the two versions I have!

Supplemented though by a single highlights CD of the ECO/Mackerras recording (Janet Baker singing He was despised).

The Colin Davis comes up fresh every time I listen to it - admittedly, not often and I admire the soloists very much. I see he recorded it later with Margaret Price (I'm a big fan) and Stuart Burrows. I'd like to hear them - and yes, Janet Baker so perphaps I'll look them out on streaming services.

(Performance of The Messiah - the last concert in which I participated - February this year. I did think, if it proved to be (for whatever reason) the last concert in which I had sung, it would have been a good one to finish with. A cracking performance with good soloists, orchestra and a full audience).

[Serial_Apologist]

Three works as part of my self-titled exhibition, "Revolution in Music, and Reaction":

Schoenberg: Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 9 (1906)

Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1907/8)

Schreker: Suite: The Birthday of the Infanta (1908)

[Richard Barrett]

Earlier on: some of the Dutilleux recordings conducted by Morlot, trying out my mysterious Qobuz Studio upgrade. Amazing sound to be sure. The performances are very fine too.

[Pulcinella]

More of the Warner Complete Ravel: CD 5 (Chamber music)

Sonata movement for violin and piano
String quartet
Introduction and allegro
Piano trio

What glorious works these are: ideal for cheering the sprit, with a bright sunny afternoon helping too.

[Petrushka]

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (complete ballet)
Bolshoi Children's Chorus
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Moscow
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

[teamsaint]

LvB Symphony no 6.

HvK / BPO 1970s.

Earlier. Mendelssohn Italian Symphony.
I still have to force myself through the first few minutes, which irritate me, but it all feels better by the wonderful finale.

[Leinster Lass]

Vaughan Williams London Symphony (original 1913 version) LSO/Hickox

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 197-199

J Kokkonen;
Symphony No 4

L Lajtha:
Symphony No 7 'Revolutionary'

E Lalo:
Symphonie Espagnole for violin & orchestra

C Lambert:
The Rio Grande
Horoscope - complete ballet (piano score)

B Lees:
Symphony No 2
Symphony No 3

R Leoncavallo:
I Pagliacci

[Bryn]

Robert Ashley: Dust

[cloughie]

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - piano solo version.

[Pulcinella]

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - piano solo version.

Quite a revelation, eh?

[cloughie]

Quite a revelation, eh?

Indeed so - I always think Ravel manages to capture so much detail in his piano pieces, bearing in mind the large orchestras required for the finished product.

[Bryn]

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - piano solo version.

I have been trying to find more information about this piano version. That coming with the boxed set merely refers to it as the "first version for piano (1910)". The Internet is not much help, either. Is it a case of Ravel having first prepared this version for piano, then setting about orchestrating it, or is it a reduction prepared for ballet rehearsal purposes, as has been suggested elsewhere? I am tempted to think the former to be the more likely case.