What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Yes, I like to hear organ music from time to time.

Good to hear!

J S Bach
Christmas Oratorio
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Ann Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson Evangelist
Katie Pringle Echo
Olaf Bar (bass) & Herod
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

[vinteuil]

Philip Glass

Koyaanisqatsi

... all together now - (puts on really deep voice) -

ko - yaaan - i - sqatsi - - - ko- yaaan - i - sqatsi - - - ko - yaaan - i - sqatsi - - -


[ love it too... ]


..


.

[jayne lee wilson]

Tippett
Concerto for Orchestra
BSO/Hickox. Chandos CD/Qobuz.

Inspired by the finale discussion, what a terrific performance of this compelling, very neglected work...

[Pulcinella]

Tippett
Concerto for Orchestra
BSO/Hickox. Chandos CD/Qobuz.

Inspired by the finale discussion, what a terrific performance of this compelling, very neglected work...

Similarly inspired, but, just to be different, the other recording (yes, it would be good if Brabbins has this lined up for when normality returns): LSO/Colin Davis.

[BBMmk2]

Tippett
Concerto for Orchestra
BSO/Hickox. Chandos CD/Qobuz.

Inspired by the finale discussion, what a terrific performance of this compelling, very neglected work...

Like this recording a lot!

[Bryn]

From Hear & Now 29th September 2007:

Anton Lukoszevieze: Gunslinger (world premiere)

Howard Skempton: Hot Noon in Malabar; Skempton Six Figures; Tree Sequences; Helix; Well, well, Cornelius; Of Late; Gestalt; Leamington Spa; Eirenicon 2; Toccata.

[Stanfordian]

Marcelo Álvarez - ‘French Arias’
Arias from Gounod, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Verdi, Offenbach, Massenet
Marcelo Álvarez (tenor)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Opéra de Nice / Mark Elder
Recorded 2001, Salle Jedrinsky, Diacosmie, Nice
Sony Classical

Chaminade
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 11
Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 34
Trois Morceaux, Op. 31
Capriccio, Op. 18
Romanza appassionata
Sommeil d’enfant
Trio Parnassus
Recorded 2016, Konzerthaus der Abteikirche, Marienmünster
MDG

[Petrushka]

Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur
Richard Gowers at the organ of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

[Bryn]

[Stanfordian]

Messiaen
Le Tombeau resplendissant
Les Offrandes oubliées, méditation symphonique
Un sourire
L'Ascension - Quatre meditations symphoniques:
a) Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père
b) Alléluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel
c) Alléluia sur la trompette, alléluia sur la cymbale
d) Prière du Christ montant vers son Père
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Paavo Järvi
Recorded Live & Studio 2019, Tonhalle, Zurich
Alpha Classics, CD

Sabine Devieilhe & Alexandre Tharaud – ‘Chanson d'Amour’
Mélodies by Fauré, Debussy, Ravel & Poulenc
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano),
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Recorded 2019 Siemens-Villa, Berlin
Erato CD, new release

[Parry1912]

Reminds me of that line in ‘Hot Shots!’:

Admiral Benson: ‘Now, if you have trouble hitting your objective, your secondary targets are here and here: an accordion factory and a mime school.’

Sorry, I’ll get my coat ...

[visualnickmos]

Beethoven
Piano sonatas
¤ No 12, Op 26
¤ No 16, Op 31 No 1
¤ No 18, Op 31 No 3
(I don't quite get the numbering...)

Jeno Jando (Naxos) OK - I know he's not a "big name" but these are very nicely played, and highly enjoyable; well-recorded, and a very good-sounding piano.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 203-206

J MacMillan:
The Soul's Ransoming
Cello Concerto

Mahler:
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Kindertotenlieder
Das von der Erde
Symphony No 1 in D major
Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'

[BBMmk2]

Messiaen
Le Tombeau resplendissant
Les Offrandes oubliées, méditation symphonique
Un sourire
L'Ascension - Quatre meditations symphoniques:
a) Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père
b) Alléluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel
c) Alléluia sur la trompette, alléluia sur la cymbale
d) Prière du Christ montant vers son Père
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Paavo Järvi
Recorded Live & Studio 2019, Tonhalle, Zurich
Alpha Classics, CD

I love this recording!

[Stanfordian]

‘Écho’ - Joyce El-Khoury
Opera Arias from Donizetti, von Weber, Halévy, Hérold, Meyerbeer, Berlioz
Joyce El-Khoury (soprano)
Hallé / Carlo Rizzi
with guest Michael Spyres (tenor)
Recorded 2017, The Stoller Hall, Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester
Opera Rara

Debussy
String Quartet in G minor Op. 10
Ravel
String Quartet in F major
Fauré
String Quartet Op. 121
Quatuor Ebène
Recorded 2008 Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin
Virgin Classics