What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[jayne lee wilson]

I'll keep trying with these, very rare, very unusual and very pleasant.....but so far I haven't found the revelations their performers so passionately believe in.... doubtless my own shortcoming, so I'll go on looking....the 1st movements of these two 3-movement works are 16'04 and 23'54 respectively....! Somethin' goin on here.....


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Christophe Coin, Chouchane Siranossian & Alexis Kossenko

• Released on 04/12/2020 by Claves Records
• Qobuz 24/96

[Bryn]

What is this problem you refer to? I haven't listened to that recording for quite a while (the Second being probably the one I listen to least anyway) but I don't remember anything exceptional about it. Maybe I should just jog my own memory with a listen.

They decided to treat the recording of the off-stage brass by mixing it searately and adding it with a different ambience. They went so far as to promote it as a unique selling point with the supposed aim of using what was the modern technology of the time to produce what they considered to be Mahler's intentions. To my ears it justs sounds like poor mix with the off-stage brass sound beng far too 'dry' and not at all like an off-stage band does in concert performance. The Audite recording is currently being stored in my off-line library.

[Richard Barrett]

To my ears it justs sounds like poor mix with the off-stage brass sound beng far too 'dry' and not at all like an off-stage band does in concert performance. The Audite recording is currently being stored in my off-line library.

Oh yes, I remember now, it sounds like it's coming through a radio.

As for the Reicha disc, I had high hopes for it never having heard any of his orchestral music before, but as usual there's something about most of his music that never quite takes flight or catches fire or whatever one's favoured metaphor might be.

[Pulcinella]

Whoa..!...
....stay cool little puppet...... easy now.......

You hit "show more" on YT vids to find this stuff out.....go there on your original link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6bM...ature=youtu.be and you see where the audio comes from....

Thank you, jayne; I didn't know that.

I'm still confused, though, as that's not my original link.

[DublinJimbo]

Beethoven

Violin Sonatas 1-4
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)

Violin Sonatas 7 & 10
James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano)

One recorded cycle (Zimmermann/Helmchen) begins and another (Ehnes/Armstrong) ends. Both are astonishingly good. My goodness but Martin Helmchen is a wonderful pianist! His set of the piano concertos with Andrew Manze is a superb contribution to Beethoven's anniversary year, and now he does this as well.

[jayne lee wilson]

Thank you, jayne; I didn't know that.

I'm still confused, though, as that's not my original link.

Click on the link in your own post.......#12613.....same work, same recording, same score...... then hit "show more".....etc

[Bryn]

Click on the link in your own post.......#12613.....same work, same recording, same score...... then hit "show more".....etc

Until today, the sole recording of the work I had was in this form:



Purchased in my youth, admitedly for the Poulenc, it was the Martinu which quickly became the more frequently played. The Supraphon CD with the oboe concerto and Piano Concerto No. 3 is currently downloading.

[Pulcinella]

Until today, the sole recording of the work I had was in this form:



Purchased in my youth, admitedly for the Poulenc, it was the Martinu which quickly became the more frequently played. The Supraphon CD with the oboe concerto and Piano Concerto No. 3 is currently downloading.

That was the version I grew up with, too.
But the CD version I now have is on Naxos, with a good coupling of Hogwood's (full) edition of La revue de cuisine:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8007074--martinu-la-revue-de-cuisine

You can click on the link to see who the performers are, but I'll tell you anyway:
Robert Hill (harpsichord)
Holst-Sinfonietta
Klaus Simon

[gurnemanz]

Enescu: Piano Sonata Op. 24, Suite Op. 18 - Saskia Giorgini

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin - Ian Bostridge and Saskia Giorgini

Familiar and less familiar repertoire from this impressive young pianist.

[BBMmk2]

Enescu: Piano Sonata Op. 24, Suite Op. 18 - Saskia Giorgini

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin - Ian Bostridge and Saskia Giorgini

Familiar and less familiar repertoire from this impressive young pianist.

I don’t know that recording or work by Enescu. Well worth, I’m sure?

I’m , as it will be the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth on Wednesday, I’ll be immersing in Beethoven’s music this week, amongst others too.

Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C major, for violin, cello and piano, Op.56
(David Oistrakh, violin, Mstislav Rostropovich, cello, Sviatoslav Richter, piano,
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, in A minor
(David Oistrakh, violin, Mstislav Rostropovich, cello,
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell).

The Complete Piano Concerti
Paul Lewis (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Bėhlohlávek

[Stanfordian]

Erwin Schrott - Opera Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Gounod, Meyerbeer
Erwin Schrott (bass-baritone)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana / Riccardo Frizza
Recorded 2008 Palau de les Arts ‘Reina Sifia’, Valencia
Decca CD

Franck
Violin Sonata
Debussy
Violin Sonata
Ravel
Violin Sonata
Shlomo Mintz (violin), Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Recorded 1985, Theatre La Musica, La Chaux-De-Fonds, Switzerland
Brilliant Classics CD - Licensed from Deutsche Grammophon

[gradus]

Schumann second piano sonata, either Klara Wurtz or Vincenzo Maltempo, the attribution isn't at all clear but an absolutely grand recording with super playing and piano sound.

[BBMmk2]

I don’t know that recording or work by Enescu. Well worth, I’m sure?

I’m , as it will be the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth on Wednesday, I’ll be immersing in Beethoven’s music this week, amongst others too.

Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C major, for violin, cello and piano, Op.56
(David Oistrakh, violin, Mstislav Rostropovich, cello, Sviatoslav Richter, piano,
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, in A minor
(David Oistrakh, violin, Mstislav Rostropovich, cello,
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell).

The Complete Piano Concerti
Paul Lewis (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Bėhlohlávek

Fantasia in C major for Piano and Orchestra, Op.80, “Choral Fantasy”
Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano)
Luba Organasova (soprano I)
Maria Haid (soprano II)
Elisabeth von Magnus (contralto)
Deon van der Walt (tenor I)
Robert Fontane (tenor II)
Florian Busch (baritone I)
Ricardo Luna (baritone II)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Not a bad way to end today’s session!

[Richard Barrett]

Martinu: Juliette excerpts, the Mackerras Supraphon disc. It would be so wonderful to have a new complete recording.

[Bryn]

Martinu: Juliette excerpts, the Mackerras Supraphon disc. It would be so wonderful to have a new complete recording.

Did you not get on with the Belohlavek broadcast from the Barbican? Unfortunately, it was before the advent of Radio 3's HD Sound via the iPlayer. It was passable via DAB and FM, however. I recall wishing it had been Mackerras at the helm, but . . .