What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Joseph K]

[gurnemanz]

Medtner Songs, 2 CDs on Delphian

Accompanist and maestro Ian Burnside with some highly original settings vividly put across by six singers - five Russian speakers and our own excellent Robin Tritschler.

CD2 begins arrestingly with Pushkin's Echo from baritone, Rodion Pogossov, most effective in the pleasantly resonant acoustic of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh.

[BBMmk2]

Handel
Messiah.
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto)
Michael Chance (alto)
Howard Crook (tenor)
John Tomlinson (bass)
The Choir & Orchestra of
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock.

[Stanfordian]

Sandrine Piau – ‘Si j'ai aimé…’
Mélodies from Saint-Saëns, Bordes, Berlioz, Vierne, Duparc, Guilmant, Martini
Orchestral works from Pierné, Duparc, Massenet, Godard
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Le Concert de la Loge / Julien Chauvin (violin / direction)
Recorded 2018 Arsenal-Cité Musicale de Metz, France
Alpha Classics, CD

Horszowski Trio – French Piano Trios
Saint-Saëns
Piano Trio No.1 in F major, Op. 18
Fauré
Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
d’Indy
Piano Trio No. 2 in G major, ‘In the Form of a Suite’, Op. 98
Horszowski Trio
Recorded 2013, Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, New York
Bridge, CD

[visualnickmos]

Beethoven
Symphonies nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Franz Konwitschny
(rec 1959-1961)

Wow! These performances are revelatory. Absolutely loving traversing this set. Owned for a while, but only now listening. Well worth waiting for.
I decided a while back to immerse myself in my Beethoven symphony sets.

[gradus]

Beethoven
Symphonies nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Franz Konwitschny
(rec 1959-1961)

Wow! These performances are revelatory. Absolutely loving traversing this set. Owned for a while, but only now listening. Well worth waiting for.
I decided a while back to immerse myself in my Beethoven symphony sets.

No seventh included? That was particularly highly-regarded back in the day.

[Bryn]

Beethoven
Symphonies nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Franz Konwitschny
(rec 1959-1961)

Wow! These performances are revelatory. Absolutely loving traversing this set. Owned for a while, but only now listening. Well worth waiting for.
I decided a while back to immerse myself in my Beethoven symphony sets.

I, too, grabbed the CD boxed set upon its release, more than happy to have the repeats restored. That and the Cluytens set (in a bargain French EMI Beethoven "The Collector's Edition box) were two of the most welcome boxed CD releases of recordings from that period:

[visualnickmos]

No seventh included? That was particularly highly-regarded back in the day.

It's the complete set, plus overtures. My list is just where I'm up to at this moment....

[Joseph K]

You know Bryn, I too have that 50-disk EMI Beethoven Collector's (sic) Edition. To my chagrin, I don't think I've ever explored anything in it. Where should I start?

[Bryn]

You know Bryn, I too have that 50-disk EMI Beethoven Collector's (sic) Edition. To my chagrin, I don't think I've ever explored anything in it. Where should I start?

I would suggest that Cluytens set of the Symphonies, recorded a little in advance of Karajan's highly regarder 1960 set but, in my opinion, generally superior to the latter. Then the Hungarian String Quartets, the Giulini Masses and maybe the Karajan Fidelio. Then play 'hide/seek' with the Piano Sonatas and Piano & Cello Sonatas. (Coat off hook.)

[cloughie]

I would suggest that Cluytens set of the Symphonies, recorded a little in advance of Karajan's highly regarder 1960 set but, in my opinion, generally superior to the latter. Then the Hungarian String Quartets, the Giulini Masses and maybe the Karajan Fidelio. Then play 'hide/seek' with the Piano Sonatas and Piano & Cello Sonatas. (Coat off hook.)

I don’t have the box but I absolutely agree with you re the Cluytens set which I have had on LP, then a Disky box and now as part of that superb big complete (or thereabouts) Cluytens EMI recordings box. The Giulini masses are 2nd to none particularly the Mass in C.

[Joseph K]

I would suggest that Cluytens set of the Symphonies, recorded a little in advance of Karajan's highly regarder 1960 set but, in my opinion, generally superior to the latter. Then the Hungarian String Quartets, the Giulini Masses and maybe the Karajan Fidelio. Then play 'hide/seek' with the Piano Sonatas and Piano & Cello Sonatas. (Coat off hook.)

Thanks.

[Joseph K]

Bruckner 4 - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink

[jayne lee wilson]

Mozart Requiem K626.
Version for String Quartet by Peter Lichtenthal.
Kuijken Kwartet. Challenge Classics SACD 2003.

[Joseph K]

Bruckner 4 - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink

I'm about half way through the second movement and I can sense that things are now rolling regarding Bruckner and his symphonies... nice expansive harmonies which give room for quite involved polyphony (or 'polyphonic textures' as I'd no doubt say if I had to write 2000 words on this music).