What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[AmpH]

At the end of what has been a very difficult year, time to see out the old and look forward to the new with the two composers I treasure above all others, namely Bach and Haydn.

Today :-

Haydn - Symphonies 60 / 70 and 90 followed by Symphonies 22 / 102 and 86 - both discs CBSO / Rattle ( EMI )

Wonderfully fresh and sparkling performances, from far away times when Rattle would just let the music flow and speak for itself.

Tomorrow - Bach Cantatas with Harnoncourt and Suzuki.

[cloughie]

At the end of what has been a very difficult year, time to see out the old and look forward to the new with the two composers I treasure above all others, namely Bach and Haydn.

Today :-

Haydn - Symphonies 60 / 70 and 90 followed by Symphonies 22 / 102 and 86 - both discs CBSO / Rattle ( EMI )

Wonderfully fresh and sparkling performances, from far away times when Rattle would just let the music flow and speak for itself.

Tomorrow - Bach Cantatas with Harnoncourt and Suzuki.

Do you ever think that Sir Simon’s happiest music making was with the CBSO - they gained so much from each other!

[AmpH]

Do you ever think that Sir Simon’s happiest music making was with the CBSO - they gained so much from each other!

Yes, I do have the impression that is the case Cloughie. AFAIK I have all the CBSO / Rattle recordings and most of them feature regularly in my listening, which certainly isn't the case with his subsequent recordings with the BPO.

[Edgy 2]

Last listening of the old year earlier this evening.

Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky

Violin Concertos, Szeryng, Concertgebouw, Haitink

Kalinnikov

Symphonies 1 & 2, RSNO, Jarvi

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 221-223

Mascagni:
Cavalleria Rusticana

Mathias:
Ave Rex op43 (vocal score)
Dance Overture op16

Maunder:
Olivet to Calvary

N Maw:
Sinfonia

Mendelssohn:
Octet op20
String Quartet No 1 in E flat major op12
String Quartet No 2 in A minor op13
Piano Trio No 1 in D minor op49

[Stanfordian]

Piotr Beczala - ‘Salut!’
French & Italian arias from Gounod, Massenet, Bazin, Maillart,
Donizetti, Verdi, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Offenbach
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Ion Marin
Recorded 2007 Studio 1, Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich
Orfeo

Fauré
Piano Quintet No. 1
Piano Quintet No. 2
Quatuor Ebène with Éric Le Sage (piano)
Recorded 2010 Maison de la Culture de Grenoble
Alpha Classics

[BBMmk2]

Complete Beethoven Recordings on ARCHIV Produktion
CD8
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 in Eb, Op.73 “Emperor”
Fantasy for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra in C major, Op.80
Robert Levin (piano)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Conductors & Orchestras Abbado - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CD2
Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

Conductors & Orchestras - Boulez & The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 1
Debussy

Nocturnes
Première Rapsodie
Jeux
La Mer
The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez

[Bryn]

Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (John Tilbury), a concert performance in Dublin, 1st April 2007. Downloaded from https://www.rerdownloads.com/?page_id=8481

[jayne lee wilson]

A Homage and a Valediction to Beloved Europe......and one the top recommends in the recent Gramophone Collection survey..


Mes favoris
Cet élément a bien été ajouté / retiré de vos favoris.Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123
Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
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[Richard Barrett]

Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123
Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius

Noted!

Earlier on I listened to two of the CDs in Kuijken's Bach cantata series. They're growing on me although I still have the impression that there were still issues with OVPP that he hadn't really solved before his more recent recordings of the big vocal works.

[Pulcinella]

Some recent listening here:

New Year's Eve

Having traditionally (until two years ago, when our friends came to see us and our hew house instead) visited friends in Gloucestershire for NYE/NYD, it had to be
Howells: In Gloucestershire
Dante Quartet

JSB
Goldberg Variations
Lang Lang
Wow! Not necessarily my go-to version, but superb sound, and in many places a wonderful insightful interpretation that brought out lines I'd not specifically noticed before.

Yesterday (not necessarily in order)

The English Connection (decidedly NOT celebrating Brexit, but because it has a version of the Tippett Corelli variations that I hadn't heard before)
ASMF/Marriner (ASV)

Schoenberg
Violin concerto
Isabelle Faust/Swedish Radio SO/Harding
(I must listen to the Hahn recording again!)

Weinberg
S2 and S21
CBSO/MGT

Jongen
Symphonie concertante
Deserves to be better known: a riot, to complement Saint-Saëns S3

Stravinsky
Violin concerto (Jennifer Frautschi)
Zvezdolikiy
Symphonies of wind instruments (1920 version)
Philharmonia/Craft

Skalkottas
SQ3, SQ4
New Hellenic Quartet
(Listening again as I type)

JSB
Goldberg Variations
Beatrice Rana
Sorry, Barbs; didn't even make it through the Aria: just not for me!

So, Angela Hewitt (2015) instead.

[BBMmk2]

Wow, Pulcie! That’s some listening! I do rather like the Beatrice Rana recording.

Conductors & Orchestras
Claudio Abbado - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CD 3
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.26
Schlomo Mintz (violin)

Conductors & Orchestras
Pierre Boulez -The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 2
Debussy
Prélude á l’après-midi-d’un-faune
Images
Printemps
The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez

John Eliot Gardiner
The Complete Beethoven Recordins on ARCHIV Produktion
CD 11
Missa Solemnis
Charlotte Morgiano (soprano)
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano)
William Kendall (tenor)
Alastair Miles (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

[DublinJimbo]

A Homage and a Valediction to Beloved Europe......and one the top recommends in the recent Gramophone Collection survey..


Released on 03/05/2019 by Carus

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Once I see Frieder Bernius mentioned I sit up and take notice. His (and Václav Luks's) championing of Zelenka's music have figured highly in my 2020 listening, marking that other anniversary which was overshadowed by Beethoven.

[DoctorT]

Schubert
Symphony no.9
COE/Harnoncourt (live)

[BBMmk2]

Schubert
Symphony no.9
COE/Harnoncourt (live)

Oh yes! This is a recording!