What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Leinster Lass]

Yesterday morning:

Mahler - Symphony No 6 (Cleveland/Szell)

[Scherzo 2nd...]

That last chord could wake the dead.

I recently bought that in a local charity shop for the princely sum of 1 euro 25 cents. I didn't realize it was a 'live' recording - what a remarkably well-behaved audience!

[MickyD]

'Neo-liberal 'is what we here call a hipp replacement.

[MickyD]

The AAM version is with Hogwood, and it got MickyD's vote rather than the Pinnock (with The English Concert).

Yes, it's got a lovely mellow sound to it. Just a pity Hogwood didn't round to doing some more 18th century English symphonies. I'm still waiting for a period group to give us the wonderful set by William Herschel.

[Bryn]

I recently bought that in a local charity shop for the princely sum of 1 euro 25 cents. I didn't realize it was a 'live' recording - what a remarkably well-behaved audience!

When I got it, it came with the first and third movements of the 10th. That, however, was just a little short of half a century ago. I did 'upgrade' to the CD 30 years ago

Just been listening to the 1971 recording conducted by Gielen. I wonder if anyone here has that in one of its c. 2000 bootleg manifestations, supposedly under either "Edvard [van] Lindenberg" or "Helmut Haenchen"?

[Pulcinella]

I recently bought that in a local charity shop for the princely sum of 1 euro 25 cents. I didn't realize it was a 'live' recording - what a remarkably well-behaved audience!

I wonder if you have it in its Sony Essential Classics incarnation?
Now where have I seen that phrase used elsewhere?

[Leinster Lass]

I wonder if you have it in its Sony Essential Classics incarnation?
Now where have I seen that phrase used elsewhere?

Yes I do, as it happens!

[Tapiola]

Yes I do, as it happens!

Ditto to the Sony Essential Classics incarnation of the Mahler 6. I originally had it on cassette, which had significantly clearer sound than on the CD release.

I guess the audience was so well behaved as it possibly feared Szell's reaction had they acted otherwise!

[verismissimo]

Ligeti

Lontano, Atmospheres, Apparitions, San Francisco Polyphony, Concert romanesc

Berliner Philharmoniker / Jonathan Nott

[Joseph K]

[Joseph K]

Schubert symphony no. 9 - COE/Harnoncourt

[kea]

It's the latter that's the problem as far as I'm concerned. It isn't much slower in terms of overall duration but it seems too slow because it's dragging itself from one phrase to the next rather laboriously. (There's only one Guido Balestracci recording and it isn't all Schubert in fact.)

Ah, good to know. I'll check it out then; it's always nice to hear an actual arpeggione regardless of the speed at which it's being played.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 245-247

W A Mozart:
Don Giovanni k527 (vocal score)
Die Zauberflote k620 (vocal score)
Overture to Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail k384
Serenade in D major 'Antretter' k185
Serenade in D major 'Colleredo' k203
Serenade in D major k204
Serenata Notturna in D major k239

[vinteuil]

(There's only one Guido Balestracci recording and it isn't all Schubert in fact.)

... well apart from the Viardot, nearly all Schubert ? -

: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081WRC1JP

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[Bryn]

... well apart from the Viardot, nearly all Schubert ? -

: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081WRC1JP

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And the opening "Trad.".

[Pulcinella]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Janet Baker (Alto)/Waldemar Kmentt/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Kubelik (recorded live 27.02.1970)

As a pendant to his symphony cycle, Kubelik's DLvdE is just as good as one would have expected from those recordings. Janet Baker is at her very considerable best, the orchestra plays beautifully, the recording (Herkulessaal) is excellent and Kubelik adopts a - I was tempted to say "ton neutre" - clear-eyed, unsentimental approach (like Abbado in Berlin in 2011). Listening to this rather wonderful performance serves as a welcome antidote to the rather silly point-scoring going on elsewhere in this forum.

A snippet of information about Das Lied that I had to look up, when I realised that of the four recordings on my shelves three feature a mezzo: Janet Baker twice (conducted by Haitink and Leppard) and Karen Cargill (conducted by Runnicles, on a BBC MM CD of a Proms performance); and one is with a baritone (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, conducted by Kletzski).

According to the liner notes in the Leppard recording, the conductor at the first performance (almost six months to the day after Mahler's death) was Bruno Walter, "whose choice of a contralto for the low-voice part has set the fashion for modern performances: Mahler had suggested either a baritone or a contralto with the tenor singer".