What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Joseph K]

I realised I didn't know Beethoven's Op.127 String Quartet as well as I thought I should so today I've listened to...

Ébène Quartet.

Amadeus Quartet.

Alban Berg Quartet (live)

Italian Quartet.

Each group has so many different things to say.

My favourite Beethoven quartet.

[DublinJimbo]

Mozart: Divertimento in D major K.251 ('Nannerl Septet')
Beethoven: Septet in E flat major op. 20

Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

New release on Qobuz. Live recording from the 2020 Lucerne Festival. Glorious chamber playing. A total delight, and perfect antidote in troubling times.

[BBMmk2]

Vaughan Williams
Mass in G minor
Te Deum in G
Howells
Requiem
Take Him Earth for Cherishing.
Corydon Singes
Matthew Best.

Howells
Stabat Mater.
Neil Archer (tenor)
LSO Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

[Stanfordian]

Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazón - ‘Duets’
Opera duets from Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Donizetti, Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky & Torroba
Anna Netrebko (soprano) & Rolando Villazón (tenor)
Staatskapelle Dresden / Nicola Luisotti
Recorded 2006 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Deutsche Grammophon

‘French Cello Music’
Magnard
Cello Sonata, Op. 20
Koechlin
Chansons Bretonnes, Book III, Op. 115
Widor
Cello Sonata, Op. 80
Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Recorded 2000 St. George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol
Hyperion

[verismissimo]

My first Hartmann:

Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion
Concerto funèbre for Violin and String Orchestra
Symphonische Hymnen for large Orchestra

Wolfgang Schneiderhan (Violine)
Maria Bergmann (Klavier)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Rafael Kubelík

[MickyD]

The Singing Club - catches and glees.

All rather esoteric, but it serves to remind just how very good The Hilliard Ensemble were in such wide-ranging repertoire.

[peterthekeys]

Sir Granville Bantock
Omar Khayyám
Cather Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC SO Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Vernon Handley

I seriously think that Bantock was one of the greatest masters of the orchestra of all time.

[verismissimo]

My first Hartmann:

Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion
Concerto funèbre for Violin and String Orchestra
Symphonische Hymnen for large Orchestra

Wolfgang Schneiderhan (Violine)
Maria Bergmann (Klavier)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Rafael Kubelík

First impressions:

Noisy.
Most unlikely pupil of Webern.

[cloughie]

I seriously think that Bantock was one of the greatest masters of the orchestra of all time.

His arrangements of Bach’s Sheep and Wachet Auf are wonderfully good also!

[Jonathan]

The Liszt / Stradal transcriptions volume 4 (again), on Toccata

[Petrushka]

50 years today since I bought my first classical LP with my own money! And here it is...listening to it on CD from the Karajan Decca box sounding better than ever.

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Wiener Philharmoniker (Solo violin: Willi Boskovsky)
Herbert von Karajan

I got it in the Ace of Diamonds incarnation (SDD175) with a picture of Nietzsche on the front that must qualify for a 'most boring cover' award!

[cloughie]

50 years today since I bought my first classical LP with my own money! And here it is...listening to it on CD from the Karajan Decca box sounding better than ever.

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Wiener Philharmoniker (Solo violin: Willi Boskovsky)
Herbert von Karajan

I got it in the Ace of Diamonds incarnation (SDD175) with a picture of Nietzsche on the front that must qualify for a 'most boring cover' award!

I remember that LP very well - at the time there were four very good Also’s around - Reiner on Victrola, Maazel on WRC, the Karajan and the fll price Mehta on Decca - the Mehta just edged the others with a superb Decca sound.

[teamsaint]

50 years today since I bought my first classical LP with my own money! And here it is...listening to it on CD from the Karajan Decca box sounding better than ever.

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Wiener Philharmoniker (Solo violin: Willi Boskovsky)
Herbert von Karajan

I got it in the Ace of Diamonds incarnation (SDD175) with a picture of Nietzsche on the front that must qualify for a 'most boring cover' award!

No doubt your career was fulfilling and lucrative, but you surely could have made a living as a memory man, or whatever ?

Do you have such incredible recall for things other than musical events?

[cloughie]

No doubt your career was fulfilling and lucrative, but you surely could have made a living as a memory man, or whatever ?

Do you have such incredible recall for things other than musical events?

Probably it’s a very selective memory - unfortunately it doesn’t stretch to the lyrics of songs I need to remember for singing performances!

[Petrushka]

No doubt your career was fulfilling and lucrative, but you surely could have made a living as a memory man, or whatever ?

Do you have such incredible recall for things other than musical events?

I've always had a very good memory for dates and also for events, most often very trivial personal ones as well as world events. The key to it is the ability to put those two together.

I'm not sure that my career was either fulfilling or lucrative (31 years today since I started my last job!) but I'm hoping that retirement doesn't impair the mass of useless trivia I've accumulated. I do occasionally have problems remembering what happened yesterday but can recall what the weather was on a particular day 50 or more years ago. At one time I could have told you what day of the week a certain date fell on between say, 1970 and the present, within a few minutes but that's now become increasingly difficult as more time has passed. The key to this one was the knowledge that my birthday (in June) and Christmas Day always fall on the same day of the week and it was a simple matter of working backwards and forwards, always remembering that leap years were also Olympics years. I used to do this as a party trick.

I'm sure most on here can remember that this coming Monday, Feb 15 is the 50th anniversary of Decimal Day, when the UK switched to decimal currency. Remember it well...