What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[vinteuil]

These are a good way from my usual sort of listening but it has to be said that baroque/early music issues do have the most stunning cover art. The Palmeri one, in particular, is just wonderful.

... it's a Caspar van Wittel of the piazza Navona in Rome

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Piazza_Navona%2C_Rome_Caspar_Van_Wittel.jpg

I think the painting is currently at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_van_Wittel

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[Petrushka]

... it's a Caspar van Wittel of the piazza Navona in Rome

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Piazza_Navona%2C_Rome_Caspar_Van_Wittel.jpg

I think the painting is currently at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_van_Wittel

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Thanks.

[BBMmk2]

Today, new week, new theme. This week it’s the conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Elgar
Enigma Variations, Op.36
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Sinopoli

Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
New York Philharmonic
Giuseppe Sinopoli

Richard Strauss
Alpensinfonie, Op.64
Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli.

[cloughie]

Today, new week, new theme. This week it’s the conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Elgar
Enigma Variations, Op.36
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Sinopoli

Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
New York Philharmonic
Giuseppe Sinopoli

Richard Strauss
Alpensinfonie, Op.64
Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli.

I recommend you follow these with his NYPO Pines of Rome, Bbm.

[jayne lee wilson]

... it's a Caspar van Wittel of the piazza Navona in Rome

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Piazza_Navona%2C_Rome_Caspar_Van_Wittel.jpg

I think the painting is currently at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_van_Wittel

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Lovely widescreen repro, V, thanks so much..... here's a note for the gorgeous-sounding Corelli album...kinda thing you sling on to soothe the troubled soul, but then get drawn further and deeper into .....

Alessandro Palmeri presents a compilation of works from the early solo literature for cello by composers such as Domenico Gabrielli, Giuseppe Pietro Gaetano Boni, Giuseppe Colombi and Giovanni Battista Vitali. The extraordinarily prolific period, both artistically and musically, which prevailed in Emilia Romagna throughout the 17th century, provided the conditions for the creation and development of the cello literature.
The works on this recording mark the transition from the epoch of the violone to the epoch of the violoncello. With them, the cello was ultimately freed from the continuo role to which it had previously been limited. © Passacaille

Instrumentarium spans the centuries too.....

ALESSANDRO PALMERI
violone
• Violone by Simone Cimapane (Rome, 1685)
• Bow by Lorenzo Lazzarato (Ferrara, 2002)
after an anonymous Italian bow, early 18th century
RICCARDO DONI
harpsichord & organ
• Italian harpsichord by F. Facchini (Lugo di Romagna, 1996) after an anonymous italian instrument c. 1670
(Musical Instruments Museum, Nuremberg)
• Positive organ by W. Chinaglia (Lentate sul Seveso, 2007)
TAKASHI KAKETA
violoncello
• Violoncello by Bart Visser (Zutphen, 2001) after Francesco Rugeri

[teamsaint]

Copland. Piano Concerto.
NYP/ Bernstein.
Which I am enjoying very much. I wonder if this swings enough , in the relevant sections, for our forum experts on the matter ?

Last night, on Pulcers’ recommendation : the recent LSO/ Rattle All Stravinsky concert on Youtube from LSO St Lukes. An excellent recommendation as it goes, and a great end to the weekend.

[Pulcinella]

Copland. Piano Concerto.
NYP/ Bernstein.
Which I am enjoying very much. I wonder if this swings enough , in the relevant sections, for our forum experts on the matter ?

Last night, on Pulcers’ recommendation : the recent LSO/ Rattle All Stravinsky concert on Youtube from LSO St Lukes. An excellent recommendation as it goes, and a great end to the weekend.

Glad you enjoyed the Rattle concert.

I would have thought that, with the composer as soloist and Bernstein as conductor, with the NYPO, they would have got the swing right.
The only other version I have is with Garrick Ohlsson as soloist, with the SFSO under MTT, on a CD called 'Copland the modernist' (to distinguish him from the other SFSO/MTT Copland collection, 'Copland the populist', which has Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring (full orchestra, full ballet), and Rodeo)!
I might do a comparative listen tomorrow.

[rauschwerk]

Copland. Piano Concerto.
NYP/ Bernstein.
Which I am enjoying very much. I wonder if this swings enough , in the relevant sections, for our forum experts on the matter ?

Copland's technique was only just equal to the demands of his fiendishly difficult piece, so perhaps it's a bit optimistic to expect authentic swing as well. Ohlsson really has the measure of the piece, technically and stylistically.

That said, we need the composer's version to elucidate the passages (marked 'rubato' and strewn with commas) which couldn't be accurately notated!

[rauschwerk]

Sibelius 1 - Philh/Ashkenazy. No longer my cup of tea (if indeed it ever was), though the rather crude recording, with over-prominent heavy brass and timps, didn't help.

[Joseph K]

Haydn - string quartet op. 76 no. 6 - Festetics

[Stanfordian]

‘Aria Cantilena’ - Elīna Garanča
Massenet, Chapí, Offenbach, Rossini, Villa-Lobos, Montsalvatge, Richard Strauss
Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Staaskapelle Dresden / Fabio Luisi
Recorded 2006 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Deutsche Grammophon CD

Boulanger Trio - Beethoven
Variations on Wenzel Müller's song ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’
for Piano Trio in G major, Op. 121a
Trio movement, Allegretto, in B flat major, WoO 39
Trio in B flat major, Op. 97 ‘Archduke’
Boulanger Trio
Recorded 2012 Kammermusikstudio, SWR, Stuttgart
Profil CD

[BBMmk2]

I recommend you follow these with his NYPO Pines of Rome, Bbm.

I have seen those!

[Pulcinella]

Copland
Piano concerto

1: Copland/NYPO/Bernstein (recorded 1964)
2: Ohlsson/SFSO/MTT (recorded 1996)

Both good, but I enjoyed the sense of danger and fun in the Copland/Bernstein more; the Ohlsson/MTT came over as being not so spontaneous.
I wonder what the result would have been like had Copland and Bernstein swapped roles in their recording.

PS: In his book on Copland, Howard Pollock writes that the Copland /Bernstein recording may have scared off other interpreters. He goes on to say that in later recordings with Copland as conductor (Earl Wild and Noël Lee as soloists), he (Copland) turned in a more poignant first movement and a funnier (sic: more fun rather than more amusing?) last movement than Bernstein, who seemed somewhat ponderous in comparison.
He also mentions the Ohlsson recording, and says that both it and one with Lorin Hollander (conducted by Gerard Schwarz) presented still other approaches, the Ohlsson in particular making an especially strong case for the music's continued relevance and viability.

[Joseph K]

Dusted off (literally) this box and am listening to something from it for the first time ever! Third symphony BPO/Cluytens. Thanks for Bryn for mentioning it (some time around Xmas, I think). Hmmm... no repeat of the exposition??

Symphony no. 1 now.

[cloughie]

Ravel Orchestral Works - PCO Cluytens - if there’s a more Gallic sounding Pav Enf Def then I’d love to hear it.