What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Edgy 2]

Mozart

Piano Concerto No 24

Murray Perahia, Finnish RSO, Hannu Lintu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8j-1u2ndZo

[Petrushka]

I couldn't find a Bernstein recording of the Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 that was given at the time of the Mahler 4 recording in 1960, but I did come across this one, given during a Canadian tour in September and October 1967 which can be duplicated in full - even down to the encores!

Mahler: Symphony No 4
Reri Grist (soprano)

[interval]

Ives: Symphony No 2
Sousa: March - Semper Fidelis (encore)
Johann Strauss II: Waltz - Wiener Blut (encore)

New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein

[Pulcinella]

Stravinsky: Violin concerto

Hahn/ASMF/Marriner

Following ardcarp's comment on the Stravinsky Day thread:

I do hope Hilary Hahn will be in the running. It's the version I have, and I adore it.

But it's not for me.
The first movement is taken too fast: virtuosity at the expense of the music (in my humble opinion, of course).

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on with my season this week of recordings featuring Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Respighi
The Fountains of Rome
The Pines of Rome
Roman Festivals
NYPO
Giuseppe Sinopoli

Liszt
A Faust Symphony
Vinson Cole (tenor)
Staatsoperchor Dresden
Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli

A contender to match the Bernstein recording, of the Liszt?

[Joseph K]

Dusted off this box, most of which I've never listened to. I'm gonna put the fourth disk on.

[Bryn]

Dusted off this box, most of which I've never listened to. I'm gonna put the fourth disk on.

I got that Boulez disc some years before it got compiled into that box. It seemed a bit out of place alongside the de Leeuw complement. Do give the other discs a spin or two.

[Joseph K]

I got that Boulez disc some years before it got compiled into that box. It seemed a bit out of place alongside the de Leeuw complement. Do give the other discs a spin or two.

[Joseph K]

Truly excellent Colours of the Celestial City and Exotic Birds...

[Bryn]

Truly excellent Colours of the Celestial City and Exotic Birds...

Yes, at that stage of his life Boulez had, I feel, a much better affinity with his teacher's work than he did when later recording for DG.

[Joseph K]

Yes, at that stage of his life Boulez had, I feel, a much better affinity with his teacher's work than he did when later recording for DG.

I confess to liking the later recording of Chronochromie, which I don't think is that much later - about seven years?

[Bryn]

I confess to liking the later recording of Chronochromie, which I don't think is that much later - about seven years?

I wish Rattle would make a recording of Chronochrormie, up to the standard of a performance of the work he conducted back in the early 1990s. Otherwise, have you heard the George Benjamin-directed performance on RCO Live? The most recent edit/remastering of the Dorati recording makes a rather better job of repairing a tape snatch that disrupts a clarinet note in that recording, too. It's the sort of slip that was nothing like as noticeable on the original vinyl release, due to so many other problems inherent in the medium.

[Joseph K]

Otherwise, have you heard the George Benjamin-directed performance on RCO Live?

No - thanks for reminding me of it, though. I may well order it.

[Joseph K]

Now spinning Des Canyons from the aforementioned set.

[Petrushka]

Haydn: Symphony No 88

[interval]

Mahler: Symphony No 5
James Chambers (solo horn)

New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein

[LMcD]

Honegger Symphony No. 4 (SRO/Ansermet). This, together with the 2nd and 3rd Symphonies, has been a delightful excursion into previously unknown territory.