What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Petrushka]

Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete (1972 recording)

[interval]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique) (1964 recording)

Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

Karajan's 113th birthday today.

[Bert]

Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete

[interval]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique)

Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

Karajan's 113th birthday today.

A great programme and reminder, thank you

[teamsaint]

Classic FM hall of fame.
Didn’t think the second DSCH Piano Concerto would be so high.
Otherwise, as expected. Bad year for LVB apparently.

Back in the day, Easter Monday was great. It was always warm, Saints were always at home and won, and the fair was on Southampton common. It was a magic day.

Every year. Without fail.

[cloughie]

Classic FM hall of fame.
Didn’t think the second DSCH Piano Concerto would be so high.
Otherwise, as expected. Bad year for LVB apparently.

Back in the day, Easter Monday was great. It was always warm, Saints were always at home and won, and the fair was on Southampton common. It was a magic day.

Every year. Without fail.

Don’t get me started - The CFM Hall of Fame - 200000 chose their favourite 3 works and this forms a top 300. How statistically unsound - should they not choose their top 300 and then they would get the true top 300 - but how many CFM listeners know 300 works!

[DublinJimbo]

Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Petrenko (7 Digital 24/96 download)

… Having shelled out my £4.76 (and many thanks to Mathias B for the reminder about 7 Digital continuing their practice of offering many Berlin Philharmonic own-label recordings as very cheap downloads), I thought that I would just listen to the start but was immediately hooked …

1. I hadn't heard of 7 Digital. Their pricing is indeed beyond generous.
2. I listened to the samples of this recording. Short as they are, they fully support your comments about the performance.

[LMcD]

Don’t get me started - The CFM Hall of Fame - 200000 chose their favourite 3 works and this forms a top 300. How statistically unsound - should they not choose their top 300 and then they would get the true top 300 - but how many CFM listeners know 300 works!

Judging from the frequency with which certain works recur, I'm not even sure that Classic FM has 300 works in its playlist, but I'm pleased to see that RVW still 'tops the chart'.

[Bryn]

Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Petrenko (7 Digital 24/96 download)

Not a symphony I want to hear very often - not because I don't think that it's anything other than a great work but because listening it always leaves me feeling emotionally wrung-out - and certainly not music for a sunny afternoon. Having shelled out my £4.76 (and many thanks to Mathias B for the reminder about 7 Digital continuing their practice of offering many Berlin Philharmonic own-label recordings as very cheap downloads), I thought that I would just listen to the start but was immediately hooked. For one thing, I'm not sure that I've ever heard Mahler better played by an orchestra - and by an orchestra which seems more deeply committed player by player than in the recent Rattle version. Andante/Scherzo in the concerts as is the modern way but easy with the FLAC files to create A/S and S/A to suit one's mood. There is a sense in which Petrenko is still finding his way with the music, not in him still finding his feet with it but more him exploring where Mahler might have gone but not yet coming up with a definitive answer. It's exciting but not different for the sake of it, disturbing (as it should be) and, especially in the final movement, made me listen afresh to a work I thought I had known for the past 50 years but came to realise that I was deluding myself - I suspect that I never will know just what depths this music can reach.

Must import that from QOBUZ for a listen. Got to spend my 41p a day on something.

[DoctorT]

Tchaikovsky
Symphony no 5
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons

[richardfinegold]

That 7 Digital Site looks amazing. I have hardly downloaded for for the past couple of years but will be sampling these BPO recordings soon. I just did my first Qobuz download (Kertz Beethoven set, for $11, thanks Bryn for the heads up) and will be probably get most of these BPO offerings. I am using a Melco server/player which does a much better job of file organizing than my previous NAS. The only hitch is my current Mac laptop only has usb 3 and I need usb 2 for the Melco, but I can use the charging cable that comes with the Mac

[MickyD]

Good choice! Nice to hear a conductor and orchestra play "A La chapelle Sixtine" with a decent tempo. I wholeheartedly recommend the whole set of Haselbock's recordings which I reviewed for MusicWeb a couple of years ago.

I have it, too, but really regret not waiting longer, when Gramola later released the recordings with others from CPO, making it into a cheaper, 9CD Box.

[BBMmk2]

That's just what I was going to hear, in the next hour! Haitinknk/Concertgebouw..... my fav. version.

A Facebook fepriend gp had the same idea too! Uncanny?!?!?

Howellls
Stabat Mater
Te Deum(Collegium Regale) (version for choir and orchestra)
Sine Nomine, Op.37, “A Phantasy”

Stanford
Stabat Mater, Op.96
Songs of Faith, Op.97
The Resurrection, Op.5
Alison Hill (soprano)
Benjamin Hullett (tenor)
The Bach Choir
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Hill

Played yesterday.

This was the culmination of my theme last week of recordings featuring music connected to Holy Week and Easter.

[Stanfordian]

Bruneau
Requiem
Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande, Symphonie
(concert suite from opera arranged Marius Constant)
Children Chorus of La Monnaie, De Munt / Vlaams Radio Koor,
Mireille Delunsch (soprano), Edgaras Montvidas (tenor), Nora Gubisch (mezzo), Jérôme Varnier (bass)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of La Monnaie, De Munt / Ludovic Morlot
Recorded Live 2012, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Bruneau); 2013, Flagey, Brussels (Debussy)
Cypres

Koechlin
Piano Quintet, Op. 80
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 72
Sarah Lavaud (piano)
Antigone Quartet
Recorded 2008 Studio Tibor Varga, Grimisuat, Switzerland
AR RÉ-SÉ

[Petrushka]

Stravinsky: died April 6 1971

Ragtime
Octet

London Sinfonietta
Esa-Pekka Salonen

[Pulcinella]

Stravinsky: died April 6 1971

Ragtime
Octet

London Sinfonietta
Esa-Pekka Salonen

It'll be the Requiem Canticles for me, then.

[Petrushka]

It'll be the Requiem Canticles for me, then.

I'll be playing various pieces throughout the day. Remember this day 50 years ago very well even though Stravinsky didn't figure much in my musical life at that time. Wagner was all the rage for me then.