What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Richard Barrett]

Gorgeous, concentrated Max chamber music, in really beautiful 2008 recordings. Atmospheric, focused and logical works of great quality and variety. Marvellous!

Yes, it really is, especially Ave maris stella which is the PMD piece I come back to most often; I think it's a masterpiece of chamber music capable of comparison with any other.

[visualnickmos]

Schubert
Piano sonatas D840 and D845
Paul Badura-Skoda

From the wonderful box set of Schubert 'The complete piano sonatas'

RCA Red Seal

[silvestrione]

Yes, it really is, especially Ave maris stella which is the PMD piece I come back to most often; I think it's a masterpiece of chamber music capable of comparison with any other.

[Stanfordian]

Stravinsky
Symphony of Wind Instruments
Symphony of Psalms
Symphony in Three Movements
Rundfunkchor Berlin,
Berliner Philharmoniker / Pierre Boulez
Recorded 1996 Philharmonie, Berlin
Deutsche Grammophon - Near perfection for me - I love this album!

‘Neil Shicoff - Live’
Opera arias from Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Gounod, Bizet, Halévy, Puccini
Neil Shicoff (tenor)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Fabio Luisi / Marcello Viotti / Frédéric Chaslin /
with baritone Vladimir Chernov (Bizet)
Recorded Live 1996 Bad Kissingen, Regentenbau, Bavaria;
1999 Philharmonie, Munich; 2001 Prinzregententheater, Munich
Orfeo

[CallMePaul]

Schubert
Piano sonatas D840 and D845
Paul Badura-Skoda

From the wonderful box set of Schubert 'The complete piano sonatas'

RCA Red Seal

I assume that this is P B-S's modertn instrument cycle. I have (and frequently play) his cycle on 5 historic instruments, but this is on Arcana. Do others have a preference between the two cycles? I have not heard the full RCA cycle.

[cloughie]

More exquisite French delicacies.....Sony 24/96 New Release, Qobuz Studio.



Utterly gorgeous... several works new to me here like the dreamy, Chopinesque Ballade for Piano/Orchestra, the Cello/Orchestra Elegy etc...I love the fluidity of form, the sense of shape-within-improv...
Joy of streaming, that one lingers with music one might normally pass by...

(It's OK - the Pavane and Masques et Bergamasques are here too...!)

Looks good - must explore both volumes - but secret?

[Pulcinella]

I would certainly recommend the Netopil:

I enjoyed it, but prefer something a bit punchier!

If you want to see, as well as hear, Mackerras in the Wingfield edition, there is a Supraphon DVD. Apart from its single disc release, there is a boxed set of works by Janacek and Martinu which also contains it, along with a CD of the revised version with some minor amendments which are also to be found in the later critical edition of that score. That boxed set is a must at its current price. Not a dud in it.

Set arrived this morning.

But I'm confused (not difficult!).
Both the CD and DVD versions of the Glagolitic Mass are credited as being 1926, rev 1928, but the CD has 8 movements and the DVD 9 (it both begins and ends with the Intrada). The timing of the Introduction is 2’57” (CD) and 3’50” (DVD) and that of the Gospodi is 3’18” and 4’50”.
Looks like more than 'minor amendments' to me!

Enjoying the set immensely so far, even if its purchase has led to the dilemma noted on the Culling CDs thread!

[Bryn]

I enjoyed it, but prefer something a bit punchier!

Set arrived this morning.

But I'm confused (not difficult!).
Both the CD and DVD versions of the Glagolitic Mass are credited as being 1926, rev 1928, but the CD has 8 movements and the DVD 9 (it both begins and ends with the Intrada). The timing of the Introduction is 2’57” (CD) and 3’50” (DVD) and that of the Gospodi is 3’18” and 4’50”.
Looks like more than 'minor amendments' to me!

Enjoying the set immensely so far, even if its purchase has led to the dilemma noted on the Culling CDs thread!

The DVD is of the Wingfield Edition of the original score. Following the original proramme he has the Intada at both ends. The CD is of an ammended revised version, similar in most ways to the recent critical edition of the revised version. The Intrada is performed at the end only.

[Pulcinella]

The DVD is or the Wingfield Edition of the original score. Following the original proramme he has the Intada at both ends. The CD is of an ammended revised version, similar in most ways to the recent critical edition of the revised version. The Intrada is performed at the end only.

Thanks.
Certainly enjoyed the CD version just now.
Movement timing discrepancies still look odd though (but I'm not getting into another Music for SPC-type discussion here!).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Epic Concert for Beethoven’s Benefit 22/12/1808
A Playlist.

Beethoven
Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68, ‘Pastoral’
Bavarian RSO, Maris Jansons
Concert Aria ‘Ah Perfudo!’, Op.60
Charlotte Margionno(soprano)
ORR, Gardiner
Mass in C , ‘Gloria’, Op.80
Charlotte Margionno, Catherine Robin
William Kendal, Alistair Miles
The Monteverdi Choir
ORR, Gardiner
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op.58
Pierre Laurent Aimard, (Piano)
CoE, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.57
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Mass in C, op.86, ‘Sanctus’
Charlotte Margionno, Catherine Robbin
William Kendall, Alistair Miles
The Monteverdi Choir
ORR, Gardiner
Fantasy in C for Piano, Chorus & Orchestra, Op.80
Pierre Laurent Aimard(Piano)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
CoE, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Anyone interested in this historic concert, and who happens to be in the region of the Festival Hall next year (Sunday afternoon, 15th March, 2020) can attend the Philharmonia's re-presentation of it, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen - as the PO's concert season programme puts it "in a much warmer and more comfortable hall").

[visualnickmos]

Anyone interested in this historic concert, and who happens to be in the region of the Festival Hall next year (Sunday afternoon, 15th March, 2020) can attend the Philharmonia's re-presentation of it, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen - as the PO's concert season programme puts it "in a much warmer and more comfortable hall").

Thank goodness for nightbuses!

[cloughie]

Thank goodness for nightbuses!

Do they run after 6.00pm?

[BBMmk2]

Anyone interested in this historic concert, and who happens to be in the region of the Festival Hall next year (Sunday afternoon, 15th March, 2020) can attend the Philharmonia's re-presentation of it, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen - as the PO's concert season programme puts it "in a much warmer and more comfortable hall").

If only!

Love is Come Again
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

[Joseph K]

Stravinsky
Symphony of Wind Instruments
Symphony of Psalms
Symphony in Three Movements
Rundfunkchor Berlin,
Berliner Philharmoniker / Pierre Boulez
Recorded 1996 Philharmonie, Berlin
Deutsche Grammophon - Near perfection for me - I love this album!

I decided to listen to this myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBmQ5wlzF4c

[Stanfordian]

Offenbach
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, opéra fantastique in five acts
Daniel Johansson (Hoffmann), Kerstin Avemo (Olympia, Giulietta), Mandy Fredrich (Antonia, Giulietta), Rachel Frenkel (Muse, Niklausse, Die Stimme der Mutter), Michael Volle (Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto), Bengt-Ola Morgny (Spalanzani), Ketil Hugaas (Crespel, Luther) und Christoph Mortagne (Andrès, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio), Pär (Pelle) Karlsson (Stella, non singing part)
Prague Philharmonic Choir,
Wiener Symphoniker / Johannes Debus
Stage Director – Stefan Herheim
Recorded live July 2015 Festspielhaus, Bregenz Festival
C Major Blu-ray

I love this Stefan Herheim production with a passion!