What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Massenet
‘Amoureuse’– Sacred and Profane Arias
From: Sainte Therese Prie, Amoureuse, La Grande Tante, Marie Magdeleine,
Eve, La Vierge, Hérodiade, Le Cid, Sappho, Grisélidis, Chérubin, Ariane
Rosamund Illing (soprano),
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Richard Bonynge
Recorded 1998 Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, Australia
Melba Recordings, reissued 2006 on remastered SACD

[smittims]

Sorry to keep thumping the tub:

Priaulx Rainier: String Quartet: the Amadeus Quartet. A 15-minute work in four contrasted movements.

I find more in this music every time I hear it. It's on YouTube if you want to hear it.

[edashtav]

Sorry to keep thumping the tub:

Priaulx Rainier: String Quartet: the Amadeus Quartet. A 15-minute work in four contrasted movements.

I find more in this music every time I hear it. It's on YouTube if you want to hear it.

With so few women composers from her days, the neglect of much of her music is suprising and disappointing.

[Pulcinella]

Sorry to keep thumping the tub:

Priaulx Rainier: String Quartet: the Amadeus Quartet. A 15-minute work in four contrasted movements.

I find more in this music every time I hear it. It's on YouTube if you want to hear it.

Lined up (on Deezer and Sonos) for later; choir tonight!

[pastoralguy]

Schumann. Symphony No.2. Overtures Manfred and Genoveva

Orchestra Mozart conducted by Claudio Abbado. DG.

I’ve been on a bit of a Schumann kick recently and I’d nearly bought this cd from Amazon but something stopped me. Anyway, I picked it up for 50p in a charity shop today.

[Petrushka]

Another highly significant anniversary for me today. It's 50 years since I bought this:

Mahler: Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)
Elly Ameling (soprano), Aafje Heynis (contralto)
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink

And that's what I'm about to listen to now. What life-changing times they were! I still have the LP boxed set which is beside me now.

I think I've related before that during 1973 and 1974, during a spell as a job seeker, I used to purchase an LP after a (usually failed) job interview. The companies I had the interviews with are all long gone, but those recordings live on.

[Joseph K]

Schoenberg - Violin Concerto - Hahn et al.

[Ian Thumwood]

Nocturne by Nicanor Abelardo, one of the Philippines most famed composers....

[Ian Thumwood]

One of Abelardo's "art songs" - the pearl of the Pasig (The Pasig is the river than flows through Manila and is a region of the city.)

[Ian Thumwood]

The Cavatina is another of Abelardo's most celebrated compositions....

He is celebrated in PH but like their national author Jose Rizal, he remains little known over here. Fascinating that someone like Abelardo and his associates were producing these Kundiman songs which owe alot to the art song tradition in the west but refracvted through a Filipino national identity.

[ucanseetheend]

Listening to a new re-release of Chopin by a pianist I just discovered, Thierry de Brunhoff. Loved some of his Chopin interpretations, particularly the nocturnes. He's a pupil of Alfred Cortot and still with us at 89. Oh and he's a Benedictine monk .

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8djkKNN4f90&t=38s&ab_channel=ClassicalMusic%2F%2FReferenceRecording

[Pulcinella]

Stravinsky
Oedipus Rex
Symphony of psalms
Les noces
Cantata
Mass

Czech PO/Ancerl

(Though sadly competing against 'excavation' work outside to discover the whereabouts of some of our district heating valves, which unbelievably seem not to be available on the estate plans!)

[smittims]

For me today it was Debussy: Four symphonic fragments from le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien. Philharmonia/Cantelli, who according to witnesses spent the first 45 minutes of the session on the first page.

It's among the most haunting music I know , but a heady atmosphere. I had to clear the air after with Rhapsodie Espagnole, Philharmonia again, this time under Herbert.

[vinteuil]

Herbert.

Blomstedt we presume

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[smittims]

Nice one , vinteuil