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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostDuly ordered - which makes about 50 "treats" ("well, it's Christmas!") I've allowed myself this week! I must stop.
(The Britten discs in that box are also available individually - probably "Used" - the Lucretia excerpts [which I first owned on an MfP LP] coupled with excerpts from Peter Grimes in the "original cast recording" from 1946. Both excellent.)
et voici - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-FXVUT_YI
Provided to YouTube by Warner ClassicsPiano Concerto in G Op. 55 (2001 Remastered Version) : III. Danza alla rondo (Allegretto gioioso) · Denis Matthews · BB...
Odd that the Youtubes seem to have been provided by Warner.
Could be of interest while you wait for the delivery person.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostSomeone has put up the first movement of Rubbra's PC on YouTube. Not sure if the other two movements are lurking somewhere in the TubeWorld. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWdC2Jp-Ow
Could be of interest while you wait for the delivery person.
The rest of the Concerto is there, too:
Provided to YouTube by Warner ClassicsPiano Concerto in G Op. 55 (2001 Remastered Version) : II. Dialogue (Lento e solenne) · Denis Matthews · BBC Symphony O...
Provided to YouTube by Warner ClassicsPiano Concerto in G Op. 55 (2001 Remastered Version) : III. Danza alla rondo (Allegretto gioioso) · Denis Matthews · BB...
... but I haven't listened to them, 'cause I don't want to spoil the ending.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostSomeone has put up the first movement of Rubbra's PC on YouTube. Not sure if the other two movements are lurking somewhere in the TubeWorld. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWdC2Jp-Ow
et voici - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-FXVUT_YI
Provided to YouTube by Warner ClassicsPiano Concerto in G Op. 55 (2001 Remastered Version) : III. Danza alla rondo (Allegretto gioioso) · Denis Matthews · BB...
Odd that the Youtubes seem to have been provided by Warner.
Could be of interest while you wait for the delivery person.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostMy favourite Maderna orchestral piece is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNx7Bw3cJE0
Here's my earlier Rough Guide....
The Grand Reference for Maderna is the NEOS 5-Volume series...
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/search?q...rna&i=boutique
(...still on Amazon too at reasonable prices…)
....which really does take you on a fantastic journey from the 40s to the tragic premature end (1973, Maderna just into his musical prime) courtesy of that 20thC music hero, Arturo Tamayo. Qobuz sadly lacks the (excellent) notes but you find most of them on the NEOS website if you search out Maderna there...
All fascinating, compellingly beautiful sonic experiences; one may consider Vol.2 less essential, consisting mainly of excerpts from the Hyperion music drama, but still plenty to enjoy.
But there are some earlier classics, notably the 1970 premiere of the marvellous Grande Aulodia (a sort of expanded, aleatoric, fantastical oboe/flute concerto) with Maderna himself conducting the RAI in very vivid mono..this outdoes both the NEOS and Strad issues, good they they are, for expressive intensity and sheer melismatic elan..…
His other late, great masterpiece is the Quadrivium (Naxos or NEOS, both good and very different due to the aleatoric sections).
The best of a terrific Stradivarius series is probably the Violin Concerto/Piano Concerto coupling, though the CD is prohibitively expensive now…
… All three Oboe Concerti fit neatly on one CD - from a choice of two ( , both good, go for the Holliger stunner...)
…….but I haven't made many notes on the music yet..just dwelling upon in a genuine, visionary musical revelation...the sheer beauty of his orchestral imagination, and the creative sparks thrown off by the aleatoric/written out conflict/opposition...
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Mozart: Sonatas K. 333, 370 and 570 (Gustav Leonhardt playing an unidentified fortepiano).
Recording originally published on the SEON label in 1972, so may also be in a SEON box.
[They are spread over 2 CDs in the Sony SEON big box, along with K. 282 plus the pieces K. 355 [576B] 453A and 540.]
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Listening today for the first time to Riccardo Chailly's recordings of Schumann symphonies with the Gewandhausorchester, and beginning predictably enough with no.2. While people like JEG and Herreweghe have shown that Schumann's orchestration doesn't necessarily need reworking, if you're going to perform this music with a "modern" orchestra, with all the balance decisions that will involve, why not use Mahler's solutions? Especially when they're as well played as this. Does it actually sound like Mahler? Not at all, except maybe the dynamics at some moments. I look forward to another listen when I won't be so concerned with who and how, but just with the musical substance.
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostI felt it was the least interesting of the 5 Volumes, largely drawn from excerpts from the opera Hyperion...
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostMozart: Sonatas K. 333, 370 and 570 (Gustav Leonhardt playing an unidentified fortepiano).
Recording originally published on the SEON label in 1972, so may also be in a SEON box.
[They are spread over 2 CDs in the Sony SEON big box, along with K. 282 plus the pieces K. 355 [576B] 453A and 540.]
In the end I gave up and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDmFp-IEGnI - which I think I also have on CD. Pity about the modern piano, but Horowitz is very good. I'll dig out the Leonhardt CDs later.
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Havergal Brian
Festal Dance
Wine of Summer (Symphony No. 5)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Symphony No. 19
Symphony No. 27
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins
Recorded 2014 Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow
Dutton Epoch
Bridge
String Quartet No. 2
Phantasy Piano Quartet
String Quartet No. 4
Phantasy Piano Quartet
Martin Roscoe (piano)
Maggini String Quartet
Recorded 2003 Potton Hall, Suffolk
Naxos
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