What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Purcell: "Musick in King Arthur", orchestral highlights (Tafelmusik, Lamon).

[Petrushka]

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Tristan - Rene Kollo
Isolde - Margaret Price
Brangäne - Brigitte Fassbaender
Kurwenal - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
King Marke - Kurt Moll
Melot - Werner Götz
A Shepherd - Anton Dermota
A Steersman - Wolfgang Hellmich
A Young Sailor - Eberhard Büchner

Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Staatskapelle Dresden
Carlos Kleiber

[Alison]

Bruckner. Symphony 7

Leipzig Gewandhaus/Nelsons

Great playing, indifferent conducting. Review from RO has it spot on I think.

[Stanfordian]

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Tristan - Rene Kollo
Isolde - Margaret Price
Brangäne - Brigitte Fassbaender
Kurwenal - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
King Marke - Kurt Moll
Melot - Werner Götz
A Shepherd - Anton Dermota
A Steersman - Wolfgang Hellmich
A Young Sailor - Eberhard Büchner

Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Staatskapelle Dresden
Carlos Kleiber

Great pick. My first choice account!

[BBMmk2]

Great pick. My first choice account!

Interesting!

[HighlandDougie]

Bruckner. Symphony 7

Leipzig Gewandhaus/Nelsons

Great playing, indifferent conducting. Review from RO has it spot on I think.

Ooh, I so beg to differ. Horses for courses/à chacun son goût etc but "indifferent" is not a word I would associate with Nelsons's conducting. I much prefer his lyricism to the "monumentalism" on offer from others I could name. And the orchestral playing is indeed "great". Pretty good recording, too.

[Stanfordian]

Rossini
'Semiramide', opera in two acts
Semiramide - Albina Shagimuratova; Arsace - Daniela Barcellona; Assur - Mirco Palazzi;
Idreno - Barry Banks; Oroe - Gianluca Buratto; Azema - Susana Gaspar;
Mitrane - David Butt Philip; L'Ombra di Nino - James Platt
Opera Rara Chorus (Madeleine Venner: chorus master),
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Mark Elder
Recorded 2016 Henry Wood Hall, London
Opera Rara

[Bryn]

Robert Ashley: Crash

[BBMmk2]

Rossini
'Semiramide', opera in two acts
Semiramide - Albina Shagimuratova; Arsace - Daniela Barcellona; Assur - Mirco Palazzi;
Idreno - Barry Banks; Oroe - Gianluca Buratto; Azema - Susana Gaspar;
Mitrane - David Butt Philip; L'Ombra di Nino - James Platt
Opera Rara Chorus (Madeleine Venner: chorus master),
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Mark Elder
Recorded 2016 Henry Wood Hall, London
Opera Rara

Good to see opera on these pages .

Martha Argerich The Lugano Recordings
The Legendary Live Performances
Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
(Martha Argerich, Piano, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,
Jacek Kaspszyk)
Piano Sonata No.16 in C major, K545
(Piotr Andersewski, Piano)
Piano Concerto No.25 in C major, K503
(Martha Argerich, Piano, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,
Jacek Kaspszyk)
Sonata for Piano, four hands, in D major, K381
Martha Argerich, Maria João Pires, Pianists)
Fantasia in F minor, K608
(Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein, Pianists)
Sonata for Piano Four Hands, in F major, K497
(Martha Argerich, Christina Morton, Pianists)

[Bryn]

JS Bach: BWV 1052, 1055, 1042 and 1050 (Café Zimmermann).



I note that this, and 15 more Café Zimmermann discs (incliding all 6 that were in the 'plusieurs instruments' box), will be released next month for around £35. If you already have the 6 disc box, that still works out at only about £3.50 a disc, or £3.60 including p&p.

[vinteuil]

JS Bach: BWV 1052, 1055, 1042 and 1050 (Café Zimmermann).


I note that this, and 15 more Café Zimmermann discs (including all 6 that were in the 'plusieurs instruments' box), will be released next month for around £35. If you already have the 6 disc box, that still works out at only about £3.50 a disc, or £3.60 including p&p.

... some more details of what the box will contain :

http://amzn.eu/d/fOxXB0l

Odd that four of these 16 "Café Zimmermann" discs seem actually to be solo harpsichord discs (with the excellent Céline Frisch : Bach Goldbergs and d'Anglebert)

EDIT : correction - the second 'Goldbergs' and the second d'Anglebert disc of CF is with the Zimmermen. So, only two 'solo harpsichord' discs...





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[Richard Barrett]

Robert Ashley: Crash

Thanks Bryn, I didn't know about that. I shall be getting hold of it as soon as possible.

[DublinJimbo]

Gounod:

Mélodies
Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano)

Saint Cecilia Mass
Luba Orgonášová (soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Gustáv Belácček (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons

Exploring some of the composer's music in light of his double-anniversary year (200th anniversary of birth on 17th June; 125th anniversary of death on 18th October). The songs were totally unknown to me, but have proved a delightful discovery. The recording includes a mere seventeen of the 150 or so he wrote, some of which are real gems, and Tassis Schristoyannis does them great justice, with exemplary diction and great variety of tone. It's years since I last heard the Saint Cecilia Mass, and I'd forgotten how good it is. This live recording from the Herkulessaal in the Residenz in Munich (March 2007) proved the ideal way to rediscover this fine work.

[Petrushka]

Mozart: Symphony No 38 (Prague)

[interval]

Mahler: Symphony No 9

Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Walter

[Stanfordian]

Boulanger Trio – ‘Tchaikovsky • Juon Piano Trios’
Paul Juon
Litaniae, tone poem for piano, violin and cello, op. 70
Tchaikovsky
Trio for violin, cello and piano, Op. 50
Boulanger Trio, Karla Haltenwanger (piano), Birgit Erz (violin), Ilona Kindt (cello)
Recorded 2017 Kammermusiksaal Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
C-Avi Music - recent release

Josquin des Prés
Plainchant – Gaudeamus omnes
Missa Gaudeamus
Missa L’ami Baudichon
The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips
Recorded Chapel of Merton College, Oxford
Gimell - new release