What are you listening to now - I ?

[BBMmk2]

"Haitink the Phillips Years". Bartok VC No.2. Henryk Szeryng, RCO, Haitink.

[Roehre]

Today:

Brahms:
Lieder opp.95-97
Symphony no.4 in e op.98

McCabe:
Les Martinets noirs (2003)

Hartmann:
Symphony no.7 (1958)

[BBMmk2]

Playing catch up on some Proms

[Stanfordian]

Piotr Beczala - The French Collection - Opera arias
Massenet, Berlioz, Verdi, Boieldieu, Donizetti, Gounod, Bizet
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon/Alain Altinoglu
Diana Damrau, soprano (Manon duet)
Recorded 2014 Auditorium Maurice-Ravel, Lyon
Deutsche Grammophon

Brahms:
Alto Rhapsody
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
Nänie
Schicksalslied
Triumphlied
Wolfgang Brendel (baritone)
Prague Philharmonic Choir,
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Giuseppe Sinopoli
Recorded 1982 Prague
Deutsche Grammophon
A treasured recording from my collection. I’ve always admired the Alto Rhapsody and this Brigitte Fassbaender performance is sublime. Throughout Giuseppe Sinopoli holds everything together superbly.

Lester Young & Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison with Oscar Peterson:
‘Going for Myself’
Verve (1957)

[Roehre]

....

Brahms:
Alto Rhapsody
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
Nänie
Schicksalslied
Triumphlied
Wolfgang Brendel (baritone)
Prague Philharmonic Choir,
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Giuseppe Sinopoli
Recorded 1982 Prague
Deutsche Grammophon
A treasured recording from my collection. I’ve always admired the Alto Rhapsody and this Brigitte Fassbaender performance is sublime. Throughout Giuseppe Sinopoli holds everything together superbly.

....

The CD I selected for my present Brahms-journey as well. Sinopoli makes even the Triumphlied an exciting work

[Petrushka]

Picked up yet another complete Beethoven symphonies box from Foyles second hand section last weekend, Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus in what is their second cycle recorded in the 1990s. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nine-Symphon...eethoven+masur

Spent a wet, and chilly July Sunday playing 1, 2, 3 & 7 and this must be a most under-rated set as I'd not come across it before. Wonderful, characterful woodwind, full, confident horns and good, solid interpretations from Masur which will stand frequent listening. Very fine recorded digital sound and most enjoyable.

[visualnickmos]

Picked up yet another complete Beethoven symphonies box from Foyles second hand section last weekend, Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus in what is their second cycle recorded in the 1990s. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nine-Symphon...eethoven+masur

Spent a wet, and chilly July Sunday playing 1, 2, 3 & 7 and this must be a most under-rated set as I'd not come across it before. Wonderful, characterful woodwind, full, confident horns and good, solid interpretations from Masur which will stand frequent listening. Very fine recorded digital sound and most enjoyable.

That does look rather nice, to say the least. As an aside - where is Foyle's now? as I understand they have moved from Charing Cross Road?

[Petrushka]

That does look rather nice, to say the least. As an aside - where is Foyle's now? as I understand they have moved from Charing Cross Road?

Still on Charing Cross Road, VN, just a couple of doors along from the old building towards Trafalgar Square.

[MrGongGong]

That does look rather nice, to say the least. As an aside - where is Foyle's now? as I understand they have moved from Charing Cross Road?

No, they are still there last time I looked
Much improved after a time of dilapidation

[visualnickmos]

Thanks Pet and Mr GG

Next time I'm in UK - or London to be exact, I'll pop along there, (as well as Gramex, of course! I'll need that cup of tea!)

[Serial_Apologist]

I was just now listening to a recording I taped many years ago of Lili Boulanger's wonderful "Old Buddhist Prayer" and, checking the net for its year of composition (1914) was delighted to come across this clip, which I thought I'd share:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJJU1GPMKQw

If you've heard similar harmonies to hers, it may well have been in something by Honegger, who admitted her as being an important influence. I hear the Gustav Holst to come as well.

[Roehre]

Today:

Reich
New York counterpoint for clarinet and tape (1985)

Wood:
Epithalamion (2015

Walters:
Divertimento for Strings (1960)

Maconchy
Notebook For Harpsichord (1965/'66)

Krogulski (1815-1842)
Piano Concerto no.1 in E (1830)

Brahms:
Cello sonata no.2 in F op.99
Violin sonata no.2 in A op.100

Pattersson:
Cello concerto op.90 (2002)

[Stanfordian]

Mahler:
CD1
Klagende Lied
Stadtischer Musikverein Dusseldorf,
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Susan Dunn (sop),
Markus Baur (boy alto), Werner Hollweg (tenor),
Andreas Schmitt (bass)
Recorded 1989 Jesus Christ Church, Berlin
CD2
Fünf Lieder nach Rückert
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Das Knaben Wunderhorn - Drei Leider
Kindertotenlieder
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin/Riccardo Chailly
Recorded 1988/89 Jesus Christ Church, Berlin
Decca
I’ve never been too enamoured on Mahler’s Klagende Lied. However
CD2 contains a number of excellent Mahler works performed
by Brigitte Fassbaender and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester
Berlin with outstanding sensitivity.

Piotr Beczala - Slavic Opera Arias
Arensky, Borodin, Dvorák, Moniuszko, Nowowiejski, Rachmaninov,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Żeleński
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Łukasz Borowicz
Recorded 2009 Witold Lutosławski Concert, Warsaw
Orfeo

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featuring Nat Adderley with
Bobby Timmons, Barry Harris, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes:
‘Them Dirty Blues’
1960 Riverside

[richardfinegold]

Bruckner, 5th Symphony, Furtwangler conducting BPO, 1942, on the Testament label. It sounds amazing for that vintage and has become my favorite.

[richardfinegold]

Picked up yet another complete Beethoven symphonies box from Foyles second hand section last weekend, Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus in what is their second cycle recorded in the 1990s. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nine-Symphon...eethoven+masur

Spent a wet, and chilly July Sunday playing 1, 2, 3 & 7 and this must be a most under-rated set as I'd not come across it before. Wonderful, characterful woodwind, full, confident horns and good, solid interpretations from Masur which will stand frequent listening. Very fine recorded digital sound and most enjoyable.

Didn't know there was a second set. I had picked up their first when Pentatone reissued it in multichannel but sold it off when the Vanska cycle came in SACD