What are you listening to now - I ?

[pastoralguy]

Berglund conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's 10th symphony. I have the EMI STUDIO version which I bought in New York since it was unavailable here. Just checked on Amazon and it's now only £6.99.

[BBMmk2]

Hi BBM,

It's very good IMO,but Haitink and Bakels (the underwhelming organ part excepted) are just that bit more special.
To my ears at least.

I do think the organ part is most important. So needs to be prominent.

Now for a change. Alan Rawsthorne: Symphonies nos.1-3. Bournemouth SO, David Lloyd-Jones.(! )

[pastoralguy]

DSCH. Symphony no. 9. Scottish National Orchestra (leader, Edwin Paling), conducted by Neemi Jarvi.

[DublinJimbo]

Haydn: Symphony No 86
Stravinsky: Apollo

[interval]

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Felicity Palmer (soprano), Ameral Gunson (mezzo-soprano)
John Mitchinson (tenor), Malcolm King (bass)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle

Now that's a programme I'd dearly love to experience at a live concert!

[HighlandDougie]

I am especially looking forward to the Rzewski. I have six versions already, but have great hopes for this.

I have no proper basis for comparison (other than Yuji Takahashi) and have no expertise whatsoever in passing any kind of judgement on the performance but to my subjective ears it's great - I listened to it once and then listened to it all over again as I had enjoyed it so much. Really good recording quality. I like the Goldbergs as well. I can see this modestly-priced set becoming the present of choice to give at Christmas.

[Petrushka]

Did you converse?

Sadly not, She wasn't alone and I always make it a point of never bothering 'celebrities' if they are in conversation with someone else and are at an event in a private capacity.

[Bryn]

I have no proper basis for comparison (other than Yuji Takahashi) and have no expertise whatsoever in passing any kind of judgement on the performance but to my subjective ears it's great - I listened to it once and then listened to it all over again as I had enjoyed it so much. Really good recording quality. I like the Goldbergs as well. I can see this modestly-priced set becoming the present of choice to give at Christmas.

Ironically, the Yuji Takahashi recording is one I don't have (currently checking it out on YouTube). Ironically because my introduction to Fred's The People United ... was when he had to substitute it for a new song cycle he was due to perform at the Almeida Festival in 1983. The singer was to have been Rowita Trexler, but this was before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Trexler was unable to get a visa in time. Fred started the recital with Takahashi's Kwangju May 1980, then played The People United ... replete with a typically brilliant Rzewski improvisation. Fred was kind enough to allow me to record the performance and I played it back again again. Since then I have acquired 3 of Fred's commercial CD recordings, plus the DVD and several other pianist's CDs. This new Levit recording is, I feel, up there with Fred's and that from Hamelin.

There are so many recordings of the work now available that perhaps it should be a candidate for BaL.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Only one composer this evening - Happy 143rd Birthday RVW

Violin Concerto in D minor
Job
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Fantasia on the Old 104th
Symphony No 8 in D minor

[Lat-Literal]

Only one composer this evening - Happy 143rd Birthday RVW

Violin Concerto in D minor
Job
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Fantasia on the Old 104th
Symphony No 8 in D minor

Seconded.

Paul Ladmirault - Valse Triste pour Piano- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CscUoYDG9HY
Isidor Bajic - Rezignacija - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM4TP7CASCg
Guy Ropartz - Nocturne 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGcLv7w3Is4
Johann Dubez - Song Without Words No 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmqjEhRcl5c

[Stanfordian]

Elgar
Sea Pictures
Polonia
Pomp and Circumstances Marches
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé/Sir Mark Elder
Recorded 2014 Hallé St. Peter’s, Ancoats, Manchester (Sea Pictures); 2012/13 BBC
MediaCityUK, Salford
Hallé own label

Poulenc
Stabat Mater
Sept Repons des Tenebres
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Cappella Amsterdam
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir,
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Reuss.
Recorded 2012 Estonia Concert hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Harmonia Mundi


Ben Webster with Ray Browne, Herb Ellis, Stan Levey & Oscar Peterson
‘Soulville’
Verve (1957)

[pastoralguy]

Continuing with Annie Fischer's Beethoven sonata cycle. Very fine playing indeed.

[BBMmk2]

Corelli: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 12/ Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr

[EdgeleyRob]

Only one composer this evening - Happy 143rd Birthday RVW

Violin Concerto in D minor
Job
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Fantasia on the Old 104th
Symphony No 8 in D minor

Nice playlist sc.

Pilgrim's Progress (Boult) yesterday for me.

Would I save this or the 9th symphony from the house fire,if I only had time to grab one ? not sure.

[Lat-Literal]

Gaetano Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor - Il Dolce Suono - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MSsi-iysCA
Vincenzo Bellini - Bella Nice, Che d'Amore - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY-WW2NS7JA
Giuseppe Verdi - Aida - Celeste Aida (1902) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUvwBtlg0WY
Gioachino Rossini - Semiramide : Bel Raggio Lusinghier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5sGY5aWVE

Franz P Schubert - Piano Sonata in C Major D840 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc78N6oy-p8
Wolfgang A Mozart - Symphony No 40 in G Minor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HbMzu1aQW8
Joseph Haydn - Piano Sonata in Eb, 2nd Movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkse1g9ibnM
Jacques Offenbach - Overture to "La Belle Helene" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6OyfAz5pA

[BBMmk2]

I do rather like this recording.

Delius

Brigg Fair; Piano Concerto; Idyll de Printemps; Paris(The Song of a Great City). Howard Shelley(piano), RSNO, Sir Andrew Davis