What are you listening to now - I ?

[Stanfordian]

Christian Thielemann’s inaugural concert as the music director Staatskapelle Dresden
Wolf:
5 Orchestral Songs
Richard Strauss:
Orchestral Song, Befreit
Bruckner:
Symphony No. 7 in E major (edition Robert Haas)
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann
Filmed live September 2012, Semperoper, Dresden, Germany
Opus Arte Blu-ray

The Verdi Album- Jonas Kaufmann
Opera arias from Rigoletto, Aida, Un Ballo in Maschera, Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, Simon Boccanegra, La Forza del Destino, I Masnadieri, Otello, Macbeth
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Opera di Parma, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza/Pier Giorgio Morandi
Recorded 2013 Niccolò Paganini Auditorium, Parma
Sony Classical

[Petrushka]

Otto Ketting: Trajectoren (2008)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Markus Stenz

[interval]

Mahler: Symphony No 2
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Netherlands Radio Choir
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
DVD

[Barbirollians]

Mozart Sonata for piano and violin K 379 Perlman/Barenboim . Probably enough to send any ardent Hippite for a cold shower - but glorious playing to my ears.

[Stanfordian]

Rodion Shchedrin:
‘Beethoven's Heiligenstädter Testament’ symphonic fragment for orchestra (2008)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Recorded live 2008 Philharmonie, Munich
BR Klassik

Stanford:
Partsongs by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
(Including the set of Eight Part-Songs opus 119 that features The Bluebird)
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir/Paul Spicer
Recorded 2012 Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highgate, Birmingham
Somm Recordings

Hugo Wolf:
Verborgenheit (orch. Joseph Marx)
Er ist’s (orch. Wolf)
Elfenlied (orch. Günter Raphael)
Anakreons Grab (orch. Wolf)
Mignon (orch. Wolf)
Richard Strauss:
Befreit, Op. 39, No 4
Bruckner:
Symphony No 7 in E major (ed. Haas)
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann
Recorded live at the Semperoper Dresden September 1st 2012
Inaugural concert of Christian Thielemann as the Dresden Staatskapelle's music director
Opus Arte Blu-ray

[teamsaint]

Boccherini Guitar Quintet no2 in E.

Academy of St Martin in the fields. Pepe Romero.
Fascinating piece. Rather passed over this before, but has plenty to hold the attention, not least a spectacular number of moves into the minor and back !!

[Petrushka]

Elgar: O Hearken Thou
Elgar: Give Unto the Lord

Choir of Worcester Cathedral
Harry Bramma (organ)
Christopher Robinson

[richardfinegold]

Haydn Symphony #51 Adam Fischer Austro Hungarian Orchestra

[bluestateprommer]

The 2nd half of the 125th anniversary concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, with Mariss Jansons on the podium, leading Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, their Zondagmiddagconcert:

http://zondagmiddagconcert.radio4.nl/uitzending/201447/Zondagmiddagconcert.html

Didn't wake up in time for the first half (something to do with Daylight Savings Time, I suppose), which was the world premiere of Mysteriën by Louis Andriessen, but will hopefully be able to catch it later on Dutch Radio 4's archives.

[Stanfordian]

Europa Konzert 2013 from the Prague Castle
Vaughan Williams:
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Dvorak:
Biblical Songs for voice and orchestra, Op.99
Beethoven:
Symphony No 6 in F major ‘Pastoral’
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle
Video director: Henning Kasten
Recorded May 2013 Spanish hall, Prague Castle, Prague,
EuroArts Blu-ray

Prokofiev:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Bartok:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major
Lang Lang (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded 2013 Philharmonie Berlin
Includes DVD of part of the recording sessions
Sony Classical

[EdgeleyRob]

'Little' home concert.

Shostakovich,Violin Concerto No 1 / Mullova,RPO,Previn.
Myaskovsky,Serenade No 1,Symphony No 24 / State Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation,Svetlanov.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Finished listening to the complete Verdi box set earlier, to which I've been listening the past month. Quite a number of the operas I'd either never heard before or never heard complete. I found many of the earlier ones much better than I had anticipated and was particularly taken with I Due Foscari and also found Nabucco, Ernani & Macbeth (though in its later version) to be most enjoyable. Many middle period works were familiar and I still retain my love for Rigoletto and was quite impressed with Luisa Miller. Many of the later works I knew or had heard at least part of and Don Carlos has really grown on me, the revelation however was Simon Boccanegra (1881 version), especially the 1st and 3rd Acts which were absolutely superb. I still retain a soft spot for Aida and the Four Sacred Pieces, especially the Stabat Mater.

Overall a really enjoyable experience and a set I'm glad I took the opportunity to purchase.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just given my late father's CD of Rutland Boughton's "The Immortal Hour" a spin; can't help but conclude that British audiences must have been blessed with considerably greater attention spans that I have!

[Petrushka]

Sibelius: Symphony No 3

[interval]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

[Suffolkcoastal]

In anticipation of my visit to Cardiff to hear his 9th Symphony live, I thought I'd listen over the next couple of weeks to all the Roy Harris works in my collection.

Roy Harris
Concerto for Clarinet, Piano & String Quartet 1926
Untitled Piece for Piano 1926
Piano Sonata 1928
Piano Sonata - original scherzo
String Quartet No 1 1929
Chorale for Strings 1932
String Quartet No 2 (Three Variations on a theme) 1932
Symphony No 1 'Symphony 1933'

Still amazed how a work like the 1st Symphony hasn't had a good modern recording.

[Stanfordian]

Brahms:
String Quartet in B flat major, op. 67;
String Sextet in B flat major, op. 18;
Leipziger Streichquartett
with
Hartmut Rohde (viola) & Michael Sanderling (cello)
Recorded 1999 Rathaussaal Markkleeberg, Leipzig
MDG Gold

Brahms:
String Sextet in G major, Op. 36;
String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51/1
Leipziger Streichquartett,
with Hartmut Rohde (viola) & Peter Bruns (cello)
Recorded 2004 Rathaussaal Markkleeberg, Leipzig
MDG Gold