What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[Pulcinella]

Tippett
A child of our time.

Edward Gardner, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams, Kenneth Tarver, Nadine Benjamin
London Adventist Chorale

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9798926--tippett-a-child-of-our-time

Released 5 September 2025

Here's a link to the review of the 2022 concert.

https://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/child-our-time-lpo-gardner-rfh-review-spirit-still-moves

[smittims]

Cesar Franck: Symphony inD minor. The NBC Symphony, Guido Cantelli.

A remarkable early stereo recording made in Carnegie Hall with John Pfeiffer's binaural system shortly before this legendary orchestra was disbanded. It is very thrilling and difficult to imagine it better done.

[Stanfordian]

Thomas Quasthoff sings Schubert & Brahms
Schubert
Schwanengesang (Swan Song), D957 (collection of 14 Lieder) Op. Posth
Brahms
Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs), Op. 121
Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone) & Justus Zeyen (piano)
Recorded 2000 Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich
Deutsche Grammophon, CD

George Frideric Handel – ‘Complete Violin Sonatas’
7 Violin Sonatas, HWV371, 358, 359a, 364a, 372, 373, 361
2 Allegros for violin & basso, HWV407, 408
Sonatina from ‘Il trionfo del Tempo’, HWV46b
Andante in A minor, HWV412
Fantasia in A major, HWV406
Bojan Čičić (baroque violin) & Steven Devine (harpsichord)
Recorded 2023, St Martin’s Church, East Woodhay, UK
Delphian, CD

[Cockney Sparrow]

Cesar Franck: Symphony inD minor. The NBC Symphony, Guido Cantelli.

A remarkable early stereo recording made in Carnegie Hall with John Pfeiffer's binaural system shortly before this legendary orchestra was disbanded. It is very thrilling and difficult to imagine it better done.

There is a matching description recording in the ICON Box.

(It can be listened to on Naxos Music Library -Label: Warner Parlophone ; Initial I: Cantelli - https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/cl...-music-library ).

[richardfinegold]

Cesar Franck: Symphony inD minor. The NBC Symphony, Guido Cantelli.

A remarkable early stereo recording made in Carnegie Hall with John Pfeiffer's binaural system shortly before this legendary orchestra was disbanded. It is very thrilling and difficult to imagine it better done.

What label is that, Smittins?

[smittims]

It was an EMI 2-disc set , Guido Cantelli - Artist Profile , CZS 5 68217 2. It includes his EMI stereo recordings of Beetgiven 7, Schubet 8, Mozart K201 and 522. Long deleted, but you may find a second-hand copy.

Toscanini's last two concerts wre also, I believe , recorded in stereo, but the concensus is that they weren't up to his usual standard.

[HighlandDougie]

It was an EMI 2-disc set , Guido Cantelli - Artist Profile , CZS 5 68217 2. It includes his EMI stereo recordings of Beetgiven 7, Schubet 8, Mozart K201 and 522. Long deleted, but you may find a second-hand copy.

Toscanini's last two concerts wre also, I believe , recorded in stereo, but the concensus is that they weren't up to his usual standard.

Although I always think that FHG's dismissal of Franck as, "dreary", is a bit unfair, a little of the symphony in the wrong hands can go a long way. Not so with Cantelli. I have that set, as well as a World Record Club release of the Franck on a stereo LP from about 1980. Another performance recorded by a conductor at an early stage in his career is that from Lorin Maazel and the Berlin RSO which has also worn well.

[vinteuil]

Although I always think that FHG's dismissal of Franck as, "dreary" is a bit unfair...

... FHG who she?

Franz Helser-Ghost? Falph Haughan Gilliams??

[AuntDaisy]

... FHG who she?

Franz Helser-Ghost? Falph Haughan Gilliams??

Or possibly ferneyhoughgeliebte?

[HighlandDougie]

Or possibly ferneyhoughgeliebte?

Maid out!

[HighlandDougie]

Maid out!

Which is what you get when you don’t check the nonsense perpetrated by auto-correct on, “Mais oui!”

[AuntDaisy]

Maid out!

I thought it was some cricketing term

[Pulcinella]

I thought it was some cricketing term

Moi aussi! Though I did know what FHG referred to.

One recording of the Franck I have is the filler in a cheap DG reissue of the Barenboim Chicago Saint Saens Organ Symphony, and frankly (ha ha!) I do think it rather dreary (Barenboim/O de Paris).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Saint-Saens-Symphony-Organ-Franck/dp/B0755K3F2R

[vinteuil]

Although I always think that FHG's dismissal of Franck as, "dreary", is a bit unfair, a little of the symphony in the wrong hands can go a long way.

Ah, ferney - of course. Miss him so much...

So right that Franck needs the 'right hands'. I have a so-called 'live' Giulini with the Vienna Phil which might as well be 'dead ' - so turgid as to be unlistenable-to


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[pastoralguy]

And so my Alfred Brendel odyssey nears its end. 114 CDs.

Last two discs today.

Brahms. Piano Concerto No.1.

Sir Colin Davis conducting The Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischen Rundfunks. 1985.

Schumann. Piano Concerto in a minor.
The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Kurt Sanderling. 1997.

Schumann. Fantasie in C. Op.17.

Alfred Brendel, piano.

It’s been quite an experience listening to all the discs in this set. I’ve heard music I didn’t know at all as well as music I like to think I know extremely well. At no point have I ever had any doubts about Mr. Brendel’s total mastery of whatever he was playing.

A wonderful legacy to leave behind.