What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[Stanfordian]

Violin Concertos from Stanford & Milford – ‘The Fire that Breaks from Thee’
Gustav Holst
Walt Whitman Overture, Op. 7
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Violin Concerto No 2 in G Minor, Op. 162
(orchestrated by Jeremy Dibble)
Robin Milford
Violin Concerto in G minor, Op, 47
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra / Owain Arwel Hughes
Recorded 2014, Watford Colosseum, Hertfordshire
EM Records, CD

[Barbirollians]

Violin Concertos from Stanford & Milford – ‘The Fire that Breaks from Thee’
Gustav Holst
Walt Whitman Overture, Op. 7
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Violin Concerto No 2 in G Minor, Op. 162
(orchestrated by Jeremy Dibble)
Robin Milford
Violin Concerto in G minor, Op, 47
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra / Owain Arwel Hughes
Recorded 2014, Watford Colosseum, Hertfordshire
EM Records, CD

That's lovely record especially the Milford IMO.

[DoctorT]

Vaughan Williams
Symphonies 5&9
LSO/Sir Antonio Pappano

[AuntDaisy]

Brahms The Piano Trios - Beaux Arts Trio.
I love that Presto adds "(spurious?)" for the final trio - is it or isn't it?

[Ian Thumwood]

Regarding Hamish MacCunn's "Land of the mountain and the flood" played earlier this week , I was wondering of the album cover was in tartan and had either a picture of Bonnie Prince Charlie or Monarch of the Glen on it. What tosh! British composers rarely fail to disappoint.

By contrast, given the furore about Louise Ferranc a few months ago, I thought the Emelie Meyer track was really good. I have heard her symphonies too and thought they were decent. A nice change from Clara and Fanny. The Chamimade was also pleasing but I have quite a bit of her music that I inherited from my Mum. Sometimes I think that the wrong female composers get praised.

Some interesting choices in at breakfast but not always that successful like the Spanish guitar piece.

I am usually a big fan of obscure and neglected composers as you can discover some real gems. However there is quite a lot which I feel is very mediocre too. I do enjoy what gets selected in the morning because it is so unpredictable with jazz just as likely to crop up as Beethoven.

[pastoralguy]

Regarding Hamish MacCunn's "Land of the mountain and the flood" played earlier this week , I was wondering of the album cover was in tartan and had either a picture of Bonnie Prince Charlie or Monarch of the Glen on it. What tosh! British composers rarely fail to disappoint.

Not quite sure what you’re getting at there, Ian but the sleeves of the classic SNO/Gibson recording of The Fountain and the mud have always had typical Scottish scenes on the covers. It was originally released by EMI and then Chandos appear to have acquired the copyright and re-released it under their banner.

[pastoralguy]

Vivaldi and John Cage. The Four Seasons with each Season juxtaposed with a movement from Cage’s String Quartet in Four parts.

B’Rock Orchestra with Rudolfo Richter, violin.

This is an interesting project and since I’m a Cage fan I was eager to hear this. The Cage interjections are interesting palette cleansers between Vivaldi’s Concerti.

[Ian Thumwood]

Not quite sure what you’re getting at there, Ian but the sleeves of the classic SNO/Gibson recording of The Fountain and the mud have always had typical Scottish scenes on the covers. It was originally released by EMI and then Chandos appear to have acquired the copyright and re-released it under their banner.

Pastoral

I wasn't being serious. The MacCunn put me in mind of a Scottish Greig . It was nicely orchestrated but I felt it was very much of it's era.

I am never sure what to make of Cage. The sonatas have a kind of eccentric whimsy but atleast they are more human than some of the avant garde stuff from Europe. Been reading about Berio and Kurtag this week in Susa Tomes' book but it really does not appeal. Takemitsu is much more to my taste if you are going to go down that route.

[Pulcinella]

Not quite sure what you’re getting at there, Ian but the sleeves of the classic SNO/Gibson recording of The Fountain and the mud have always had typical Scottish scenes on the covers. It was originally released by EMI and then Chandos appear to have acquired the copyright and re-released it under their banner.

Two different recordings, pg?
The timings are significantly different.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256940043899

https://www.discogs.com/master/961669-MacCunn-Royal-Scottish-National-Orchestra-Conducted-By-Alexander-Gibson-Land-Of-The-Mountain-And-The

[cloughie]

Two different recordings, pg?
The timings are significantly different.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256940043899

https://www.discogs.com/master/96166...untain-And-The

Two very enjoyable records. The Harty work is one of his best compositions On the Chandos disc Gibon revisits Tam o Shanter which was earlier recorded by Decca for RCA appearing on the World of…label. .

[Barbirollians]

Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian - Boston SO/Munch.

[smittims]

Ian, do you not think it a little unfair to blame Hamish MacCunn for the tartan on a record sleeve? Although he was a Scot, and one of the first of his race to make a mark as a composer, he died many decades before the record was made!

I do, however agree with you that 'the wrong female composers' are broadcast. Priaulx Rainier and Elisabeth Lutyens are in my opinion the most inventive and interesting women composers but their music has been almost totally ignored by Radio 3.

[AuntDaisy]

Regarding Hamish MacCunn's "Land of the mountain and the flood" played earlier this week , I was wondering of the album cover was in tartan and had either a picture of Bonnie Prince Charlie or Monarch of the Glen on it. What tosh! British composers rarely fail to disappoint.
...

Two highly appropriate covers for the Martyn Brabbins MacCunn with mountains & floods and for the Grant Llewellyn Butterworth with banks of green willow.
I think Grant Llewellyn's MacCunn was on R3's Breakfast.

[smittims]

Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex. The Decca/Suisse Romande recording conducted by Ernest Ansermet.

I had not even heard of this recording before I found the Lp in a second hand shop yesterday , with its striking cover by the Decca publicity art department. It has a french narrator , unlike its rival at the time,the HMV Sadlers Wells recording with Ralph Richardson and Colin Davis. It has a raw freshness to it which revives what musthave beenthe effect of the work when new. Ansermet conducted the first performance.

[Pulcinella]

Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex. The Decca/Suisse Romande recording conducted by Ernest Ansermet.

I had not even heard of this recording before I found the Lp in a second hand shop yesterday , with its striking cover by the Decca publicity art department. It has a french narrator , unlike its rival at the time,the HMV Sadlers Wells recording with Ralph Richardson and Colin Davis. It has a raw freshness to it which revives what musthave beenthe effect of the work when new. Ansermet conducted the first performance.

Me either....and it doesn't feature as a Stage work in this Decca Ansermet Stravinsky set:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7931844--stravinsky-ballets-orchestral-works-stage-works

It does in this set, though:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9556238--ernest-ansermet-the-mono-years