What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[cloughie]

... aha! I thought it rang a bell, but couldn't see it on the shelves.

But it is in the big Mozart 225 box...

Another approach for concertos 10, 12, and 13 -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozarts-Klavierkonzerte-W-Mozart/dp/B07896QSF7

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Thanks for the link vinteuil

K365 as never heard before - beautiful!

[Stanfordian]

Bryn Terfel – ‘The Vagabond’
Songs & song cycles by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Butterworth & Ireland
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Recording 1995, Henry Wood Hall, London
Deutsche Grammophon, CD

Arnold Bax
String Quartet No. 1 (1918)
String Quartet No. 2 (1925)
Maggini Quartet
Recorded 1999, Potton Hall, Suffolk
Naxos, CD

[vinteuil]

Thanks for the link...

also Richard Burnett with the 'Finchcocks' quartet -

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357653303511

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Piano-Concertos-Finchcocks-String-Quartet/dp/B000024PFN

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Piano-Quintet-K452-Concertos/dp/B00005O7YS

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[cloughie]

also Richard Burnett with the 'Finchcocks' quartet -

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357653303511

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Piano-Concertos-Finchcocks-String-Quartet/dp/B000024PFN

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Piano-Quintet-K452-Concertos/dp/B00005O7YS

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once my ears were adjusted to the fp sound I appreciated the quality of the playing!

[smittims]

Elgar : The Dream of Gerontius: Richard Lewis, Marjorie Thomas, John Cameron , Huddersfield Choral Society , Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent.

It's good to revisit recordings one knows so well that one stopped listening to them for years. The first Lps I owned, in 1966,were of this recording , and I still think it's arguably the best performance . The Demons' Chorus is the only weak spot and the 1954 mono recording is inevitably limited . But again and again Sargent hits the mot juste in interpretation, and the whole performance is profoundly memorable . He had been conducting it for years , having made the first complete recording (a British Council -sponsored 78rpm. job in 1945) and there's a thrilling 1930s Manchester broadcast with Heddle Nash (published on CD by the Elgar society) which is very intense.

[LMcD]

Currently enjoying a substantial wodge of Friday night's (i.e. Saturday morning's) Through The Night. It's worth pointing out that TTN nearly always starts with a complete concert.

[smittims]

Yes,and recently they've been 2024 Proms.

I've just heard Music of the Four Countries: The Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson:

Ethel Smyth : Overture The Wreckers
Hamilton Harty: With the Wild Geese
Hamish MacCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Edward German: Welsh Rhapsody.


This famous disc was originally issued to coincide with the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 . I think all the works received their first recording. I knew the MacCunn overture from its use as aTV signature tune, and its recent championship by Martyn Brabbins. Despite its nods in the direction of Mendelssohn , It was a fine achivement for a 19-year-old composer: I doubt if Elgar (11 years MacCunn's senior) or Vaughan Williams could have produced so assured a work at that age. The others were new to me and I especially liked the Welsh Rhapsody,a most beautiful work which should be heard more often.

Brian Culverhouse excelled himself in producing a demonstration recording, re-cut, I think, for this 1984 'Greensleeve' reissue . The one blot is that EMI have managed to mis-spell the title of the MacCunn piece as 'The Land of the Mountain and Flood' on the front and back of the sleeve amd 'The Land of the Mountain and The Flood' on the label.

[Dave2002]

I went looking at something - er not too special - supposedly music - some ambient "stuff" I guess.

Then this happened ....

https://youtu.be/hb0BaqptoLo

That's the next hour or so gone!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Brahms 2nd, BPO/Harnoncourt from the 1997 Teldec set.

A few minutes of the 4th from this set recently suggested that it could be my pick of the 21 versions on my shelves and prompted this little foray into others from the set.

[pastoralguy]

Sibelius. Violin Concerto.

Ida Haendel, violin. The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Berglund. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, August 28th 1981.

Ms. Haendel at the absolute peak of her powers.

[smittims]

Brahms : Alto Rhapsodie . Christa Ludwig, Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Bohm.

I was surprised how slow this is. Ludwig's previous recording with Otto Klemperer (often unjustly accused of slowness!) is only three-quarters the length . It's all very beautiful all the same.

[Stanfordian]

Benjamin Luxon – ‘When I was one and twenty’ – Butterworth and Gurney Songs
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) & David Willison (piano)
Recorded 1989 Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Chandos, CD
I believe in this repertoire Luxon's voice in its prime was peerless.

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
String Quartets No’s 3, 4 & 7
Dante Quartet
Recorded 2017-18, Church of St Nicholas, Thames Ditton, Surrey
Somm, CD
There is some lovely writing here by Stanford in his much under performed chamber works.

[vinteuil]

Mozart PCs arranged for P, SQ and DB - Alan Goldstein and Fine Arts SQ.

... thank you so much for flagging these up - I am gradually acquiring them : just now listening to no. 18, K456. This is very appealing stuff


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[teamsaint]

Brahms String Quartet #1.
Dudok Quartet.

Brilliant work,excellent recording.

[cloughie]

... thank you so much for flagging these up - I am gradually acquiring them : just now listening to no. 18, K456. This is very appealing stuff


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I’ve also been listening to some Hummel Mozart Symphonies - arrangements of the last six symphonies for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano. Roland Kruger on Piano - 2 Naxos CDs. Interesting but maybe a little less subtle than the reduced forces PCs!