What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[Pulcinella]

Igor Stravinsky. Symphony in Eb. Op.1

The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

I’ve never heard this work before. It’s obviously very early and there’s nothing to really identify it as ‘Stravinsky’. Worth hearing.

Much more like Rimsky.
But I'm amazed! You've never picked up a Stravinsky set that includes it dirt cheap in one of your charity shop trawls?
There's a Chandos Gibson/RSNO recording (amongst a few, admittedly not many, others).

[Stanfordian]

‘Silence & Music’ - Part Songs
From Stanford, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Grainger, MacMillan, Dove, Britten, Warlock
Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh
Recorded 2016 Charterhouse School, Surrey
Signum, CD

Howells
Fantasy String Quartet
String Quartet (No. 3) ‘In Gloucestershire’
Delius
String Quartet
Britten Quartet
Recorded 1995 Brandon Hill, Bristol
EMI Classics, CD

[pastoralguy]

Much more like Rimsky.
But I'm amazed! You've never picked up a Stravinsky set that includes it dirt cheap in one of your charity shop trawls?
There's a Chandos Gibson/RSNO recording (amongst a few, admittedly not many, others).

Actually, this was a charity shop trawl! ( £4 for two discs in Oxfam). I do have the SNO Gibson set but didn’t realise it was included. I certainly have no memory of having heard it. I must dig it out.

[Pulcinella]

Actually, this was a charity shop trawl! ( £4 for two discs in Oxfam). I do have the SNO Gibson set but didn’t realise it was included. I certainly have no memory of having heard it. I must dig it out.

[LMcD]

Igor Stravinsky. Symphony in Eb. Op.1

The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

I’ve never heard this work before. It’s obviously very early and there’s nothing to really identify it as ‘Stravinsky’. Worth hearing.

Also available on Chandos CHAN 9236 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Neeme Järvi, coupled with the Violin Concerto (Lydia Mordkovtich).

[Pulcinella]

Also available on Chandos CHAN 9236 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Neeme Järvi, coupled with the Violin Concerto (Lydia Mordkovtich).

Not too sure that's available as a single CD any more (though it might be a charity shop find) but it also features in this rather inconsistent but interesting box (some recordings taken from rehearsals not concerts; I happen not to rate the violin concerto performance, which might be one such):

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7923134--the-essential-stravinsky

[oliver sudden]

Not too sure that's available as a single CD any more (though it might be a charity shop find) but it also features in this rather inconsistent but interesting box (some recordings taken from rehearsals not concerts; I happen not to rate the violin concerto performance, which might be one such):

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...ial-stravinsky

There are a few copies on discogs including a couple in the UK:

https://www.discogs.com/release/12546649-Stravinsky-Lydia-Mordkovitch-Orchestre-De-La-Suisse-Romande-Neeme-Järvi-Symphony-In-E-Flat-Violin-C

[Pulcinella]

There are a few copies on discogs including a couple in the UK:
....

I remember having this LP, with its early portrait cover (reproduced in the big Sony box):

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8110882--stravinsky-symphony-in-e-flat-op-1

[smittims]

I've always loved the Stravinsky Symphony in E flat since I discovered it on an imported LP of the composer's own recording , with a curious green portratit of him on the cover . I do find a few 'Stravinskyan' touches init, such as the very beginning of the scherzo, and later there's a folksy tune a little like the middle of Kaschei's Dance in the Firebird. There's also a very high note for the first bassoon inthe third moveemnt , which Robert Crat tells us was added aftre the composition of the Rite of Spring.

I've just been enjoying a 1950 concert conducted by Furtwangler and including Hindemith's Concerto for Orchestra which would have been a pretty new work for them to tackle then; there are a few uncertainties . latre Hindemith recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon, and they seemed to have got their fingers around it by that time (or maybe they found his beat clearer than Furtwangler's. )

[Stanfordian]

J.S. Bach – Advent Cantatas BWV 36, 61 & 62
Cantata - Schwingt Freudig Euch Empor, BWV 36
Cantata - Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
Cantata - Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62
Soloists: Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Sarah Connolly (alto), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass)
Collegium Vocale / Philippe Herreweghe
Recorded November 1996
Harmonia Mundi, CD

Sir Charles V. Stanford
Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 25
String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 85
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
with Piers Lane, piano (Op. 25) & Garth Knox, viola (Op. 85)
Recorded 2004 Henry Wood Hall, London
Hyperion, CD

[richardfinegold]

I’ve been listening to the Symphonies of Joly Braga-Santos, conducted by Alberto Cassio with a variety of orchestras by Naxos/Marco Polo over about a decade starting in the mid nineties.
The earlier symphonies, essentially 1-4 are quite colorful. JB-S would have thrived in Hollywood, but these works also remind me of Tubin, particularly his Symphonies 3-5. Besides vivid orchestration the composer is excellent and building climaxes. There are some occasional spells of autopilot but they are brief.
His later symphonies such more modernistic, yet accessible.
JB-S really ought to be better known.

[cloughie]

Dmitri Mitropoulos recordings - Petrouchka - NYPO, and La Mer - CologneRSO. very good for their vintage .

[pastoralguy]

Mendelssohn. Overtures including Fingal’s Cave, Ruy Blas & Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.

The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gabriel Chmura. DG 1977.

Gramophone gives it a mixed review saying that the programme improves as it goes along with more confident performances emerging. It all sounds pretty splendid to me with vintage playing from, possibly, my favourite orchestra.

[pastoralguy]

A pair of CDs that have been delayed a couple of times as well as being quite expensive…

Tchaikovsky. Symphony No.4 in f minor. Prokofiev. Extracts from Romeo and Juliet.

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1984. (10/02/84).

Absolutely blistering playing and conducting! Well worth the price and wait.

[Petrushka]

A pair of CDs that have been delayed a couple of times as well as being quite expensive…

Tchaikovsky. Symphony No.4 in f minor. Prokofiev. Extracts from Romeo and Juliet.

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1984. (10/02/84).

Absolutely blistering playing and conducting! Well worth the price and wait.

Thanks for the reminder. I'd spotted this on Presto and forgotten it. Now ordered. I saw Solti perform the Tchaikovsky 4 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in London almost exactly a year after this recording.