What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[Barbirollians]

I wonder how many people know that Bruch wrote 3 violin concertos.

If you had Accardo's 1970s set ?

[Jonathan]

Hans Huber's 8th Symphony - ebullient fun!

[richardfinegold]

If you had Accardo's 1970s set ?

How often do you listen to 2 and 3?

[Barbirollians]

How often do you listen to 2 and 3?

2 more often than 3 - there was a very good recording with Perlman and Lopez Cobos .

[pastoralguy]

2 more often than 3 - there was a very good recording with Perlman and Lopez Cobos .

Mr. Heifetz also recorded it. Coupled with the Conus concerto.

[Barbirollians]

Menuhin and Boult recorded it too in the early 1970s but I have not heard their recording .

[Barbirollians]

Wagner - BBC Legends -Stoky .

[Dave2002]

Some tracks from this week's free download of Italian music from classicmusicselect - including some Respighi I'd not heard before.
The sound quality is just acceptable - but since I don't know the music this is an interesting change.

Sure I generally prefer better sound quality - but that's not everything all the time.

[vinteuil]

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... Richard Davy O Domine celi terreque The Cardinall's Music, Andrew Carwood

https://www.cardinallsmusick.com/music/music-at-all-souls-oxford-the-lancastrians-to-the-tudors

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00004SC0A

heard on the Finnish station yle , and just had to get the CD




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[Pulcinella]

Stravinsky
Late works (released today)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...sky-late-works

Stravinsky: Chorale
Stravinsky: In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
Stravinsky: Pater Noster
Stravinsky: Threni
Stravinsky: Double Canon (Raoul Dufy in memoriam)
Stravinsky: The dove descending breaks the air
Stravinsky: Elegy for John F Kennedy
Stravinsky: Epitaphium für das Grabmal des Prinzen Max Egon zu Fürstenberg
Stravinsky: Introitus: T S Eliot in memoriam
Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles
Stravinsky: Two Sacred Songs (Hugo Wolf)

There are now probably enough recordings of Threni and Requiem Canticles to warrant a BaL (though who wouldn't want them all?)

[richardfinegold]

Menuhin and Boult recorded it too in the early 1970s but I have not heard their recording .

I have the Heifetz although I don’t remember the last time I listened. I remember it has a stirring opening and then meanders the rest of the way

[smittims]

Arvo Part: Symphony no.4. The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen . From the 2010 Proms. It's on YouTube.

I think this was the UK premiere. I find it's a work that grows on me. At first it may sound plain and featureless, but, like Tchaikovsky's Serenade, it's an example of how to write an engaging and memorable work using the simplest and most basic musical material , something I feel many present-day composers would benefit from learning (no names! )

[Stanfordian]

Schubert – Nachtviolen (Night violets)
24 Lieder
Christian Gerhaher (baritone) & Gerold Huber (piano)
Recorded 2012, Studio 2, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Sony Classical, CD

Schubert
Piano Trio No.1 in B flat D.898
Piano Trio No.2 in E flat D.929
Notturno in E flat D.897
Sonatensatz D.28
Frank Braley (piano); Renaud Capuçon (violin); Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Recorded 2006, MC2 Maison de la Culture, Grenoble
Virgin Classics, 2 CDs

[Stanfordian]

John Ireland – ‘The Songs with Piano’
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), John Mitchinson (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto),
Alan Rowlands (piano)
Recorded 1972-78, St John’s Smith Square, London
Lyrita, 3 CDs

Arnold Bax
Dance of Wild Irravel
Pæan
Symphony No. 3
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bryden Thomson
Recorded 1986 All Saints’ Church, Tooting, London
Chandos, CD

[smittims]

I was listening to Alfreda Hodgson in The Apostles yesterday: a wonderful singer , long a favourite of mine, and not at all vain or unapproachable (as some can be) , as I found when I happened to meet her many years ago .

I've just been listening to Tippett's Symphony in B flat of 1933 , his 'symphony number nought' I suppose . I'd read about it for years before it was revived by Martyn Brabbins. I'd expected a mxture of Sibelius and Vaughan Williams, but in fact it doesn't sound like anyone, least of all Tippett! A most curious and original work, though it does explain why he 'went back to school ' after and started again. His next work,the first quartet, is a world away.