What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[gurnemanz]

There's also this collection, but now download only, it would appear.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8546663--albert-roussel-edition

It includes La naissance de la lyre.

I got that box in 2019 when it came out a) as an opportunity to get to know unfamiliar repertoire and b) thinking it might not be around for long. Something of a bargain at £27 for 11 CDs at Amazon. Booklet is useful but fairly basic, including track details and brief intros to included works but no texts, so a download would probably be a worthwhile option. I listened to all the music at the time and enjoyed the process but have not been back so often since. This may well have prompted me to retrieve it from the shelf.
There is a Hurwitz video (enthusiastic).

[Stanfordian]

Parry, Stanford, Finzi, Gurney – ‘English Orchestral Songs’
Christopher Maltman (baritone),
BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins
Recorded 1998 City Halls, Glasgow
Hyperion, CD

York Bowen
Quintet in C major for horn & string quartet,
Rhapsody Trio in A minor for violin, cello & piano,
Trio in Three Movements,
Endymion Ensemble
Recorded 2001
Dutton Epoch, CD

[smittims]

Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto en mono galante (cello concerto)
Turina: Sinfonia Sevillana.

Two more gems from Juanjo Mena's ten years with the BBcPhilharminc. The Rodrigo should be a pleasant surprise to anyone who thinks the 'orange-juice' concerto sums him up. The use of bitonality, for one thing, is fascinating. The Turina is a sheer joy from start to finish (or maybe I was just ina good mood today!) .

[Jonathan]

Jonathan

i have never heard of this composer before but i am guessing he was a late Romantic pianist. Having looked him up on Wickipedia , he appears to have spent his time in US.


The Hensalt on Breakfast on 3 was intriguing. I not think the cinceerto deserved the neglect but curious in the light of recent misogynist remarks about Louise Ferranc and composers being under the shadow of Beethoven. I thought that the Hensalt was decent but no better than Farrenc . Both did not deserve neglect.

Nice to hear a composer i had only read about.

Glad I helped Ian! I agree about Henselt - I have a couple of CDs of his music, one with the excellent Piers Lane on Hyperion (the études) and another with assorted other works.

I've got a bit of a bee in my bonnet about Stojowski - his Piano Concertos on Hyperion picqued my interest and I think I have everything that's been recorded. I find his music wonderful and memorable.

I also have quite a few CDs of Farrenc as well

[Roger Webb]

Following on from the Roussel earlier, I've just put on a disc (Timpani 1C1119) of Vincent d'Indy's chamber music. Wonderful stuff from start to finish with the 'Suite in the Old Style' opening....those who know and like the Saint-Saëns Septet with trumpet should give this a go.

Next is a piece for wind septet, 'Chanson et Danses', reminding us that d'Indy was a Wagnerian once....is there anything that sounds more like 'Siegfried Idyll', without actually quoting from it?!

The Piano Quintette is a late piece from his 'retirement' to Côte d'Azur....was there ever a more contented atmosphere than in this piece?....the slow movt. is my favourite in all French chamber music.....and who can spot the quote near the end, not from anyone you would think possible?!!!

His 'Suite en Parties' for flt, hp and str trio finishes off a wonderful disc.

[vinteuil]

Following on from the Roussel earlier, I've just put on a disc (Timpani 1C1119) of Vincent d'Indy's chamber music. .

... still available!

https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/Musique-Solistes-lorchestre-Philharmonique-Luxembourg/dp/B0011Z5MQ0

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[Roger Webb]

... still available!

https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/Musique-Solistes-lorchestre-Philharmonique-Luxembourg/dp/B0011Z5MQ0

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Yes that's it....good performances here from Timpani regulars.

Also on Qobuz here:-

https://open.qobuz.com/album/ofdg5ju42kuhc

Cheaper to take out a lifetime Qobuz subscription than pay that price!

[vinteuil]

Yes that's it....good performances here from Timpani regulars.
Cheaper to take out a lifetime Qobuz subscription than pay that price!

... I think I've just got it from discogs for £6 inc P&P

[Roger Webb]

... I think I've just got it from discogs for £6 inc P&P

....hope you enjoy it as much as me!......don't forget the little teaser at the end of the Piano Qnt slow movt.!

[vinteuil]

Vincent d'Indy's chamber music

... looking forward to this

Next challenge, of course, where to put it on the shelves. (Dream on! as if there were any spaces on the shelves proper, as opposed to on the floor, stairs, chairs, &c... )

Someone with Roger Webb's background will assuredly classify by record number, ASIN, date of acquisition, &c ... but the civilians among us probably initially classify alphabetically.

So : is D'Indy a D or an I? Usually in French the d' doesn't count, so Danglebert, Dagincourt, Daquin, Delalande shd probably be under A and L (de Bussy under B?) - tho' Duphly is a problem, because he was variously du Phly, du Flitz, d'Uphly and various other spellings..

(a friend even more, ahem, 'retentive' than I insisted that Molière shd be under P, Voltaire under A, Stendhal under B, and so on. We're still friends... )

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[Pulcinella]

... looking forward to this

Next challenge, of course, where to put it on the shelves. (Dream on! as if there were any spaces on the shelves proper, as opposed to on the floor, stairs, chairs, &c... )

Someone with Roger Webb's background will assuredly classify by record number, ASIN, date of acquisition, &c ... but the civilians among us probably initially classify alphabetically.

So : is D'Indy a D or an I? Usually in French the d' doesn't count, so Danglebert, Dagincourt, Daquin, Delalande shd probably be under A and L (de Bussy under B?) - tho' Duphly is a problem, because he was variously du Phly, du Flitz, d'Uphly and various other spellings..

(a friend even more, ahem, 'retentive' than I insisted that Molière shd be under P, Voltaire under A, Stendhal under B, and so on. We're still friends... )

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I've adopted Presto's use, and have recently moved PMD from M to D!
They put d'Indy under I.

[Roger Webb]

... looking forward to this

Next challenge, of course, where to put it on the shelves.

Someone with Roger Webb's background will assuredly classify by record number, ASIN, date of acquisition, &c ... but the civilians among us probably initially classify alphabetically.

So : is D'Indy a D or an I? Usually in French the d' doesn't count, so Danglebert, Dagincourt, Daquin, Delalande shd probably be under A and L (de Bussy under B?) - tho' Duphly is a problem, because he was variously du Phly, du Flitz, d'Uphly and various other spellings..

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Always a bone of contention, and in the shop I was continually ticked-off for not filing discs under correct letter. I would say with 'D' eg Debussy, although previously De Bussy, it has to be Under D. No one in their right mind would look for it under B.

With 'd' I should therefore file d'Indy under I....but I don't!...don't ask why.

A further complication in my shop is that I decided from the beginning that I would have separate sections....'Orchestral'...'Chamber'....a separate room for 'Opera', as this was my specialisation. Etc.

A lady came in one day, flicked a few cases, came up to the counter with a frown and told me I didn't have any Fauré Requiems - she had been looking in 'Orchestral'. I showed her the 'Choral' section which she impatiently flicked through, then came up to the counter with an even bigger frown and told me I had at least ten versions of the Fauré Requiem - how was she supposed to choose! Rather than go through the versions from 1st through 3rd, I sold her the one I had the most of! ......and, of course made sure it was a full-price one!

[vinteuil]

A further complication in my shop is that I decided from the beginning that I would have separate sections....'Orchestral'...'Chamber'....a separate room for 'Opera', as this was my specialisation. Etc.

... I hope you didn't go down the path of, was it Tower Records (in Regent Street)? - of classifying their 'opera' section by Name of Opera

- all very well if you're looking for 'Carmen' and haven't a clue who the composer was (I suppose the audience Tower Records hoped to attract) - but hopeless if you're looking to acquire (as I was at the time) all and any operas by Lully or Rameau...

[pastoralguy]

I’m reminded of a story about Arthur Rubenstein’s daughter. A year after he died she visited a well known record shop in New York looking for her father’s recordings of Chopin to purchase for a friend. She looked under Chopin - nothing. She looked under pianists - nothing again. She couldn’t believe that her father’s work had been forgotten so soon after his death.

She approached the sales assistant and asked if they had any recordings of Rubenstein’s Chopin. ‘Ah, madam, we have a special section for his recordings - over to the left in the section labelled Legends!’

[MickyD]

Better than a temporary secretary I had at LWT who filed all the programmes that began with 'The' under 'T'. I was looking in vain for a programme one day and found the T file positively bulging whilst the files of the other letters were mysteriously thin.