What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[smittims]

Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore; Bell song; Hill song no.2:
Eugene Goossens (arr. Grainger) Folk Tune.

The wind band of the Norwegian Navy . Part of a Naxos 3-disc set which is for me the most impressive single collection of Grainger's music on disc.

[gradus]

Couldn't think where else to post this fascinating reflection by Pinchas Zukerman on the Elgar violin concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZk9DKfMgd8

[Alain Maréchal]

Glazunov 4 Philharmonia/Butt on ASV. Currently rehearsing Rach 1 and wondering what his subsequent output would have been like had Alexander Konstantinovich not been drunk when conducting the première.

That idea has often fascinated me. Possibly it would have been rather like Glazunov 5, and I would have been happy had that been the case.

[Petrushka]

Elgar: Violin Concerto
Alfredo Campoli (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

Recorded in October 1954

(From the Boult Decca Recordings British music box on Eloquence)

Absolutely dazzling playing here from Campoli, very well balanced against the orchestra and superbly accompanied by Boult.

[smittims]

That's long been a favourite of mine , but I think it's been underrated over the years. I prefer it to the Heifetz/Sargent , which would have been its rival at the time. It's certajnly a better recording.

[Stanfordian]

Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22, K482
Piano Concerto No. 23, K488
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Rafael Kubelík
Recorded Live 1970, Herkulessaal, Munich
BR Klassik, CD

‘Ausgewählte Lieder’ (Song Selection) – Ruth Ziesak
Gustav Mahler
8 Lieder
Zemlinsky
10 Lieder
Alma Mahler
7 Lieder
Ruth Ziesak (soprano) & Gerold Huber (piano)
Recorded 2011 Radiostudio, Zürich, Switzerland
Capriccio, CD

[Dave2002]

Glazunov 4 Philharmonia/Butt on ASV. Currently rehearsing Rach 1 and wondering what his subsequent output would have been like had Alexander Konstantinovich not been drunk when conducting the première.

A lovely opening in that recording. Though last time I played it I thought the later movements were veering towards Glazunov’e more bombastic and rather coarse style, The performance and recording are excellent. The first movement makes this version stand out against most of the others.

[smittims]

I treasure memories of Ted Downes and Ashkenazy (variously) conducting Glazunov's fourth,a favourite of mine: a truly lovely work..

I dug out another curiosity this morning;

Ronald Stevenson: Piano Concerto no.2 (The Continents) . Murray McClaughlan with the Chetham's Symphony Orchestra .

I well recall taping the 1972 premiere conducted by Norman del Mar at the Proms. it's an ambitious work, perhaps too ambitious, attempting to illustrate all the continents in music. Stevenson was a man of vision, profoudly humanitarian, and not one to be deterred by any thought of his limitations. It's refereshing, and enlightening, to encounter people like this occasionally . Its easy to dismiss him as naive and outreaching his grasp, but for once in a while it' s good to try to see what he was trying to do.

[vinteuil]

I dug out another curiosity this morning;
Ronald Stevenson: Piano Concerto no.2 (The Continents) . Murray McClaughlan with the Chetham's Symphony Orchestra .
I well recall taping the 1972 premiere conducted by Norman del Mar at the Proms. it's an ambitious work, perhaps too ambitious, attempting to illustrate all the continents in music. Stevenson was a man of vision, profoudly humanitarian, and not one to be deterred by any thought of his limitations. It's refereshing, and enlightening, to encounter people like this occasionally . Its easy to dismiss him as naive and outreaching his grasp, but for once in a while it' s good to try to see what he was trying to do.

... lordy, if ever I need to look for patronising I know where to go





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[smittims]

Elgar: Variations, op. 36
Wagner: Faust overture, Siegfried's death and funeral music (i.e. not just the march, a bit before ) and the Parsifal prelude and Good Friday Music .
Debussy: La Mer.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra , Arturo Toscanini. Queen's Hall, 1935. From Toscanini, the HMV recordings.

[cloughie]

That's long been a favourite of mine , but I think it's been underrated over the years. I prefer it to the Heifetz/Sargent , which would have been its rival at the time. It's certajnly a better recording.

Alongside the long standing, forever in the catalogue, Menhuin/Elgar!

[Petrushka]

Alongside the long standing, forever in the catalogue, Menhuin/Elgar!

I wouldn't want to be without that but the Campoli is terrific. It's also a swift performance, clocking in at 45'41 and the virtuosity from Campoli is as jaw-dropping as it gets. Perlman has long been my favourite for a modern recording and both of these two would now top my list for the Elgar Violin Concerto with Menuhin/Elgar third.

[Barbirollians]

I wouldn't want to be without that but the Campoli is terrific. It's also a swift performance, clocking in at 45'41 and the virtuosity from Campoli is as jaw-dropping as it gets. Perlman has long been my favourite for a modern recording and both of these two would now top my list for the Elgar Violin Concerto with Menuhin/Elgar third.

All three great recordings - of modern accounts Frang is my favourite but I cannot recommend too highly the recent ICA Classics Ida Haendel live recording with Boult. Rob Cowan went so far in Gramophone to say it was now his favourite stereo account .

[pastoralguy]

All three great recordings - of modern accounts Frang is my favourite but I cannot recommend too highly the recent ICA Classics Ida Haendel live recording with Boult. Rob Cowan went so far in Granophone to say it was now his favourite stereo account .

But of course…

[Petrushka]

All three great recordings - of modern accounts Frang is my favourite but I cannot recommend too highly the recent ICA Classics Ida Haendel live recording with Boult. Rob Cowan went so far in Granophone to say it was now his favourite stereo account .

Thanks, will investigate. I've got the Haendel/Boult studio recording in the Boult Stereo box but not yet played it.