What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[richardfinegold]

[pastoralguy]

That’s a recording of the Pastoral Symphony I don’t have. I must try to trace it.

[smittims]

Monteux recorded all the Beethoven symphonies for RCA Victor, the recordings made on their behalf by a Decca team in Vienna and London, though the 9th was done by Wetsminster for their own issue. Curiously, RCA didn't seem to want them very much, and several waited years to be issued , and then on a bargain label. The 6th , with the Vienna Philharmonic, was one of the few to be issued fairly promptly at full price. Decca retained ownership of the tapes and most of them appeared on their own bargain labels in the 1970s where , it is hoped, they found a new and appreciative audience.

I've always admired Monteux' Beethoven, more contemplative and philosophical than the usual slam-bang whipcrack style.

[oliver sudden]

That’s a recording of the Pastoral Symphony I don’t have. I must try to trace it.

The studio of Yves St-Laurent (!) is a splendid resource.

https://78experience.com/index.php?route=common/home

He offers downloads now, which makes the whole experience very convenient indeed.

[pastoralguy]

The studio of Yves St-Laurent (!) is a splendid resource.

https://78experience.com/index.php?route=common/home

He offers downloads now, which makes the whole experience very convenient indeed.

Many thanks.

[richardfinegold]

The studio of Yves St-Laurent (!) is a splendid resource.

https://78experience.com/index.php?route=common/home

He offers downloads now, which makes the whole experience very convenient indeed.

He also takes Apple Pay, before it was just Pay Pal.

[richardfinegold]

Monteux recorded all the Beethoven symphonies for RCA Victor, the recordings made on their behalf by a Decca team in Vienna and London, though the 9th was done by Wetsminster for their own issue. Curiously, RCA didn't seem to want them very much, and several waited years to be issued , and then on a bargain label. The 6th , with the Vienna Philharmonic, was one of the few to be issued fairly promptly at full price. Decca retained ownership of the tapes and most of them appeared on their own bargain labels in the 1970s where , it is hoped, they found a new and appreciative audience.

I've always admired Monteux' Beethoven, more contemplative and philosophical than the usual slam-bang whipcrack style.

I love this disc. The Boston Symphony engineers were making excellent stereo from Tanglewood in this era. The audience does burst into applause at the end of the first movement of the Pastorale (well deserved, imo).
If you know the Monteux/VPO recording this is broadly similar. There are a couple of fractionally early entries that would have been cleaned up in the studio but this is more than compensated for by the excitement of the live performance.
I don’t know if Monteux commercially recorded the Hindemith or the Respighi; if not then these are major additions. There is about a minute of extraneous microphone noise, like wind blowing, during the Respighi

[smittims]

I l know of no other Monteux recordings of Respighi or Hindemith so it looks like you have a gem there.

[cloughie]

Tchaikovsky: Suite no.3. The Paris Conservatoire orchestra conducted by (perhaps surprisingyl) Sir Adrian Boult.

I remember this from an old Eclipse LP and was pleasantly surprised to find that it is real stereo and a splendid performance, rather dismissed by the Penguin Guide who naturally preferred Sir Adrian's later 'Indian Summer' HMV remake with the LPO. But I found plenty to enjoy here, not least the very Parisan wind playing.

The way that Decca captured the sound of the PCO in the mid to late fifties on some of their early Stereo recordings was truly wonderful.

[Pulcinella]

Malcolm Arnold
Symphony 5
National SO of Ireland
Andrew Penny

[smittims]

Stenhammar: Symphony no.1. The BBC Scottish S.O. , Andrew Manze.


When I first heard this I thought it too long, but if you have the time and are ready to relax and let it flow over you, it's very pleasant. Stylistically between Dvorak and Strauss, at the end we seem to be approaching Valhalla.

[cloughie]

Stenhammar: Symphony no.1. The BBC Scottish S.O. , Andrew Manze.


When I first heard this I thought it too long, but if you have the time and are ready to relax and let it flow over you, it's very pleasant. Stylistically between Dvorak and Strauss, at the end we seem to be approaching Valhalla.

Sounds so inviting - I'll dig out the Jarvi and have a listen!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sounds so inviting - I'll dig out the Jarvi and have a listen!

Stenhammer gets quite a lot of representation on TTN - but nowhere else on R3 - without which I would not have heard of him.

[cloughie]

Stenhammer gets quite a lot of representation on TTN - but nowhere else on R3 - without which I would not have heard of him.

I got to know Stenhammar, back in the ‘60s through only one work - his Serenade - on 89622, a Heliodor LP - The great Rafael Kubelik with the Stockholm PO.

[LMcD]

I got to know Stenhammar, back in the ‘60s through only one work - his Serenade - on 89622, a Heliodor LP - The great Rafael Kubelik with the Stockholm PO.

Serenade/Piano Concerto No. 2/Ballad-Florez och Blanzefor on EMI Classics 5 65081 2.