What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[Stanfordian]

Joseph Holbrooke
'The Pit and the Pendulum' Fantasy for Orchestra, op.126
Cello Concerto, op.103, 'Cambrian'
Symphony No.4 in B minor, op. 95 'Homage to Schubert'
'Pandora' ballet movement
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / George Vass (op.126; op.95)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra / George Vass (op.103; Pandora)
Recorded 2010 The Friary, Liverpool (op.126; op.95);
2010 RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow (op.103; Pandora)
Dutton Epoch, CD

[smittims]

I was delighted by Holbrooke's 'Pantomime suite', having discovered him years ago via Vernon Handley's recording of 'The Birds Of Rhiannon' a newer recording of which is on a CPO CD with his third symphony , 'Ships'.

He was the father of Gwydion Holbrooke (Gwydion Brooke) principal bassoon of Beecham's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Can I guess the fourth symphony was written for the 1928 Columbia competition?

[Stanfordian]

Brahms – Piano Quartets 1–3
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gérard Caussé (viola), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Recorded 2007 Auditorium Stelio Molo, Lugano, Switzerland
Erato, 2 CD set

[frankbridge]

Rachmaninov: Piano No 2

Cecile Ousset/CBSO/Rattle

EMI CDC 747 223-2

I do know it's a bit of a war horse, to be honest, but it has a lot of memories of me (and my girl of the time) A brief encounter indeed!

[frankbridge]

Steve Reich: Early Works

Come out (1966)
Piano Phase (1967)
Clapping Music (1972)
It's gonna rain (1965)

So, I like both Rach and Reich at the same time. Is that a crime?

[frankbridge]

John Dunstable: Motets

The Hilliard Ensemble

EMI Reflexe CDC 749 002-2

If you considered me completely insane before, then now is the prove.

[vinteuil]

If you considered me completely insane before...

... not a bit of it! (Unless I am too.) I've got a lot of time for that early Reich, and Dunstable is glorious. (I can probably live without Rachmaninov, but it's fun from time to time.)

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[pastoralguy]

Rachmaninov: Piano No 2

Cecile Ousset/CBSO/Rattle

EMI CDC 747 223-2

I do know it's a bit of a war horse, to be honest, but it has a lot of memories of me (and my girl of the time) A brief encounter indeed!

There’s a reason why these warhorses are so popular and it’s because they really hit the spot. One of my all time favourite pieces both to listen to and to play .

[smittims]

Indeed. the Ogdon/Pritchard remains perhaps my favourite, made just afterhis Moscow success, though of course there's one for everyone, many preferring Richter/Rowicki, and the composer himself with Stokowski, which I confess I haven't listened to for years. Along with the Grieg, it's one of those works no-one should be ashamed to love .

My recent listening: a Chandos CD from the '90s of Bax chamber music:

Octet
String quintet movement
Concerto for seven instruments
Threnody and scherzo
In Memoriam.,

the last three works here feature the harp, inspired by playing of Maria Korchinska.

[edashtav]

Indeed. the Ogdon/Pritchard remains perhaps my favourite, made just afterhis Moscow success, though of course there's one for everyone, many preferring Richter/Rowicki, and the composer himself with Stokowski, which I confess I haven't listened to for years. Along with the Grieg, it's one of those works no-one should be ashamed to love .

My recent listening: a Chandos CD from the '90s of Bax chamber music:

Octet
String quintet movement
Concerto for seven instruments
Threnody and scherzo
In Memoriam.,

the last three works here feature the harp, inspired by playing of Maria Korchinska.

A lovely Bax CD!
In Memoriam is different from Bax's orchestral IN MEMORIAM which contains one of Bax's most luscious and memorable tunes.

[pastoralguy]

An album called ‘Mademoiselle’ by the wonderful Julie Fuchs. I was lucky enough to hear her sing at the Wigmore Hall recently and I thought she was terrific.

[Roger Webb]

A lovely Bax CD!
In Memoriam is different from Bax's orchestral IN MEMORIAM which contains one of Bax's most luscious and memorable tunes.

You're right Ed, a lovely disc. I was a real Bax nut at one time (still am, I suppose) and did a tour of both Ireland (Bax is buried in Cork and lived in both Dublin and on the West Coast) and the West Coast of Scotland, staying in places he visited that so influenced his music. Oh, and Storrington in Sussex where he lived at the White Horse.....I was born a few miles east in Ditchling....Maytime in Sussex and Summer Music, particularly, remind me of the lovely area, but it's the Symphonies that really grab me, a much tougher listen.

[Hitch]

Tchaikovsky - Six Pieces (Six Morceaux) for solo piano, Op. 51
Michael Ponti, piano
Vox

Having heard Daniel Lozakovich and Stanislav Soloviev's rendition of the sixth movement, the Valse Sentimentale, in a version for violin and piano, I was curious to hear the other five in their original form. Spotify does not have a good classical search function, but I eventually found the above version lurking in a "Vox Box". The gentle waltzes, polkas and romances were worth tracking down.

[pastoralguy]

Franz Liszt. Les Preludes.

The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dean Dixon in 1954. Remastered for cd in 1986. Gramophone gave it a very warm welcome in its original review.

[Stanfordian]

Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major
Britten
Violin Concerto (1938/39 with later revisions)
Vilde Frang (violin)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony / James Gaffigan
Recorded 2015, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
Warner Classic, CD

Handel – 'Enemies in Love' – Arias for countertenor and mezzo-soprano
Natalia Kawałek (mezzo-soprano)
Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor)
Il Giardino d'Amore / Stefan Plewniak
Recorded 2016, Corpus Christi Basilica, Kraków, Poland
Ëvoe Records, CD