What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[Stanfordian]

What do/did you think of the Stravinsky, Stanfordian?
Gramophone was generally positive, with this as the final sentence in the review:
Strongly recommended despite a certain lack of rapture in the forthright choral delivery.

(Not quite sure what that means! Did Stravinsky expect rapture? )

It's not a recording that I will playing too often; if at all. The high voices dominate too much for my liking and there is little of the stark intensity I like to hear. I much prefer performances of the Mass with the parts taken by adult singers. My prefered account is by RIAS Kammerchor & MusikFabrik under Daniel Reuss on Harmonia Mundi.

[Stanfordian]

last night , listened to the much famed Ida Haendel /BSO/Berlund recording of the Britten Violin concerto.

Well deserving of its reputation. A wonderful work and special performance.

One of the greatest recordings of English music ever produced; it's very special.

[Pianorak]

Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op.95
LSO/Istvan Kertesz
Spellbinding performance

[Suffolkcoastal]

This evening:

Listening to my scores 173:

Wagner:
Tannhauser Overture - study score
Tristan and Isolde - Prelude & Liebestod - study score
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Prelude to Act I - study score
Siegfried Idyll - study score

[Lat-Literal]

Does anyone know please if there is a disc which features Webster Booth singing "How Beautiful They Are" from "The Immortal Hour" by Rutland Boughton with John Cockerill on harp in London on 18 July 1939 - or is the only version of this song on the full "The Immortal Hour" on Hyperion.

I especially like the Booth version. It has a mystical quality. I'm also wondering given the date of the performance whether there is a a story - ie linked to the beginnings of WW2?

[Lat-Literal]

Henri Vieuxtemps - Souvenir d'Amerique, Yankee Doodle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZWMsxLDwpA
Leo Smit - Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7H8B7AWns
Louis Andriessen - Tapdance (Percussion Concerto) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLj3Y7AQg9w
Johan Wagenaar - Levenszomer, Op. 21 (Summer of Life) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADh53DXTok

[Bryn]

Does anyone know please if there is a disc which features Webster Booth singing "How Beautiful They Are" from "The Immortal Hour" by Rutland Boughton with John Cockerill on harp in London on 18 July 1939 - or is the only version of this song on the full "The Immortal Hour" on Hyperion.

I especially like the Booth version. It has a mystical quality. I'm also wondering given the date of the performance whether there is a a story - ie linked to the beginnings of WW2?

It would appear to be on this album.

[Lat-Literal]

It would appear to be on this album.

That's excellent.

Many thanks Bryn.

I think he is magnificent on it:

Webster Booth - How Beautiful They Are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SN0GLx5Vmo

(I now realise that there is a picture of a disc on the link but it is nearly £35 - yours is much more varied and affordable)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It would appear to be on this album.

- for an affordable MP3 download of the song on its own, there's this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Immortal-Hour-Beautiful-They-Faery/dp/B00660R8GW

[Stanfordian]

Verdi
Messa da Requiem
Eva Mei, soprano; Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano;
Michael Schade, tenor; Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, bass
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Recorded live 2004 Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Vienna
RCA Red Seal SACD

String Quartets by Opera Composers
Puccini
Crisantemi
Respighi
Il Tramonto, Poemetto lirico per mezzo-soprano e quartetto d’archi
Wagner
Albumblatt
Humperdinck
String Quartet in C major
Verdi
String Quartet
Ruth Ziesack (soprano); Leipziger Streichquartett (Andreas Seidel (violin);
Tilman Büning (violin); Ivo Bauer (viola); Matthias Moosdorf (cello))
Recorded 2007 Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig
MDG Gold

[pastoralguy]

Beethoven. Symphony no. 6. 'The Pastoral'.

Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.

[Lat-Literal]

Fiddle faddling with Italy -

Some wonderful early music:

Kapsberger:

The question is whether "Canario" is by Giovanni Girolamo or Johannes Hieronymus -

????????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qoYCSf9ukc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFbZQRcz5eQ

Kapsberger with Theorbo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttuc-ExhFss

.......and now a bit of Scelsi and a bit of Russolo:

Rotativa (1930) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSHp11YNyls

Intonarumoris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPXAo1cOA4

[visualnickmos]

This morning

Respighi
Roman trilogy
Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit

Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Georges Pretre

This is a very fine performance and recording - all the detail is beautifully revealed - as if the symphony is being crafted from raw materials into a fine masterpiece.
Here it is...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphonie-Fantastique-Overtures-Hector-Berlioz/dp/B000026GG9/ref=sr_1_14?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1474801374&sr=1-14&keywords=berlioz+pretre

[pastoralguy]

Re-visiting my 'Elgar Remastered' discs today. Absolutely wonderful music making from the composer conducting his own music.

(Best listened to on headphones, I think).

[BBMmk2]

This morning

Respighi
Roman trilogy
Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit

Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Georges Pretre

This is a very fine performance and recording - all the detail is beautifully revealed - as if the symphony is being crafted from raw materials into a fine masterpiece.
Here it is...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphonie-F...berlioz+pretre

I'll have top look at that! The Respighi disc is very enjoyable too. have you checked the marvellous Chandos recordings of Respighi's works?

Buxthude: CD 1of complete organ works. Bine Bryndorf, organ.