What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[Suffolkcoastal]

This evening:

Listening to my scores 174:

Wagner:
Der Fliegende Hollander - vocal score

[Stanfordian]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 3 'Wagner' (original version of 1873)
Staatskapelle Dresden/Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Recorded live 2008 Semperoper, Dresden
Edition Staatskapelle Dresden Vol. 39
Profil

Brahms
String Quartet No. 2
Clarinet Quintet
Jerusalem Quartet,
Sharon Kam (clarinet)
Recorded 2012 Telex Studio, Berlin
Harmonia Mundi

Tina Brooks with Kenny Drew, Wilbar Ware & Philly Joe Jones
'The Waiting Game'
Blue Note (1961)

[BBMmk2]

Hi Stan! I like the look for the Bruckner!

As I stated in the Early Music WAYLTN thread I will be embarking on listening to a few of the cycles that are available of Buxtehude's organ music. MickyD kindly recommended Simone Stella's, which I am listening to now, via amazon Prime Music. so far very good listening.

[visualnickmos]

Tea-time, today

R Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Norman Del Mar

Berlioz
Les nuits d'été
Sung by Katerina Karnéus, BBC Philharmonic - Vassily Sinaisky

[Thropplenoggin]

It's really very good.

[teamsaint]

had a good listen to Tchaikovsky Symphony # 4, Celibidache Munchner/ Phil this morning , which I enjoyed a great deal.
which led me to thinking about which discs you lot prefer in this work.
Do tell.

( I have a number of recordings, none of which register on the Presto Classical " Building a Library lists.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

had a good listen to Tchaikovsky Symphony # 4 ...
which led me to thinking about which discs you lot prefer in this work.
Do tell.

LSO/Szell
LeningradPO/Mravinsky
BPO/Karajan (all three of 'em)
and:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0059B0BYA

(I was THERE!)

[Pianorak]

R3 this evening:

Sound Frontiers: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli at the Royal Festival Hall, London
An archive recording from 13 April 1982, featuring a recital given as part of the South Bank Centre's Great Pianists series.
Beethoven: Sonata No 12 in A flat, Op 26; Sonata No 4 in E flat, Op 7
Debussy: Preludes Book 1.

[visualnickmos]

LSO/Szell
LeningradPO/Mravinsky
BPO/Karajan (all three of 'em)
and:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0059B0BYA

(I was THERE!)

I actually listened to the Szell/LSO yesterday evening - WOW! Surely a (even 'the') gold standard here.

Markevitch/LSO on Philips is another one I particularly enjoy.

The first-ever Tchaikovsky fourth I acquired, and still have, was a CfP (what else? ) with, if my memory serves me correctly, the
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Oivin Fjelstad
I haven't played it for about 30+ years - but I seem to remember thinking how superbly brazen and 'going for it' it was....

[Richard Barrett]

had a good listen to Tchaikovsky Symphony # 4, Celibidache Munchner/ Phil this morning , which I enjoyed a great deal.
which led me to thinking about which discs you lot prefer in this work.

Leningrad/Mravinsky to be sure; Anima Eterna/Immerseel is an interesting HIPP take on the work. I like Celibidache's 5th but I haven't heard his 4th, I expect I'd like it though. This is pretty much the only Tchaikovsky piece I ever listen to. I think it's because it featured in the first orchestral concert I ever went to.

[Petrushka]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0059B0BYA

(I was THERE!)

Yes, that BBCSO/Rozhdestvensky is an absolute cracker of a performance, one of my favourites. Otherwise, Leningrad PO/Mravinsky and the 1977 BPO/Karajan.

[Alison]

Belatedly caught up with the CBSO Tchaikovsky Fourth at the Proms.

A worthy debut for M G-T yet I'd steer Sainty in the direction of LPO/Jurowski, just that bit more grip on the symphonic dimension and even more exciting.

It strikes me I have long underestimated the Fourth.

[Petrushka]

Vintage Karajan/Philharmonia recordings tonight...

Strauss: Don Juan
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

[interval]

Sibelius: Symphony No 2

Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan

Strauss recorded in 1951, Bartok in 1949 and Sibelius in 1960.

[BBMmk2]

I rather like Andris Nelsons take on Tchaik's 4th. But my favourite Tchaikovsky symphony is above all the 5th.

[Stanfordian]

Chopin
Piano Concertos No’s 1 & 2
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Staatskapelle Berlin/Andris Nelsons
Recorded live 2010 Ruhr Piano Festival, Philharmonie Essen
Deutsche Grammophon

Erwin Schrott - Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Gounod & Meyerbeer
Erwin Schrott (bass-baritone)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana/Riccardo Frizza
Recorded 2008 Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia,Valencia
Decca
I'm absolutely delighted by this release. Stunning singing.

Tina Brooks with Kenny Drew, Wilbar Ware & Philly Joe Jones
'The Waiting Game'
Blue Note (1961)