What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[Petrushka]

Brahms. Symphony no.1.

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

There's a DVD available on the ICA Classics label of Solti and the CSO playing this very work in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, in 1971. Surprised you haven't got it, PG.

[Petrushka]

Mahler: Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)
Isobel Buchanan (soprano), Mira Zakai (contralto)
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti

[AmpH]

HAYDN
THE COMPLETE OVERTURES
Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss ( BIS )

PFITZNER / STRAUSS
VARIOUS WORKS
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Christian Thielemann ( DG )

[Stanfordian]

Stanford
String Quartets Nos. 5 & 8
Joachim
Romance Op. 2, No. 1
Dante Quartet
Recorded 2015 St. Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton, Surrey
Somm
Great stuff! Amazing that these are first recordings too!
My friend will be practising this morning in Munich on her wooden music stand that was the great Joachim’s own. Small world isn’t it?

[BBMmk2]

That's some connection there, Stan! Must hear this cd soon

Going to have an Elgar Fest today.

Elgar

Serenade in E minor, Op.20(LPO, Handley)
Variations on an Original theme, Enigma
(LPO, Handley)

Cello Concerto
(Natalie Kliene, RLPO, Handley)

Symphony no.1 in Ab major, Op.55
(Staatskapelle, Berlin, Barenboim)

Pomp & Circumstance marches nos.1-5, Op.39
Cockaigne Overture, Op.40
Introduction & Allegro, Op.47
Symphony no.2 in Eb, Op.63
(BBCSO/Sir Andrew Davis)

After a break, a selection of music by Sir Arnold Bax

Symphonic Poems, Vol.1.
In The Faery Hills; November Woods;
The Garden of Fand; Sinfonietta.
BBC PO, Vernon Handley.

Winter Legends; Symphonic Variations in E Major.
Margeret Fingerhut(piano), London PO, Bryden Thomson.

Phantasy*; Four Orchestral Pieces; Overture, Elegy & Rondo.
Philip Dukes(piano)*, BBC PO, Sir Andrew Davis

[EdgeleyRob]

Stanford
String Quartets Nos. 5 & 8
Joachim
Romance Op. 2, No. 1
Dante Quartet
Recorded 2015 St. Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton, Surrey
Somm
Great stuff! Amazing that these are first recordings too!
My friend will be practising this morning in Munich on her wooden music stand that was the great Joachim’s own. Small world isn’t it?

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

[interval]

Elgar/Payne: Symphony No 3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox

I just absolutely love the Elgar/Payne Symphony No 3. Whatever the merits and de-merits of the 'elaboration' it is a tremendous musical and emotional experience. Does it still get performed anywhere? I attended the Proms premiere in 1998 and would greatly like to hear it again in concert.

More in hope than expectation, it would be good if Barenboim added it to his on-going Elgar cycle.

[BBMmk2]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

[interval]

Elgar/Payne: Symphony No 3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox

I just absolutely love the Elgar/Payne Symphony No 3. Whatever the merits and de-merits of the 'elaboration' it is a tremendous musical and emotional experience. Does it still get performed anywhere? I attended the Proms premiere in 1998 and would greatly like to hear it again in concert.

More in hope than expectation, it would be good if Barenboim added it to his on-going Elgar cycle.

I haven't heard(or don't think I have), the Richard Hickox version)

[Petrushka]

I haven't heard(or don't think I have), the Richard Hickox version)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elgar-Symphony-Circumstance-March-Hybrid/dp/B000WZ7I12/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1479679509&sr=1-1&keywords=elgar+3+hickox

[teamsaint]

Ainadamar. Golijov.
Atlanta SO/Spano et al.

Be interested to hear any views on this, or indeed on Golijov's other music.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Today:

Listening to my scores - recent purchases 6:

Bliss:
Things to Come (Concert Suite) - study score
Violin Concerto - study score
Meditations on a theme of John Blow - study score

Ernest Bloch:
String Quartet No 2 - study score

Brahms:
Piano Quintet in F minor op34 - study score

[gurnemanz]

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of my LP purchase of the EMI Fischer-Dieskau/Moore Schöne Müllerin by playing the CD which I have just bought second-hand for pence from Amazon. I think it was my first Lieder recording and the disc is still there but virtually unplayably scratched from over-use so replacement was very overdue. The recording comes up as fresh as a daisy.

[Stanfordian]

Richard Strauss
Elektra, Op. 58, Suite from the opera
(new version conceptualised by Manfred Honeck, realised by Tomáš Ille)
Der Rosenkavalier Op. 59, Suite from the opera
(version arranged by Artur Rodzinski)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck
Recorded 2016 Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, Pittsburgh
Reference Recordings (SACD)

Dohnányi
Piano Quintet No. 2
Sextet
Ensemble Raro led by Alexander Sitkovetsky
Recorded 2016 Studio 2, Rundfunk Munich
Solo Musica - BR Klassik

[pastoralguy]

Brahms. Symphony no. 1.

Kiril Kondrashin. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.

Philips. Recorded live on February 29th 1980.

[Pulcinella]

anyway, any offers on the Adams Violin Concerto ?

The Christmas edition of BBC MM rates the new coupling of Adams and Harris violin concertos by Tamsin Waley-Cohen and the BBCSO under Litton (Signum Classics) very highly indeed.
Five red stars for both performance and recording.