What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[Colonel Danby]

Saturday morning, as I continue to plough through my christmas card filling duties:

Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa (which includes two performances of Fratres, and the Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten)

Gidon Kremer/Keith Jarrett/Staatorcherster Stuttgart/Dennis Russell Davies/Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Alfred Schnittke(pf)/Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Sondeckis

ECM 1275

What a lineup!!

[Stanfordian]

Karita Mattila - German Romantic Arias - Beethoven, Weber, Mendelssohn
Karita Mattila (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden/Sir Colin Davis
Recorded 2001 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Erato

Mozart
Quintet for piano and winds, KV 452
Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21, KV467
(arranged for Sextet for piano and winds by Bernd Schober)
Beethoven
Quintet for piano and winds, Op. 16
Margarita Höhenrieder (piano)
Blaser Solisten der Staatskapelle Dresden
Recorded 2012 Bibliotheksaal, Polling
Hänssler Classics

[Jonathan]

Earlier on: Beethoven transcribed Scharwenka for piano duet - Symphony no.7 plus Beethoven's own arrangement for piano duet of the Grosse Fuga. Interesting stuff!

[vinteuil]

Earlier on: Beethoven transcribed Scharwenka for piano duet - Symphony no.7 plus Beethoven's own arrangement for piano duet of the Grosse Fuga. Interesting stuff!

... any info on performers / recording?

[BBMmk2]

Vaughan Williams: Cantata - Hodie.

Elizabeth Gale, Robert Tear, Stephen Roberts,
Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral,
LSO Chorus, LSO, Richard Hickox.

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor op 131 (version for string orchestra)

[interval]

Mahler: Symphony No 4
Edith Mathis (soprano)

Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein

Beethoven - CD; Mahler - DVD

[teamsaint]

Concert a Quatre.
Messiaen.

A fine antodote to a gloomy and wet December evening.

[Suffolkcoastal]

This evening:

Listening to my scores - recent purchases 18:

James MacMillan:
The World's Ransoming - study score

Nicholas Maw:
Sinfonia - study score

Mendelssohn:
Symphony No 5 in D minor 'Reformation' - study score

[BBMmk2]

"Hodie - Carols from Cambridge"

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Director Timothy Brown

"We Wish you a Merry Christmas"

Black Dyke Band, conducted by Professor Nicholas j Childs

[Jonathan]

... any info on performers / recording?

Sorry for the delay in replying - been away for my work Christmas do... The disc is on MDG Gold and the performers are Piano Duo Trenkner & Speidel. Hope this helps!

[Alison]

Elgar: In the South
BBCSSO/Brabbins

Strauss: Don Quixote
Schiff/Leipzig/Masur

Glazunov: Symphony 4
RNSO/Serebrier

[Petrushka]

Nico Schuyt: Discorsi capricciosi for 12 wind instruments and percussion
Hans Henkemans: Partita
Marius Constant: Turner: Tros Essais

[interval]

Bartok: Piano Concerto No 1
Theo Bruins (piano)

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink

Given in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, on December 11 1966

[teamsaint]

Elgar: In the South
BBCSSO/Brabbins

Strauss: Don Quixote
Schiff/Leipzig/Masur

Glazunov: Symphony 4
RNSO/Serebrier

I ought to get another version of this other than the Moscow RSO.

recommend this one Alison?

[Alison]

Yes I have bought a few Fourths over the years and this is the best of them.

The work suits the orchestra and Serebrier paces very well.

Overall my favourite Glazunov Symphony.

[Bryn]

Prompted by a PM from a new R3OK member who has not, I think posted a public message there yet, Berio's Outis, a recording of an old Sky Arts broadcast of the 1999 La Scala production, replete with very brief audio and video drop-outs/glitches approximately every 20 seconds (they were there each time it was broadcast on SKy Arts around the time I recorded it to DVD-R). While the drop-outs are irksome, the video quality it rather better than the now taken down version that was one available in YouTube. Such a pity this RAI recording has never yet made it to commercial DVD release.