What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[BBMmk2]

Love Liszt's piano music. PS in B minor, probably my favourite.

An Elgar Fest today, it looks like!

Sir Edward Elgar

Variations on An original theme, Op.36
Introduction & Allegro, Op.47
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis.

Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op.85(*)
Elegy, Op.58
Paul Watkins(cello)(*)
BBC PO, Sir Andrew Davis.

The Music Makers, Op.69
Sea Pictures, Op.37
Felicity Palmer(soprano), LSO& Chorus, Richard Hickox.

Symphony No.2 in Eb, Op.63.
Dresden Staatstakapelle, Daniel Barenboim

[visualnickmos]

An excellent concert in view!

I've yet to hear (acquire) Barenboim's Staatskapelle Elgar...

Enjoy!

[Stanfordian]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this alert?

I notice that 'Radio 4 Extra' from its archives has a 'Desert Island Discs' with conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent as castaway tonight at 21.15.

[BBMmk2]

An excellent concert in view!

I've yet to hear (acquire) Barenboim's Staatskapelle Elgar...

Enjoy!

It's been a very enjoyable listening day, Visual. Both the Elgar/Barenboim recordings are thoroughly recommendable. Someone was saying the recordings take a more European slant to the music and ofcourse it does, espexcially with these artists.

[pastoralguy]

Yuj a Wang's 'Fantasia' album. Unbelievable piano playing. (So long as I skip the awful Gluck 'Melodie' track!).

Charity shop find for £2.

[Petrushka]

Poulenc: Gloria
Patricia Petibon (soprano)

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe (complete ballet)

Choeur de Radio France
Orchestre National de France
Bernard Haitink

Tonight's Radio 3 in Concert http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c2n8x
Given in the Maison de la Radio, Paris, on November 17 2016.

[Stanfordian]

Malcolm Arnold
Philharmonic Concerto
Fantasy on a theme of John Field
Symphony No. 7
John Field
Nocturne No. 7 in C major ‘Reverie’
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martin Yates
Recorded 2014, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow.
Dutton Epoch

York Bowen
Works for Piano
13 pieces from 24 preludes Op. 102
Ballade No. 2
Sonata No. 5
Berceuse
Moto Perpetuo
Romance No’s 1 & 2
Stephen Hough (piano)
Recorded London, Sept 1995
Hyperion

[BBMmk2]

...pour passer la melancolie
Music by Froberger, Fischer and Clerambault.
Andreas Staier, harpsichord.

[Colonel Danby]

Now:

Steve Reich: Four Organs

Piano Circus

Decca Argo 440 294-2ZH

This is great stuff, but I fear that most of the Argo catalogue has been deleted, together with the priceless 'Entartete Musik' series with works banned by the Nazis (Krenek, Haas etc etc). I trust I'm wrong...

[Pulcinella]

Now:

Steve Reich: Four Organs

Piano Circus

Decca Argo 440 294-2ZH

This is great stuff, but I fear that most of the Argo catalogue has been deleted, together with the priceless 'Entartete Musik' series with works banned by the Nazis (Krenek, Haas etc etc). I trust I'm wrong...

It's one of the ones Presto have taken over:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/99630/Steve-Reich-Four-Organs

Worth looking at Presto's own CDs; also the Australian Decca Eloquence issues, as some Argo material (e.g, the King's College Howells/Willcocks) has resurfaced there.

[BBMmk2]

Mariss Jansons Live: The Radio Recordings 1994-2014

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op 14
Ravel: La Valse;
Lutoslawksi: Concerto for Orchestra;
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 inn B minor, Op.76, "Pathetique";
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons.

[HighlandDougie]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (ed. Robert Haas)

(East) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Heinz Rögner (King Records "Hyper Remastering" CD)

Frank Zappa: Ensemble Modern plays Frank Zappa (rec. 2002)

My daily listen to Bruckner 8 (BeefO has a lot to answer for as he has got me completely re-hooked on this work). Today's reading is my jumping on the Heinz Rögner bandwagon. This Japanese pressing was available cheaply here in France and is a fine, straight-down-the line, no-messing-about-with-tempi reading. I'm still in thrall to Carl Schuricht in Vienna but will definitely come back to this one.

The Ensemble Modern CD was in the postbox when the AB 8th finished. After a suitable interval .....

[jayne lee wilson]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (ed. Robert Haas)

(East) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Heinz Rögner (King Records "Hyper Remastering" CD)

My daily listen to Bruckner 8 (BeefO has a lot to answer for as he has got me completely re-hooked on this work). Today's reading is my jumping on the Heinz Rögner bandwagon. This Japanese pressing was available cheaply here in France and is a fine, straight-down-the line, no-messing-about-with-tempi reading. I'm still in thrall to Carl Schuricht in Vienna but will definitely come back to this one.

Aha...! I'm still waiting for mine to arrive from Japan, with the 7th and the box of live readings on Weitblick. I began listening to the Berlin Classics 6th but found the first movement disappointing - bit studio bound, pacy but very cool, without much variation.... after which, short of time.....
Last few days, Knappertsbusch's VPO 7th (the 1949 Salzburg one) has given me much pleasure, at least as much for that old open-weave un-monumental Vienna sound as for the wondrous, flowingly shaped reading itself - and what an extraordinary coda! Kna really holds it back for that final splendour. I found the Orfeo transfer better than the Archipel one - more spacious and refined. But despite heroic mastering efforts - very good for 1949 - that final climax is inevitably a little too fierce.

If you don't have it do seek out the 1953 VSO/Andreae 1892 8th (from the first ever complete Bruckner cycle) I enthused about up-thread - it's truly thrilling!

[EdgeleyRob]

Malcolm Arnold
Philharmonic Concerto
Fantasy on a theme of John Field
Symphony No. 7
John Field
Nocturne No. 7 in C major ‘Reverie’
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martin Yates
Recorded 2014, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow.
Dutton Epoch

York Bowen
Works for Piano
13 pieces from 24 preludes Op. 102
Ballade No. 2
Sonata No. 5
Berceuse
Moto Perpetuo
Romance No’s 1 & 2
Stephen Hough (piano)
Recorded London, Sept 1995
Hyperion

Nice one Stan

[EdgeleyRob]

Schumann

Symphonies

BPO,Karajan