What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[jayne lee wilson]

Took a while to get here, but this 2012 Toshiba CD transfer (complete with this gorgeous LP cover art) is truly stunning, revealing these 1972 recordings even more clearly as among the best ever. The 7th Symphony is a shade hissier and less immediate than the could-have-been-recorded-yesterday Tapiola and Oceanides, but still stuns you with its control of pulse, the chilly wide-open intensity of its tonal character and fiery dynamics. There are few better readings. Hearing the Tapiola in this remastering, I think I would even take it over the Helsinki PO/Segerstam one, a previous favourite and the BaL recommendation.

The Warners badge has replaced the EMI one of course, but - peer at the playing side of the CD and you can make out TOCE-16018 on the inner rim. The real Toshiba-Emi thing it is. That old sound-sage Yoshio Okazaki again, possibly one of the last he ever did. Who knows?

I wonder if anyone here bought this LP?

[cloughie]

Thanks, Bryn!

[pastoralguy]

Took a while to get here, but this 2012 Toshiba CD transfer (complete with this gorgeous LP cover art) is truly stunning, revealing these 1972 recordings even more clearly as among the best ever. The 7th Symphony is a shade hissier and less immediate than the could-have-been-recorded-yesterday Tapiola and Oceanides, but still stuns you with its control of pulse, the chilly wide-open intensity of its tonal character and fiery dynamics. There are few better readings. Hearing the Tapiola in this remastering, I think I would even take it over the Helsinki PO/Segerstam one, a previous favourite and the BaL recommendation.

The Warners badge has replaced the EMI one of course, but - peer at the playing side of the CD and you can make out TOCE-16018 on the inner rim. The real Toshiba-Emi thing it is. That old sound-sage Yoshio Okazaki again, possibly one the last he ever did. Who knows?

I wonder if anyone here bought this LP?

Not this one, Jayne, but Berglund's recording of the violin concerto with the great Ida Haendel was rarely off my turntable.

[pastoralguy]

The new cd from the LPO's own label of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto c/w Lalo's 'Symphonie Espagnole' played by Augustin Hadelich. The Tchaikovsky is conducted by Mr. Petrenko and the Lalo by Omer Meir Wellber.

Fine playing but, imho, Hadelich isn't quite in the same league as the most recent recording from Lisa Batiashvilli with Barenboim.

[BBMmk2]

Johannes Brahms

Sonata in F minor Op.34b(Martha Argerich, Lilya Zylberstein pianos)


Mendelssohn: Piano Trrio No.1, Op.49(Martha Argerich, Renaud Capucon, Gautier Capucon)

[Petrushka]

Strauss: Metamorphosen

[interval]

Schubert: Symphony No 9 (Great C Major)

Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli

[teamsaint]

RVW

Sea Symphony.

Atlanta SO/ Spano

[cloughie]

RVW

Job

PO/Wordsworth

[Bryn]

I blame Richard for reminding me of its existence, and myself for buying it 9 years ago.

[BBMmk2]

Strauss: Metamorphosen

[interval]

Schubert: Symphony No 9 (Great C Major)

Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli

I expect these recordings a self recommending Pet?

[Stanfordian]

Rubbra
Symphony No. 9 ‘Sinfonia Sacra’
‘Morning Watch’ motet for chorus and orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Richard Hickox
Recorded 1993/94 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
Chandos

York Bowen
Quintet in C major for horn and string quartet,
Rhapsody Trio in A minor for violin, cello and piano,
Trio in Three Movements,
Endymion Ensemble
Recorded 2001 All Saints Church, East Finchley, London
Dutton Epoch

[BBMmk2]

Brahms: Ballades & Fantasies
Theme & Variations in D minor, Op.18
4 Ballades, Op.10; 7 Fantasies, Op.116.
Denis Kuzhukhin(piano)

Never heard this pianist before, the wonders of Spotify. So I am giving this recording a listen. The playing and sound is very good. Interprations of the works here, have a good grounding as well. Strongly recommended.

[Dave2002]

Recently

Glière
Octet, Berlin Philhermonic String Octet

I don't think I'd be quite so dismissive as this Guardian reviewer -https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jan/30/classicalmusicandopera.shopping2

Now

Bax
Symphony No 5, Vernon Handley, BBC Philharmonic

Still trying to get to grips with these symphonies.

[BBMmk2]

Dave2002: They will reap their reward to you!

Schumann

Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op.52
Konzertstucke in F, Op.86.
ORR, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Schubert

Symphony no.9 in C "The Great"
CoE, Claudio Abbado

Bruckner

Symphony no.7 in E major.
(original 1885 version Ed R Haas).
(Staatskapelle Dresden Edition Vol.38).

Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann.

[Colonel Danby]

Harrison Birtwistle: Gawain

Angel/Walmsley-Clark/Howells/Smith/Greager/Marsden/Ebrahim/Le Roux/big John Tomlinson/Ewing

Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Gary Howarth

Collins Classics 70412

I must have seen this at Covent Garden at least three times in recent history with Harry Christophers and the Sixteen for goodness sakes as a bonus, and was fortunate to get my paws on the recording before the record company went belly up. Regret to say that the CD had the cuts included, but you can't have everything, or what's a heaven for? Of course, 'Gawain' is not quite as good as 'Mask of Orpheus' which, I would say, is his masterpiece, but though I have the opera on NMC (I mean, who hasn't?) it still eludes me, which is my fault, not of the composer. But I shall persevere...