What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[Stanfordian]

Hyperion Schubert Edition Complete Songs Vol. 9 - Schubert and the Theatre
21 Lieder
Arleen Auger (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Recorded 1989
Hyperion

[pastoralguy]

Mozart. Violin Sonata in Bb. K.454

Arthur Grumiaux, violin and Walter Klein, piano.

Philips.

This was one of my Party pieces when I was a music student 30 years ago. It's only now I can bear to listen to it as a piece of music instead of a concentration exercise!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mozart. Violin Sonata in Bb. K.454
Arthur Grumiaux, violin and Walter Klein, piano.
Philips.
This was one of my Party pieces when I was a music student 30 years ago. It's only now I can bear to listen to it as a piece of music instead of a concentration exercise!

Over the past few days, I've been listening to the Knappertsbusch 1951 Parsifal - the nineteenth time I've played the set in the thirteen years I've owned it. In spite of the fragile sound, it's a marvellously moving and totally engrossing performance.

This afternoon:
Mozart/Sussmayr: Requiem K626; Lipp, Rossel-Majdan, Dermota, Berry/Wiener Sangverein/BPO/Karajan (1962).

[pastoralguy]

Now onto disc 21 (out of 34) of the Haydn Symphonies on Period Instruments . Symphonies 53, 62 & 63.

We're getting there!

[Stanfordian]

Elgar
Violin Concerto
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Staatskapelle Dresden/Sir Colin Davis
Recorded 2009 Lukaskirche, Dresden
RCA Red Seal

I love this interpretation of the Elgar violin concerto! I'm a big admirer of Nikolaj Znaider's playing and his conducting too.

[BBMmk2]

Crucifixus - Music for Holy Week.

Palestrina: Stabat Mater a 8;
Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus a 6
Felice Anerio: Christus factus est a 6
Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus a 8
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei, a 5
Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus a 10
Carlo Gesualdo: O Vos omnes a 5
Antonio Caldera: Crucifixus a 16
Domenico Scarlatti:Stabat Mater a 10.

The Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse.

[BBMmk2]

Elgar:
Symphony No.1 in Ab major, Op.56; Organ Sonata, Op.28(arr, Joacob).
BBC NOW, Richard Hickox.

Howells: Stabat Mater.
Janice Watson, Della Jones, Martyn Hill,
Donald Maxwell, Neil Archer,
LSO & Chorus, Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

[visualnickmos]

This afternoon, so far...

Beethoven
String trios Opp. 3 & 8
Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell (EMI 2-CD)
Excellent, confident - but not strident performance from these great players. Live and well-balanced recordings. A most enjoyable 'listen' and after all is said and done - that's what counts!

[Bryn]

Koechlin: Seven Stars Symphony (BBCSSO, Ilan Volkov). I'd forgotten I had this saved onto a USB stick.

[Daniel]

My first experience of this music [Brahms Op.116 - 119 ] was as an angst ridden teenager when, somehow, this old man's music spoke to me. I originally had Steven Bishop on a Phillips cassette long since replaced on cd, and it's this version that I measure all others by.

Thanks for this recommendation which I greatly warmed to. Kovacevich has a kind of robust/tender sensibility about his playing that finds its way around the nooks and crannies of this music very revealingly. I particularly liked his handling of the crannies (.. though in a way I mean that.)

Not sure I've ever heard of crannies manifesting themselves independently of nooks. Perhaps I haven't lived.

[pastoralguy]

Thanks for this recommendation which I greatly warmed to. Kovacevich has a kind of robust/tender sensibility about his playing that finds its way around the nooks and crannies of this music very revealingly. I particularly liked his handling of the crannies (.. though in a way I mean that.)

Not sure I've ever heard of crannies manifesting themselves independently of nooks. Perhaps I haven't lived.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bach: St John Passion; Scholars Baroque/David van Asch
Recorded in 1993, one of the earliest O/TVpP recordings, and still sounds remarkably successful, not merely in demonstrating that single voices can "work" successfully in this repertoire, but in purely artistic terms: a great favourite of mine since I bought this NAXOS set back in March, 1995.

Wagner (& a little help from Humperdinck): Parsifal Act One; Soloists/VPO/Karajan (1st April, 1961)
from the "brown box" of RCA/SONY/Eurodisc Wagner recordings - an illicit Live radio MONO recording: wonderful performance.

[Lat-Literal]

Greece:

Manolis Kalomiris - Symphony No.3 "Palamanian" (1955) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sx4-09LAy4

[BBMmk2]

Elgar:
Symphony No.1 in Ab major, Op.56; Organ Sonata, Op.28(arr, Joacob).
BBC NOW, Richard Hickox.

Howells: Stabat Mater.
Janice Watson, Della Jones, Martyn Hill,
Donald Maxwell, Neil Archer,
LSO & Chorus, Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

I should have mentioned the wonderful Missa Sabrinensis. What a work this is!

[Stanfordian]

‘So French’ - Saint-Saëns, Franck, Ysaÿe, Massenet, Ravel
Saint-Saëns Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso
Franck Violin sonata
Ysaÿe Caprice d’après l’étude en forme de Valse de Camille Saint-Saëns
Massenet Méditation de Thaïs
Ravel Tzigane
Stéphanie-Marie Degand (violin) & Christie Julien (piano)
Recorded 2016 Auditorium du Gennevilliers Conservatory, Paris
NoMadMusic

Il tenero momento: Mozart & Gluck Arias - Susan Graham
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket
Recorded 2000 Air Studios, London
From the Warner set ‘The Art of Susan Graham
Erato