What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Vivaldi – Vivica Genaux – ‘Pyrotechnics’
Opera Arias from Catone in Utica, Semiramide, La Fida Ninfa,
Griselda, Ipermestra, Farnace, Tito Manlio, Rosmira Fedele
Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi
Recorded 2008, Library of the Monastery of San Giovanni, Parma
Virgin Classics

Nino Rota – ‘Chamber Music’
Nonetto for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello & double bass
Trio for flute, violin & piano
2 Valzer sul nome Bach for flute, violin & piano
Piccola Offerta Musicale for wind quintet
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Prelude No. 13 for piano
Prelude No. 2 for piano
Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano), Joaquín Riquelme García (viola), Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Paul Meyer (clarinet), François Meyer (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Benoît de Barsony (horn), Olivier Thiery (bass), Aurélien Pascal (cello)
Recorded August 2020 La Courroie, Entraigues sur la Sorgue, France
Alpha Classics. Outstanding new release!

[BBMmk2]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.1, “A Sea Symphony”
Symphony No.2, “”A Sea Symphony”
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)
Roderick Elms (organ)
LSO Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Bryden Thomson

Five Tudor Portraits
Five Variants on ‘Dives & Lazarus’
Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano)
John Shirley-Quirk ((baritone)
LSO Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox

[Hitch]

Morten Lauridsen
O Magnum Mysterium

Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison

[Serial_Apologist]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.1, “A Sea Symphony”
Symphony No.2, “”A Sea Symphony”
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)
Roderick Elms (organ)
LSO Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Bryden Thomson

Personally, I wold have played them both at the same time!

[Bryn]

Personally, I wold have played them both at the same time!

Maybe it's because you're a Londoner, or are you, in fact, from the wold?

[Serial_Apologist]

Maybe it's because you're a Londoner, or are you, in fact, from the wold?

Being an internationalist, from the weld!

[vinteuil]

Being an internationalist, from the weld!

... as in a notorious Shepherd's Bush pub, no doubt -

https://www.defectors-weld.co.uk/

.

[Hitch]

Being an internationalist, from the weld!

If only it had been VW's Sussex Carol. Alas, the Weald was not enough.

[Serial_Apologist]

... as in a notorious Shepherd's Bush pub, no doubt -

https://www.defectors-weld.co.uk/

.

Didn't know that place, vints.

[ahinton]

Personally, I wold have played them both at the same time!

Two Seas do not an ocean make, although let us hope that the ongoing ravages of climate change do not turn London into one...

[Serial_Apologist]

Two Seas do not an ocean make, although let us hope that the ongoing ravages of climate change do not turn London into one...

My now sadly late ex-girlfriend would ask me why I "always!" chose such hilly districts to live in. "I tell you Viv, when the Thames Barrage bursts they'll be flocking up this way" I would reply.

[Joseph K]

Struggling to practice guitar as much as I'd like in this heat. Browsing my CD collection, I've decided to listen to something I've hardly listened to - ok, that could be quite a few CDs, but I've plumped for this:

[bluestateprommer]

Listening to WRTI's Sunday afternoon archival Philadelphia Orchestra relay, with Bernstein, Tod Machover, and Mussorgsky's (via Ravel) Pictures:

https://www.wrti.org/post/philadelphia-orchestra-concert-wrti-bernstein-mussorgsky-and-choral-premiere

[Petrushka]

Mozart: Serenade K375
Wiener Bläsersoloisten

[interval]

Bruckner: Symphony No 4 (Romantic)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm

Can easily imagine a performance of the Mozart in a Vienna courtyard on just such a hot night as this. The Bruckner 4 is summer music too (to me anyway).

[Stanfordian]

Meyerbeer - Grand Opera - Diana Damrau
Arias from operas Le Prophète, Robert le Diable, Alimelek oder die beiden Kalifen,
L'étoile du nord, L'Africaine, Il crociato in Egitto, Le pardon de Ploërmel,
Ein Feldlager in Schlesien, Emma di Resburgo, Les Huguenots & L'Africaine
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opéra National de Lyon / Emmanuel Villaume
Recorded 2015, Opéra National, Lyon
Erato

Debussy
Images, six pieces for solo piano
Etudes, twelve pieces for solo piano
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Recorded 2002, La Salle de Musique, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Warner Classics