What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[MickyD]

Haydn symphonies "Hornsignal", "Fire", "La Chasse"...Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt.
Amazing horn playing, a superb disc.

[Stanfordian]

Mason Bates
Sirens (2009)
Mass Transmission (2012)
Rag of Ragnar
Isabelle Demers (organ), Mason Bates (electronica)
Cappella SF / Ragnar Bohlin
Recorded 2018, St Ignatius Church and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Delos

[gradus]

Faure Preludes played by Evelynne Crochet, idiomatic and appealing performances in Vox sound so by no means good but perfectly listenable on goodish pressings from the early seventies. A shame she never issued many recordings as she strikes me as a natural for Debussy amongst others.

[Bryn]

Officially release via Bandcamp today (I think):



I went for the CD plus FLAC download option, so it's the FLAC that is playing now.

[Joseph K]

Beethoven - symphony no. 5 - COE/Harnoncourt

[TBuckley]

Varese - Arcana, Integrales, Ionisation; Kraft - Contextures, Percussion Concerto
LAPO, Mehta
Decca - 1995 CD (Classic Sound).

Excellent performances of the Varese & Kraft by Mehta & orchestra. Amazing analogue recording quality (1972/1969) - some of Decca's best.

[Bryn]

Officially release via Bandcamp today (I think).

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0026466206_10.jpg

I went for the CD plus FLAC download option, so it's the FLAC that is playing now.

Oops! If tempted to get the download, hold your horses. There is a section in the part 2 file which has a series of dropouts. I have emailed Simon at Another Timbre to advise him of the error. The problem appears to apply to all file formats.

[jayne lee wilson]

Found much solace in this lovely, delicately-played anthology recently.....transcriptions of Chorale Preludes, Arias and Sinfonias by Fred Thomas for Piano Trio/Piano Solo.

I wasn't far in when, catching me offguard, the main theme from Tarkovsky's sci-fi epic Solaris began its sweet, mournful song ... (Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu BWV 639 ("I call to you, Lord Jesus"))....

Remember that strange, all-knowing, all-seeing, rippling planet...? Which seemed to be calling, like the sirens, to the people on the orbiting spaceship....
If ever sound and image were perfectly, hauntingly matched....





J.S. Bach: Three Or One - Transcriptions by Fred Thomas
Fred Thomas, Aisha Orazbayeva, Lucy Railton

Released on 22/10/2021 by ECM New Series
QOBUZ 24/44.1

[Bryn]

Oops! If tempted to get the download, hold your horses. There is a section in the part 2 file which has a series of dropouts. I have emailed Simon at Another Timbre to advise him of the error. The problem appears to apply to all file formats.

Now sorted by Simon.

[Mario]

BACH J S

Passacaglia & Fugue in C min BWV 582

Comparing

D Goode and
S Preston

Confused! Not being an organ expert, I cannot understand how the organ can be made to sound so differently. David Goode goes for a full-blown rendition, but Simon Preston starts very quietly and almost cautiously. I must say that I can follow the individual lines in Preston’s clearer reading.

Apparently, Robert Schumann described the variations of the Passacaglia as, “intertwined so ingeniously that one can never cease to be amazed”.

Is it up to the performer as to what keyboard, what stops, etc., he uses?

Excuse my ignorance…

Mario

[Stanfordian]

Montserrat Caballé sings Bellini & Verdi arias
Bellini arias from I puritani & Il pirata
Verdi arias from Aida, Don Carlo, La forza del destino, Macbeth & Otello
Montserrat Caballé (soprano)
Various orchestras and conductors.
Recorded 1970-79, London, Rome
Warner Classics

[BBMmk2]

I found his recording bunched together now. So what do you do? Buy it!

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47
Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.43
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
André Previn.

[BBMmk2]

Today’s listening. I’m having a theme with American symphony orchestras, at the moment. Here’s a set, I’m dipping into today.

Abbado - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductors & Orchestras
CD 1
Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
Mahler
Symphony No.1 in D major
Symphony No.2 in C minor “Resurrection” *
Symphony No.5 in C# minor
*Carol Nesbitt (soprano)
*Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus*
Claudio Abbado.

[Stanfordian]

Sabine Devieilhe – 'Bach, Handel'
J.S. Bach
Cantata – Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
Cantata – Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
Sacred song – Mein Jesu! was für Seelenweh, BWV 487
Sinfonia – Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal, BWV 146
Handel
Two arias from oratorio – Brockes Passion, HWV 48
Two arias from opera – Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17
Aria from oratorio – Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Pygmalion (period instruments) / Raphaël Pichon (direction)
with Stéphane Degout (baritone) and Thomas Dunford (theorbo)
Recorded 2020 Temple du St-Esprit, Paris
Erato, new release

[Mario]

The free download this week from Naxos gives the choice of

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford – Requiem
Peter Philips – Cantiones Sacrae Quinis et Octonibus Vocibus, or
G F Handel – Music for the Chapel Royal


I have quite a few of Handel’s Coronation Anthems (I know that’s altogether different), but I am trying to widen my music knowledge.

Never heard of the first two composers. Any pointers or guidance please?

Thanks,

Mario