What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

By way of preparation for next Friday (Opera North, Leeds)

Janáček: Fate (Osud)
Chandos Opera in English: Soloists/WNO Orchestra and Chorus/Mackerras

Sadly it didn't get great opening night reviews, but things might have improved by Friday.

[BBMmk2]

Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43
Symphony No.4 in A minor, Op.63
CBSO/Oramo.

I have had this cycle for sometime now, and have decided to come back to it. Still 5/5, imo.
I have Storgards, Colin Davis(LSO/Live),Berglund(Bournemouth - Warner), and that Decca compilation set of Sibelius recordings.

[pastoralguy]

Brahms. The Violin Sonatas.

Gioconda de Vito, violin.

Edwin Fischer, piano in Sonatas 1 & 3.

Tito Aprea, piano. Sonata 2.

Testament.

I found this in a charity shop this afternoon and paid a pound for it! Still in its plastic wrapping.

History relates that Ida Haendel suffered from being sidelined by de Vito since she was married to David Bicknell who was a senior producer at EMI. Who knows? Very musical playing from de Vito and her two partners.

[Petrushka]

Karajan's First Beethoven Cycle 1951-1955

Beethoven: Symphony No 8*

[interval]

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Choral)**

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Marga Höffgen (contralto)
Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass)
Chor der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan

Recorded in May 1955* and July 1955**

[Stanfordian]

Brahms. The Violin Sonatas.

Gioconda de Vito, violin.

Edwin Fischer, piano in Sonatas 1 & 3.

Tito Aprea, piano. Sonata 2.

Testament.

I found this in a charity shop this afternoon and paid a pound for it! Still in its plastic wrapping.

History relates that Ida Haendel suffered from being sidelined by de Vito since she was married to David Bicknell who was a senior producer at EMI. Who knows? Very musical playing from de Vito and her two partners.

Hiya pastoralguy,

You lucky so an so!

All I can find are the usual Bobby Crush, The Nolans and Spice Girl CDs.

[pastoralguy]

I realise I'm very lucky to live so close to the well heeled area of Morningside in Edinburgh where buying CDs and then handing into charity shops seems so prevalent. I also picked up Perlman's Bruch violin concerto no. 2 coupled with the Scottish Fantasy for a pound as well as Lief Ove Andnes' Beethoven Emperor Concerto for the same sum!

Rich pickings indeed!

[Lat-Literal]

Russia - Part 4:

Composers born between 1934 and 1947:

Tigran Mansurian - Three Night Songs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTwKYzPtws
Alexander Zhurbin - Symphony No 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHjDHyiX4J8
Boris Tischenko - Cello Sonata No 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gvZ_Fo1ng
Nikolai Kapustin - Piano Concerto No 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t00R0AAMSTM

Alexander Knaifel - O Comforter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVBN0YlVrwY
Vladimir Martynov - Come In - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LY-lh0ANpI
Vladislav Shoot - Sad Dream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjuWLyDPdUY
Nikolai Korndorf - Triptych Pt 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLWmrCKF1Wc

Vyacheslav Artyomov - Hymns of Sudden Wafts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHRqa4gB9kA
Valentyn Silvestrov - Liturgical Chants: Litany - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp_VL7G_Oo
Alfred Schnittke - Story of an Unknown Actor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3EuHTOLG8o
Alexander Vustin - The Weeping for Solo Bassoon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyjfVC4_Z_w

[Beef Oven!]

DSCH 8
Nelsons/BSO

[Lat-Literal]

Re post 1657:

Mansuryan was Armenian and a long term opponent of the Soviet Union.

Schnittke, obviously, was a Russian German.

Two other things:

I may have admitted from the two posts on the composers from Ukraine Leonid Hrabovsky, born in 1935.

So here is a clip of him : Hrabovsky - And It Will Be - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KBnChJQFfY

Also, this which in date terms might have been included in Part 3 rather than Part 4 leapt out tonight as an odd combination of nationalism and ethnicity. He was awarded the Honour of Lenin and also named a People's Artist of the USSR. But as a Uyghur from Kazakhstan, he was best known for his Muqam melodies. I found it in places oddly moving.

Kuddus Kuzhamyarov - Symphony No 4 - Taklamakan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndPgILSXAbs

[Stanfordian]

Dvořák
Stabat mater, for four soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op. 58
Erin Wall (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano),
Christian Elsner (tenor), Liang Li (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks,
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Mariss Jansons
Recorde live 2015 Herkulessaal, Munich
BR Klassik

Dvořák
String Quintet, Op. 97
Piano Quintet, Op. 81
Pavel Haas Quartet
with Boris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola)
Recorded 2017 Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague
Supraphon
Impressive new release! Wonderfully performed too!

[BBMmk2]

DSCH 8
Nelsons/BSO

Really beefy? Is that a new recording?

Vaughan Williams
Sinfonia Antartica***; Four las Songs*; Concerto for two Pianos**
***Mari Eriksnioen; .*Roderick Williams **Helen Mercvier, Lous Lortie,(pianos)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis.

Played this on Spotify, recently, I have now the CD!

Stan, what dio you think of the Dvorak recording? IMO, rather good!

[Cockney Sparrow]

I performed the Dvorak Stabat Mater last year.

I rooted around Spotify and Naxos Music Library (NML) and the the Jansons recording and Helmuth Rilling (Oregon Bach Festival Chorus & Orchestra) on Haenssler Classic label were both acceptable performances and recordings (for example the chorus' didn't sound like they were through closed doors). Both available on NML. (In the Jansons, the tenor sound was rather startling on his first entry, but I quickly got used to it). There are no doubt other worthwhile recordings (e.g. on Supraphon).

Enjoyable piece, but towards the end it seems to run out of inspiration at times. However, I haven't bought a CD - content to leave it to the streaming services (particularly as the PDf for the Jansons is available on NML).

[Cockney Sparrow]

One for Stanfordian perhaps - although he is probably aware of it (cf the Vepres Sicilennes - ROH thread) - a new release, on Naxos Music Library.

WAGNER, R.: Opera Scenes for Baritone
Michael Volle
(Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Fritzsch)
Label: Orfeo
Catalogue No.: C904171A

[pastoralguy]

Dvořák[/B]
String Quintet, Op. 97
Piano Quintet, Op. 81
Pavel Haas Quartet
with Boris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola)
Recorded 2017 Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague
Supraphon
Impressive new release! Wonderfully performed too!

That recording is on my Christmas wish list.

[pastoralguy]

Bach. Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.

James Ehnes. (2016 recording).