What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Wagner Love Duets.
Debora Voigt, Placido Domingo,
ROPCG Orchestra, Antonio Pappano.

Oh my! This is one recording of it's kind, not to be without!!!

[Stanfordian]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 6 in A major (1881 version: edition Robert Haas 1935)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Bernard Haitink
Recorded Live May 2017, Philharmonie, Munich
BR Klassik

Thomas Quasthoff - A Romantic Songbook
Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Loewe & Richard Strauss
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) & Justus Zeyen (piano)
Recorded 2003 Bavaria Studios, Munich
Deutsche Grammophon

[pastoralguy]

A recital from the 1960 Edinburgh International Festival that features Isaac Stern and Myra Hess.

Music by Brahms, Schubert, Howard Ferguson and Beethoven.

Rather date sound originating from a BBC Broadcast.

Testament Label.

[Petrushka]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 6 in A major (1881 version: edition Robert Haas 1935)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Bernard Haitink
Recorded Live May 2017, Philharmonie, Munich
BR Klassik

Already on my Christmas wish list!

[Joseph K]

Beethoven - sonatas 9 & 10, played by Daniel Barenboim.

[Stanfordian]

Anne Akiko Meyers – ‘Fantasia’
Rautavara
Fantasia, for violin and orchestra
Szymanowski
Violin Concerto No. 1
Ravel
Tzigane
Anne Akiko Meyers (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Kristjan Järvi
Recorded 2016 Air Studios, London
Avie – New release

Marianne Crebassa – ‘Secrets’
French Songs from Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Say & Duparc
Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano) & Fazil Say (piano)
Recorded 2017 Großer Saal Mozarteum, Salzburg
Erato - New release

[Joseph K]

Scriabin - sonata no. 8, played by Roberto Szidon.

Absolutely incredible, some of my favourite music ever.

[teamsaint]

Scriabin - sonata no. 8, played by Roberto Szidon.

Absolutely incredible, some of my favourite music ever.

There was a reasonably cheap set of these , used on Amazon Market place , so I have given myself a little holiday treat.
Incidentally, the Voldos #7 is available with score on youtube. Very well worth a watch, and a huge help .

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-riazUvJE

Currently : Tippett Symphony #4 BBCSO / Tippett.

A work I am enjoying more as time goes on.

[Joseph K]

There was a reasonably cheap set of these , used on Amazon Market place , so I have given myself a little holiday treat.
Incidentally, the Voldos #7 is available with score on youtube. Very well worth a watch, and a huge help .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-riazUvJE

You won't regret it!

avec une céleste volupté - yes!

[HighlandDougie]

Incidentally, the Voldos #7 is available with score on youtube. Very well worth a watch, and a huge help .


Currently : Tippett Symphony #4 BBCSO / Tippett.

A work I am enjoying more as time goes on.

It was that Arcadi Volodos performance of the 7th (from 'Volodos in Vienna'), which really made me sit up, listen and then explore Scriabin's piano music more deeply. The Szidon set (also found on Am Mktplace) is almost hors concours - and there is another set by Anatol Ugorski, which I have - but the Volodos is, simply, a stunning performance of an extraordinary piece of music.

Almost as extraordinary as Tippett's Fourth Symphony! My favourite performance is the off-air recording of Andrew Davies and the BBC SO kindly supplied by a fellow-forumista. Me:

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

Ensemble Signal/Brad Lubman

My favourite among a number of performances gracing my shelves

[BBMmk2]

Black Band
Great bandstand classics

[Lat-Literal]

Communism did for Bulgarian composer, pianist and architect Dimitar Nenov (1901-1953). From 1944, this educated, well-travelled polymath with a dangerously aristocratic lineage was effectively silenced, his music condemned as “influenced by western modernism” and many of his scores burnt and recordings destroyed. High time for a big revival, I think:

Dimitar Nenov:

5 Miniatures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYMVweqHlMY

Four Sketches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEAdXsmfjgk

[Lat-Literal]

My other selections of the day are two pieces by Enescu which I think are better than the often played Rhapsodies - Vox Maris is also very good - and two by Alexandre Tansman who when not producing some good things for the guitar and symphonies that are simultaneously too light and too dense did a mean Lamb-Joplin-Schulhoff-Jezek-Newman thang:

George Enescu:

Romanian Poeme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTnXnib2iEA

Voix de la Nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k2TjER1yHc

Alexandre Tansman:

Trois Preludes en forme de Blues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Rw4WiuNXA

Piano Sonatina - Transatlantique - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7jgdWX7dA4

[Joseph K]

Louis Andriessen - De Staat.

Not sure how much longer though... not really my cup of tea.

[Beef Oven!]

Louis Andriessen - De Staat.

Not sure how much longer though... not really my cup of tea.

I love this work!