What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

Continuing my recreation of programmes from Towards the Millennium...

1950s

Stravinsky: Agon
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas

Messiaen: Chronochromie
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez

[interval}

Stockhausen: Gruppen
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado, Friedrich Goldman, Marcus Creed

Anyone know why only excerpts of Rattle's Agon seem to have been released?

https://www.amazon.com/Stravinsky-4-CDs-SIMON-RATTLE/dp/B001O5ZNYI

[HighlandDougie]

Miloslav Kabelac.
Symphony #5.

Prague RSO/ Ivanovic.

Me and Beefy have been banging on about this new recording of his symphonies for ages.

With such stellar recommendations, duly ordered - cheap - from mes amis at Clic Musique. Looking forward to hearing the symphonies very much - sounds like a sort of Czech Ruud Langaard with a bit of Per Nørgård chucked in for good measure.

[Stanfordian]

Mozart Arias - Dorothea Röschmann
Arias from Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, concert aria Bella mia fiamma, addio, K. 528
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding
Recorded live 2014, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
Sony

Haydn
Symphony No. 76
Mozart
Serenata notturna, K. 239
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Günter Wand
Recorded 1995 Philharmonie, Berlin
from Edition Günter Wand - Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Vol. 5
Profil

[Bryn]

Continuing my recreation of programmes from Towards the Millennium...

1950s

Stravinsky: Agon
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas

Messiaen: Chronochromie
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez

[interval}

Stockhausen: Gruppen
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado, Friedrich Goldman, Marcus Creed

Great programme in terms of the compositions but my take will be:

1950s

Stravinsky: Agon
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Michael Gielen


Messiaen: Chronochromie
BBCSO
Antal Dorati (GRotC remaster)

[interval}

Stockhausen: Gruppen
CBSO
John Carewe, Daniel Harding, Simon Rattle (from disc 6 of the Leaving Home boxed set of DVDs)

followed by

Schönberg Ensemble, Asko Ensemble, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Reinbert de Leeuw, Oliver Knussen, Robert Spano (surround layer of SACD from the Schönberg Ensemble Edition boxed set)

[Just seen that a copy of the Schönberg Ensemble Edition boxed set is currently available via amazon.co.uk. A snip at £350!]

[BBMmk2]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.1 in D major.
Symphony No.2 in C minor, "Resurrection".
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus(John Alldis - chorus master)
Sir Georg Solti.

Going through this, (yes, MrsBBM bought me this CD!!!) This surely has to be one of the best recordings of Mahler available? Might check out No.3.

[pastoralguy]

Ernest Chausson. Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet. Op.21

Itzhak Perlman, violin.

Jorge Bolet, piano.

The Juilliard String Quartet.

Long, long time since I listened to this cd. I seem to recall I found it in an Oxfam shop in London a long time ago.

[pastoralguy]

Franck. Violin Sonata arr for flute by James Galway. Prokofiev. Flute Sonata in D.

James Galway, flute.

Martha Argerich, piano.

I bought this cd for Mrs. PG who is a big Galway fan. When he had his bad accident all those years ago she made him a 'Get Well' card and was sent a couple of T-Shirts and a charming note by his agent, Michael Emerson.

[teamsaint]

With such stellar recommendations, duly ordered - cheap - from mes amis at Clic Musique. Looking forward to hearing the symphonies very much - sounds like a sort of Czech Ruud Langaard with a bit of Per Nørgård chucked in for good measure.

Hope you enjoy them HD. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

recently, and again tonight:
Petrushka. CBSO/Rattle. (1947 version)

[Pulcinella]

Bernstein
Symphony 1, Jeremiah (Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo)
Symphony 2, The Age of Anxiety (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano)

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop

Bought today, prompted by an email from the local Picturehouse cinema about the new season of ROH Live transmissions, including a Royal Ballet triple bill Bernstein Centenary programme with a revival of The Age of Anxiety, which was one of the best things I've ever seen there.

Any support for a Bernstein thread under Composers?
Would it be hijacked into Bernstein the conductor?

[teamsaint]

Bernstein
Symphony 1, Jeremiah (Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo)
Symphony 2, The Age of Anxiety (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano)

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop

Bought today, prompted by an email from the local Picturehouse cinema about the new season of ROH Live transmissions, including a Royal Ballet triple bill Bernstein Centenary programme with a revival of The Age of Anxiety, which was one of the best things I've ever seen there.

Any support for a Bernstein thread under Composers?
Would it be hijacked into Bernstein the conductor?

Start the thread, and make the rules, Pulcers .

( You could get Kabelac started too.........)

[pastoralguy]

Start the thread, and make the rules, Pulcers .

.)

Go for it!

[Stanfordian]

Kathleen Battle - French Opera Arias
Arias from Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict, Donizetti: La fille du régiment,
Massenet: Manon, Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, Thomas: Hamlet, Mignon,
Offenbach: La Belle Lurette, Charpentier: Louise
Kathleen Battle (soprano)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra Bastille/Myung-Whun Chung
Recorded 1993/94 Salle Gounod, Opéra Bastille, Paris
Deutsche Grammophon

Saint-Saëns - Piano Quartets
Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 41
Piano Quartet in E major, Op. posth
Barcarolle for Piano Quartet, Op. 108
(arranged in 1909 from the Barcarolle for piano, violin, cello and harmonium)
Mozart Piano Quartet
Recorded 2007 (Quartets) & 2008 (Barcarolle) Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei, Marienmünster, Germany
MDG Gold

[Pulcinella]

Start the thread, and make the rules, Pulcers .

Go for it!

Will do; just need a bit of time to collect some thoughts for an initial post.
Bright blue skies here at long last, so too nice a day to be chained to my devices!

[BBMmk2]

Vaughan Williams
The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Mark Babbington Rebeca Ormordo.

This is truly a sublime RVW disc.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Vaughan Williams
The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Mark Babbington Rebeca Ormordo.

This is truly a sublime RVW disc.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Piano-Music-Ralph-Vaughan-Williams/dp/B01NALGLYL

("Bebbington" and "Rebecca Ormordia" to be sublimely accurate )