What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

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

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

thank you Ferney. A very enjoyable recording this. The playing was quite breathtaking.

[Pulcinella]

8.30 Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits

Rachel Kelly (mezzo)
Neal Davies (bass)
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor).

Live on R3, before the watershed.

Disgusted of Norwich, 1936

[EdgeleyRob]

8.30 Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits

Rachel Kelly (mezzo)
Neal Davies (bass)
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor).

Live on R3, before the watershed.

Disgusted of Norwich, 1936

How was the performance Pulcie ?
I will have to catch up when I return home next week.
It seems John Wilson is yer man for RVW currently.
Chance to hear another rarely programmed big British choral work live on the wireless this coming Friday (again I player for me)

Bliss - The Beatitudes

How much rehearsal time does the flipping War Requiem need ?

Naffed off Arthur

Coventry,1962

[Pulcinella]

How was the performance Pulcie ?
I will have to catch up when I return home next week.
It seems John Wilson is yer man for RVW currently.
Chance to hear another rarely programmed big British choral work live on the wireless this coming Friday (again I player for me)

Bliss - The Beatitudes

How much rehearsal time does the flipping War Requiem need ?

Naffed off Arthur

Coventry,1962

A little too refined, I thought, but good to see it programmed.
Mind you, when I sang it with the choral society I used to be in before moving to York, the ladies in the chorus were a bit refined then, too, but at least we had a 'drunken' soloist stumbling down the aisle of the church, to the amusement of the chorus (facing her) and bemusement of some of the audience!
It's iPlayer Beatitudes for me too, as I'll be out Friday night.

[EdgeleyRob]

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

This is truly a sublime RVW disc.

[EdgeleyRob]

A little too refined, I thought, but good to see it programmed.
Mind you, when I sang it with the choral society I used to be in before moving to York, the ladies in the chorus were a bit refined then, too, but at least we had a 'drunken' soloist stumbling down the aisle of the church, to the amusement of the chorus (facing her) and bemusement of some of the audience!
It's iPlayer Beatitudes for me too, as I'll be out Friday night.

[BBMmk2]

8.30 Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits

Rachel Kelly (mezzo)
Neal Davies (bass)
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor).

Live on R3, before the watershed.

Disgusted of Norwich, 1936

It felt I was in heaven last night! I am glad JW is promoting Bax's music, albeit, his favourite orchestral score. I know why too, because of what he said before it was played. I think my favourite has to be his Spring Fire. So atmospheric.

I am looking to the concert on Friday, I think, with Bliss's Beatitudes being played.

[Stanfordian]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10
Dresdner Philharmonie/Michael Sanderling
Recorded 2015 (Beethoven) & 2016 (Shostakovich) Lukaskirche, Dresden
Sony

‘Delirio’ - Handel - Natalie Dessay
Italian Cantatas
Delirio Amoroso, HWV 99
Qui l'Auge da Pianta in Pianta from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72
Mil Palpita il Cor, HWV 132b
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Le Concert d'Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
Recorded 2005 Couvent des Dominicains de Haute-Alsace, Guebwiller & Église du Bon Secours, Paris
Virgin Classics

[BBMmk2]

Sir Arnold Bax
Sonata for two pianos; Red Autumn; Hardanger;
The Poisoned Fountain; The Devil that Tempted St Anthony;
Molly Mell, "The pleasant plain, an Irish Tone Poem".
Jeremy Brown, Seta Tanyel(pianos).

A good companion to the RVW recording, imo.

[pastoralguy]

Ravel. The Piano Concertos

Yuja Wang, piano.

Zurich Tonhalle-Orchestra.

Lionel Bringuier, conductor.

[Stanfordian]

'Exiles' - Ophélie Gaillard
Bloch
Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra
Korngold
Concerto in one movement for cello and orchestra
Tanzlied des Pierrot, op. 12, Pierrot’s aria from opera Die tote Stadt
Orchestre Philharmonique Monte-Carlo/James Judd
Prokofiev
Overture on Jewish Themes, Op. 34
Recorded 2015 Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco
Bloch
From Jewish Life
Traditional
Wedding Dance
Chava Alberstein
Sarah Sings a Lullaby to Little Isaac
Freilechs (Trad) Sim Shalom, (Paikov Yeshayahu), Azoy Tantzmen in Odessa (trad)
Ophélie Gaillard (cello)
Sirba Octet Members
Recorded 2015 Notre Dame du Liban, Paris
Aparte

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

[visualnickmos]

This morning, while preparing artwork for an exhibition,

Debussy
Preludes, Martino Tirimo

Webern
Das Augenlicht op 26
Variationen op 27
Streichquartett op 28
Kantate Nr 2 op 31
Fünf Sätze (orch. version) op 5
Bach/Webern Fuga (Ricercata) Nr 2
Schubert "Deutsche Tänze" (orch. version: Webern)

[Beef Oven!]

This morning, while preparing artwork for an exhibition,

Debussy
Preludes, Martino Tirimo

Webern
Das Augenlicht op 26
Variationen op 27
Streichquartett op 28
Kantate Nr 2 op 31
Fünf Sätze (orch. version) op 5
Bach/Webern Fuga (Ricercata) Nr 2
Schubert "Deutsche Tänze" (orch. version: Webern)

Great stuff!

Coincidentally, I bought the Tirimo Debussy CDs as they came out and really like them.

[visualnickmos]

Great stuff!

Coincidentally, I bought the Tirimo Debussy CDs as they came out and really like them.

Thanks They are a marvellous Debussy traversal, indeed. Tirimo's Brahms PCs are pretty fine renditions, too...

Intrestingly, it is very rare for the type/make/age of the piano to be stated on solo piano recordings, and yet the huge range and variations of piano 'sound' is quite staggering, and it would be nice to know exactly what instrument was used.... just a thought...

[Beef Oven!]

Thanks They are a marvellous Debussy traversal, indeed. Tirimo's Brahms PCs are pretty fine renditions, too...

Intrestingly, it is very rare for the type/make/age of the piano to be stated on solo piano recordings, and yet the huge range and variations of piano 'sound' is quite staggering, and it would be nice to know exactly what instrument was used.... just a thought...

I wouldn’t know the difference between a Steinway and pork pie