What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

‘Vienna: Fin de Siècle’ – Barbara Hannigan
Schoenberg
Vier Lieder, Op. 2
Webern
Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Richard Dehmel für Stimme und Klavier (1906-08)
Berg
Sieben frühe Lieder (1907)
Zemlinsky
Aus Lieder, Op. 2, Op. 6 & Op. 7
Alma Mahler
Aus Fünf Lieder (1910)
Aus Vier Lieder (1915)
Wolf
Goethe-Lieder (1888)
Barbara Hannigan & Reinbert de Leeuw
Recorded October 2017 Muziekcentrum van de Omroep, Hilversum, Netherlands
Alpha - Superb new release - One of my records of the year!

Highly recommended by Europadisc, too, who have it on offer at the moment:

https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/138649/Vienna:%20Fin%20de%20siecle.htm?utm_

(The "Europadisc Review" is worth reading, too.)

[Cockney Sparrow]

Searching on the catalogue number, ALPHA393, the Barbara Hannigan recording is in the Naxos Music Library, with a PDF booklet.
(For those not aware of NML, see here : http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-library/page2 )

[Pulcinella]

For whatever reason, ICR now, I'm playing this CD again. What fantastic playing there was. The LSO had a stella brass section then as now and always!

Carrying on with the Previn theme:-

Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem, Op.20; Peter Grimes, Four Sea Interludes, Op.33a; Passacaglia, Op.33b
Holst The Perfect Fool,Op.39 - ballet music; Egdon Heath, Op.47.
London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn.

You don't need a reason to play your second choice here, BBM; it's a great CD.

[BBMmk2]

You don't need a reason to play your second choice here, BBM; it's a great CD.

Absolutley Pulcie. Has there ever been a dud recording he made with the LSO?


Delius Cello Sonata
Walton Passacaglia
Bax Rhapsodic Ballad
Bridge Cello Sonata.
allfisch Duo(Raphael Wallfisch, cello, Peter Wallfisch, piano)

[cloughie]

Absolutley Pulcie. Has there ever been a dud recording he made with the LSO?

Probably not with Previn, but Gergiev’s Mahler didn’t really light my candle!

[pastoralguy]

Frank Martin.

Études for string orchestra.

Concerto for 7 wind instruments, percussion and strings.

L'Orchestra de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet.

Decca.

[BBMmk2]

Probably not with Previn, but Gergiev’s Mahler didn’t really light my candle!

As indeed a few others!

There’s an excellent video on YouTube of Phillip Cobb playing with a German brass group of Joy Webb’s song Share my Yoke.

[Pulcinella]

Two EMI British Composers CDs

Rubbra: Loth to depart
Britten: Violin concerto (original version)
Heming, arr Collins: Threnody for a soldier killed in action
Rubbra: Symphony 5

Theo Olaf/Halle/Barbirolli

Rubbra: Piano concerto (Matthews/BBCSO/Sargent)
Britten: Prelude and fugue for 18-part string orchestra (RPO/Del Mar)
Britten: Piano concerto (revised version) (Abram/Philharmonia/Menges)

The Rubbra piano concerto is crying out for a modern recording (imho).

[BBMmk2]

Two EMI British Composers CDs

Rubbra: Loth to depart
Britten: Violin concerto (original version)
Heming, arr Collins: Threnody for a soldier killed in action
Rubbra: Symphony 5

Theo Olaf/Halle/Barbirolli

Rubbra: Piano concerto (Matthews/BBCSO/Sargent)
Britten: Prelude and fugue for 18-part string orchestra (RPO/Del Mar)
Britten: Piano concerto (revised version) (Abram/Philharmonia/Menges)

The Rubbra piano concerto is crying out for a modern recording (imho).

A pity that didn't happen when Richard Hickox was alive!

Robert Schumann
Symphonies Nos.1-4.
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle.

[Tevot]

Hello there,

Thanks be to the glory of iplayer I am catching up listening to Prom 72 - Britten's War Requiem with the RSNO et al. A fine performance to my ears - beautifully, clearly and intelligently sung - and with Strange Meeting / Let us Sleep Now a gorgeous and beautiful peroration....

Looking forward to hearing Shos 4 and Mahler 3 concerts too.

Best Wishes,

Tevot

https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/m00009n6

[Stanfordian]

Bruckner
Mass No. 2 in E minor for 8-part chorus and wind ensemble, WAB 27
Aequale No. 1 for 3 trombones in C minor, WAB 114
Ave Maria, WAB 6
Christus factus est, WAB 10
Os justi meditabitur sapientiam, WAB 30
Aequale No. 2 for 3 trombones in C minor, WAB 149
Locus iste, WAB 23
Vexilla regis, WAB 51
La Chapelle Royale, Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Ensemble Musique Oblique / Philippe Herreweghe
Recorded 1989
Harmonia Mundi

‘Visions’ – Véronique Gens
Romantic arias from Opera (Saint-Saëns, Niedermeyer, Halévy, Godard, Février), Opéra-Comique (David), Oratorio (Franck, Massenet) and Cantata (Bizet, Bruneau)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester/Hervé Niquet
Recorded 2017, Studio 1, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Alpha Classics

[BBMmk2]

Love that Bruckner CD Stan! Maybe it’s because of the Mass!

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner
Mass No. 2 in E minor for 8-part chorus and wind ensemble, WAB 27
Aequale No. 1 for 3 trombones in C minor, WAB 114
Ave Maria, WAB 6
Christus factus est, WAB 10
Os justi meditabitur sapientiam, WAB 30
Aequale No. 2 for 3 trombones in C minor, WAB 149
Locus iste, WAB 23
Vexilla regis, WAB 51
La Chapelle Royale, Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Ensemble Musique Oblique,Philippe Herreweghe

Thanks to Stan, for reminding me of this marvellous CD.

I seem to remember that Radio Three played a track from this recording?

Rued Langaard
Symphony No.2, 'Vaarbrud(Awakening of Spring), BVN53a
Symphony No.6, 'Die Himmelrivende', BVN165.
Anu Komsi(soprano),Weiner Philharmoniker, Sakari Oramo.

[Pulcinella]

Ravel: L'enfant...../Dutoit
Child a little too mature sounding for my taste, but some wonderful orchestral playing (as expected, given what this Montreal team did with their other Ravel recordings) so I can understand the appeal mentioned on the BaL thread, and will be interested in the reviewer's comments.
I know that l'enfant is a mezzo role, but I would love to hear/see a performance with a young boy treble as l'enfant terrible!

PS: Thanks to BBM for prompting me to see if was available via Deezer for me to listen to through my Sonos set-up!

[BBMmk2]

Ravel: L'enfant...../Dutoit
Child a little too mature sounding for my taste, but some wonderful orchestral playing (as expected, given what this Montreal team did with their other Ravel recordings) so I can understand the appeal mentioned on the BaL thread, and will be interested in the reviewer's comments.
I know that l'enfant is a mezzo role, but I would love to hear/see a performance with a young boy treble as l'enfant terrible!

PS: Thanks to BBM for prompting me to see if was available via Deezer for me to listen to through my Sonos set-up!

Great to hear, Pulcie!

Would a boy's voice be up top that role, Pulcie?

Gustav Holst The Hymn of Jesus, Op.37
Frederick Delius Sea Drift; Cynara.
Roderick Williams(baritone), Halle Youth Choir,
Halle Choir & Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder.