What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[teamsaint]

This evening

Krzysztof Meyer

Cello Sonatas

Evva Mizerska,Emma Abbate,Katarzyna Glensk

Dvorak,Schumann

Cello Concertos

Jacqueline Du Pre,Chicago Symphony and New Philharmonia Orchestras,Daniel Barenboim

Is the Meyer CD a recommend, ER?

[gradus]

Mother Goose suite RPO under Dutoit live from RFH. Just exquisite.

[pastoralguy]

Continuing our Haydn cycle on Period Instruments. Now onto symphonies 81 - 83.

[EdgeleyRob]

Is the Meyer CD a recommend, ER?

Most certainly ts although I'm not sure if these works are quite as strong as the string quartets.
It's on Toccata Classics and is in the Naxos library.

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/Nov09/Meyer_TOCC0098.htm

[teamsaint]

Most certainly ts although I'm not sure if these works are quite as strong as the string quartets.
It's on Toccata Classics and is in the Naxos library.

http://www.musicweb-international.co...r_TOCC0098.htm

Cheers ER, on my playlist.

[BBMmk2]

Smetana:
My Country.

Suk
Summer Tale, Op.29
Fantastic Scherzo, Op.35

Czech PO, Sir Charles Mackerras

Janacek Sinfonitetta.

Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras.

Witold Lutoslawski
Concerto for Piano & Orchestra*; Symphony No.2.
*Krystian Zimmerman(piano), Berliner Philharmoniker,
Sir Simon Rattle.

[BBMmk2]

Butterworth:
A Shropshire Lad
Bredon Hill
Benjamin Luxon, David Wilson(piano).

A Shropshire lad - Rhapsody; Two Idylls;
The Banks of Green Willow.
Academy of St Martin in the Fields,
Sir Neville Marriner.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Benjamin Luxon, I'm collecting his recordings, I'm glad there are a good quantity from the time he was in his prime......

[Petrushka]

Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges
Magdalena Kozena, Annick Massis, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sophie Koch
Jose van Dam, Francois Le Roux, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Mojca Erdmann
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle

Played this CD tonight for the first time and what a wonderful and moving piece it is. In something of another first, I didn't have much trouble in following the French libretto either. A lovely way to spend a Friday night. The Amazon reviewers of this disc have it spot on so if you don't know it you need to make amends!

[Stanfordian]

Verdi
‘Un ballo in maschera’ – melodramma in three acts
Riccardo – Piotr Beczała, Renato – George Petean, Amelia – Anja Harteros, Ulrica – Okka von der Damerau, Oscar – Sofia Fomina, Silvano – Andrea Borghini, Samuel – Anatoli Sivko, Tom – Scott Conner, A Judge – Ulrich Reß, Amelia’s servant – Joshua Owen Mills
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Bayerischen Staatsorchester/Zubin Mehta
Stage Director – Johannes Erath
Recorded 2016 Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater, Munich
C Major Blu-ray

[Stanley Stewart]

[QUOTE=Petrushka;616829]Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges
Magdalena Kozena, Annick Massis, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sophie Koch
Jose van Dam, Francois Le Roux, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Mojca Erdmann
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle

Happy memories, Pet, of CBSO/Rattle platform performance of Ravel's,'sortileges' at the QEH, early 80s - Sir Simon almost convinced that he lost the will to live after half-an-hour rehearsing at the RFH!; Maria Ewing in sparkling form. The programme complemented by a performance of La Voix humaine; the great Elisabeth Soderstrom deeply moving in Poulenc's telephone monologue

[teamsaint]

Tallis.
Motets and Mass for Four Voices.
OXford Camerata/ Summerly.

Available in this 3 CD set,which at £2.30 used must be one of the best bargains you could hope to buy.
Extraordinary music, beautifully performed.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/qqj/Renaissance-Choral-Treasures-Various-Artists/B0000272FP/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1492889951&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=Renaissance+choral+treasures+oxford+camerata

[Stanfordian]

Howells
Stabat Mater
Te Deum
Sine nomine
Benjamin Hulett (tenor); Alison Hill (soprano)
The Bach Choir
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/David Hill
Recorded 2013 Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset,
Naxos

Howells
Fantasy String Quartet
String Quartet (No. 3) ‘In Gloucestershire’
Delius
String Quartet
Britten Quartet
Recorded 1995 Brandon Hill, Bristol
EMI Classics

[Pulcinella]

Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges
Magdalena Kozena, Annick Massis, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sophie Koch
Jose van Dam, Francois Le Roux, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Mojca Erdmann
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle

Played this CD tonight for the first time and what a wonderful and moving piece it is. In something of another first, I didn't have much trouble in following the French libretto either. A lovely way to spend a Friday night. The Amazon reviewers of this disc have it spot on so if you don't know it you need to make amends!

One of my very favourite works, but......

I've never found the voice/singer for the role of l'enfant to sound young enough (I have the classic Maazel, Ansermet, and Previn EMI recordings), and would be interested to hear how Mrs Rattle III copes with the role.
Looking forward to the Opera North production in October.

[BBMmk2]

Howells
Stabat Mater
Te Deum
Sine nomine
Benjamin Hulett (tenor); Alison Hill (soprano)
The Bach Choir
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/David Hill
Recorded 2013 Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset,
Naxos

Howells
Fantasy String Quartet
String Quartet (No. 3) ‘In Gloucestershire’
Delius
String Quartet
Britten Quartet
Recorded 1995 Brandon Hill, Bristol
EMI Classics

A fabulous programme there Stan! I might play some British choral music today.

Vaughan Williams A lark Ascending. Nigel Kennedy, CBSO, Rattle.
Dona Nobis Pacem. Christina Pier, Matthew Brock,
The Bach Choir, Bournemouth SO, David Hill.