What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique.
Orchestre National de l’ORTF Fance, Jean Martinon.

[Bryn]

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique.
Orchestre National de l’ORTF Fance, Jean Martinon.

Many happy returns (to their Lelio, that is). It's a step up from their SF.

[Joseph K]

The Boulez Domaine Musical boxed set just arrived: now spinning - Stockhausen - Kontra-punkte.

[BBMmk2]

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique.
Orchestre National de l’ORTF Fance, Jean Martinon.

Berlioz
Lélio, Op.14b
Jean Topart(narrator), Charles Burles,
Nicolai Gedda(tenors), Jean Van Gorp(baritone),
MarieClaire Jamet(harp), Michel Sendrez(piano)
Choeurs et Orchestre de l’ORTF
Jean Martinon.

Szymanowski
Violin Concertos
Nos.1 & 2
Karlowicz
Violin Concerto in A major, Op.8
Tasmin Little, (Violin),
BBC SO, Edward Gardner.

[teamsaint]

Any old stuff, as we are decorating .......

Oh yes, and the car CD/ Navigation/ things I have no idea what they are system has packed up, and the dealer can’t book me an appointmentt for A MONTH !!!!!!

[Petrushka]

Mozart:: Piano Concerto No 20
Rudolf Firkusny (piano)

[interval]

Bruckner: Symphony No 6

Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Günter Wand

[Bryn]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto Op. 73 (Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Cristofori).

Pianoforte by Johann Fritz, built between 1807 and 1810, with an orchestra comprising 2 violins, 2 violas (divided), 2 cellos (divided). double bass, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets and timpani. The orchestra's complement of 20 players determined by the size of the small hall used for the concerto's first performance.

A little too slow in the Adagio un poco moto, perhaps, but how wonderfully different it sounds with the original complement.

[Stanfordian]

Vaughan Williams
Five Mystical Songs
John Shirley-Quirke (baritone)
O clap your hands
Choir of King’s College Cambridge
ECO/Sir David Willcocks
Recorded 1966
Holst
A Choral Fantasia
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo)
Psalm 86
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Purcell Singers
ECO/Imogen Holst
Recorded 1963
Finzi
Dies Natalis
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
ECO/Christopher Finzi
Recorded 1963
EMI Classics - Classic recording - A single CD too.


Mozart - Complete Piano Sonatas, vol. 1
Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K. 332
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat major, K. 281
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331
Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 570
Jean Muller (piano)
Recorded 2016/17 Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg
Hänssler Classic - new release

[BBMmk2]

Vaughan Williams
Five Mystical Songs
John Shirley-Quirke (baritone)
O clap your hands
Choir of King’s College Cambridge
ECO/Sir David Willcocks
Recorded 1966
Holst
A Choral Fantasia
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo)
Psalm 86
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Purcell Singers
ECO/Imogen Holst
Recorded 1963
Finzi
Dies Natalis
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
ECO/Christopher Finzi
Recorded 1963
EMI - Classic recording

What a wonderful listening session this must’ve been!

Witold Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works
Symphony No.3; Chain 3; Concerto for Orchestra
BBCSO, Edward Gardner.
Szymanowski
Harnasie; Stabat Mater
Lucy Crowe(soprano), Pamela Helen Stepheson(mezzo-soprano)
Robert Mureay(tenor), Gabor retz(baritone)
BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner.

[Joseph K]

Boulez - Rituel - BBCSO/Boulez

I think this is the recording I'll reach for in the future when I want to hear this piece again.

[BBMmk2]

Look what MrsBBM bought me:-

CD1

Bernard Haitink Portrait
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Genia Kühmeir(soprano), Elisabeth Kulman(mezzo-soprano)
Mark Padmore(tenor) Hanno Müller-Brachman (Bass-baritone)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bruckner
Symphony No.5 in Bb major
(1875-1878 Edition Nowak)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink

[Petrushka]

Hindemith: Konzertmusik for strings and brass 'Bostoner Sinfonie'

[interval]

Bruckner: Symphony No 7

Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Günter Wand

[Stanfordian]

Vaughan Williams
A Sea Symphony (1903/09, rev. 1923)
Katherine Broderick (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Schola Cantorum, Ad Solem
Hallé Choir & Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder
Recorded Live March 2014 & rehearsal, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Hallé own label

‘Private Passions’: Piano Music by Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen
Bax
Sonata in E flat major (1921)
In the Night (Passacaglia) (1914)
Four Pieces (1947)
Legend (1935)
Harriet Cohen
Russian Impressions (1913)
Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded 2017 CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Somm

[BBMmk2]

Hi Stan, I really must explore more recordings by the pianist Mark Bebbington, he is doing a lot for British piano music.

[Joseph K]

Richard Barrett - Politeia, score follower on youtube.

I especially like the pleasingly raucous section beginning at 6:14.