What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

I will be interested to see your reaction on receiving it. The content may not quite match the artwork's listing.

Are you going to give me a clue?
Here's a review that suggests otherwise, surely?

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/jan02/Martinu_ArteNova.htm

[Bryn]

I hadn't seen that before! I can't find it on Qobuz either, that's a shame.

Eh? https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/ma.../0743218623622

[Richard Barrett]

Eh? https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/ma.../0743218623622

Eh? indeed - it doesn't turn up on the Qobuz app under any of the composers, or the conductor, or the orchestra, or the label. Not where I am anyway (which is in Germany as far as Qobuz is concerned).

[jayne lee wilson]

Said it before, I'll say it again.... the classic Honegger 4th is the ORTF/Munch, and the loveliest refresh is the Suisse Romande/Luisi... in idiomatic beauty and intensity they get you further into the essence of the music, than the Dutoit or Baudo offerings (good though they both are, latter especially in the symphonies generally & outstanding in 2 & 5, if bested by the mono Munch...).
I do think a French orchestra makes a difference here. There's a lovely coupling of Honegger 4/Dutilleux 2 with Munch on Erato (Lamoureux/ORTF), CD maybe rare/expensive now...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphonie-No-Metaboles-Munch/dp/B0000AKQHD/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1552511180&sr=8-4&keywords=honegger+munch+erato

(The Apex issue with the Metaboles and the earlier Erato c/w Roussel have the same Honegger 4th recording, but I haven't heard them for SQ...)

(I have the Arte Nova CD as Bryn lists on Qobuz.... well, it's OK, but for the Honegger see above.. Honegger Symphonies are - very different from each other, difficult to get just right...the 4th is a delicate, exquisite flower really, with a gaudy dance at the end...a challenge in performance...)

[Bryn]

Are you going to give me a clue?

I have the series in an earlier version of the artwork. I forget, right now, which works were misattributed. I will have to search the discs out. They may have corrected the errors in your version. I seem to recall a Martinu work being attributed to Tippett but will check though it may take some time. The discs have been stored away in unlabeled stackable plastic boxes/bins holding around 40 CDs on jewel cases each.

[Bryn]

Eh? indeed - it doesn't turn up on the Qobuz app under any of the composers, or the conductor, or the orchestra, or the label. Not where I am anyway (which is in Germany as far as Qobuz is concerned).

I simply Googled "QOBUZ Hogwood Martinu". Searching within QOBUZ can be as unrewarding as searching within the BBC site using their own engine.

[Pulcinella]

Said it before, I'll say it again.... the classic Honegger 4th is the ORTF/Munch, and the loveliest refresh is the Suisse Romande/Luisi... in idiomatic beauty and intensity they get you further into the essence of the music, than the Dutoit or Baudo offerings (good though they both are, latter especially in the symphonies generally & outstanding in some...).
I do think a French orchestra makes a difference here. There's a lovely coupling of Hongger 4/Dutilleux 2 with Munch on Erato (Lamoureux/ORTF), CD maybe rare/expensive now...

As well as the Dutoit I have a Toulouse/Plasson version of number 4: do you rate that, jayne?

[Pulcinella]

I have the series in an earlier version of the artwork. I forget, right now, which works were misattributed. I will have to search the discs out. They may have corrected the errors in your version. I seem to recall a Martinu work being attributed to Tippett but will check though it may take some time. The discs have been stored away in unlabeled stackable plastic boxes/bins holding around 40 CDs on jewel cases each.

There is some Tippett on Volume 2 of the series, mentioned in my post #6916.
Maybe early releases got the works mixed up?

[Richard Barrett]

I simply Googled "QOBUZ Hogwood Martinu". Searching within QOBUZ can be as unrewarding as searching within the BBC site using their own engine.

Well, it isn't available at German Qobuz, that's for sure.

[Stanfordian]

‘Néère’ – Véronique Gens
French Song Recital – Hahn, Duparc & Chausson
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Susan Manoff (piano)
Recorded 2015 Studio Teldex, Berlin
Alpha Classics

Onslow
String Quartet No. 28 in E, op. 54
String Quartet No. 29 in D minor, op. 55
String Quartet No. 30 in C minor, op.56
Diotima Quartet
Recorded 2009, MC2, Grenoble, France
Naïve

[Joseph K]

Berio - Ritorno degli snovidenia - Ensemble Intercontemporian/Boulez

… Chemins II, Chemins IV, Corale and "Points on the curve to find" await me... I am finding Ritorno really excellent.

[BBMmk2]

Arnold for Band
Four Scottish Dances, Op.59; Overseas, Op.70
Water Music, Op.82; The Padstow Lifeboat, Op.94
Little Suite No.2, Op.92; Fanfare for Louis 1970
English Dances Book 1, Op.27
HRH The Duke of Cambridge, Op.60
Dallas Wind Symphony
Jerry Junkin

Lincolnshire Posy
Music for Band by Percy Grainger
Dallas Wind Symphony
Jerry Junkin

[Richard Barrett]

Berio - Ritorno degli snovidenia - Ensemble Intercontemporian/Boulez

… Chemins II, Chemins IV, Corale and "Points on the curve to find" await me... I am finding Ritorno really excellent.

That's a fine collection of works - although Ritorno is a beautiful piece, for me it's the least interesting of them. Points is one of my very favourite Berio pieces. (It's also contained within Concerto II - Echoing Curves which is a more extended piece with full orchestra, that's well worth hearing too.)

[Joseph K]

That's a fine collection of works - although Ritorno is a beautiful piece, for me it's the least interesting of them. Points is one of my very favourite Berio pieces. (It's also contained within Concerto II - Echoing Curves which is a more extended piece with full orchestra, that's well worth hearing too.)

It's become clear to me the influence of Berio on Boulez (and perhaps vice versa). I am pleased to have discovered these works - I know I'll want to return to them and explore more Berio… at some point I'd like to learn the guitar Sequenza.

[Richard Barrett]

It's become clear to me the influence of Berio on Boulez (and perhaps vice versa). I am pleased to have discovered these works - I know I'll want to return to them and explore more Berio… at some point I'd like to learn the guitar Sequenza.

That's one of the more interesting ones I think (there's also Chemins V which adds a chamber orchestra to it, very nice). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_rynz9FN0 Some other works I particularly like: Coro, Concerto for two pianos, Sinfonia of course, all the others in the Chemins series...