What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Master Jacques]

More Honegger this morning for me:
Concerto da camera for flute, cor anglais and strings
Aurèle Nicolet, Heinz Holliger, ASMF, Neville Marriner
(Philips 434 105-2)

A delicate, sweetly melancholic late work (15') which should appeal to anyone who loves (say) RVW's oboe concerto.

[Joseph K]

Beethoven's 8th, LSO/Haitink.

Joyful, riotous, and an infectious kind of excitement and playfulness.

[teamsaint]

Telemann Suite in D major TWV 55
Kamerata Koln.

Which is really very good.

[Pulcinella]

More Honegger this morning for me:
Concerto da camera for flute, cor anglais and strings
Aurèle Nicolet, Heinz Holliger, ASMF, Neville Marriner
(Philips 434 105-2)

A delicate, sweetly melancholic late work (15') which should appeal to anyone who loves (say) RVW's oboe concerto.

It too is on the 2CD set I've been listening to (though the cor anglais is neither mentioned in the title nor credited, though listed on the Presto site):

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7997902--honegger-orchestral-works

Just downloading it on Apple Music .Doubtless a good recommendation !

Hope you like it (cello concerto!).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Schreker: Die Gezeichneten ("The Stigmatised"-ish: "Branded", "Marked apart" ... ) a largely unknown (to me) cast, apart from Elizabeth Connell*/DSOBerlin/Zagrosek.

A slightly-less bonkers story than that of the composer's more familiar Ferne Klang - but, boy were these guys terrified by women! Superb Music, though - really enjoying this.

(* - a then 26-year-old Matthias Goerne also features in this 1993-94 recording, but he has only about a couple of minutes' worth of material to contribute.)

[Pulcinella]

Brahms: Piano concerto 2
Tirimo/LPO/Levi
Gilels/BPO/Jochum
Serkin/Cleveland O/Szell
Challenged on the BaL thread to choose one: for me, as I suspected, it's the Serkin.

[Master Jacques]

It too is on the 2CD set I've been listening to (though the cor anglais is neither mentioned in the title nor credited, though listed on the Presto site):
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...chestral-works

Yes indeed - curiously rude of Warner Classics. Thanks to you and Presto for putting the record straight.

It's a good performance also, one of the best on this Plasson album for me. And I wonder if anyone here can tell me whether Plasson's excellent cor anglais player (Anthony Camden, d.2006) was a relation of the great bassoonist Archie Camden?

[Pulcinella]

Yes indeed - curiously rude of Warner Classics. Thanks to you and Presto for putting the record straight.

It's a good performance also, one of the best on this Plasson album for me. And I wonder if anyone here can tell me whether Plasson's excellent cor anglais player (Anthony Camden, d.2006) was a relation of the great bassoonist Archie Camden?

The orchestra here is the English Sinfonia, conducted by Neville Dilkes, mon ami, not Plasson.

[pastoralguy]

Beethoven. Violin Concerto. Op.61

Igor Oistrakh, violin.

The Pro Arte Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Schüster. An EMI recording from 1959. Transcribed from an original Lp to cd.

[Serial_Apologist]

This little piece - one of the last ever compositions by its composer - came up on TTN last Tuesday night, and I was knocked out by it - some of the harmonies are so anticipatory of early Messiaen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnnEiBb7Dyg

Hearing it blindfold and for the first time, I was completely unaware of the existence of this piece, and initially flummoxed as to who the composer could be.

[Master Jacques]

The orchestra here is the English Sinfonia, conducted by Neville Dilkes, mon ami, not Plasson.

I'm as bad as Warner!

[BBMmk2]

The Music of Frank Ticheli Vol.3:
Angels in the Architecture
Wild Nights!; Sanctuary; Joy;
Joy Revisited; Angels the Architecture
Nitro.
University of Texas El Paso Symphonic Winds
Ron Hudstader, Conductor.

Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines
Mountbatten Festival of Music
A playlist on Spotify by yours truly. This year’s festival is onfrom yesterday till tonight!,

[Stanfordian]

‘Tragédiennes 3: Les Héroïnes Romantiques’ - Véronique Gens
Opera arias by Méhul, Kreutzer, Salieri, Gluck, Gossec, Meyerbeer, Mermet, Berlioz,
Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Verdi
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset
Recorded 2011, Ircam, Paris
Virgin Classics

Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 2
Adagio appassionato, Op. 57
Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
Violin Concerto No. 3
Serenade for violin and orchestra, Op. 75
In Memoriam, Op. 65
Antje Weithaas (violin)
NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover/Hermann Bäumer
Recorded 2013/15 NDR Radiophilharmonie im Großen Sendesaal, Hannover, Germany
CPO - works taken from volumes 1, 2 & 3.

[pastoralguy]

Mozart. Piano concertos 21 in C & 23 in A.

Simone Dinnerstein, piano.

Havana Lyceum Orchestra, Cuba conducted by José Antonio Méndez Padrón. SONY. Very fine playing from all concerned, imho. A rather sniffy review in Gramophone.

[BBMmk2]

Brahms: Piano concerto 2
Tirimo/LPO/Levi
Gilels/BPO/Jochum
Serkin/Cleveland O/Szell
Challenged on the BaL thread to choose one: for me, as I suspected, it's the Serkin.

I still have a penchant for the Gilels, BPO, Jochum.