What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

‘L’Alessandro amante’ - Xavier Sabata
Opera arias from Bononcini, Handel, Prescetti, Steffani, Dhaghi, Mancini, Vinci, Leo, Porpora
Xavier Sabata (countertenor)
Vespres d’Arnadí / Dani Espasa (direction / harpsichord)
Recorded 2018 Little Tribeca à L'Auditori Axa, Barcelona
Aparté

Franck
String Quartet in D major
Chausson
Chanson perpétuelle, for mezzo-soprano, piano & string quartet
Quatuor Zaïde
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Jonas Vitaud (piano)
Recorded 2017, Salle de concert Arsenal, Metz, France
NoMadMusic

[Joseph K]

According to the Lemoine biog, yes....

https://www.henry-lemoine.com/en/compositeurs/fiche/marc-andre-dalbavie

But the new album is of recent works, which feel far more continuously eventful and developmental... with the two wind concerti the Boulez works around Dérive and Explosante-fixe come to mind a bit, that sense of bubbling flowing inventiveness with calmer episodes, always moving, not easily categorisable.... I find this very appealing...

As do I. I might just have to buy this CD...

[Hitch]

Rachmaninoff - Piano Sonata No.2 in B-Flat Minor.

Van Cliburn (piano)
Audience (coughing)

Van Cliburn - My Favourite Rachmaninoff (RCA/Sony)

Notable for Van Cliburn's ability to stay calm while a dedicated cougher syncopates with almost every Rachmaninoff rest. VC's playing is titanic. Piano tuners owe so much of their livelihood to the damage this piece wreaks on innocent instruments.

[Stanfordian]

Piotr Beczala - 'Slavic Opera Arias'
Arensky, Borodin, Dvorák, Moniuszko, Nowowiejski,
Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Żeleński
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Łukasz Borowicz
Recorded 2009 Witold Lutosławski Concert, Warsaw
Orfeo

Kabalevsky
Cello Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 77
Novelette, for cello and piano, Op. 27/25
Prokofiev
Cello Sonata, Op. 119
Waltz, from The Stone Flower (arranged for cello and piano by Petr Limonov)
March, from The Love for Three Oranges (arranged for cello and piano by Petr Limonov)
Adagio, from Cinderella (arranged for cello and piano by Rostropovich)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Alexei Grynyuk (Sonata), Petr Limonov (Novelette, Waltz, March, Adagio), pianos
Recorded 2012 Potton Hall, Suffolk & 2014 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Onyx

[Hitch]

Chopin - Variations in A Major, Souvenir de Paganini, Op. Posth. B.37.

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Chopin Complete Edition, DG.

This piece would have never seen the light of day if Chopin's posthumous wishes had been obeyed. What a loss to music that would have been. It was eventually published in 1881, some thirty years after Chopin's death. Based on Paganini's Il Carnevale di Venezia, Op.10, it is four minutes of gentle charm and humour. Never has a piano sounded more like a violin - unless one counts compositions for prepared piano...

[Pianorak]

Schumann: Dichterliebe

Lawrence Brownlee (tenor)
Iain Burnside (piano)

R3 - 11:00 today Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.

[Pulcinella]

Arrived in this morning's post:

Britten
Piano concerto (with both versions of the third movement)
Young Apollo
Diversions

Osborne/BBCSSO/Volkov

Did I need another recording of the PC to supplement those I already had (Abram, Richter, MacGregor, Andsnes)?
Of course not.
But am I enjoying it and would I recommend it?
Yes: most definitely.

[Stanfordian]

Arrived in this morning's post:

Britten
Piano concerto (with both versions of the third movement)
Young Apollo
Diversions

Osborne/BBCSSO/Volkov

Did I need another recording of the PC to supplement those I already had (Abrams, Richter, MacGregor, Andsnes)?
Of course not.
But am I enjoying it and would I recommend it?
Yes: most definitely.

Early Britten often surprises me and I especially rate 'Young Apollo'.

[BBMmk2]

Arrived in this morning's post:

Britten
Piano concerto (with both versions of the third movement)
Young Apollo
Diversions

Osborne/BBCSSO/Volkov

Did I need another recording of the PC to supplement those I already had (Abram, Richter, MacGregor, Andsnes)?
Of course not.
But am I enjoying it and would I recommend it?
Yes: most definitely.

This is one I’ve been wanting for ages!

[Pulcinella]

This is one I’ve been wanting for ages!

Buy it!
You won't regret the expenditure!

[BBMmk2]

Buy it!
You won't regret the expenditure!

Many thanks!

Beethoven The Symphonies
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt.

[gurnemanz]

Scriabin Preludes - Maria Lettberg

[BBMmk2]

Many thanks!

Beethoven The Symphonies
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt.

Hearing now
Symphony No.3 in Eb, Op.55, “Eroica”
Symphony No.4 in B major, Op.60

Very impressive thus far.

[Pulcinella]

Yoshimatsu: And birds are still

Had never even heard of the composer until a dinner guest on Wednesday mentioned this piece.
He's just sent the link (which I will post on the YouTube with score thread too).

https://youtu.be/ebnxjFTYFVg

Chandos have recorded a fair bit of his music; does anyone else know/recommend it?

[BBMmk2]

Hearing now
Symphony No.3 in Eb, Op.55, “Eroica”
Symphony No.4 in B major, Op.60

Very impressive thus far.

Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68, ‘Pastoral’
Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92