What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have the keyboard sonatas played by Christine Schornsheim. I ought to give them a spin some time, I mean the whole set - wonderful music!

- I've had my eye on that CAPRICCIO set for some time, Joseph, and it shall no doubt find its way onto my shelves - but at a third of the cheapest price I can find, the BRILLIANT box represented irresistable value for money.

[Pianoman]

Yes really enjoyable first and second and looking forward to hearing the rest. Not easy to pigeon hole these performances and certainly fresh wonders at every turn. Anyone with even a slightly jaded response to these masterworks needs to hear this set!

Yes I've just played through the whole set, and it's fair to say there's a 'surprise' around every corner, most very welcome, some need a little more time...no doubt whatsoever about the superlative playing. It's very stimulating to hear familiar works given a convincing dusting down..

[vinteuil]

- I've had my eye on that CAPRICCIO set for some time, Joseph, and it shall no doubt find its way onto my shelves - but at a third of the cheapest price I can find, the BRILLIANT box represented irresistable value for money.

... I think the Schornsheim Haydn is available from amazon.de sellers at reasonable prices :

https://www.amazon.de/Schornsheim-Haydn-Klaviersonaten-Gesamtaufnahme-Christine/dp/B0007IK4WE

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[teamsaint]

Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas - played by Bart van Oort, Ursula Dutschler, Stanley Hoogland, Yoshiko Kojima, & Riko Fukuda on various instruments built in the late 18th Century (or modelled thereon).

I bought a copy of this BRILLIANT 10-disc set for £9 recently (cue somebody mentioning they bought it new from their local drug dealer for 50p in 1990). In theory I'm just spinning the) discs to check for blemishes (none so far), but there's so much in this Music that insists I stop whatever else I'm doing and PAY ATTENTION!

Lovely playing, and lovely instrumental timbres, too.

He sure knew how to score, old Haydn......

Next up here Bach played by Vikingur Olafsson ( proper name that ,) which was recommended to me whilst on my hols.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... I think the Schornsheim Haydn is available from amazon.de sellers at reasonable prices :

https://www.amazon.de/Schornsheim-Ha.../dp/B0007IK4WE

Ooooooooooh - so it is: very tempting. Many thanks, vinty

[frankbridge]

Now:

Bela Bartok:

Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor

and the two Rhapsodies

Kyung-Wha Chung

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Simon Rattle

EMI CDC 754211-2

Lovely stuff...I hope it is still available.

[BBMmk2]

Ernest J Moeran
Rhapsody No.2 in E Major
Violin Concerto*
Rhapsody in F# major **
John Georgiadis(Violin)*
John McCabe(Piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
New Philharmonia
Nicholas Braithewaite

[Stanfordian]

Debussy
Nocturnes (1899)
Duruflé
Requiem, Op. 9 (original 1947 version for full orchestra & organ)
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Rundfunkchor Berlin,
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Robin Ticciati
Recorded 2019 Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin
Linn - new release

Saint-Saëns
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, Op. 112
String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 153
Medici String Quartet
Recorded 1997 Potton Hall, Suffolk
Koch-Schwann

[gurnemanz]

With Edinburgh Festival slot now returned to ES, I played a BBC recording from there in 1960:
Shostakovich 1st Cello Conc. Leningrad Phil, Rozhdestvensky, Rostropovich.

[sgjames]

Peter Garland - The Days Run Away
Aki Takahashi, Piano
Tzadik, 2000 (CD).

[Bryn]

Recorded at the Barbican on Saturday 6 May and broadcast on Radio 3 two days later.
Varèse: Arcana, Nocturnal, Poème électronique, Étude pour Espace [UK premiere* of arrangement by Chou Wen-Chung], Déserts, Tuning Up [arrangement by Chou Wen-Chung] and Amériques

Allison Bell (soprano)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

* I'm not too sure about the claim that this was the UK premiere. I seem to recall it being performed in the QEH previously as part of one of the Varèse 360 concerts. However, the Barbican performance was without the spacialized sound aspect which Chou Wen Chung included in his realisation of the work. I missed the QEH performance. Perhaps that included the missing component.

Due to a mixture of a holiday break and other distractions, I failed to listen at the time of broadcast, and then forgot all about it until yesterday when I found it on a hard drive with the dreaded "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" which I was sorting out. Thank goodness for the occasional disc error.

[Joseph K]

I have the keyboard sonatas played by Christine Schornsheim. I ought to give them a spin some time, I mean the whole set - wonderful music!

So it begins - CD 1 of this.

[BBMmk2]

Debussy
Nocturnes (1899)
Duruflé
Requiem, Op. 9 (original 1947 version for full orchestra & organ)
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Rundfunkchor Berlin,
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Robin Ticciati
Recorded 2019 Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin
Linn - new release

This looks rather interesting Stan. Worth the investigation?

[Sir Velo]

Not normally a fan of "curated" playlists but I have succumbed to the rather imaginative Qobuz "Americas" playlist. Alongside the more familiar Ives, Harris & Bernstein are Carter's nuggety Variations for Orchestra, Cage's hypnotic Litany for the Whale, and assorted miscellany running the gamut from the pioneering composer Paine's rather beautiful 1st symphony to Babbitt via Ruggles and Feldman. Much nourishing fare and far more imaginative than that which a certain music festival has been serving up recently. All in excellent performances; in hi res sound moreover.

[Stanfordian]

This looks rather interesting Stan. Worth the investigation?

Oh, yes!