What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

‘Confidence’ – Julien Behr
French Romantic arias from Gounod, Delibes, Messager, Joncières,
Holmes, Bizet, Godard, Lehár, Chabrier, Thomas, Duparc, Trenet
Julien Behr (tenor)
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon / Pierre Bleuse
Recorded 2017, Auditorium de Lyon, France
Alpha Classics

Debussy
Nocturnes
Duruflé
Requiem (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

[BBMmk2]

IIRC, Gergiev, though can't remember the orchestra, sorry.

Could be Mariinsky.

In honour of Bernard Haitink’s last Prom concert this evening, I’ll be having a tribute session of this great conductor.

Bernard Haitink - Portrait
Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Op.123
Genia Kühmeier(soprano),
Mark Padmore(tenor)
Hanno Müller-Brachman (Bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink.

[DublinJimbo]

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

I've been hearing excellent reports from friends in Berlin of Ticciati's concerts there. I must check out this release.

Coincidentally, we listened to Giulini's wonderful Philharmonia Nocturnes from 1962 at our Music group's session on Saturday. It certainly deserved inclusion in the Great Recordings of the Century series (and what a fantastic orchestra the Philharmonia was back then!).

[Joseph K]

Disk 3 of the Schornsheim Haydn keyboard sonata box. Loving it all thus far.

[Stanfordian]

I've been hearing excellent reports from friends in Berlin of Ticciati's concerts there. I must check out this release.

Coincidentally, we listened to Giulini's wonderful Philharmonia Nocturnes from 1962 at our Music group's session on Saturday. It certainly deserved inclusion in the Great Recordings of the Century series (and what a fantastic orchestra the Philharmonia was back then!).

In Berlin I've attended concerts by the DSO Berlin each year for the last 11 years. The DSO Berlin might be lesser known that its more auspicious neighbours the Berliner Philharmoniker but for my money is in the same elevated league. I am relishing this the third release of Ticciati's French series with the orchestra and Magdalena Kožená on the Linn label.

I agree with your viewpoint over the Philharmonia.

[Hitch]

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique (live performance)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, cond. Marc Minkowski
Deutsche Grammophon

The unusual combination of the MCO's modern strings and the baroque-inclined instruments of Les Musiciens du Louvre is, to my ear at least, a winning one, making the most of Berlioz's deft orchestration. The Marche au supplice has a scheming, sulphurous twang to it, thanks to the knotty wood, rasping brass and percussive punch. The rich pizzicato (can pizzicato be rich, I wonder?) in this spacious live recording is another reason to recommend a listen.

[BBMmk2]

Could be Mariinsky.

In honour of Bernard Haitink’s last Prom concert this evening, I’ll be having a tribute session of this great conductor.

Bernard Haitink - Portrait
Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Op.123
Genia Kühmeier(soprano),
Mark Padmore(tenor)
Hanno Müller-Brachman (Bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink.

I carried on with

Bruckner
Symphony No.5 in Bb major.
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink

[BBMmk2]

First up today. Some people have been giving a lot of time to this new recording. I can see why!

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Symphony No.7,”Angel of Light”
Flute Concerto, Op.63
Petri Alanko(flute)
Laities SO
Osmo Vänskä

Really enjoyed the symphony!

[Stanfordian]

‘Visions’ - Véronique Gens
Soprano arias: Saint-Saëns, Niedermeyer, Halévy, Godard, Février, David, Franck, Massenet, Bizet, Bruneau
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Hervé Niquet
Recorded 2017 Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
Alpha Classics

Bridge
‘Songs and Chamber Music’
Phantasie Piano Quartet, H94
Phantasie Piano Trio, H79
Scherzo, for cello & piano
Souvenir, for violin & piano
8 Songs, with piano
3 Songs, with viola
Ivan Ludlow (baritone)
London Bridge Ensemble: Daniel Tong (piano), Benjamin Nabarro (violin), Kate Gould (cello), Tom Dunn (viola)
Recorded 2007, Wathen Hall, St. Paul’s School, London
Dutton Epoch

[maestro267]

The urge was strong today. One of my absolute favourite symphonies.

Brian: Symphony No. 1
Soloists, Choirs
Slovak RSO, Slovak PO/Lenárd

[Joseph K]

Brahms 2nd symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKd-ia7_Lc

[jayne lee wilson]

John Williams
Across the Stars

Anne-Sophie Mutter/The Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angles/John Williams.
DG New Release, 24/96 Qobuz Studio.

[pastoralguy]

John Williams
Across the Stars

Anne-Sophie Mutter/The Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angles/John Williams.
DG New Release, 24/96 Qobuz Studio.

I'm struggling with this album, Jayne. I've been a huge A S-M fan since her first recording of the two Mozart Concertos with Karajan and Die Berliner Philharmoniker back in 1977. We were born on the same day and it's always been a source of both strife and, as I've got older, amusement that she was making recordings in such illustrious company whilst I was struggling with Grade 8!

My struggle is that I feel there's so much repertoire she's not recorded yet such as the Elgar, Britten, Walton, DSCH, Prokofiev No.2, Nielsen Concertos and not forgetting the Bach Sonatas and Partitas. It's not that Williams is not worth doing but surely A S-M should be prioritising her repertoire. I can't help feel that this Williams' disc has been to make a lot of money which it surely will.

[BBMmk2]

John Williams
Across the Stars

Anne-Sophie Mutter/The Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angles/John Williams.
DG New Release, 24/96 Qobuz Studio.

I hear this is rather good.

Sir John Barbirolli conducts English Music
Music by
Quilter, Grainger, Fenby, Elgar Ireland Bax
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli.

A very good compilation album here. Especially the last work, Bax’s Symphony No.3.

[Stanfordian]

Jonas Kaufmann – 'L'Opéra'
French Grand Opera arias and duets from Gounod (Roméo et Juliette),
Massenet (Werther, Manon, Le Cid), Ambroise Thomas (Mignon),
Bizet (Carmen, Les Pecheurs de Perles), Lalo (Le Roi d'Ys),
Offenbach (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Meyerbeer (L'Africaine),
Halévy (La Juive) & Berlioz (La Damnation de Faust, Les Troyens)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester / Bertrand de Billy
with Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) & Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Sony

Dohnányi - ‘Being Earnest’
Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 26
Sextet for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet & horn, Op. 37
Ensemble Raro
Recorded 2016 Rundfunk München
Solo Musica