What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
La Muse et le Poète for violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 132
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Lionel Bringuier
Recorded 2013: Salle Pleyel, Paris (Op. 132; Op. 33); Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris (Op. 61)
Erato

‘Espoir’ - Michael Spyres
Opera arias from Rossini, Donizetti, Halévy, Verdi, Auber, Berlioz
Michael Spyres (tenor)
Hallé / Carlo Rizzi
with Joyce El-Khoury (soprano)
Recorded 2017 Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester
Opera Rara

[HighlandDougie]

So, in other words, if you have the recordings already, there’s no need to buy these ones?

As the 1st was released in 2013 by the Lucerne Festival/Accentus (and is in the DG Abbado Symphony Edition box) - and you already have it, I can't see any compelling reason to buy the 2CD reissue, other than to look at the pictures and read the notes in the booklet (but see the link I included in my earlier post). I doubt very much if any re-mastering of the sound has taken place. I'm slightly surprised that they didn't add Abbado's Lucerne 4th, which was released in 2007 (and is a very fine performance).

[jayne lee wilson]

I'm 99.9% certain that the DG 9th ("A production of Accentus Music - Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Lucerne KKL, 21 - 26 August 2013") is exactly the same as the recent Accentus Music (re)issue - "recorded in the Lucerne KKL, August 2013". If this link works, the booklet for the latter is at:

https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/mt4rnf/lucerne-festival-orchestra-claudio-abbado-bruckner-symphonies-nos-1-9#albumtab-info

I too was a bit taken aback at the general fanfare about this re-release which seemed to have airbrushed out of existence the fact that the performance had been in the DG catalogue for the last 5 years. I also have somewhere a recording from a Radio 3 Afternoon Concert of one of those August performances.

In fact, I did go into some detail about this back in the thread, scrutinising booklet notes/dates, pondering whether it was the same performance as the DG, or another from the same week/month etc...were there other performances around the same time...?.....it wasn't easy to be completely sure.

The Listening thread does rush on by!
I wish others would post new (re)release specials, but.... there you go....

But a uniquely intense and beautiful, end-of-life performance anyway....

[pastoralguy]

Gustav Mahler. Symphony No. 4

Barbera Bonney, soprano.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly.

[jayne lee wilson]

"VIRTUOSISSIMO"

Violin Concertos by JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR/PIETRO ANTONIO LOCATELLI/ JOHANN GEORG PISENDEL / GIUSEPPE TARTINI/ GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN

dmitry sinkovsky VIOLIN AND CONDUCTOR/il pomo d’oro

NAIVE New Release 24/88.2, Qobuz.
Far more than a vanity-show-vehicle, very attractive lesser-known violin concertante works ....
High Baroque entertainment!

[jayne lee wilson]

Beethoven Piano Concertos 1&2.
Vogt/CBSO/Rattle. EMI CD 1996.

Wonderful performances..... I usually listen to this rep on HIPPs/Chamber Orchestras now, but with such deft, sensitive, infinitely subtle readings and lovely sound, preferential disbeliefs are, like time itself, suspended....

And what a fiery orchestral response in the finale of No.1!

[Stanfordian]

‘French Opera Arias’ - Samuel Ramey
Opera arias by Bizet, Gounod, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, Thomas, Massenet
Samuel Ramey (bass)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus,
LPO / Julius Rudel
Recorded 1989 London
Philips

Mozart - Clara Haskil
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466
RIAS Symphony Orchestra Berlin / Ferenc Fricsay
Recorded 1954 RIAS studio, Berlin
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C minor, K415
Festival Strings Lucerne/Rudolf Baumgartner
Piano Sonata in F major, K280
12 Variations on ‘Ah, vous dirai-je Maman’, K.265
Recorded 1960 Gemeindesaal der Lukaskirche, Lucerne
Clara Haskil (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon

[Joseph K]

Birtwistle - Panic. On Radio 3 currently. I have this on CD (twice) - one of my favourite Birtwistle pieces.

[pastoralguy]

Beethoven. Symphony No. 9.

Herbert Von Karajan conducting Die Berliner Philharmoniker.

1977 vintage.

This is my celebration of ‘non Brexit day’! I have a, soon to be shredded, picture of one N. Farage, which I will turn my back on when Ludwig gets to his ‘Ode to Joy’ moment!

[teamsaint]

Bruckner 8.
Karajan/ VPO on dvd from 1978.

Watching on my new smart TV,( I know, very 21st century ) audio run through my trusty stereo.

[ahinton]

Beethoven. Symphony No. 9.

Herbert Von Karajan conducting Die Berliner Philharmoniker.

1977 vintage.

This is my celebration of ‘non Brexit day’! I have a, soon to be shredded, picture of one N. Farage, which I will turn my back on when Ludwig gets to his ‘Ode to Joy’ moment!

Why wait that long?

[Petrushka]

PG beat me to it and JosephK gave me the coupling.

Birtwistle: Panic
John Harle (saxophone), Paul Clarvis (drum kit)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis

[interval]

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Choral)
Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
Alexander Young (tenor), Donald McIntyre (bass)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski

[jayne lee wilson]

Into the night and into this.......

Hector Berlioz Messe Solennelle h20 (1824).
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
Alpha New Release, Qobuz-S 24/88.2

Hardly know the work...instruments d'époque, smallish chorus..... sounds pretty wonderful....
....well whaddya know.... the Gratias begins with the same string-cantilena melody as the later Scène aux Champs from the Fantastique.. ... now the chorus develop it....

I never knew this....just gorgeous..... astonishing really...

[Bryn]

Into the night
into this.......

Hector Berlioz Messe Solennelle h20 (1824).
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
Alpha New Release, Qobuz-S 24/88.2

Hardly know the work...instruments d'époque, smallish chorus..... sounds pretty wonderful....
....well whaddya know.... the Gratias begins with the same string-cantilena melody as the later Scène aux Champs from the Fantastique.. ... now the chorus develop it....

I never knew this....just gorgeous..... astonishing really...

Shock horror! Halloween was yesterday! How can you have missed all the hype (juatified, for once) re, the JEG audio and video releases of the then newly discocered work, back in 1994? Looking forward to hearig this Niquet recording. I doubt Tony will have criticisms re. brass/horn tuning he had re. their Handel.

[BBMmk2]

Shich horror! Halloween was yesterday! How can you have missed all the hype (juatified, for once) re, the JEG audio and video releases of the then newly discocered work, back in 1994? Looking forward to hearig this Niquet recording. I doubt Tony will have criticisms re. brass/horn tuning he had re. their Handel.

Likewise, as am I!