What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Stanfordian]

Paul Paray conducts French Orchestral Music
Saint-Saens, Paul Paray, Chausson, Bizet, Ibert,
Ravel, Lalo, Gounod.
Detroit SO, Paul Paray.

You know maestro I feel John Barry's James Bond themes sound great in brass arrangements.

[teamsaint]

Schubert Symphony #2.
Karajan/BPO.

All very nice of course, but really found myself giving him a bit of a hurry up in the Minuet and Trio. ( Supposed to be Allegro Vivace).
Recorded about 40 years ago. I wonder how he would do it if were still around today ?

[BBMmk2]

You know maestro I feel John Barry's James Bond themes sound great in brass arrangements.

You not wrong there, Stan!! Always go down well in outside jobs and in proper concert mode too!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Schubert Symphony #2.
Karajan/BPO.

All very nice of course, but really found myself giving him a bit of a hurry up in the Minuet and Trio. ( Supposed to be Allegro Vivace).
Recorded about 40 years ago. I wonder how he would do it if were still around today ?

One of the worst combinations in the history of history - Karajan and the Minuet. (Ruins his otherwise splendid Haydn Symphony recordings - and the Minuet in the first Brandenburg Concerto - makes Cage's ASAP sound a bit hectic!)

[richardfinegold]

I don't do many downloads, but I did purchase Gilels/Jochum in the two Brahms Concertos from Presto. These are brilliant and sound wonderful in the 'High Rez' versions. The line in the slow movement is reduced to near stasis but the performers pull it off, and when Gilels renters with thundering octaves supported by timpani rolls the effect had me jumping out of my recliner in excitement as the music swells to it's ecstatic surge. It's so much fun to hear a warhorse invigorated.
The 2nd is darn fine as well.

[BBMmk2]

I don't do many downloads, but I did purchase Gilels/Jochum in the two Brahms Concertos from Presto. These are brilliant and sound wonderful in the 'High Rez' versions. The line in the slow movement is reduced to near stasis but the performers pull it off, and when Gilels renters with thundering octaves supported by timpani rolls the effect had me jumping out of my recliner in excitement as the music swells to it's ecstatic surge. It's so much fun to hear a warhorse invigorated.
The 2nd is darn fine as well.

These are classics RFG! My favourites of these concerti!

[richardfinegold]

Paul Paray conducts French Orchestral Music
Saint-Saens, Paul Paray, Chausson, Bizet, Ibert,
Ravel, Lalo, Gounod.
Detroit SO, Paul Paray.

Classic Paray and Mercury recordings

[BBMmk2]

Classic Paray and Mercury recordings

Yes, they are. I like these very much.

[richardfinegold]

These are classics RFG! My favourites of these concerti!

I was always partial to Fleisher/Szell and then later to Pollini/Abbado and had never heard the Gilels/Jochum, which were issued about the time that I started to listen to Classical, and these were probably unaffordable for me as full priced DG at the time (one could by 5 Columbia budget lps for the price of a DG when I was a teenager). I just love the palpable rapport between Conductor and Soloist.
Otoh I just heard a Beethoven 3rd PC that I hated on the radio and it turned out to be Gilels/Szell. It really causes me to speculate on what is required for a successful partnership

[BBMmk2]

I was always partial to Fleisher/Szell and then later to Pollini/Abbado and had never heard the Gilels/Jochum, which were issued about the time that I started to listen to Classical, and these were probably unaffordable for me as full priced DG at the time (one could by 5 Columbia budget lps for the price of a DG when I was a teenager). I just love the palpable rapport between Conductor and Soloist.
Otoh I just heard a Beethoven 3rd PC that I hated on the radio and it turned out to be Gilels/Szell. It really causes me to speculate on what is required for a successful partnership

Now that must be a recording to get, methinks.

Yesterday's:-
Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.78, "Organ"*
Paul Paray Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc.
Frances Yeend, Francis Bible, David Lloyd, Yi-Kwei-Sze, Racham Symphony Choi,, Detroit SO, Paul Paray.
Edouard Lalo Namouna, Suite No.1
Chausson Symphony in Bb, op.20.
*Marcel Dupre(organ), Detroit SO, Paul Paray.

[Stanfordian]

Handel - 'As Steals the Morn …' Arias and Scenes for Tenor - Mark Padmore
Mark Padmore (tenor)
The English Concert/Andrew Manze
with Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
Recorded 2006, St Jude’s on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Harmonia Mundi

Stanford
Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 25
String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 85
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet with Piers Lane, piano (Op. 25) & Garth Knox, viola (Op. 85)
Recorded 2004 Henry Wood Hall, London
Hyperion

[BBMmk2]

Handel - 'As Steals the Morn …' Arias and Scenes for Tenor - Mark Padmore
Mark Padmore (tenor)
The English Concert/Andrew Manze
with Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
Recorded 2006, St Jude’s on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Harmonia Mundi

Stanford
Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 25
String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 85
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet with Piers Lane, piano (Op. 25) & Garth Knox, viola (Op. 85)
Recorded 2004 Henry Wood Hall, London
Hyperion

Two great recordings there, Stan.

[Pianorak]

Chopin:Mazurkas
Pavel Kolesnikov
(Hyperion)

[Stanfordian]

Sondheim
‘Sunday in the Park with George’ - musical in two acts
(Original 1984 Broadway Cast Recording)
Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Barbara Bryne, Judith Moore, Brent Spinner, Danielle Ferland et al
Stage director James Lapine, scenic design Tony Straiges, costume design Patricia Zipprodt and Ann Hould
Booth Theater Orchestra/Paul Gemignani
Recorded 1985 Booth Theatre, New York City
Masterworks Broadway

[BBMmk2]

Karole Szymanowski
Violin Concerto No.1, Op.35(1916)
Violin Concerto No.2, Op.61(1932-33)
(solo violin part in collaboration with Paul Kochanski)
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Violin Concerto in A major, Op.8.
Tasmin Little9violin) BBC SO, Edward Gardner.