What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Mario]

I know Stanfordian, I know!

It is so great to come across something new for the first time, and absolutely relish it from the start. Wiki-ing it, it says,

“(Christiansen) Conrad Wilson summarizes much of its reception ever since: "Its youthful verve, brilliance and perfection make it one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music.""

Quite right too!

Mario

[Joseph K]

Stravinsky - Pulcinella - LSO/Abbado

[Pulcinella]

Stravinsky - Pulcinella - LSO/Abbado

For obvious reasons.

[cloughie]

Did that sort your Triple Concerto disc JK?

[Joseph K]

Did that sort your Triple Concerto disc JK?

I don't know - as I said in #14328 I'm not going to listen to a CD more than once before having listened to all the CDs in the set.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 324-327

H Schutz:
Historia der Aufherstehung Jesu Christi

R Sessions:
Symphony No 2

John Sheppard:
Western Wind Mass

D Shostakovich:
Piano Trio No 2 in E minor op67
String Quartet No 1 in C major op49
String Quartet No 2 in A major op68
String Quartet No 3 in F major op73
String Quartet No 4 in D major op83
String Quartet No 5 in B flat major op92
String Quartet No 6 in G major op101
String Quartet No 7 in F sharp minor op108

[Joseph K]

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on with my theme this morning, with recordings featuring the artistry of André Previn.

Debussy
La Mer
Nocturnes.
Ambrosian Singers
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn.

Shostakovich
Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.43
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra
André Previn)
Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a
(London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn).

[Pulcinella]

Haydn
Symphony 92, Oxford
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs

Not an easy listen (maybe it shouldn't be!): too hard driven and relentless for me.
Glad to have heard it, though.

[Stanfordian]

André Previn – The Warner Edition – Complete HMV (EMI) & Teldec Recordings
André Previn (conductor / piano)
Recorded 1971-87
Warner Classics [96 CDs] newly released box set

I'm still dipping into this set.

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on with my theme this morning, with recordings featuring the artistry of André Previn.

Debussy
La Mer
Nocturnes.
Ambrosian Singers
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn.

Shostakovich
Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.43
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra
André Previn)
Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a
(London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn).

Following on from the above

Shostakovich
Symphony No.8 in C minor, OP.65
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn.

[Bryn]

Bruckner: Symphony No.9 with ab SMPC completion/performing version of the unfinished final movement (not the most recent 'final' completion but an earlier one from before extra pages of the original were uncovered, (BOL, Eichhorn). Of course, given Bruckner's history of revising his work, the first three movements ought also to be regarded as 'unfinished'. I find myself wondering why any Bruckner enthusiast would not want to hear what he composed of the final movement of this work in a form presentable in performance and in the context of what he composed for the other movements. Here we get another opportunity not only to hear a Bruckner work in progress but a presentation a completion of his final work, also in progress by SMPC. That said, I am eager to listen to the work in one of Dausgaard's presentations with the BBCSSO of SMPC's 'final' efforts again.

[visualnickmos]

Debussy
Préludes Livre 1
Images Livre 1
Estampes

Claudio Arrau
from the superb Philips 3-CD set Debussy / Arrau

[Richard Barrett]

I find myself wondering why any Bruckner enthusiast would not want to hear what he composed of the final movement of this work in a form presentable in performance and in the context of what he composed for the other movements.

I did want to hear it, and I did hear it (in the Rattle recording) and came to the conclusion that I prefer hearing the first three movements without it. With the best will in the world, and with no qualms about the idea of a musical work being posthumously "completed", I find it haphazard and unconvincing. I'm not a fan of "what the composer would have wanted" arguments, but he material that exists of the finale occupied Bruckner for the last two years of his life without being brought to a conclusion, which might indicate that he didn't yet find it sufficiently satisfactory and that the reason it wasn't completed, as in the case of Moses und Aron maybe, was that in some sense it couldn't live up to what came before it. The SMPC version certainly doesn't, as far as I'm concerned.

[Petrushka]

I did want to hear it, and I did hear it (in the Rattle recording) and came to the conclusion that I prefer hearing the first three movements without it. With the best will in the world, and with no qualms about the idea of a musical work being posthumously "completed", I find it haphazard and unconvincing.

This echoes my thoughts exactly. I'm happy to hear the 'completed' finale as a stand alone piece but definitely not after the three other movements.