What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Edgy 2]

Just listened to this, having previously heard only extracts; what a wonderful, engaging and indeed life-affirming piece this is! It has yet to have its final spin today...

[Edgy 2]

Vaughan Williams

A Sea Symphony
The Lark Ascending

James Ehnes,Sarah Fox,Mark Stone,RLPO Andrew Manze

[Petrushka]

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez

[interval]

Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (complete)
Malcolm Sinclair (speaker)
LSO Chamber Ensemble
Roman Simovic

[Stanfordian]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
(1894 original version, ed. Nowak 1951, Finale based on original sources supplemented and completed by Gerd Schaller, revised version 2018)
Philharmonie Festiva / Gerd Schaller
Recorded live July 2018, Abteikirche Ebrach, Upper Franconia
Profil

A superb performance and I greatly admire Schaller's completion of the finale too.

[Dave2002]

Mozart
Violin sonatas played by Andras Schiff and Yuuko Shiokawa. K379, k304, K454.
Also the variations K360.

Lovely CD - found in a charity shop.

This CD claims the music was performed on Mozart's own violin and fortepiano.
If so, then both instruments have survived remarkably well. I wonder if they have been "improved" in any way, or needed a lot of technical maintenance and attention.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Violin-Sonatas-K379-Variations/dp/B00000E54U?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffnt-uk-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00000E54U

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
(1894 original version, ed. Nowak 1951, Finale based on original sources supplemented and completed by Gerd Schaller, revised version 2018)
Philharmonie Festiva / Gerd Schaller
Recorded live July 2018, Abteikirche Ebrach, Upper Franconia
Profil

A superb performance and I greatly admire Schaller's completion of the finale too.

Not the same one as Rattle did with the Berliners?

[Stanfordian]

Not the same one as Rattle did with the Berliners?

Rattle uses the 1992 finale realisation by Samale/Philips/Cohrs/Mazzuca - revised 2012 by Samale & Cohrs.

Here Schaller uses his own completion that he has revised and splendid it is too, for my money.

[Pulcinella]

In anticipation of and preparation for the First Night of the Proms:

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
BBCNOW/Hickox
A BBC MM release of a 2001 Cardiff performance.

See posting on Proms highlight thread: any enthusiasm for a 'Recordings in discussion' or a 'Summer BaL' on this marvellous work?
I'm about to pitch into Paul Wingfield's Cambridge Music Handbook (potentially hard work without a score) and also to listen to the other recordings I have: Ancerl, Rattle, and Mackerras (Chandos).

[BBMmk2]

Rattle uses the 1992 finale realisation by Samale/Philips/Cohrs/Mazzuca - revised 2012 by Samale & Cohrs.

Here Schaller uses his own completion that he has revised and splendid it is too, for my money.

I’ll give this one a listen! Thanks. Now with all this talk of Sibelius, my attention was drawn to a recording that Sir Alexander Gibson made with the SNO, which I also have. Quite fabulous imo.

Sibelius
Four Legends of Kalevala, Op.22
Finlandia, Op.26.
SNO, Gibson.

Vasily Kallnnikov
Symphony No.1 in Gminor
Symphony No.2 in A major
Malaysian PO
Kees Bakels

[Bryn]

In anticipation of and preparation for the First Night of the Proms:

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
BBCNOW/Hickox
A BBC MM release of a 2001 Cardiff performance.

See posting on Proms highlight thread: any enthusiasm for a 'Recordings in discussion' or a 'Summer BaL' on this marvellous work?
I'm about to pitch into Paul Wingfield's Cambridge Music Handbook (potentially hard work without a score) and also to listen to the other recordings I have: Ancerl, Rattle, and Mackerras (Chandos).

I would certainly recommend the Netopil:



IIRC, the Hickox used the Wingfield reconstruction of the original score. Netopil uses a more recent reconstruction based on further examination of the surviving evidence. This version was also performed under Belohlavek's batton at the Proms a few years back. The recent Belohlacek release on Decca also used the 1927 version of the score (i.e. the same as in the Netopil recording). See https://www.baerenreiter.com/en/shop...etails/BA6863/

If you want to see, as well as hear, Mackerras in the Wingfield edition, there is a Supraphon DVD. Apart from its single disc release, there is a boxed set of works by Janacek and Martinu which also contains it, along with a CD of the revised version with some minor amendments which are also to be found in the later critical edition of that score. That boxed set is a must at its current price. Not a dud in it.

I would just add that I had the good fortune to attend the first performance of the Wingfield edition (prior to its publication) by Manchester University forces, December 5th 1992.

[Pulcinella]

I would certainly recommend the Netopil:



IIRC, the Hickox used the Wingfield reconstruction of the original score. Netopil uses a more recent reconstruction based on further examination of the surviving evidence. This version was also performed under Belohlavek's batton at the Proms a few years back. However, I think the recent Belohlacek release on Decca used the revised version of the score (in a recent critical edition from the same editors as the Netopil recording). See https://www.baerenreiter.com/en/shop...etails/BA6863/

If you want to see, as well as hear, Mackerras in the Wingfield edition, there is a Supraphon DVD. Apart from its single disc release, there is a boxed set of works by Janacek and Martinu which also contains it, along with a CD of the revised version with some minor amendments which are also to be found in the later critical edition of that score. That boxed set is a must at its current price. Not a dud in it.

I would just add that I had the good fortune to attend the first performance of the Wingfield edition (prior to its publication) by Manchester University forces, December 5th 1992.

That's certainly a tempting box set.

[Bryn]

That's certainly a tempting box set.

Succumb, you will not regret it. By the way, if you have a spare £60 lying around, "The Janacek Compendium" by one of our esteemed members, was published last month.

[Pulcinella]

Succumb, you will not regret it. By the way, if you have a spare £60 lying around, "The Janacek Compendium" by one of our esteemed members, was published last month.

I just have done.
After all, what's my pension for if I can't spend it?


Is the Janacek compendium a book?
If so, I'll need to see if the university library gets a copy I can borrow.

PS: Yes, I see that it is.
Is the author our makropulos?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=janacek+compendium&crid=WX49YSNL3YAT&sprefix=Janacek+c%2Caps%2C139&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_9

[Bryn]

I just have done.
After all, what's my pension for if I can't spend it?


Is the Janacek compendium a book?
If so, I'll need to see if the university library gets a copy I can borrow.

https://boydellandbrewer.com/blog/music/the-janacek-compedium-nigel-simeone-on-the-delights-of-documenting-leos-janacek/

I have just noticed that there is a discount code on that page which provides a 25% discount. The price, including p&p, thus drops to £48.70.

[Joseph K]

by one of our esteemed members

I'm friends with him on facebook. Didn't realise he's on here...