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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Back to old favourites for a while:
Delius: On the Heights (Paa Vidderne)
Bax: The Garden of Fand
Bantock: Fifine at the Fair.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham.
It;s funny how the very sound of these old recordings takes me back to the time I first heard them, reminding me of what I was doing at the time, whom I was seeing,etc.
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Brahms
Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Riccardo Chailly
Recorded 2014 Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
Decca, CD
Bryan Hymel – 'Héroïque' – French Opera Arias
Arias from Rossini, Berlioz, Verdi, Gounod, Meyerbeer, Massenet, Reyer, Bruneau & Rabaud
Bryan Hymel (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno,
PKF-Prague Philharmonia / Emmanuel Villaume
Recorded 2014, Smetana Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
Warner Classics, CD
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Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostRVW, Sixth Symphony , Flos Campi , Abravanel/Utah, on a DVD Audio.
I am wondering if Abravanel recorded more Vaughn Williams
Dona nobis pacem c/w Symphony 6
Tallis fantasia/Dives and Lazarus/Flos campi/Fantasia on Greensleeves
I'm pretty sure I had his Dona nobis, but I think coupled with Flos campi!
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Yes, the Dona nobis pacem was the work's first recording and the Flos Campi its first stereo recording, and a very fine performance too from violist Sally Peck Lentz, one of many fine artists who seem famous for only one recording. I'd like to have heard her in the Hindemith concerto.
I've just revisited Alexander Goehr's early Piano Sonata . I don't suppose it gets played much these days. It hs a fine sympathetic performance by John Ogdon who recorded a number of little-known solo piano works by Max Davies, Richard Hall and Harry Birtwistle, all of whom he knew personaly.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
Discogs suggests two Vanguard LPs:
Dona nobis pacem c/w Symphony 6
Tallis fantasia/Dives and Lazarus/Flos campi/Fantasia on Greensleeves
I'm pretty sure I had his Dona nobis, but I think coupled with Flos campi!
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Philip Langridge (tenor), Catherine Wyn Rogers (contralto)
Alastair Miles (bass)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Recorded live in St Paul's Cathedral, London on November 26 1997.
I was present at this performance, way down the nave, but could hear very little of it. The acoustics are so bad that the soloists were mostly inaudible and the Chorus just one big mush.
The DVD, though, is excellent and I'm still glad I went. I've not seen it for years and it was so perfect to do so now."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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El Amor Brujo (abridged 1945 recording): the National Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jorda. Quite an outing for the 22-year old Dennis Brain as principal horn, with some lovely solos.
It occurred to me for the first time today that this work was quite possibly an influence on Constant Lambert's early masterpiece The Rio Grande.
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Bruckner
Mass No. 3 in F minor for soloists, four-part mixed choir, organ & orchestra (1867/68),
WAB 28 (Nowak edition)
Sally Matthews (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Ilker Arcayürek (tenor) & Stanislav Trofimov (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Howard Arman, chorus master)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
Recorded Live 2019, Herkulesaal, Munich
BR Klassik, CD, new release
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Verdi – 'Don Carlo'
(five act Italian version of 1867)
Plácido Domingo (Don Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elizabetta), Shirley Verrett (Princess Eboli),
Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Ruggero Raimondi (Philip II), Giovanni Foiani (Grand Inquisitor),
Simon Estes (Monk)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus,
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Carlo Maria Giulini
Studio recording 1970, Walthamstow Town Hall, London
EMI (HMV), remastered on Warner Classics, 3 CD set
My plan is to play this tonight.
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