What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Music Matters, especially for Jonathan Powell on Sorabji.

[Stanfordian]

Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)
singspiel in three acts
Arleen Auger (Konstanze), Reri Grist (Blonde), Peter Schreier (Belmonte),
Harald Neukirch (Pedrillo), Kurt Moll (Osmin), Otto Mellies (Selim Pacha)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig,
Staatskapelle Dresden/Karl Böhm
Recorded 1973 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Deutsche Grammophon

[BBMmk2]

Frederick Delius
Orchestral Works.
Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli.

[visualnickmos]

Frederick Delius
Orchestral Works.
Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli.

Perfection. Bonne soirée

[mahlerei]

Brett Dean
Dramatis personae - for trumpet and orchestra (2013)
Luca Francesconi
Hard Pace - Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Gothenburg Symphony/John Storgårds
BIS-2067

Just up on eClassical - http://www.eclassical.com/performers...n/bis2067.html

[Petrushka]

Over the past few weeks I've been listening to re-creations of programmes given in the 1990s of Simon Rattle's project Towards the Millennium and I've been posting details on 'The Rest is Noise' thread as it is a journey through the music of the 20th century. However, there's been a request for the posts to be on this thread as well so I will continue by posting on both threads. Previous programmes can be found here http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...s-music/page51 from post 1006 onwards.

Last night, from the 1940s

Pavel Haas: A Study for Strings
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Gerd Albrecht

Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
Günter Reich (narrator)
BBC Chorus (male voices) BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez

[interval]

Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Jessye Norman (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Richard Cassilly (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

I was present when Simon Rattle did this unforgettable programme on a snowy March evening in Birmingham in 1995 as part of the Towards the Millennium series.

[Petrushka]

1940s

Copland: Appalachian Spring
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas

Strauss: Capriccio - Final Scene
Lisa Della Casa (soprano), Franz Bierbach (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Heinrich Hollreiser

[interval]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

[Bryn]

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 (Vladimir Krainev, Moscow PO, Dmitri Kitayenko)

Listening via QOBUZ 320kpbs mp3 stream while awaiting delivery of the CDs. The performance of all concerned is up there with the 3rd, and a cut above the later Frankfurt recording.

[Stanfordian]

Jean-Baptiste Lully
‘Armide’ Tragédie en musique
Choeur de chambre de Namur,
Marie-Adeline Henry (Armide), Antonia Figueroa (Renaud) & Judith Van Wanroij, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Marc Mauillon, Douglas Williams, Cyril Auvity, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Etienne Bazola
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
Recorded live concert performance 2015 Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris
Aparte

[BBMmk2]

Tchaikovsky
Fantasy Overture - Romeo & Juliet.
LSO/Antal Dorati.

Brahms/orch.Schoenberg
Piano Quartet in G minor, Op.26.
CBSO/Rattle.

Happy Birthdays to Tchaikovsky & Brahms!

Radio 3 in Concert 02/05/2017
Elgar:
Violin concerto.*
Brahms
Symphony no.1.
BBC PO, Tasmin little(violin*), BBC PO, Michael Seel.

[Petrushka]

Earlier today...

Haydn: Symphony No 60 (Il Distratto)
Debussy: Trois Nocturnes*
Beethoven: Symphony No 7

Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus*
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink

Given in Symphony Hall, Boston, on March 18 2017 http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Bos...ert-1641#67783

This is a wonderful concert and the 87 year old Haitink provides one of the fastest accounts of the Beethoven 7 finale I've ever heard. The engineering is excellent, with a highly realistic concert hall sound. Strongly recommended.

[Petrushka]

1940s

Another of Simon Rattle's programmes recreated from the Towards the Millennium project. I was present at the original 1995 concert in Birmingham.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes)
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn

Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado

[interval]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 8
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

[Alison]

Earlier today...

Haydn: Symphony No 60 (Il Distratto)
Debussy: Trois Nocturnes*
Beethoven: Symphony No 7

Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus*
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink

Given in Symphony Hall, Boston, on March 18 2017 http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Bos...ert-1641#67783

This is a wonderful concert and the 87 year old Haitink provides one of the fastest accounts of the Beethoven 7 finale I've ever heard. The engineering is excellent, with a highly realistic concert hall sound. Strongly recommended.

Great steer Pet. Just getting to the end of Sirenes and really in the mood for the Seventh

[Stanfordian]

Haydn
Symphony No. 88 in G major
Symphony No. 92 in G major ‘Oxford’
Symphony No. 94 in G major ‘Surprise’
Wiener Philharmoniker/Leonard Bernstein
Recorded live 1983/84/85 Wiener Musikverein, Austria
Deutsche Grammophon

Elina Garanča - Mozart Opera & Concert Arias
Arias from La clemenza di Tito, La finta giardiniera, Così fan tutte
& Concert arias: K582, K486a, K77, K505
Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Camerata Salzburg/Louis Langrée
Recorded 2005 Grosser Saal, Mozarteum Salzburg
Erato

[BBMmk2]

Hi Pet. I love these programmes of yours. I might hear some of them myself soon. many thanks indeed.

Stravinsky
Petrouchka(revised 1947)
Le Sacre du Printemps
4 Etudes for orchestra.
Minneapolis SO, LSO, Antal Dorati.