What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[HutchFan]

Sibelius - Complete Symphonies; Orchestra Works / Sir John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra
Disc 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

[A Lark Ascending]

Last one is 83 + 82

I'm sorely tempted by the new box collecting up Decca's period instrument recordings of the lot (with the gaps filled with new recordings).  

Disc 1 second half from Mendelssohn - Octet In E Flat, Op.20 - Arr. For Orchestra By The Composer - 3. Scherzo; Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Op.21 - Overture (Allegro Di Molto); The Hebrides, Op.26 (Fingal's Cave) - Allegro Moderato; Meeresstille Und Glückliche Fahrt, Op.27

Disc 5 of Beethoven - 1, 2 & 3

Edited May 11, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[mikeweil]

Rondeau is a great talent. As on his debut disc with a Bach selection, he has something new and personal to contribute, but not just for novelty's sake. 

Edited May 11, 2016 by mikeweil

[alankin]

Edvard Grieg – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.16
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.54
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra – Lovro von Matačić (EMI Classics)

   
 

Edited May 11, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Brahms - String Quintet No.2, Op.111

Huber - Piano Quartet Op.117

[A Lark Ascending]

The String Quintet - memories of my gloomy first bedsit when I started working! This recording drove me nuts when I first heard it but it sounded fine yesterday - maybe it was the somewhat aggressive Death and the Maiden that set my teeth on edge. 

 

First String Sextet off Brahms after hearing a ravishing live performance.  

[Balladeer]

Cristiane Roncaglio - Brazilian Sentiments (Capriccio)

[Peter Friedman]

Schumann - Romances for Violin & Piano Op.94

Schumann - Violin Sonata No.1, Op.105

[A Lark Ascending]

Symph 1 off first, another outing for the first Sextet off the second and the clarinet trio off the fourth.  

[HutchFan]

Brahms - Piano works, Opp. 76, 116, 117 / Dmitri Alexeev (EMI Classics)

Beautiful.

Edited May 12, 2016 by HutchFan

[A Lark Ascending]

Lovely record with one of my favourite paintings on the cover.  

[Peter Friedman]

Bach - Violin Concertos BWV 1041 & BWV 1042

Haydn - Op.50/6

[king ubu]

^ before (from the Ansermet "French Music" box, actually)  - now:

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 6 of LvB. 4, 22, 23 'Appassionata'

Just 14...playing the poems as well would have sent me for the razor blades. Unremittingly grim. But wonderfully lucid textures despite being a large orchestral piece. 

Edited May 13, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Concerto No.5

[soulpope]

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 2

[Peter Friedman]

[alankin]

Sergei Prokofiev
 
Concerto for Violin No.1 in D major Op.19
— David Oistrakh (violin) – London Symphony Orchestra – Lovro von Matačić
 
Concerto for Violin No.2 in G minor Op.63
— David Oistrakh (violin) – Philharmonia Orchestra – Alceo Galliera
 
Violin Sonata No.2 in D Op.94
— David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano) (EMI Classics)

 

[HutchFan]

[A Lark Ascending]

Just Dvorak off first.

[king ubu]

since my latest post:

discs 3-4 of the Buchbinder (sonaas nos. 7-14)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Op.33/1 and Op.33/2 "The Joke"

[king ubu]

[alankin]

Johannes Brahms – Symphony No.1 Op.68
— New York Philharmonic – Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classics)