What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No.3

[A Lark Ascending]

Nancarrow/Dutilleux off first; no 15 off last. Toe-dipping. 

Edited May 18, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

Just the Nancarrow off the first. Disc 4 off second - all lieder.

No. 4 'Italian'. 

Edited May 19, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[l p]

Callas

2/1969, 3/1969 studio sessions for Verdi Arias II and Verdi Arias III

EMI: Paris, Salle Wagram: Orchestre du Théâtre de l’Opéra, Paris; maestro direttore Nicola
Rescigno

Il corsaro  Egli non riede ancor. . .Non so le tetre immagini (romanza di Medora)
Il corsaro  Né sulla terra. . .Vola talor dal carcere. . . (cavatina) Verrò. . . Ah, conforto è sol la speme (cabaletta)
I lombardi  Te, Vergin santa, invoco !. . .Salve Maria, di grazia il petto
I vespri siciliani  Arrigo ! ah, parli a un core
Attila  Liberamente or piangi. . .Oh ! nel fuggente nuvolo

Edited May 19, 2016 by l p

[l p]

studio recordings, 1955
 

[Peter Friedman]

Spohr - String Quartet No.12, Op.45/1

Schumann - Violin Sonata No.2, Op.121

[A Lark Ascending]

Beautiful record of music for a variety of small groups on the first. Disc 3 - Cello and Violin Concertos, Clocks and Clouds and With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles from middle. The two violin sonatas off the last.  

And a third listen to the Nancarrow SQ3. 

[alankin]

Antonín Dvorák – Symphony No.7 Op.70
César Franck – Symphony in D Minor
— New York Philharmonic – Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classics)

 
 

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Op 4 of the Beethoven. 

Edited May 20, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Balladeer]

  Ned Rorem: Piano Album 1/Six Friends (Naxos American Classics)

[l p]

 

[A Lark Ascending]

SQ1 and 2. Had this a while but was really taken by No. 2 this morning. 1 sounds like a pretty generic late-19thC thing but 2 seems of the world of Verklarte Nacht, Pelleas and Melisande.

Disc 8 - No. 5, 6, 7. 

The middle movement here is one of my favourite pieces of Mahler.

Off Spotify. Exploring. 

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - String Trio Op.9/1

 

Svendsen - Octet for Strings  Op.3

[l p]

1954

[A Lark Ascending]

[Peter Friedman]

[king ubu]

[alankin]

Sergei Rachmaninov – Concerto for Piano No.3 in D minor Op.30
— Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra – Riccardo Chailly
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Concerto for Piano No.1 in B flat minor Op.23
— Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Kirill Kondrashin
Martha Argerich (piano) [Philips / Deutsche Grammophon]

 
 

Edited May 21, 2016 by alankin

[A Lark Ascending]

More exploring in the outer regions. 

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Half a day later:

Cello Sonata, two Piano Trios and a couple of shorter things. 

Edited May 22, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op.33/3

Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio Op.50 (Arthur Rubinstein / Heifetz / Paitigorsky)

[A Lark Ascending]

Following up a live performance of SQ 1 I heard last week. Absolutely beautiful piece that will get a lot of attention in the next few days. SQ2 needs more listening; The earlier Andante and Allegro could have been mistaken for a couple of tracks on the John Ireland CD I was listening to previously. 

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

At the more neoclassical end of mid 20thC British music - Rawsthorne territory. Enjoyable without knocking your socks off [edit: actually, it's more engaging than that lukewarm assessment suggests]. 

29 of the Ludwig. 

Edited May 23, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orch. K.365

Franck - Violin Sonata

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 1 of the middle one.