What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Carlo Maria Giulini - Great Conductors of the 20th Century
Pulled this out so I could hear Giulini's Beethoven 7 with the Chicago SO.  It's a superb rendition.

This "Great Conductors Of The 20th Century" series unearthed some tremendous performances ....

Edited September 14, 2016 by soulpope

[A Lark Ascending]

Rameau's greatest hits assembled as a sort of instrumental suite. Real skipping round the kitchen music (with the odd pining lament [was there ever a greater tear-jerker than 'Tristes apprets']). Works on the exercise bike too. 

Edited September 14, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Each listening of this recording unfolds new details and aspects .... a major coup indeed ....

Edited September 14, 2016 by soulpope

[Peter Friedman]

Blanc - Septett, Op.40

Dvorak - Piano Quintet, Op.81

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven – Concerto for Piano No.1 in C major Op.15
– Concerto for Piano No.2 in B flat major Op.19
— Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano) – Tafelmusik on period instruments, Jeanne Lamon music director – Bruno Weil (Vivarte / Sony Classical)

 
 

[l p]

Three-Part Inventions, BWV 788-801 (from Moscow, 1957)

concertos #1, and #5

[A Lark Ascending]

First three parts.

The Dove is a real beauty. Written in memory of a young man who drowned. Very much of the world of Britten's 'Spring Symphony'. I don't know its performance history but I would imagine this could be very popular. The forces needed - orchestra, choirs, vocal soloists- probably prevent it from being a regular with local community music groups. But it's immediate enough to get a place there. 

Edited September 14, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Earlier this evening .... :

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quartet K.387

Brahms - Cello Sonata No.2, Op.99

[HutchFan]

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor/ Ivo Pogorelich (DG)
As usual with Pogorelich, his interpretation is "far off the beaten path." 

 

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse / Lazar Berman
from Berman's The Deutsche Grammophon Recordings box 

I admire Pogorelich's Liszt. But I love Berman's. 

[A Lark Ascending]

Op 114 of the latter.

Edited September 15, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor/ Ivo Pogorelich (DG)
As usual with Pogorelich, his interpretation is "far off the beaten path." 

 

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse / Lazar Berman
from Berman's The Deutsche Grammophon Recordings box 

I admire Pogorelich's Liszt. But I love Berman's. 

Agreed - but I (also) love Pogorelich`s Chopin and Scarlatti (!!!) ....

Edited September 15, 2016 by soulpope

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[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

Brahms: Lieder / Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles (Harmonia Mundi)

[soulpope]

Wunderbar ....

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

The second three parts.

[HutchFan]

Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos / Dmitri Alexeev, Yuri Temirkanov, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI)

[Balladeer]

Marcelo Bratke (p) & Susana Lamosa (sopran) -
Santoro: Love Songs and Popular Songs, Paulistinas for solo piano (Quartz)

[HutchFan]

Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto / Ferenc Fricsay, RSO Berlin (DG)
- Triple Cto soloists: Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Géza Anda, Pierre Fournier
- Double Cto soloists: Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Janos Starker

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[HutchFan]

Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 / Géza Anda (DG)

Immaculate.

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 / Géza Anda (DG)

Immaculate.

!!

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 3. My favourite. Danish Vaughan Williams.

 

Nice programming of three pieces from the same world but with contrasting forces. 

Edited September 16, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[HutchFan]

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 / London Philharmonic Orchestra
What an electric performance! It may be my imagination, but it seems to me that Jochum's personality comes SHINING THROUGH in his work as a conductor -- and the two qualities that strike me most forcefully are his sense of humanism and his sense of the sacred. Better still, while hearing him conduct this music, you realize (sense? remember? hope?) that those two things are really one thing.

That is great artistry.

Edited September 16, 2016 by HutchFan