What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Earlier today .... :

Indispensable ....

 A favorite here.

[JSngry]

Indigenous Instruments - The Music Of Steven Mackey (Newport Classic, 1993)

I like this. Like it a lot.

[Balladeer]

Paul Badura-Skoda - Tänze aus Wien (Gramola)

[Peter Friedman]

[jeffcrom]

Varese - The Complete Works (London); disc two:

Un grand sommeil noir
Offrandes
Hyperprism
Octandre
Integrales
Ecuatorial
Ionisation
Density 21.5
Deserts
Dance for Burgess

ASKO Ensemble conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Mireille Delunsch & Sarah Leonard, sopranos; Kevin Deas, bass; Jacques Zoon, flute.
 

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, jeffcrom said:

Varese - The Complete Works (London); disc two:

Un grand sommeil noir
Offrandes
Hyperprism
Octandre
Integrales
Ecuatorial
Ionisation
Density 21.5
Deserts
Dance for Burgess

ASKO Ensemble conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Mireille Delunsch & Sarah Leonard, sopranos; Kevin Deas, bass; Jacques Zoon, flute.
 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Varese - The Complete Works (London); disc two:

Un grand sommeil noir
Offrandes
Hyperprism
Octandre
Integrales
Ecuatorial
Ionisation
Density 21.5
Deserts
Dance for Burgess

ASKO Ensemble conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Mireille Delunsch & Sarah Leonard, sopranos; Kevin Deas, bass; Jacques Zoon, flute.
 

Exemplary performances ....

[A Lark Ascending]

Symph 3 from the Toch. Cantatas 55/89/115/60 off the Bach - the last includes the Chorale Berg uses in his Violin Concerto.

Ah! The Schoenberg Serenade - Arnie knew how to woo the girls. 

I to X of the Vingt. 

14 hours ago, JSngry said:

The Wergo label seems to be a fun place to go when you think you've heard everything but know you haven't.

Exemplary label. Not easy music - but I think that's the point. 

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

Zoltan Kocsis R.I.P .....

[soulpope]

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 22:
Claude Debussy 
– Trois Nocturnes for Orchestra  
– Jeux ("Poème Dansé")  
– Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune  
– La mer
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Bernard Haitink (Philips)

   
 

Edited November 8, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

String Quintet & Piano Quintet

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 9:
Gioachino Rossini – Stabat mater
— Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass), Carol Vaness (soprano), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo soprano), Francisco Araiza (tenor) 
— Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,  Bavarian Radio Chorus – Semyon Bychkov (conductor),  Jörg-Peter Weigle (chorus master) (Philips)

 

[David Ayers]

Excuse me if I have posted this before. There is a goldmine of material by Fricker on youtube, and the same user is posting lots of interesting material which can be found nowhere else. 

 

 

 

Do take a look. 

On Fricker alone he has two versions of this viola concerto!

As anyone interested in Fricker will know, there are maybe three commercially available digital recordings. Some other stuff this user has I should think there has never been any commercial recording. 

Edited November 9, 2016 by David Ayers

[A Lark Ascending]

Just the 'Jazz' Suites off the Shosty; 2 + 3 from the Prokofiev. 2 has never made much of an impression but 3 is a thrilling piece.

Disc 4 of the latter. 

XI - XX off the first; Op 77 No. 1 off second. 

Now something appropriate to my mood having lain awake all night listening to the world end...

(I'm not picking up tips!)

Edited November 9, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light ....”

[David Ayers]

Haitink still regularly comes to conduct the LSO in Bruckner or Mahler. A real great. Meanwhile André Previn has withdrawn from this week's concert with the LSO. I'm going to make the most of Haitink while he can still make make it onto the podium. This year, Mahler 9, Bruckner 7 and 9. 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, David Ayers said:

Haitink still regularly comes to conduct the LSO in Bruckner or Mahler. A real great. Meanwhile André Previn has withdrawn from this week's concert with the LSO. I'm going to make the most of Haitink while he can still make make it onto the podium. This year, Mahler 9, Bruckner 7 and 9. 

You are in for a treat .... guaranteed ....

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 2

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[Balladeer]

Maria Lettberg plays Erkki Melartin - Solo Piano Works 

Grateful for Crystal Records´ Piano rarities series that released this gem. Melartin, once student of Sibelius, deserves wider recognition.

Those Preludes and Impressions on Disc 2 are ceaselessly fascinating late romantic and expressionistic stuff.

Edited November 10, 2016 by Balladeer

[Tom 1960]

Symphony 5 and 6

[alankin]

John Bull – Doctor Bull’s Good Night
— Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord) (Naïve)

 

[A Lark Ascending]

139, 163, 52, 140 (including one of the big hits).

 

25, 27, 32, 33

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Cello Sonata Op.5/2

Beethoven - Piano Trio - No.2, Op.1/2