What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

[David Ayers]

 

Last night:

 

Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin
Schumann Violin Concerto
Dvorák Symphony No 8 

Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Renaud Capuçon violin
London Symphony Orchestra

[A Lark Ascending]

And this morning:

Appropriate to Remembrance Day - includes 'Oration' (Bridge's lament for WWI), a cello concerto in all but name that ought to be far better known. 

 

[alankin]

Now playing, part of DVD 1:
Ludwig van Beethoven – Concerto for Piano No.1 in C major Op.15: 1st movement Allegro con brio — CBC Symphony Orchestra – Paul Sherman
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita for Keyboard No.5 in G major BWV 829: Courantevv — Chrysler Festival (excerpts)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.2 in C minor "Resurrection": 4th movement Urlicht — Maureen Forrester (alto) – Glenn Gould (conductor)
Johann Sebastian Bach  – Concerto for Harpsichord in F minor BWV 1056: 2nd & 3rd movements  — CBC Symphony Orchestra – Geoffrey  Waddington
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for Harpsichord in D minor BWV 1052 – Ottowa Symphony Orchestra – Thomas Meyer
Glenn Gould (piano)  (Sony Classical)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Op.64/1 & Op.64/3

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

Had this recording on LP back in the early 80s (much better cover than the CD reissue!). It's usually the fifth and eighth parts that stand out but yesterday the third for solo clarinet really caught my ear. I'm sure I can hear allusions to the cor anglais theme from Act III of Tristan in the A section and, possibly, Albrecht's 'Hagen, mein Sohn' from Gotterdammerung. Probably my fevered imagination. Superb piece using the four instruments in such different ways from section to section.  

Disc 8 - piano music - from the Eisler. Also a CD-r with the two Schoenberg chamber symphonies by different, ever so darling ensembles.

This morning:

 

Another of Bridge's Great War related pieces here - the Cello Sonata. A favourite cover as well. 

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[David Ayers]

Philharmonia

Jaime Martín conductor

Baiba Skride violin

 

MOZART Overture, La clemenza di Tito

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the meantime a "CD" - a legacy technology not everyone here may remember:

Fricker/Rawsthorne/RVW Violin Sonatas, Stanzeleit/Jacobson (1996)

Fine and interesting. 

Edited November 12, 2016 by David Ayers

[Peter Friedman]

[StarThrower]

Etudes For Piano Books 1 & 2 Pierre-Laurent Aimard

[soulpope]

[A Lark Ascending]

Op 77 No. 1

This morning:

Harawi (after hearing a live performance yesterday). 

[soulpope]

[Balladeer]

Christian Schulz (gtr) - Romanza (Oceanbar)

[alankin]

Agustín Barrios – Music of Barrios
— David Russell (guitar) (Telarc)

 

[soulpope]

Early afternoon listening .... :

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Violin Sonata  No.1, Op.12/1

Brahms -  String Quintet No.1, Op.88

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 36:
Ludwig van Beethoven – Concerto for Piano No.3 in C minor Op.37, – Concerto for Piano No.2 in B flat major Op.19
— Martha Argerich (piano) – Mahler Chamber Orchestra – Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon)

 
 

[A Lark Ascending]

Cold Sunday indoors:

First is a lovely piece rather like Britten's 'Spring Symphony' with added John Adams; London Symphony from the RVW. Never noticed the similarity between the Largo and the corresponding movement in the Dvorak New World before. 

CD 1 - 16, 17, 18 of first; 132 from second. 

This morning:

No 4 + 5

Edited November 14, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.2, Op12/2

Schubert - String Quartet D. 353

[jeffcrom]

Samuel Baron Plays 20th Century American Music for Solo Flute (CRI)

Excellent, austere music by Riegger, Mamlok, Kupferman, Perle, Wigglesworth, Martino, and Hovhaness.

[soulpope]

On 13.11.2016 at 3:15 PM, soulpope said:

Early afternoon listening .... :

Replay .... Gertler's performance is magnificent, Eva Bernathova owns a highly individual approach and the special merits of the Czech Philharmonics are on show .... still available for little money ....