What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[JSngry]

Liking this a lot, especially the string quartet.

[A Lark Ascending]

Another listen to this record from a few years back. Really engaging compositions from this young composer - especially like the clarinet concerto. I really need to listen to them one at a time rather than all in one go. There's a concert of one of these pieces plus a new piano concerto (along with a music by Boulez and Carter) in Birmingham in March that I'm strongly tempted to make the journey for.

Two other discs that have been bewitching me of late. The recording quality of the Norgard is stunning. 

And today's seasonal choice...

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Piano Quartet No.2, K.493

Schubert - Fantasy in C major, D.934 - Szymon Goldberg & Raud Lupu

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Sonata D.784

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.2

[StarThrower]

Piano concertos; Le Tombeau de Couperin

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - String Quartet D.703 "Quartettsatz" & D.804 "Rosamunde"

[StarThrower]

Disc 1

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 23:
Niccolò Paganini 
– Centone di Sonate for Violin and Guitar Op.64/1 in A major
– Sonatas (6) for Violin and Guitar Op.3/6 in E minor
– Sonata Concertata for Violin and Guitar in A major Op.61/MS 2
– Cantabile for Violin and Piano in D major Op.17
Mauro Giuliani
– Duo concertant for Violin and Guitar in E minor Op.25
Itzhak Perlman (violin) & John Williams (guitar) (Columbia Masterworks / Sony Classical)

 

Edited December 26, 2016 by alankin

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 12:
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No.4 (Sony Classics)
Carlos Chávez – Sinfonía India (Sony Classics)
David Diamond – Symphony No.4
— New York Philharmonic – Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classics)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quartets K.172 & K.173 

Brahms - Serenade No.2

[StarThrower]

[Peter Friedman]

Brahms Piano Trio No.2, Op.87

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.20, K.466

[StarThrower]

[A Lark Ascending]

Three of the discs containing Christmas music.

Can't have played that in 20 years - what a delightful piece. Wears its Wagner on its sleeve but also has the feel of Wunderhorn era Mahler. Really enjoyed it.

No 2 from the Sibelius; 6, In the Fen Country and an orchestral arrangement of 'On Wenlock Edge' from the RVW.

3 & 4

[alankin]

Jean-Philippe Rameau – Hippolyte et Acricie, Orchestral Suite
— La Petite Bande – Sigiswald Kuijken (deutsche harmonia mundi)

[alankin]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Quartet for Strings No.16 in E flat major K 428 (421b)
– Quartet for Strings No.17 in B flat major K 458 "Hunt"
Hagen Quartett (Deutsche Grammophon)

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 7:
Darius Milhaud – Symphonic Suite No.2 Op.57
Ernest Chausson – Poème for Violin & Orchestra Op.25 — Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Louis Gruenberg – Violin Concerto Op.47 — Jasucha Heifetz (violin) 
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor / Sony Classical)

 
 

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata D.821- Rostropovich & Britten

Franck - Trio No.1 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, alankin said:

Now playing, CD 7:
Darius Milhaud – Symphonic Suite No.2 Op.57
Ernest Chausson – Poème for Violin & Orchestra Op.25 — Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Louis Gruenberg – Violin Concerto Op.47 — Jasucha Heifetz (violin) 
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor / Sony Classical)

 
 

Beautiful ....

[alankin]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Beautiful ....

I didn't know Gruenberg, so I looked him up.  This concerto was commissioned by Heifetz in 1944, premiered by Ormandy in Philadelphia and recorded by Monteux in 1945.

Gruenberg did a lot of film work in Hollywood from 1939-1950 had several Academy Award nominations.  He was an uncredited contributor to the score for John Ford's classic Western "Stagecoach."

Edited December 28, 2016 by alankin

[alankin]

Antonín Dvořák – Concerto for Cello in B minor Op.104 B.191 — USSR State Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra – Boris Khaikin, 1957
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Cello in A minor Op.129 — USSR State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 1960 
— Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) [Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists]

 

Edited December 28, 2016 by alankin

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, alankin said:

Antonín Dvořák – Concerto for Cello in B minor Op.104 B.191 — USSR State Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra – Boris Khaikin, 1957
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Cello in A minor Op.129 — USSR State Symphony Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 1960 
— Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) [Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists]

 

This "Historic Russian Archives" release is a true treasure trove ....

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 3 of the Sib. 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quintet K.516

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 3 (Columbia Masterworks / Sony Classics) —
Robert Casadesus (piano)

Vincent D'Indy – Symphony on a French Mountain Air Op.25
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto for Piano No.21 in C major K 467
— Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York – Charles Munch

César Franck – Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra M 46
— The Philharmonia Orchestra – George Weldon 

     

1949-50.

 

Edited December 29, 2016 by alankin