What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[mjzee]

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 46.

[HutchFan]

Hermann Scherchen - The 1950s Haydn Symphonies Recordings (DG, 2003)
Recordings originally made for Westminster with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Wiener Symphoniker

Disc 3: Symphonies No. 93; No. 94 "The Surprise"; and No. 104 "London"

I was reading in the liner notes that, at the time of their release, musicologist H. C. Robbins Landon described these recordings as "brilliant, intellectual, honest, uncompromising, and eccentric."  

I'd say those words sum up Scherchen's music-making in general.   

 

[Referentzhunter]

[Peter Friedman]

K.515  and  K.516

[Ron S]

Saint-Saens, Symphony No. 3 / Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" / French Military March / Danse macabre / Carnival of the Animals

Eugene Ormandy, E. Power Biggs (organ, symphony), Philadelphia Orchestra, Miscellaneous classical stars, e.g., Entremont, Tortelier, Ma, etc. (Carnival) (Sony)

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

K.515  and  K.516

Outstanding ....

[HutchFan]

Copland performed by his foremost advocate.  

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 as heard on this set:

Containing three TOP-TIER symphony cycles -- Beethoven's (with the LSO), Brahms' (with the LPO), and Bruckner's (with the Staatskapelle Dresden) -- this set is heard often at my house.   

 

[mjzee]

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 32.

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Disc 2: Schumann Symphony #4, Beethoven Symphony #4, Leonore Overture #3.

[Ron S]

Nielsen, Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5

Michael Schonwandt, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Dacapo)

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Ron S said:

Nielsen, Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5

Michael Schonwandt, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Dacapo)

As already mentioned wonderful ....

[Referentzhunter]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Copland performed by his foremost advocate.  

 

true, i believe

[Peter Friedman]

String Quintet D.956

[HutchFan]

I'm now listening to Géza Anda's wonderful performance of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. 

It's sides 5 & 6 in this 5-LP set:

Beethoven Bicentennial Collection: Music for Piano, Vol. VIII (DG, 1971)

 

[HutchFan]

More from the same Beethoven set. 

This time it's LvB's last Piano Sonata, No. 32, Op. 111, performed by Wilhelm Kempff. 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent 👌👍 ....

[soulpope]

One of my favourite "Das Lied von der Erde" performances ....

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart String Quartet  K.387  and Janacek String Quartet No.2

[HutchFan]

Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op.34

 

8 hours ago, soulpope said:

One of my favourite "Das Lied von der Erde" performances ....

Yes, it's magnificent.