What are YOU listening to today?

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:56 am

maestrob wrote:

The Biber thread prompted me to pull out this excellent release from 1994....

hmmm... that's a disk which looks like it should sell itself..

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:03 pm

Sibelius - Symphony No.3 (Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Melodiya)

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:52 pm

Beethoven - Symphony No.5 (Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Live)

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:19 pm

I havent finished all 14 cds of Box 6 (1990-2000) of the Concertgebouw Anthologies, but inevitably, there are marvelous things here. There is an imposing Mahler Fifth from Klaus Tennstedt (December 1990), a superbly played Pastoral from Wolfgang Sawallisch, a warm and thoughtful Verklarte Nacht from Pierre Boulez, and even for Solti aficionados a Shostakovich 1 contemporaneous to his DECCA recording.
It is particularly interesting to hear conductors not usually associated with this great orchestra, like Kurt Masur in a Tod und Verklarung, or even better Andre Previn in a larger than life Elgar Second that easily eclipses his studio recording..
There are some performances that one wonders why they were published, like a Berlioz Nuits d Ete with Ann Murray a little bit past her prime, but almost everything else is worth hearing. Box 5 had more treasures, but this is good too.

johnQpublic · Post by **johnQpublic** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:53 pm

Alyabiev - Overture to "The Magic Drum" (Korsakov/MCA)
Rachmaninov - Vespers (Polyansky/Melodiya BMG)

alarickc · Post by **alarickc** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:15 am

alarickc · Post by **alarickc** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:18 am

josé echenique wrote:

I havent finished all 14 cds of Box 6 (1990-2000) of the Concertgebouw Anthologies, but inevitably, there are marvelous things here. There is an imposing Mahler Fifth from Klaus Tennstedt (December 1990), a superbly played Pastoral from Wolfgang Sawallisch, a warm and thoughtful Verklarte Nacht from Pierre Boulez, and even for Solti aficionados a Shostakovich 1 contemporaneous to his DECCA recording.
It is particularly interesting to hear conductors not usually associated with this great orchestra, like Kurt Masur in a Tod und Verklarung, or even better Andre Previn in a larger than life Elgar Second that easily eclipses his studio recording..
There are some performances that one wonders why they were published, like a Berlioz Nuits d Ete with Ann Murray a little bit past her prime, but almost everything else is worth hearing. Box 5 had more treasures, but this is good too.

By chance have you had a listen to the SFS Mahler boxset in the background? If so, what are your thoughts? I've been considering it, but at that price tag I'd like to be sure.

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:47 am

I have some but not all of MTT´s Mahler recordings. I can tell you that the San Francisco Symphony plays very well, and the recording sound is outstanding. Of those I have, I liked the First, the Resurrection and the 4th. But in the Sixth for example I didn´t feel that MTT had anything special to say.
If you want an American Mahler cycle, with outstanding sound, maybe Manfred Honeck´s, with the Pittsburgh Symphony will be worth waiting for, though so far only symphonies 1, 3 and 4 have been released. Very interesting and exciting performances.

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:26 am

Carol Neblett, Rene Kollo and Hermann Prey were in their prime season when Leinsdorf revealed the great moments in Korngold's masterpiece. This recording has never been bettered in the 36 years since it was originally issued on LPs in 1975.

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:25 pm

Beethoven - Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Live)

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:19 pm

Mendelssohn - Symphony No.3 'Scottish' (James Levine, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, DG)

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:57 pm

Haydn - 'Missa in tempore belli' (April Cantelo/Helen Watts/Robert Tear/Barry McDaniel/George Guest, The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Decca)

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:21 pm

bombasticDarren wrote:Haydn - 'Missa in tempore belli' (April Cantelo/Helen Watts/Robert Tear/Barry McDaniel/George Guest, The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Decca)

It's great to see you joining the Haydn Mass club Darren... what do you make of those recordings?

Incidentally, this one is an absolutely stunner of a 3CD set in a handsome booklet package and all at a decidedly handsome price:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pergolesi-Colle ... 077&sr=1-1

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:29 pm

Jared wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:Haydn - 'Missa in tempore belli' (April Cantelo/Helen Watts/Robert Tear/Barry McDaniel/George Guest, The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Decca)

It's great to see you joining the Haydn Mass club Darren... what do you make of those recordings?

Exceptional so far. I have a soft spot for the Haydn masses, but I really should listen to them more, they are wonderfully tuneful and vibrant

I have the Gardiner series of Haydn masses which was released in 3 intsallments by Philips. They are also very good

johnQpublic · Post by **johnQpublic** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:40 pm

LPs

Gluck/Wagner - Overture to "Iphigenie en Aulide" (Klemperer/Angel)
Wagner - Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from "Gotterdammerung" (Steinberg/Command)
Webern - Four Songs, Op. 13 (Poli/Everest)
Weill - Symphony No. 2 (Bertini/Angel)

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:41 pm

Kodaly - 'Dances of Galanta' (Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Philips)

alarickc · Post by **alarickc** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:28 pm

josé echenique wrote:I have some but not all of MTT´s Mahler recordings. I can tell you that the San Francisco Symphony plays very well, and the recording sound is outstanding. Of those I have, I liked the First, the Resurrection and the 4th. But in the Sixth for example I didn´t feel that MTT had anything special to say.
If you want an American Mahler cycle, with outstanding sound, maybe Manfred Honeck´s, with the Pittsburgh Symphony will be worth waiting for, though so far only symphonies 1, 3 and 4 have been released. Very interesting and exciting performances.

Good to know, thanks!

johnQpublic · Post by **johnQpublic** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:51 am

Britten - An American Overture (Fredman/Naxos)
Schuller - The Past is in the Present (composer/New World)
Singleton - Shadows (Shaw/Nonesuch)

absinthe · Post by **absinthe** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:15 pm

arthound · Post by **arthound** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:47 am

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:04 am

Busoni: a mad genius.
This stravaganza of an opera is not unlike his better known piano concerto: grandiose, grandiloquent and self-regarding, perhaps too much of a good thing, but hugely enjoyable nonetheless. The Nagano recording is a worthy successor to the pioneering 1970 Ferdinand Leitner/DG recording.
Perhaps recording projects as expensive as this was one of the reasons that Warner eventually decided to close ERATO, but we must be thankful for the effort, it´s very unlikely that we will ever get another Doktor Faust.

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:03 am

arthound wrote:

Great stuff!

I grew up with these recordings, and they are still high on my regular playlist.

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:48 pm

This is really lovely music and is well played and recorded.

While I was listening to it I was reminded of Peter (Dimma) whom we seem to have lost following the recent Crash.

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:03 pm

Vaughan Williams - 'Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus' & 'The Sons of Light' (David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Naxos)

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:20 pm

Beethoven - Symphony No.7 (Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Live)

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:32 pm

bombasticDarren wrote:Vaughan Williams - 'Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus' & 'The Sons of Light' (David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Naxos)

that looks like a wonderful disk Darren... is it well performed?

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:33 pm

just loving this disk at the moment... Biber is indeed rather addictive...

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:41 pm

Jared wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:Vaughan Williams - 'Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus' & 'The Sons of Light' (David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Naxos)

that looks like a wonderful disk Darren... is it well performed?

Yes, it is. The 5VDL (!) was markedly slower than I am used to, and 'Sons of Light' was a slight piece very well performed. I am a fan of this orchestra at any rate, but this disc can be yours very cheaply and is worth a punt

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:44 pm

^^ thanks Darren.. there are simply too many disks out there that can be ours cheaply and are worth a punt... my list is just a little too long at present, although I'll bear it in mind.

here's one for you if you don't already own it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delius-Complete ... 648&sr=1-2

£1.99 inc P&P? it's delightfully played!

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:46 am

----------Courtesy of Adam Dubin over at rmcr, a program of violin works from the electrical era 1925-49:

1. Kujawiak (Mazurka, Op. 3, No. 2) (Wieniawski) Cecilia Hansen,
violin with Boris Zakharoff, piano 3:24 Victor 6550-A (CVE-32163-9;
Camden 29-Oct-1925)

2. Hejre Kati (Scene from the Czardas; Op. 32, No. 4) (Jenö Hubay)
Cecilia Hansen, violin with Boris Zakharoff, piano 4:37 Victor 6550-B
(CVE-32191-6; Camden 29-Oct-1925)

3. La Romanesca (16 C. Melody harmonized by Joseph Achron)Yehudi
Menuhin, violin with Louis Persinger, piano 3:40 Victor 6841-A
(PCVE-42093-2; Oakland 15-March-1928)

4. Sierra Morena (Serenata Andaluza) (J. de Monasterio) Yehudi Menuhin,
violin with Louis Persinger, piano 4:36 Victor 6841-B (PCVE-42090-5;
Oakland 15-March-1928)

5. Adagio from Concerto No. 3 in G (Mozart) Yehudi Menuhin, violin with
Louis Persinger, piano 4:34 Victor 7182-A (ca.1930)

6. Sarabande & Tamborin (Leclair-Sarasate) Yehudi Menuhin, violin with
Louis Persinger, piano 4:33 Victor 7182-B (ca. 1930)

7. Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22, No. 3 (Sarasate) Yehudi Menuhin, violin
with Marcel Gazelle, piano 4:43 Victor 8695-A (2EA561; 1934)

8. La Ronde Des Lutins (Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 25) (Bazzini)Yehudi
Menuhin, violin with Marcel Gazelle, piano 4:09 Victor 8695-B (2EA562?;
1934)

9. Tzigane (Rapsodie de Concert) (Ravel) Jascha Heifetz, violin with
Árpád Sándor, piano 7:49 Victor 8411 (1934)

10. An Einsamer Quelle (By a Hidden Stream; Op. 9, No. 2) (R. Strauss)
Jascha Heifetz, violin with Árpád Sándor, piano 3:44 Victor 14369-A
(2B6042; ca. 1937)

11. Largo on G String (Clerambault-Dandelot) Jascha Heifetz, violin
with Árpád Sándor, piano 3:58 Victor 14369-B (2B6052; ca. 1937)

12. Largo al factotum (Rossini-Castelnuovo-Tedesco) Jascha Heifetz with
Milton Kaye, piano 5:25 Decca 29153-A (72445; 17-Oct-1944)

13. Gweedore Brae (arr. John Crowther) Jascha Heifetz with Milton Kaye,
piano 3:16 Decca 29153-B (72454; 18-Oct-1944)

14. Romanze (Albumblatt) (Wagner) Toscha Seidel, violin with Max
Rabinowitsch, piano 4:20 Columbia 9031-M (98275; 1926)

15. Air for G String (Bach) Toscha Seidel, violin with Max
Rabinowitsch, piano 4:34 Columbia 9031-M (98282; 1926)

16. Sonata in A Major (Mozart-Tertis)--I. Allegro molto II. Theme with
variations Lionel Tertis, viola (with unknown pianist) 6:56 Columbia
50151-D (AX-3118/3119; 1927)

17. Siciliano & Rigaudon (Francoeur-Kreisler) Joseph Szigeti, violin
with piano accomp. (unknown) 3:25 Columbia 7131-M (AX-1788; 1926)

18. Zephyr, Op. 30, No. 5 (Jenö Hubay) Joseph Szigeti, violin with
piano accomp. (unknown) 3:27 Columbia 7131-M (AX-1789; 1926)

19. The Fountain of Arethusa (from Myths, Op. 30) (Szymanowski) Joseph
Szigeti, violin with Nikita de Magaloff, piano 5:27 Columbia 7304-M
(AX-6851-52; 1933)

20. Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov-Hartmann) Joseph Szigeti,
violin with Nikita de Magaloff, piano 1:11 Columbia 7304-M (AX-6852;
1933)

21. Pastorale (Stravinsky) Joseph Szigeti, violin with Nikita de
Magaloff, piano 1:12 Columbia 7304-M (AX-6852; 1933)

22. Hexapoda (Five Studies in Jitteroptera) (Robert Russell Bennett)
Louis Kaufman, violin with Robert Russell Bennett, piano 6:55 Columbia
70727-D (AM 1376/1377; ca. 1941)

23. Concertino de Printemps for Violin & Orchestra (Milhaud)
(1934)Louis Kaufman, violin with members of the French National Radio
Diffusion Orchestra conducted by Darius Milhaud 8:26 Capitol Classics
8-86013 (5337/5338; 1949)

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:00 am

Jared wrote: here's one for you if you don't already own it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delius-Complete ... 648&sr=1-2

£1.99 inc P&P? it's delightfully played!

I will second that one Jared

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:01 am

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:01 am

A slow but masterful rendition of Sonata D.894

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:14 am

this disk is as pure as the driven snow...

as indeed is the one I've just changed it for:

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:42 am

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:02 pm

For Jared....

johnQpublic · Post by **johnQpublic** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:46 pm

A bevy of Bedrich

Smetana - Overture to "Two Widows" (Stankovsky/Marco Polo)
Smetana - March of the Student's Legion (Neumann/Orfeo)
Smetana - Festive Symphony in E (Kuchar/Brilliant)

Seán · Post by **Seán** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:31 pm

Lance's program, Sat., Oct. 8, 2011 - Nadejda Vlaeva

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:57 am

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:44 am

This is a very interesting recording in that it sounds quite different from other recordings that I have of Palestrina’s work. Reading from the liner notes the recording is “based on a careful study of original sources and seeks to restore earlier performance traditions.” It certainly sounds like it and it is quite different and thoroughly enjoyable.

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:59 am

This Sunday morning I´ll visit Antonio Caldara first:

And then Hans Pfitzner:

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:39 pm

Beethoven - Triple Concerto (Bernard Nikolitch/Tim Hugh/Lars Vogt/Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Live)

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:19 pm

Schumann - Piano Concerto (Dinu Lipatti/Herbert von Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra, EMI)

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:25 pm

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:30 pm

Fergus wrote:

That's a disc that requires another airing from me shortly

How did you find it Fergus?

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:46 pm

bombasticDarren wrote:
Fergus wrote:
That's a disc that requires another airing from me shortly

How did you find it Fergus?

Powerful music that was well performed....thoroughly enjoyable Darren.

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:52 pm

Ravel - 'Bolero' (Jos van Immerseel, Anima Eterna, Zig Zag Territories)

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 2:57 pm

Beethoven - Symphony No.8 (Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Live)

johnQpublic · Post by **johnQpublic** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:34 pm

R. Halffter - Obertura festiva (Encinar/Naxos)
Mansurian - Rovem (Lazarev/Vox)
Schnittke - Concerto Grosso #4/Symphony #5 (Jarvi/BIS)

Wallingford · Post by **Wallingford** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:34 pm

...a bit of a look back at a recently bankrupted orchestra...the Philadelphia Orchestra, in some vintage live concerts:

Mozart's Piano Concerto #25 (Klien/Slatkin, from '76)
Schubert's Ninth (Kertesz, from '69)
Mendelssohn's Fifth, the "Reformation" (Wm. Smith, from '73)

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