Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Now playing: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5; Hamlet Overture - Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev - recorded 1995

CD 5 from this box set:

 

Yes, it's outstanding and shows what a great symphony the 4th is.

 

On the turntable...I bought this LP while in college, when I was working on Bentzon's Trumpet Sonata. I was intrigued by his harmonic and tonal language and his flair for textures and dramatic musical statements. He certainly has an individual aesthetic, which I like.

 

Listening to this now, via Qobuz. Though this is an older recording at this point (2001, 2002) I hadn't even realized it was out there. And if there's a cellist better positioned to do justice to the Bach Cello Suites than Wieland Kuiken, I have no idea who that is. Absolutely, achingly, almost painfully beautiful playing here. Thanks for posting this, @coopmv !

 

Now playing: Igor Stravinsky - Symphony Of Psalms; Symphony In C; Symphony In Three Movements - BPO, Simon Rattle - recorded 2007

 

Now playing the following CD, a recent arrival for a first listen ...

 

This 2017 Decca Korea CD box set has the nine Bruckner symphonies in live performances and various editions with the Korean Symphony Orchestra under Hun-Joung Lim. Symphony No. 1 for example is the rarely recorded 1893 Hynais edition. Nothing here screams "essential," but the sound is pleasant, and the playing, if a little impersonal, is dedicated, well balanced, and true to the music.

 

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I have the Cello Suites by Anner Bylsma in the Vivarte I big box and they are beautifully played.

I think Anner Bylsma had probably recorded these Viola da Gamba pieces with either van Asperen or Leonhardt as well ...

 

Now playing: Karl Amadeus Hartmann - String Quartets; Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz - Airis String Quartet

 

Ah, thanks for reminding me. I'd completely forgotten about that!

 

NP:

Vaughan Williams
Five Mystical Songs
Thomas Allen, baritone
English Chamber Orchestra
Matthew Best



Absolutely exquisite.

 

NP:

Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Chailly

 

I really like this cover and the related Cantata cycle photos. They are colourful and a geeat change from the typical baroque CD standard. I love the CD too.

 

This morning early with black coffee. Beethoven-6th Symphony and “Egmont” overture.( 1970).

 

Ravel. USSR State Radio and TV Orchestra, conducted by Rozhdestvensky. Grand Choir of State Radio and TV. ( No date set forth). Incidentally, vis-a-vis the previous thread discussion of a Rozhdestvensky box, the Legendary Soviet Recordings collection of the Yedang Classics issues of archive recordings is the closest we can currently get to an over-view of the Maestro conducting a range of composer works. For specific symphony cycles of Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, etc., there are Melodiya boxes( although some are now OOP and high priced).

 

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Listening to "The Spirits Of England And France - Volume 4" performed by Gothic Voices directed by Christopher Page on Helios.

Missa Caput and the story of the Salve Regina

 

Now playing CD2 - Edward Elgar Enigma Variations with Pierre Monteux and Conductorless Tchaikovsky Suite from the Nutcracker, Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture and Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger Act I

from the following twofer, which arrived yesterday for a first listen ...

 

First listen to CD 10 from "Leonard Bernstein Edition - The Vocal Works" on Sony.

Bloch - Avodath Hakodesh Robert Merrill, Choir of the Metropolitan Synagogue, Choir of the Community Church of New York, New York Philharmonic

 

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This is lovely.

 

Love Piero Della Francesca, one of the greatest painters ever.

 

Now playing CD1 from the following trio - Cello Suites Nos. 1 -3 for a first listen ...

 

Great post

My memory isn't so clear but I do recall being impressed with the Brahms symphonies I heard from Kubelik. Australian Eloquence is one of my favorite reissue labels right now.