Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #70)

Listened to an excellent Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus by Schubert, the complete incidental music to the play. Fine sound.
Claudio Abbado
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Released in 1991
DGG
from the box Claudio Abbado - The Symphony Edition.


This was the 1991 CD cover:

 

Now listening to "Bach - Italian Concerto 971/French Overture 831/4 Duetti/Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue 903" performed by Christophe Rousset on Decca.

 

Listening to Ms. Gaillard perform works for cello and piano by Chopin (via Spotify).

 

Oddly, I liked the early Schubert in that box, but didn't care for the "Unfinished" at all. I deferred listening to the 9th as a consequence.

I also listened to the openings of Mahler's 6th and 5th from that box several days ago. I had just enjoyed Tennstedt's 6th, and wanted to do bit of comparison. The sound quality of Abbado's 6th was very strange: quite distant, eliminating the tension in the music. I played the openings of my recordings by Bernstein and Solti as well, and Abbado sounded anemic. I then switched to his 5th. The sound quality was much better, but the introductory passages were taken much slower than in any other performance. I recalled that when I first heard this I was put off by it, but this time I found it lyrical in a way I had never associated with the passage before. So - the message is ears change, mood changes and response changes. Maybe one day, I'll give his Unfinished another try.

 

As a friend of mine once said, you have to put on different ears for different kinds of music - and different interpretations I guess, but he wasn't into classical.

 

Now listening to "Cabezon - Comiencan los duos para principiantes/Comiencan las obras de a tres para principiantes" performed by Harmonices Mundi, La Moranda and Claudio Astronio (organ/harpsichord) on Brilliant.

(from arkivmusic.com)....
Tres dúos para principiantes para mostrar a llevar el compas
Dos Ave maris stellas. Lleva el canto llano el contrabajo
Dos Ave maris stellas. Lleva el canto llano el triple
Te lucis ante terminum
Duo
Tres Kiryes sobre el canto llano de Rex Virginum
Ave maris stella, de Hernando de Cabeçon. Lleva el canto llano el contrabaxo
Otra Ave maris stella. Canto llano, el tenor
Pange lingua. Canto llano tenor
Otra pange lingua

 

Now listening:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No.17 K453, No.21 K467, No.6 238
— Camerata Academica des Salzburg Mozarteums – Geza Anda, piano and conductor (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

Listened to a playlist which include: Bach - Violin Concerto #2; Auber - Le Cheval De Bronze (Overture); Albinoni - Oboe Concerti in B Flat op.9, #11; and Prokofiev - Symphony # 3.
These recordings are from these cds:

 

Grumiaux is wonderful, but I don't have him doing the concertos.

I did listen to Rachel Podger's recording of the Bach Violin Concertos last evening.

I have the Auber/Suppe disc courtesy of the first MLP box set.

 

I don't know if this has been posted in an earlier instalment of this topic, but I just found out that Sony Korea released a complete Lazar Berman set in 2014 with 6 CDs. I posted the tracklisting below. How are these interpretations in general and also compared to his Deutsche Grammophon recordings?

Tracklisting:

CD1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
01-03. Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, op.57 >>Appassionata
04-07. Piano Sonata No.18 in E-flat major, op.31-3


CD2
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
01-03. Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30
Lazar Berman, piano / London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado


CD3 ENCORES - Recorded in England
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
01. Prelude in C-sharp minor op.3-2
02. Prelude in G major op.32-5
03. Prelude in G minor op.23-5

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (1871-1915)
04. Etude in B-flat minor op.8-11
05. Etude in D-sharp minor op.8-12

ARAM KHACHATURIAN (1903-1978)
06. Toccata

SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
07. March from >>The love of the three oranges

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
08. Turkish March from >>Die Ruinen von Athen
09. Minuet in G major from Piano Sonata No.20 op.49-2

FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)
10. Etude in C-sharp minor op.25-7

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) 프란츠 슈베르트 - FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
11. Gretchen am Spinnrade, S.513 (Schubert: D.118)
12. Der Erlkonig, S.557a (Schubert: D.328)

MANUEL DE FALLA (1876-1946)
13. Danza Ritual del Fuego from >>El Amor Brujo


CD4
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
01-03. Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op.15
Lazar Berman, piano / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf


CD5 LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL, Disc 1
MUZIO CLEMENTI (1752-1832)
01. Sonata in B minor, op.40-2

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
02. Rondo in A minor, K.511

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) 루드비히 판 베토벤
03-05. Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, op.13 >>Pathetique


CD 6 LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL, Disc 2
FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)
01-04. Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, op.35

FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
05. Trauervorspiel und Trauermarsch, S.206
06. Rhapsodie Espagnole, S.254

ENCORES:
FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)
07. Nocturne in E minor, op.72-1

GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937)
08. Prelude No.2

 

Berliner Philharmoniker have been trying to choose a new chief conductor for about 12 hours now. No results yet. I think I'm going to go to bed after the Mendelssohn symphony...

 

I didn't know the MLP box sets existed. I have just checked them out. I have 3 of the cds included in the first box. Those box sets are certainly rated highly. Hmmm.....

 

Mendelssohn's Third. The 'Scottish'. Last week, first listening: weird, is this Mendelssohn? (But the Hebrides made a lasting effect on me - on stereo system, not with headphones like now. Powerful.) Now the second listening: not bad, actually, but perhaps not "romantic" enough (from the late twentieth century understandig of the "romantic")? Then again, there are moment that simply silence me, Adagio is finely crafted, not too much in a sea of "churning emotions". It's a library loan, but considering buying it - even though there's no way to listen to the Blu-ray audio. The hybrid would have been enough for me.

 

I'm still having that LP. Never loved it - except the pretty cover. Was "Elvira Madigan" a film?

 

Yes.

 

Try Brahms' Concerto, Grumiaux with Concertgebouw Orch.

 

That I have.

 

I suspected it was some seventies romantic TV-series but clearly confused it with something else.

 

Anyone? I'd really like to hear a few opinions on these recordings.

 

I haven't heard them, sorry. BUT I have heard enough of Berman's work to conclude that everything by him is a wise purchase.

 

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Not to be confused with his second, the symphony about ears: "Lobe Gesang."

 

After reading their post on Facebook, they may be at this a while...

 

I added this box to my JS collection two or three years ago. Rousset is an excellent harpsichordist ...

 

Now playing CD31 - Symphonies Nos 94 & 96 from the following box for a first listen ...