Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Same here. I have the CD version of that release and love it.

 

Listening tonight to music from YouTube. First was this recording, issued on Hänssler Edition in 1998. The organ is at the Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt. I followed it with choral & organ music by Samuel Wesley (1766-1837), who was the son of hymn writer Charles Wesley & nephew of Methodist founder John Wesley.

 

J.S. Bach -- Musical Offering (Leonhardt Ensemble)

 

Absolutely. I love Ferras.

 

Listening to "Koechlin - Chamber Music For Oboe" featuring Stefan Schilli (oboe) on Oehms Classics.


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Listening to CD 3 from "Annie Fischer - The Complete Piano Sonatas Of Ludwig Van Beethoven" on Hungarton.

32 C minor Op. 111
20 G Major Op.49/2
7 D Major Op.10/3
10 G Major Op. 14/2

 

Another new (to me) Czech composer. To my inexperienced ears, sounds like Mozart in places. Liking this a lot

 

Something light but bracing for the afternoon:



WA Mozart - Symphony No. 32 K.318 - Pinnock/English Concert

Lovely natural horns on the first movement, some real gusto.

 

Ended up listening to the whole CD, so add Symphonies 34, 35 (Haffner) and 36 (Linz) to that.

Quite a tonic to listen to Mozart turned up loud at this gloomy time of year.

 

Continuing with my Mahler 9 odyssey

Today:
Klemperer with the Philharmonia Orchestra


Forgot to post this one yesterday
Kubelik with the Bavarian RSO



So far I'm liking both my Bavarians, (Haitink and Kubelik) ahead of the others.
I don't have a Bruno Walter Mahler 9 anymore - I had his 1938 Vienna recording (the world premiere recording) about 20 years ago, but its gone astray. I ought to get his Sony Mahler at the very least.

And if anyone can recommend the best CD issue of the 1938 Vienna, I'd be grateful.

 

Also today. New purchase from Presto on SACD, so listening in 96k/24bit stream on the Presto Music app while I wait for it to ship.

Mahler: 10th Symphony (Deryk Cooke's "performing version")
Minnesota Orchestra
C: Osmo Vanska

 

And listenng now - on BBC Sounds a few minutes behnd the Radio 3 broadcast.
A dream double act, part of Martha Argerich's 80th birthday celebrations:
(will be available at BBC Sounds for 28 days)

Martha Argerich and Maria João Pires
Radio 3 in Concert

Fiona Talkington introduces a concert in Victoria Hall, Geneva, in which Martha Argerich and Maria João Pires play the youthful Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Daniel Harding conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Mahler’s First Symphony.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 10 in E flat for Two Pianos, K. 365

Interval:

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D (‘Titan’)

Martha Argerich, piano
Maria João Pires, piano
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Daniel Harding, conductor

Concert recorded December 16, 2021.

Two of the greatest pianists of our time, Martha Argerich and Maria João Pires, collaborate in the delightful double concerto which Mozart wrote in 1779, probably to play with his sister Nannerl. After the interval, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande plays Mahler’s First Symphony, another product of youth, but nevertheless - like the Mozart - stylistically fully-formed.

 

Listening to "Joy To The World" performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra And Chorus conducted by Eugene Ormandy on RCA.

 

My favorite recording of these two works:

 

Listening to "The Spirits of England and France - Vol. 2" performed by Gothic Voices directed by Christopher Page on Hyperion.

Songs Of The Trouveres

Featuring:
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Margaret Philpot (alto)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Leigh Nixon (tenor)
Henry Wickham (baritone)

 

Another enjoyable disc from the Kurt Masur box, CD 41 with Liszt and Kodály.

Liszt: Symphonic Poem No. 6 Mazeppa, S. 100
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 “Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke” S110
Kodály: Theatre Overture
Kodály: Suite from Háry János

Kurt Masur
New York Philharmonic
1995

 

Now playing the following CD from my Rimsky-Korsakov collection ...





Not original jacket but all re-compiled music with excellent stereo sound ...

 

I like Kurt Masur and he used to live a few towns away until he passed away a few years ago. NYPO is sort of my hometown orchestra but I have never been a big fan of it ...

 

Anastasia Yasko announced today that she has a new album on the way for January 5th. It will be called Chopin Piano Works. It will be on the ARS Produktion label. She has a video up on YouTube in which she announces the album.

 

First listen to new arrival "Judy Loman - Illuminations" on Marquis Music. 2003

King David Sonata – Srul Irving Glick
Wild Bird – R. Murray Schafer
Danses Abstraites – Glenn Buhr
Illuminations – Kelly-Marie Murphy
The Lyre Of Orpheus – Raymond Luedeke

 

playing now: Piano Sonata No. 21 In C Major, Op. 53 (Waldstein)
Beethoven*, Wilhelm Kempff – Piano Sonatas

 

I actually have the following LP version on Angel, the American arm of EMI. It is kind of unusual that the CD has the same cover as this LP ...

 

On the turntable this evening: Schubert Quintet in C, Op.163.
The Juilliard Quartet with Bernard Greenhouse, Cellist.

Columbia Masterworks LP / 1974



Schubert wrote such beautiful chamber music... Music as beautiful as the jacket picture. (Sorry about the ring wear!)

 

Was this recorded before he founded the Beaux Arts Trio with Menahem Pressler and Daniel Guilet?

 

Dipping back into the Barbirolli Warner box, CD 21, all Elgar.

Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47
Elgar: Elegy, Op. 58

Sydney Errington (Viola)
Laurence Turner (Violin)
Sydney Partington (Violin)
Oliver Vella (Cello)
John Barbirolli
Hallé Orchestra
1956