[HenryPenfold]

Vaughan Williams conducted by Mark Elder, from a recent charity shop purchase. Principally Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, and Pastoral Symphony this morning.

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No such CDs in my local charity shops, I suppose we're all chavs!
I get both envious and mystified when people post about the great CDs they find in these shops!!!!

 

[Enthusiast]

I only had time for The Seamstress yesterday so I played the rest today.

 

[Manxfeeder]

CPE Bach, Duetto in E Minor, Flute Sonatas in A minor and Bb Minor

Helianthus Ensemble, Musica ad Rhenum, Federico Guglielmo, Roberto Loreggian, Pieter-Jan Belder

 

[allaroundmusicenthusiast]

Ginastera III. The exquisite Duo for Flute & Oboe

And later, Orchestral Works with the Guitar Sonata in between:

Pampeana No. 3, Ollantay, and the complete Estancia ballet

the Harp Concerto

Then, his other complete ballet, Panambí and the Piano Concerto No. 2

and last but not least, PC No. 1, the Variaciones Concertantes for orchestra and the Concierto argentino (with piano soloist)

 

[Rogerx]

Kraus: Symphonies, Vol. 1

Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Petter Sundkvist

Kraus, J M: Olympie : Overture
Kraus, J M: Symphony in C major, VB 139
Kraus, J M: Symphony in C minor, VB 142
Kraus, J M: Symphony in E flat major, VB 144

 

[Bourdon]

Handel

Suite 1-4

CD 1

 

[Vasks]

Cimarosa - Overture to "Le stravaganze del conte" (Amoretti/Naxos)
Clementi - Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 50, No. 3 (Crowson/Eloquence)
Salieri - Sereande in B-flat for Winds (Il Gruppo di Roma/Frequenz)

 

[Nedeslusire]

April 9, 1786, Hamburg: Carl Philip Emanuel Bach presents a concert “for the local medical institute for the poor”. This charity event would go down in history for its remarkable program, featuring three of his own works (a recent symphony, the newly revised “Magnificat” from his Berlin years, and “Heilig ist Gott” for two choirs and a large orchestra), selections from Handel’s Messiah, and the first public performance of the “Credo” from his father Johann Sebastian’s monumental but still unknown B Minor Mass. In celebration of C.P.E. Bach’s 300th birthday in 2014, the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin came together under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann to recreate the historic musical event at the Konzerthaus Berlin, joined by soloists soprano Christina Landshamer, alto Wiebke Lehmkuhl, tenor Lothar Odinius, and bass Thomas E. Bauer.

Hans-Christoph Rademann conducts a reconsitution of C.P.E. Bach's historic 1786 charity concert

RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

www.medici.tv

 

[MartinDB]

No such CDs in my local charity shops, I suppose we're all chavs!
I get both envious and mystified when people post about the great CDs they find in these shops!!!!

This was in Oxfam Exeter, where I was visiting. It has a small but quite good classical section. An enormous amount of English composers! (Where I live is quite poorly served, but there is a private library nearby which often sells quite a lot as it runs down stock.)

 

[Enthusiast]

This was in Oxfam Exeter, where I was visiting. It has a small but quite good classical section. An enormous amount of English composers! (Where I live is quite poorly served, but there is a private library nearby which often sells quite a lot as it runs down stock.)

Yes, I think Oxfam have a system of using only some of their shops to specialise in classical music.

 

[Enthusiast]

Seeing Neo Romanza post a Ustvolskaya CD reminded me that it is quite a while since I listened to this. It was probably bought as much or more for Koptchinskaja as for the composer but I do have a bit more Ustvolskaya as well. Anyway, this disc is made up of the violin sonata of 1952, the much recorded trio for clarinet, piano and violin of 1949 and the 1962 duet for violin and piano.

 

[Chilham]

Premiered this day 1905 and 1946 respectively:

Shoenberg: Pelleas & Melisande
Christian Thielemann, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Strauss: Metamorphosen
John Wilson, Sinfonia of London

 

[Rogerx]

Schubert: Trout Quintet

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Roman Patkoló (double bass), Hwayoon Lee (viola), Maximilian Hornung (cello)


Schubert: Ave Maria, D839
Schubert: Notturno in E flat major for piano trio, D897 (Op. post.148)
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout'
Schubert: Schwanengesang, D957
Schubert: Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4

 

[Nedeslusire]

I would like to share something really special to me, my favorite release of 2022. A Byzantine musical ecstasy...

"I discovered Rachmaninov’s ‘Vespers’ singing in a choir, and the work made a genuine emotional impact on me! This music gives off an impression of naturalness and ‘simplicity’, yet in fact its architecture is complex and innovative for its time in the quasi-orchestral treatment of the voices. I wanted to place the work in a liturgical context that I conceived by drawing my inspiration from the Orthodox ceremonies I have been lucky enough to attend in Russia and Romania. The special characteristic and the beauty of this Vigil service (which in the Orthodox churches includes both Vespers and Matins) is that it accompanies the prayers of the faithful from dusk until sunrise." - Simon-Pierre Bestion

Adrian Sirbu, the mastermind behind the Romanian vocal ensemble Byzantion performing Byzantine hymns alongside La Tempete in cathedral darkness.

 

[Neo Romanza]

So, in the end you didn't like it too much? I find Clyne's music undemanding but filled with inventive and very attractive ideas and I don't mind the spoken part in The Seamstress too much (it works for me but I could live without it, too).

I liked the work up until the point those spoken parts came in, which for me was like throwing a wet blanket on a campfire that everyone was enjoying (roasting marshmallows and so forth).

 

[Neo Romanza]

NP:

Dvořák
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
The Wild Dove, Op. 110
Concertgebouw
Harnoncourt

All of Harnoncourt's Dvořák recordings are top-notch.

 

[Art Rock]

Bruno Walter: Symphony in D minor (NDR Sinfonieorchester, Leon Botstein, CPO)

Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist and composer. Best known for the former, here we have him in the latter capacity, with his first symphony from 1907. I'm afraid I tend to agree with the Classical Net reviewer, who wrote "One is left with the overall impression of a congenial, unpretentious work of moderate interest. With the exceptions of the Mahleresque Third Movement and the last third of the finale, nothing really lingers in the ear or the mind. " That said, it is still an accomplished romantic symphony, and it is very interesting to hear what Walter the conductor created himself when he was about 30.

 

[Rogerx]

Grieg: Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23



Svein Sturla Hungnes, Kari Simonsen, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Bjørn Willberg Andersen, Ståle Bjørnhaug (actors), Håkan Hagegård (baritone), Marita Solberg (soprano) (Solveig), Ingebjørg Kosmo (mezzo-soprano), Kari Postma (soprano), Hilde Haraldsen Sveen (soprano), Iikka Leppänen (bass-baritone), Torbjørn Gulbrandsøy (baritone), Arve Moen Bergset (hardanger fiddle)

KorVest (Bergen Vocal Ensemble), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud

 

[Bourdon]

Beethoven

Symphony No.2 & 8

 

[Malx]

Ticciati is good. Have you heard Dausgaard's recordings of the symphonies ... also with a chamber orchestra? And, for a full orchestra, I wonder what you make of Abbado?

I have sampled Dausgaard's recordings and they are firmly on my list for further investigation. I think highly of the Abbado cycle which I have as single disc releases, they were some of the first Brahms I bought. The three sets I mentioned in my post were really only an illustration of other styles of interpretation that I also enjoy - I also have both the Walter sets plus a good number of single discs of various conductors.
One set, in a traditional style if I may call it that, I rate highly is Adrian Boult's which I have in his Bach - Wagner box.