What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFPM3MZHQzw

Scarlatti Sonatas by Lars-Ulrik Mortensen | Le Corum - Salle Pasteur Montpellier

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Merely picking nits at this point (and probably off to buy the Alto Kondrashin myself! -thanks for the suggestion), but the Järvi is actually readily available from Presto, in physical or digital form equally well as best as I can tell. It's also available readily from Amazon, but at ridiculous prices.

Meanwhile...

William Walton's Sonata for String Orchestra - 1993)
    Jan Latham-Koenig, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Good to know about Presto - there was a time when I could only see it absurdly priced online. It's a fine recording and good for DGG for issuing it.

[Traverso]

Rameau

Quality time with Skip Sempé   

La Pantomime

[The new erato]

Enjoying this now:



Obviously folk-inspired, taking over from some of Grieg's works in the same vein.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 Op. 106 [Brautigam]

[aligreto]

No problems 

Turns out, according to Wiki, that practically everybody that has ever recorded No. 6 has always included the chorus (which only makes a brief appearance at the end of the fourth movement, by the way) and that Svetlanov is actually the only one who leaves it out! So, on that basis, you can basically just pick up anyone's 6th, apart from Svetlanov! I'd still recommend the Järvi, though

As per my earlier comments, the revision was done in 1947 and it was to take the chorus out (or, at least, to make it optional).

Merely picking nits at this point (and probably off to buy the Alto Kondrashin myself! -thanks for the suggestion), but the Järvi is actually readily available from Presto, in physical or digital form equally well as best as I can tell. It's also available readily from Amazon, but at ridiculous prices.

Thank you again for your help and information.

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The Jarvi, as recommended by absolutelybaching, is a fine modern performance but can be difficult to track down. Every version, other than Svetlanov's includes the choir Fergus. The greatest performance was Kondrashin's on Russian Disc and recently remastered on Alto - I'm biased as I wrote the booklet notes but it is the best ever (there is a good later Kondrashin recording on Melodiya but the earlier one is better). I liked Stankovsky's Marco Polo CD but it wasn't generally well received. Polyansky's is fine. My favourite modern recording is Liss with the Ural Philharmonic:

Thank you for the help and information, Jeffrey.

[Mirror Image]

That's a great CD! 

It is, indeed, Jeffrey. The Waterfall Scene from the As You Like It Suite brought to mind a curious mixture of Delius and Respighi. Great stuff.

[Karl Henning]

CD 52

Joh. Strauss II
An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314
Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324
Der Zigenuerbaron—Overture
Perpetuum mobile, Op. 257

Joh. Strauss I (orch. Gordon Jacob)
Radetzky March, Op. 228

Franz Lehár
Gold und Silber, Op. 79

R. Strauss (arr. Barbirolli)
Der Rosenkavalier—Waltz Sequence

Joh. Strauss II
Champagner-Polka, Op. 211

Berlioz
Le Carnaval romain, Op. 9

Verdi
La forza del destino—Overture

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Thank you for the help and information, Jeffrey.

My pleasure Fergus. If you want modern sound I'd go for Jarvi or Liss but the best performance is Kondrashin's Russian Disc/Alto release. Let us know what you decide.

PS
I wouldn't recommend Dudarova's worthy but rather drawn out performance on Olympia (I think that all the others have been mentioned). I wish that Naxos would reissue Stankovsky's Marco Polo recording, which was the first CD release.

Favourite cover art! I especially like the sepia image of a peasant lighting a cigarette, from 1924 (the same year that Miaskovsky's 6th Symphony was first performed) which adorns the cover of Kondrashin's later recording on Melodiya.

[Todd]

Unsurprisingly, a Chopin Competition winner does well in Chopin.  Ohlsson plays with immense beauty and delicacy at times, but as always, one knows the pianist holds much in reserve, and every once in a while, the power and speed come to the fore.  A worthwhile Chopin disc.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Yoshimatsu
Piano Concerto, Op. 67 "Memo Flora"
Kyoko Tabe, piano
Manchester Camerata
Sachio Fujioka

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven
Symphony No.7

Norrington & London Classical Players

[Harry]

John Wilbye.

"Draw on Sweet Night"

I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth.


This is really good, well sung and certainly well composed. the recording is pristine, and if you like Monteverdi you will certainly enjoy this. Recommended. At JPC for a very low price, 10,99€

Connoisseurs regard John Wilbye (1574-1638) as one of the most important English composers of the late Elizabethan age. The British ensemble I Fagiolini honors his compatriot here with a representative cross-section of his madrigal oeuvre, which provides the listener with 75 minutes of unclouded 'madrigal pleasure', sometimes with sonorous dissonances, sometimes with bittersweet English melancholy.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ooops - hadn't scrolled back through the thread before posting about the Ogden recording.  Its NOT true to say the orchestration is NOT Walton - it is - see my reference below to the Varii Capricci - the Walton orchestration was adapted to accomodate the hybrid guitar and orchestra version of the bagatelles

I agree. The guitar concerto is more of a hybrid of Bagatelles and Varii Capricci, rather than an entirely unique concerto. I love the work.

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My pleasure Fergus. If you want modern sound I'd go for Jarvi or Liss but the best performance is Kondrashin's Russian Disc/Alto release. Let us know what you decide.

PS
I wouldn't recommend Dudarova's worthy but rather drawn out performance on Olympia (I think that all the others have been mentioned). I wish that Naxos would reissue Stankovsky's Marco Polo recording, which was the first CD release.

Favourite cover art! I especially like the sepia image of a peasant lighting a cigarette, from 1924 (the same year that Miaskovsky's 6th Symphony was first performed) which adorns the cover of Kondrashin's later recording on Melodiya.

Thank you again, Jeffrey. Very much appreciated. I would naturally gravitate towards Kondrashin. I am not overly fussy about state of the art recordings.
I appreciate the recommendations from both contributors. 

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven
Symphony No.7

Frans Brüggen
Orchestra of the 18th century.

Live 2001, Glossa

[Traverso]

Bach

Christ lag in Todes Banden

A very moving performance and one of my favorite cantatas.

[aligreto]

Beethoven
Symphony No.7

Frans Brüggen
Orchestra of the 18th century.

Live 2001, Glossa

Beethoven
Symphony No.7

Norrington & London Classical Players

Is the Seventh a particular favourite, Olivier?

[ritter]

Listening to the compilation of live recordings by Suzanne Danco:



Mme. Danco's unusual voice and refined artistry are growing on me (even if I've known her since, well, ever: her recordings of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni under Krips and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro under Kleiber were in my parents' collection since before I was born).

Here we get the rarity of Darius Milhaud conducting Satie's Socrate. I still haven't made up my mind as to whether this is a refined, delicate score, or just an utterly boring one.  . Milhaud and Danco make a strong case for the piece (even if the work may gain from having different singers for the different "characters" —as is the case in the Dervaux recording on EMI). I'll probably revisit this sometime soon.

Then we get three long extracts from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, with Danco, Camille Maurane, and conducted by Inghelbrecht. Danco's Mélisande is a well-known quantity, and justly famous,as is the case of Maurane's Pelléas (I actually have both of them together, also conducted by Inghelbrecht, in a BBC broadcast on Testament). These extracts were pure delight, with everyone in great form. But what is jaw-dropping is Maurane: it's as if he were whispering in your ear, every word perfectly intelligible. Not a beautiful voice as such, but one used with supreme artistry.

The disc ends with a perfectly fine rendition of Ravel's Shéhérazade, conducted by no less than Charles Munch. I already knew Danco in this music from her famous recording under Ansermet, and must admit I prefer other singers to her in this particular piece (e.g. Heather Harper under Boulez, Christiane Karg, etc.).

In any case, an excellent CD showcasing the great talents of this versatile singer.