What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

[ritter]

Jean Martinon conducts the Orchestre National de l'ORTF in Prokofiev's suite from the ballet Chout, and the Sixth Symphony.

[Que]

[Karl Henning]

CD 19
Recorded 22 Jan 1940

[Spotted Horses]

Bach

Inspired by your comments about Suzuki, I decided to dip a toe in, and listened to the Suzuki recording of Bach Lutherian Mass in g minor, BWV235



I recall sampling some of these recording long ago and finding them a bit pale, but I enjoyed this recording a lot.

At some point I started listening to the Cantatas in the Rilling set, but lost track of it. Maybe I'll resume with Suzuke (fingers crossed that all of the volumes are available to stream). I also have the Harnoncourt and Gardiner sets (ripped to my discs) which I've hardly dipped into.

[Roasted Swan]

Jean Martinon conducts the Orchestre National de l'ORTF in Prokofiev's suite from the ballet Chout, and the Sixth Symphony.

I like these performances - they might not be as polished as some but they are characterful......

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mass in C major K317 "Coronation Mass"
Franz Schubert Stabat mater in F minor D383
WDR Sinfnieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Günter Wand

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Szymanowski, Wit/Warsaw.

[Iota]

Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Stile Antico

To me the Missa Papae Marcelli is all inexpressibly beautiful, but the opening Kyrie and the Amen to the Credo just floor me. What wonders a few scribbles of the quill can leave for posterity. Stile Antico seem like the perfect medium for transmission of those wonders.

[Linz]

Franz Schubert Symphon No. 9 in C Major D944, "The Great", \\\boston Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II

Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

[ritter]

@Cato and @ChamberNut mentioned Darius Milhaud today, and this prompted me to revisit his music.



CD 3. Music for piano and orchestra, with Claude Helffer as soloist, accompanied by the French National Orchestra conducted by David Robertson.

Le Carnaval d'Aix, Piano Concertos No. 1 & No. 4, Five Études, and Ballade.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No.9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

[brewski]

Vivaldi: Gloria (Alessandrini / Concerto Italiano, in a film by Philippe Béziat). I love the original audio recording on Opus 111, but this film shows is imaginative and might make some converts.

[André]

Walter's 1960 recording was his last commercial one of the work (the others are from 1936 and 1952). There are also live ones around. In this studio version we get the best sounding of them all, although apparently a Pristine remastering boasts even superior presence from the soloists. That is certainly a good thing, because as I hear them here both Miller and Haefliger sound slightly recessed and small scale. Haefliger does not have the metal required for the 1st song or the heady tones needed for the 3rd. But these are small quibbles. Walter leads with a lifetime experience with the score (he premiered it in 1911) and his love for it shows in countless details.

[brewski]

Bruckner Symphony No.9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

One of my favorite recordings of this piece, and one that made me think, you know, maybe moving to Cleveland wouldn't be such a bad idea. 

[Linz]

Paul Wranitzky Symphonies, London Mozart Players,  Matthias Bamert, Contemporaries of Mozart Vol. 2 CD12

[Karl Henning]

CD 20

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony № 3 in a minor, Op. 56 « Scottish »
Capriccio brillant for Piano and Orchestra in b minor, Op. 22
Joanna Graudan, pf
Scherzo from the Octet, Op. 20 (arr.  Mendelssohn)
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Minnesota Orchestra)
Dimitri Mitropoulos

Recorded 6 Dec 1941 (Op.56)
4 Dec 1941 (Op.22)
10 Jan 1940 (Op.20)

The Op. 22 is possibly a first listen.
The Symphony was recorded the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[Karl Henning]

Scherzo from the Octet, Op. 20 (arr.  Mendelssohn)

Not simply any expansion to string orch. There are winds. Listen and Learn, as they say.

[JBS]