What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Petronius]

colleagues,
We are having an epic day here in the Pacific Northwest,(ie it's not raining.....yet)
It'll be a good night for Bruckner. No5 Schalk Edition. LPO conducted by Leon Botstein,Telarc Recording. Great liner notes too, explaining the various editions.

So with the lusty brass cheer,
Higher, faster, louder!
Bruckner, Strauss and Mahler!
We shall now commence.

Petronius

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Originally Posted by Petronius

colleagues,
We are having an epic day here in the Pacific Northwest,(ie it's not raining.....yet)
It'll be a good night for Bruckner. No5 Schalk Edition. LPO conducted by Leon Botstein,Telarc Recording. Great liner notes too, explaining the various editions.

So with the lusty brass cheer,
Higher, faster, louder!
Bruckner, Strauss and Mahler!
We shall now commence.

Petronius

Enjoy!

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Rafał Blechacz
After ten years since the victory in the 15th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2005 he has achieved a position of the truly world-famous artist. His outstanding talent has been appreciated by the audiences of Europe, America, Asia, by music critics, great conductors and famous symphony orchestras, record producers, managers and artistic agencies organizing concerts in the most famous concert halls and in the largest music centres.

Last ten years of Rafał Blechacz’s career was filled with the solo recitals as well as concerts performed with the symphony orchestras. First of all however, it was time of intensive work on expanding his repertoire. Winning the Grand Prix, the Gold Medal and all of the other awards possible, namely for the best performance of mazurkas, polonaise, concerto, sonata (the latter founded by Krystian Zimerman) and also the audience award he unquestionably has been recognized as his generation’s greatest performer of Chopin’s works.

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New
Some R2R Tape on a Breezy Autumn Day in MD:
Symphony No.3 in E Flat Major (Eroica)
Beethoven
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
May be the best of my various renditions of Eroica!
London 1R1 6631 7.5 ips (1975)
Regards,
Jim

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War Requiem
Britten
London Symphony
Benjamin Britten Conducting Just a powerful piece of R2R tape - Excellent!
London ffrr LOH 90067 (7.5 ips)
Regards,
Jim

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More R2R:
String Quartet in G Minor
Debussy
String Quartet in F Major
Ravel
DROLC QUARTET
Excellent on all counts!
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft DSG 9369 7.5isp
Regards,
Jim

[Formerly YB-2]

Michele Campanella does an excellent job on Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies".

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Jim, you have such a vast collection of LPs, tapes, and CDs... Wow!

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Gustav Mahler - Lieder - 'Erinnerung'
Christiane Karg, soprano
Malcolm Martineau, piano
via Qobuz




A couple of years ago, Iván Fischer did the same thing when we attended a concert, but it was even more authentic: piano rolls from Mahler played on an instrument that Mahler himself had played, with a soprano.

Known for her brilliant work in Mozart’s roles, the German soprano Christiane Karg also excels in Puccini (Musetta in La Bohème), Richard Strauss (Zdenka in Arabella) and even in the title role of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. This “Erinnerung” (Memory) recital is dedicated to a selection of Lieder by Gustav Mahler, drawn largely from his vast collection of popular songs from the Knaben Wunderhorn, some early compositions, and the Rückert-Lieder - one of the composer’s most accomplished cycles.

On the piano, her long-standing partner Malcom Martineau is an ideal match. He wonderfully modulates his sound to match the singer’s every intention. The final two pieces in this recording are unusual for the fact that he hands the piano over to the composer himself! Gustav Mahler effectively “recorded” his compositions (such as Ich ging mit Lust and the famous Das himmlische Leben which closes Symphony No. 4) on perforated card for a Welte-Mignon system.

Approached on a modern keyboard, the Welte-Mignon’s automatic articulated fingers reproduce Mahler’s tempo, intentions and, to some extent, touch. It’s obviously not a perfect replication, but Christiane Karg’s considerable effort to follow his tortuous rhythm is tremendously moving. © François Hudry/Qobuz