What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[For The Love of Music]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

I know it was a club in south Seattle where Hendrix played.

Correct. Growing up my friends Mom knowing I was a fan told her stories going there, and it wasn’t until not that long ago I found out it was within 3 miles from where I live, it’s now a Walgreens.

[eljr]

Gardiner, Bach, what could be bad?



John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists
Bach: Mass in B Minor

Release Date November 13, 2015
Duration01:45:33
Genre
Classical
Styles
Choral
Recording DateMarch 28, 2015 - March 31, 2015
Recording Location
LSO St. Luke's London

[eljr]

to early?

nah...



P.V. Spassky
Christmas Vespers

Release Date November 16, 1994
Duration46:08
Genre
Classical
Holiday
Styles
Christmas
Holidays

[cma29]

Another oldie, but goodie recently remastered by Analogue Productions as a SACD...

The Royal Ballet - Gala Performances
Adam: Giselle (excerpts)
Chopin: Les Sylphides: excerpts
Delibes: Coppelia (highlights)
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (excerpts)
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (excerpts)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (excerpts)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Ernest Ansermet



Suites from various ballets captured in sensational sonics. Recorded at Kingsway Hall in the late 1950s (what?!). A legendary recording newly available as an SACD. Get it while you can.

[eljr]

Gadzhiev / Davidenko; Symphony No. 4 / The Street Is Aroused / At The 10th Verst / About Lenin
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra / Fuat Mansurov

Released:
1987
Genre:
Classical
Style:
Modern
Runtime
67 minutes

[cma29]

Part of latest shipment...

Strauss, R: Salome
Birgit Nilsson (Salome), Eberhard Wächter (Jokanaan), Gerhard Stolze (Herod), Grace Hoffman (Herodias)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti



I really like this short opera. The libretto is intense and the music reflects the dramatic interaction between these doomed characters.

The Solti / Nilsson performance has long been recognized as outstanding and as such this is one of the discs selected by Gramophone as one of its greatest 100 recordings of all time.

This set is on a newly remastered Blu-ray (24-bit 96kHz). The result showcases the outstanding playing by the VPO and the sound of the fabled orchestra is magnificent in high-resolution. Can't go wrong with this one.

This is a rare disc selected for both of these elite lists:
Gramophone's 100 Greatest Recordings
The Absolute Sound's Top 40 Best Sounding Recordings

[eljr]

I love Mr Savall's work and this re-release on SACD is among his best.



Jordi Savall / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XX
Alfonso X el Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria

Re-release Date
November 3, 2017
Original Release Date
September 1, 1993
Duration01:10:07
Genre
Classical
Styles
Chamber Music
Vocal Music
Main AlbumAlfonso X el Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria 1993
LabelAlia Vox
FormatSuper Audio Hybrid CD

[eljr]

Streaming from Digital Concert Hall

31 May 2014

BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
TUGAN SOKHIEV
Hilary Hahn

Henri Vieuxtemps
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4 in D minor, op. 31 (33 min.)

Hilary Hahn Violin

Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande (5 min.)

Hilary Hahn Violin

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Manfred, symphony in B minor, after Lord Byron’s poem, op. 58 (56 min.)

[Still-One]

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor: Rostropovich: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Sir Adrian Boult

[Antonmb]

Prokofiev: Rosanne Philippens Plays Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor op. 63
Violin Solo Sonata in D major op. 115
Five Melodies op. 35bis

Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Orto Tausk conducting

Channel Classics (2017)

Very nice playing with the usual Channel Classics excellent sound. The solo pieces are fun.