What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[ehoove]

Last spin of the day:
Les Sylphides
Chopin
Graduation Ball
Johann Strauss Jr.
Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler Conducting
Another Great Shaded Dog Mono LP!
RCA Victor LM-1919 (1955)

[bart]

Originally Posted by ehoove

Symphony No. 5 in E minor (from the New World)
Dvorak
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini Conducting
Another fine Mono LP!
RCA Victor LM1778 (1953)

Isn't that the 9th Jim?
One of my favourite symphonies.

[Eisener Bart]

Nice performace of symphonic works of Brahms.

BIS-2383

[jimtranr]

CD rip. Listening while burning in and settling a new Shunyata Alpha XC delivering current to the bedroom system's Delta D6 distributor.

[Haydn]

Well played, but the sound may be a little wonky for the stereo layer.
Julia Fischer
Martin Helmchen
Schubert
Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Pentatone, 2014
2 cds

[Antonmb]

Ravel
Clémemt Lefebvre, piano

Various selections from the Ravel catalog, well played and recorded.
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[jimtranr]

Copland's scoring illuminated in almost finite detail by conductor Schwarz.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

A nice release from last year:

Haydn - Cello Concertos
Recreation - Grosses Orchester Graz, Michael Hofstetter
Natalie Clein, cello
via Qobuz




Haydn wrote really beautiful cello concertos.
Underestimated in my opinion.
This album has very good interpretations.

Although Joseph Haydn excelled in every genre, sonata, quartet, symphony, opera, he was much less celebrated in the concerto than his young friend Mozart and his turbulent pupil Beethoven. A trumpet concerto, a few concertos for the keyboard and for the violin or other instruments, a dozen or so remaining untraceable and probably lost forever.
Among this relatively thin corpus, only the Trumpet Concerto and the two Cello Concertos appear regularly in the repertoire. Long known in an edition arranged in questionable taste in the nineteenth century by Gevaert, Concerto in D major was published in a correct edition only in 1935, though of debateable attribution. It was not until the manuscript was discovered in 1953 that we were certain that it was in Haydn's hand. With beautifully virtuosic writing, it exploits all the cello’s technical possibilities, multiplying the pitfalls with lots of double stops, semiquavers and demisemiquavers which make its execution particularly delicate. Only rediscovered in 1961, the Concerto in C major was quickly recognised thanks to its undeniably melodic quality and its spectacular side combining great virtuosity with a gripping melody that’s full of life. Dating from the same period, Symphony No. 13 uses several solo instruments including a cello in the splendid Adagio cantabile which is a true cello concerto. The warm, deep sound of the 1777 Guadagnini mounted in gut strings by the British cellist Natalie Clein is particularly beautiful, recorded here during a concert in Graz in 2017. ©François Hudry/Qobuz

This is really a top performance.

[Formerly YB-2]

Very well done by one of the masters of the cello. An excellent recording.

[Antonmb]

Benda: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley, piano and conducting
London Mozart Players
Hyperion (2021), 24/96 FLAC

Another one of Shelley's fine recordings in his series of lesser-known piano concertos.
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