Topic: What are you listening to now?

[Que]

Early morning listening:



François Couperin: L' Œuvre pour clavecin
Noëlle Spieth

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[Que]

Schumann: Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet - Juilliard Quartet/Bernstein/Gould.

A Golden Oldie - love it....

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[NikF]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor (version for two pianos) - Silke-Thora Matthies/Köhn.

I already have the version for piano duet and between that and this one it's an interesting experience - especially as it's kind of helping me hear things in the concerto a little more clearly.

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

Schumann: Cello Concerto - Haitink/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Schiff.

Very nice!  They may accuse me of having it both ways, but I do not think there is anything wrong with Schumann's scoring.  And I also enjoy the added color in the Shostakovich re-orchestration.

[Pjotr]

To my ears this is how Machaut should be performed. It feels totally authentic to me.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/01/machaut-de-guillaume-c1300-1370-messe.html?spref=tw

[Daverz]

I haven't seen you around here in awhile, Daverz. I hope you're doing well. I've been contemplating on whether I needed another Debussy disc of orchestral music, but no thanks to you and your comment about this MTT recording, I still have one more left to purchase now.

Kind of you to ask.   I've been hanging out more on a facebook classical group started by some friends.  But that group, which was cozy for a while, seems to have regressed toward the mean level of conversation on facebook, so here I am again. 

[San Antone]

Llibre Vermell de Montserrat : Pilgrim songs & dances
New London Consort and Philip Pickett

[Madiel]

Now:



Listening to L'enfant et les sortilèges. One of the most magnificent works of the 20th Century.

Should finally be listening to that within a couple of days.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Schumann composed some of the most magnificent oratorios of the 19th century

[Madiel]

The second set of Impromptus, D.935

[Drasko]

I'm also fan of Markevitch' Tchaikovsky - for the reasons you stated - but only know his London cycle.
Didn't know of this BPO recording - thanks for posting! 

Q

It's a very nice recording, can't say I prefer it to Mravinsky as Andre but still definitely worth hearing. I find it quite interesting also as a tribute to flexibility of early 50s Berlin Philharmonic. It's nearly contemporary recording with Furtwangler's Pathetique with the same orchestra from two years earlier and it's great to hear how well they cope with two interpretations which are polar opposites in terms of both vision and style.



Prompted by the Dvorak thread I'm listening to my favorite recording of Dvorak's 3rd. The lushness and sweep of Chung and the VPO in endlessly melodic piece as the 3rd is almost intoxicating. Shame that chances of hearing it live (outside Czech Republic) are pretty slim I guess. 

[Pjotr]

Anna requiescat in Pace.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/01/mouton-jean-c1459-1522-anna-requiescat.html?spref=tw

[Ghost Sonata]

I wanna be a Machaut Man:

[San Antone]

I wanna be a Machaut Man:

That Parrott recording is one of the best (imo) of the Machaut mass.  A new reissue is coming out this month and although I already have the LP I have pre-ordered the CD.  I am wondering if any remastering has been done.

 

[San Antone]

knightly passions the songs of oswald von wolkenstein
Philip Pickett & New London Consort

[Ghost Sonata]

That Parrott recording is one of the best (imo) of the Machaut mass.  A new reissue is coming out this month and although I already have the LP I have pre-ordered the CD.  I am wondering if any remastering has been done.

 

It's been my favorite - though I need to listen to some other recordings - My French medieval lit prof. turned me onto the work years ago and I cannot remember whose performance I heard first.  Quite bowled me over.  Should try to find it again. 

[(: premont :)]

That Parrott recording is one of the best (imo) of the Machaut mass.

Completely agreed. Only the Clemencic is superior. Both favours my preferred scoring (two tenors and two basses - soloists of course). The only small problem with the Clemencic is that one has to burn another CD excluding all the irrelevant - if still interesting - interludes on the CD.

[(: premont :)]

It's been my favorite - though I need to listen to some other recordings - My French medieval lit prof. turned me onto the work years ago and I cannot remember whose performance I heard first.  Quite bowled me over.  Should try to find it again.

Then you have to know a little more about it. Was it performed by soloists? Including female voices or countertenor. Any instrumental contribution? Et.c.

[amw]

This is a really superb Op. 135, one of the best I've heard.

edit: apparently the only person who likes this set on the forum is Brewski, which, in retrospect, comes as no surprise. The Orion Quartet is a very "New York" ensemble. Think Juilliard Quartet, or Emerson Quartet, or Brooklyn Rider (in their Op. 131). So if you like Big Apple Beethoven you'll like this, and if you don't, you probably won't.

[Pjotr]

Josquin Desprez....not quite what I expected from this recording, but reasonably well done.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/01/desprez-josquin-1450-55-1521-masses.html?spref=tw