What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

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[HIPster]

Handel - Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano
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Playing the second part (CD 2) this afternoon, after listening to the first part last night.

Wonderful!   

One of my favorite Handel recordings and one I consider to be among the finest releases by Concerto Italiano.

Beautiful Friday afternoon music.

[Ken B]

Petterssen
Symphony 6

[toledobass]

I listened to Jesse Norman/Haitink/concertgebouw Der Abschied.  It'd been a very long time since I've listened to this music and I can't recall ever listening to this performance.  I enjoyed the vocal performance but more gripping for me were the musical interludes... Great to listen to this this morning.

Allan

[HIPster]

Giants: Bach, Gesualdo, Monteverdi
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Incredible interplay between Koll and Pianca - 'two earthworms in heat' kinda thing here. . .

Really beautiful.

[Mookalafalas]

One of my favorite Handel recordings and one I consider to be among the finest releases by Concerto Italiano.

Whoa. Some serious praise--everything I've heard from them has been top shelf.

TD:
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[kishnevi]

Landed today, four contemporaries of WAM, four  unnecessarily obscure works

Hoffmeister Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C
Lebrun Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in g minor
Fiala Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra in C
Kozeluh Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in F

[HIPster]

Whoa. Some serious praise--everything I've heard from them has been top shelf.

It's really excellent, my friend.  Follow the Amazon link, there are many reviews in praise of it.

Thread duty~
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Stephen Stubbs leads his group in variations on La Folia.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Piano Trio No. 2. Absolutely enchanting.

[Corey]

[Mirror Image]

Excellent work and performance. Was it you and I who discussed this work before, kitsune?

[Corey]

I'm not sure. I've known the piece for a few years, but it's been a while since I've revisited it. There's nothing quite like it.

[Mirror Image]

I'm not sure. I've known the piece for a few years, but it's been a while since I've revisited it. There's nothing quite like it.

Ah, okay. That Andante movement never fails to bring a few tears to my eyes. Incredibly moving. And you're right, I know of no other work like it either.

[Mandryka]

This afternoon:



I had almost forgotten how good this recording is.

Strongly recommended as one of the best versions available and very conveniently priced. 

I haven't heard it, or at least if I have I can't remember, but I've listened to a lot of Gilbert this month, not in German music though. In Purcell and Froberger (he's honorary French) and French music.

I'm really just starting to get my head round what he does. There's a constant feeling of ataraxia, of sanity. You know, he doesn't go in for much chiaroscuro, angst, the dark side. He's basically a celebratory, jubilant musician. In some music, like Lully, that's really powerful. In some respects he reminds me of Artur Rubinstein.

This morning I went back to that Colin Tilney virginal CD that I was listening to yesterday. He's a really special keyboard player I think because he emotionally sincere AND he's not at all demonstrative.  The style is something Busoni would have understood: Tilney expresses feelings without ever losing control to those feelings.

[Green Destiny]

Continuing with my survey of Haydn's Symphonies and String Quartets. Im getting familiar with the SQ's already but the Symphonies I don't really know at all yet.
My interest with Classical Music is mostly in the Romantic and Modern eras but I have discovered in the last couple of years that I quite like the Classical era too.
I don't think I heard a work by Haydn yet that wasn't agreeable .
Currently playing - Symphony No. 44:

[Moonfish]

Madetoja: Symphony No 3               Iceland SO/Sakari

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4         London PO/Boult

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[Moonfish]

Now:

CPE Bach: Works for piano solo                  Markovina

disc 23 from
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[The new erato]

Relaxed early morning listening to a new disc from a composer I've never encountered before:

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[Wanderer]

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Symphonies Nos.1 & 7

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Violin Concerto

[Que]

Morning listening is the 1st (version of the) mass on this set:

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A return to this recordings after some time. And it is a pleasant surprise.
I remembered this as being a brilliant reading, but a bit emotionally detatched.
It sounds different in that respect now, more engaging that I recalled . Magnificent! 

Q