Topic: What are you listening to?

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Harry]

       

I'm not a praticular Telemann fan, but this is great and exuberant music making by the old HIP bunch from the Low Countries: the Kuijken brothers and Gustav. You can tell they had a great time here. 

Q

Yes, that one was also a favorite of mine.

[Que]

Yes, that one was also a favorite of mine.

I think for anyone who is into Baroque this is a great buy - most of the discs in this Jubilee set are OOP and not available or only at rip-off prices.

Great to see that you've enjoyed it as much as I do, Harry!
Although I'm a bit behind you in listening....

Q

[donaldopato]

What type of subscription do you have, and are you satisfied with the sound quality?

Just renewed my subscription.  I have the reported "CD quality" type.  Costs quite a bit.

I have a "Near CD quality" subscription which comes as a perk with a Kansas City Symphony season subscription.

I think sound quality is ok. I don't make a big deal of it but I am partially hearing impaired especially in frequency due to a severe ear infection years ago that damaged my ear drum and nerves plus left me with tinnitus. I have to turn treble way up to hear anything so anyone else listening to my music would think it is high and thin. Thus I am a poor judge of sound.

The service is invaluable for browsing and exploring. If I would not get a Symphony subscription I would pay for the service. It is expensive, but less costly than buying a CD on a whim, listening to it once and consigning it to the library to gather dust.

[Jezetha]

I think sound quality is ok. I don't make a big deal of it but I am partially hearing impaired especially in frequency due to a severe ear infection years ago that damaged my ear drum and nerves plus left me with tinnitus. I have to turn treble way up to hear anything so anyone else listening to my music would think it is high and thin. Thus I am a poor judge of sound.

That's terrible, donaldopato, especially for such an evident music lover as yourself.

[Wanderer]

I heard an extract from this on radio3 the other day. I liked the bit I heard, is it good? would you recommend it? I believe it had other violin /piano works by Sibelius too .

It is good. The whole set, while not containing any masterpieces, is very enjoyable and everything is very well performed.

And welcome to the forum! 

[Opus106]

Discovering Faure's music for piano

Nocture No. 4 in Eb, Op. 36, and few minutes prior to that, No. 1.
Jean Martin

Wonderful works!

[Harry]

Well played this disc 5 times in a row, that must mean something right?
Brilliant.

[erato]

Well played this disc 5 times in a row, that must mean something right?
Brilliant.

It's on Brilliant, yes. As to what it meant; your repeat button got stuck?

 

[Harry]

It's on Brilliant, yes. As to what it meant; your repeat button got stuck?

 

Nope I pushed it voluntarily 5 times.

[cal]

It is good. The whole set, while not containing any masterpieces, is very enjoyable and everything is very well performed.

And welcome to the forum! 

Thank you for the information, I shall look for the cd , sounds very interesting.

And, thanks for your welcome. 

[Harry]

Dutch Organs build between 1511-1896.
Volume XVII.
Works by the following composers:
John Stanley, Mozart, played by Jan Jongepier on a Carl Friedrich August Naber organ 1848.
Monn, Stanley, Wesley, played by Jan Jongepier on a Lambertus van Dam & Zn organ 1848.
Haydn, Joseph Hector Fiocco, played by Geert Bierlings on a Petrus van Oeckelen organ 1840-49.
Rinck, Otto Dienel, Mendelssohn, Wilhelm Gottlieb Hauff jr, played by Peter van Dijk on a Petrus van Oeckelen organ 1851.
Theodore Dubois, played by Anja Hendrikx on a Franciscus Cornelius Smits organ 1852.
Mozart, Hummel, Beethoven, Czerny, played by Rob Nederlof on a Johannes Josephus Vollebregt organ 1854.

Awesome!

[Henk]

D959, D784



S. 5

[Harry]

Theodore Dubois. (1837-1924)
Entree du Cortege.
Benediction Nuptiale.
Offertoire.
Messe de Mariage.
Organ, Anja Hendrikx

Most excellent composer, and fine music.

[Brian]

No, it was the Schubert symphony box, his complete symphonies, yikes!
I shudder when I remember......

Well, Harry, I love Harnoncourt's Schubert box, but in principle I agree with you about Kavakos' Sibelius concerto. Every time I listen to that recording of the work, it really puts me off. Once after listening to it I couldn't bear to hear the concerto again for months and months. Kavakos seems to be bold in moments where he ought to be tender, and tender in moments where he ought to be bold, and I agree the whole experience is unpleasant.

Be careful, so much volume isn't good for the ears.

Yeah, that's true.    Don't do that too often though.

[erato]

Bach:



A stunner of a disc - also sonically!

Read more here, with sound clips:

http://www.overgrownpath.com/search?q=comminges

[Dundonnell]

Jean Cras: the orchestral works, as 2-cd Timpani set



Quite magnificent works that really grow on one with repeated hearings. The 'La Mer' - like work titled Journal de bord is a masterpiece. Cras was a carreeer naval officer. He became Major Gewneral of the port of Brest, and Rear-Admiral. Not surprisingly, there is a strong sense of space, movement, and colour. Most of his works were composed at sea, often during his night shifts (Journal de bord). Debussyan influence runs strong, but it's Pelléas and Nocturnes rather than La Mer or Images that come to mind. But Cras was very much his own man. This set also features his highly original Piano Concerto. Warmly recommended, esp. since it's not too expensive

Now that I have had an opportunity to purchase and listen to these two discs I can warmly endorse the recommendation

I also really like the splendid 'Ames d'enfants' suite-a quite gorgeous work which culminates in a sonorous unison horn invocation of the chorus of 'Frere Jacques'. Marvellous piece in an extremely worthwhile package from Timpani

[Barak]

Poor you... Btw, you didn't write a Concerto, but a Fantasy. I just checked. It was your opus 3. Your opus 2 is the Concerto for Cavalry, Kavakos and Vänskä.

Reading fast produced this: Concerto for Calvary, Kavakos ands Vänskä.  I realized  my mistake when I saw it quoted later...

[Harry]

Well, Harry, I love Harnoncourt's Schubert box, but in principle I agree with you about Kavakos' Sibelius concerto. Every time I listen to that recording of the work, it really puts me off. Once after listening to it I couldn't bear to hear the concerto again for months and months. Kavakos seems to be bold in moments where he ought to be tender, and tender in moments where he ought to be bold, and I agree the whole experience is unpleasant.
Yeah, that's true.    Don't do that too often though.

O, I am so happy, first I fight with you over the Schubert box, then I hug you for the support over Sibelius. Eternal friendship Brian.

[erato]

I've done some sampling of the big (35CDs) Brendel box on Brilliant and finding lots to like. Listening to disc 1, an old Vanguard issue, of Mozart PC 9 with I Solisti di Zagreb under Janigro from 66, this is very good. Fresh and spontaneous in fine, analogue sound.