What are you listening to now?

[Turner]

Haydn - selected sonatas, concertos / Ax, Entremont, LisztFerenc CO /sony 4 CD

Have tried several times & owned it for a long time, but this set is overall a bit too unengaged for my taste.

Btw, the Liszt Ferenc Orchestra did some OK recordings in their early days, but a lot of the later ones are really routinely, IMO.

[Mandryka]

A sequence of canzone francese from Trabaci Bk 1, played by Vartolo, some on organ and some on harpsichord, the performances and the music may be a high point of BK 1, well worth hearing.

[Harry]

Harry, fortunately the repertoire on the recordings by Singer Pur (Modulationes sex vocum (1566)) and by Ensemble Plus Ultra (Canticum Canticorum Salomonis (1549) & selected motets) does not overlap, apart from the motet Pater noster - Ave Maria.

Which makes both recordings complentary. 

Q

Yes you are right. I wanted to compare the style of singing. Will correct this tomorrow.
Thank you for telling me.

[Que]

Yes you are right. I wanted to compare the style of singing. Will correct this tomorrow.
Thank you for telling me.

I fully agree with you on the differences in the style of singing.
Though I don't think I have a clear preference... perhaps ever so slighly leaning towards the "cleaner" style of Singer Pur.

Q

[SonicMan46]

Fretwork - CDs 1 & 2 at the moment, but will listen to the remainder over the next day or two - Dave

 

[North Star]

Fretwork - CDs 1 & 2 at the moment, but will listen to the remainder over the next day or two - Dave

 

If ever there was a set that needed to be reissued, that's it.

Thread-duty

Martinů
Symphony No. 6, H. 343 'Fantaisies symphoniques'
BBCSO
Jirí Belohlávek
[asin]B004Y9DFN2[/asin]

[San Antone]

Went from Granados to Medtner - Geoffrey Tozer, piano

[LKB]

...does anyone know of a (good) recording of his (Reichardt, that is  ) songs? TIA.

Disclaimer: l am not familiar with the recording linked below, so l cannot offer it with any sort of personal recommendation.

Having said that, l would note that even past his prime, DF-D at times had considerably more to offer than other baritones of his day. So, this might be worth consideration:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=37947

Regards,

LKB

[North Star]

JS Bach
Sonatas for obbligato harpsichord & violin nos. 1, 5 & 6
Chiara Banchini (vn) & Jörg-Andreas Bötticher
[asin]B0072A4HS2[/asin]

[San Antone]

[San Antone]

[San Antone]

[bwv 1080]

[Mahlerian]

Earlier, I meant iambic rhythms, not dactylic.  I blame it on the fever.  And that's it for the correction that no one was anticipating or cares about at all...

Haydn: Symphony No. 87 in A
New York Philharmonic, cond. Bernstein
[asin]B001TKK39S[/asin]

Stravinsky: Pulcinella (complete ballet)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, cond. Boulez
[asin]B00QFVL1PG[/asin]

[North Star]

Good idea.

[Karl Henning]

Cheers, gents!

[North Star]

Cheers, gents!

Cheers, Karl!

[kyjo]

Atterberg's VC:

[asin]B000EBEGSC[/asin]

This hyper-romantic concerto is given a superb performance by Ulf Wallin and the Rudfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Roger Epple. The work's quiet coda is particularly beautiful, even if the very ending is strangely abrupt.

[André]

[SonicMan46]

If ever there was a set that needed to be reissued, that's it.  RE: Fretwork - 5 CD set

Just curious about availability - checked Amazon USA - available on the MP, $40 for a used set & $100 for a 'new' one.  So, looked up my Amazon purchase order which was back in August 2009 - $15 as shown below - really a bargain when still 'in print'!  Dave