What are you listening to now?

[Pat B]

Profil is the Hanssler Records budget and reissue label.

No, they were separate labels until very recently, when Profil acquired Hänssler Classic. IIRC Profil's founder is the son of Hänssler Classic's founder.

[kyjo]

Kabalevsky's PC 1:

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A fine work that would appeal to fans of Prokofiev's PCs, if a bit lacking in strongly memorable material.

[Mirror Image]

Kabalevsky's PC 1:

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A fine work that would appeal to fans of Prokofiev's PCs, if a bit lacking in strongly memorable material.

To the bolded text, this has been my general problem with Kabalevsky. What works of his would you say are his 'most memorable'?

[SimonNZ]

James Dillon's Nine Rivers, Part 3: Viriditas  - BBC Singers, Simon Joly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WAIo8OzwsQ

[kyjo]

To the bolded text, this has been my general problem with Kabalevsky. What works of his would you say are his 'most memorable'?

Definitely Cello Concerto no. 2 and the Colas Breugnon Overture. I hold both works in very high regard. Also, the slow movement of Cello Concerto no. 1 is very beautiful. I don't know his symphonies.

[kyjo]

Raff's Piano Trio no. 4:

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A work brimming with gorgeous melodies and engaging ideas. Too bad the violinist in this recording has such a thin tone...

[Mirror Image]

Definitely Cello Concerto no. 2 and the Colas Breugnon Overture. I hold both works in very high regard. Also, the slow movement of Cello Concerto no. 1 is very beautiful. I don't know his symphonies.

I'll have to dig out my Kabalevsky collection and see what I own. Thanks for the recs.

Now playing Der Abschied:

[SymphonicAddict]

Prokofiev - Symphony no. 3



Had forgotten the special quality of this work. It's a dissonance feast, an aggresive bacchanale. I love it.


This performance by Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra is quite remarkable too

https://www.youtube.com/v/kGgqg2S7V_8

[Que]

Morning listening - conclusion:

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Mandatory Sweelinck IMO, great performances.

Q

[Spineur]

Arias from the italian rennaissance and baroque collected by Alessandro Parisotti, an early musicologist, professor at St Cécile Academy in Rome in the 19th century.  He described them as arias antiche, which has today a slightly pejorative tone.  Here, Natalie Stutzmann restores them to their earlier glory.  A beautiful and reommended CD

[LKB]

Now playing Der Abschied:

Forty years on, both the work and the recording can enslave me. So at the risk of being redundant:

+1

,

LKB

[Spineur]

CD 5: Pierrette Alarie: Mozart arias and Debussy ariettes oubliées

[You did it]

Janacek - Glagolitic Mass

Greatest mass ever written IMO. I don't know if it is to do with my infatuation with that director and that movie but it really does something to me, it's like spiritual levitation  Really powerful work, and probably my favorite Janacek too....

[amw]

first listen this recording

[Harry]

Yesterday's listening session.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/11/steigleder-johann-ulrich-1593-1635.html?spref=tw

[Madiel]

So far today, in a weird day:

1. Shostakovich, Symphony No.11 (Petrenko, Royal Liverpool PO)
2. Holmboe, Symphony No.12 (Hughes, Aarhus SO)

[Harry]

The start of a three volumes survey through this composer's oeuvre.

Volume I, new acquisition.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/11/riisager-knudage-1897-1974-symphonic.html?spref=tw

[Marc]

Yesterday's listening session.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/11/steigleder-johann-ulrich-1593-1635.html?spref=tw

Aeolus & organ make a splendid combination.

[Harry]

Aeolus & organ make a splendid combination.

In most cases they do indeed!

[eljr]

Charles Bruffy / Kansas City Chorale / Phoenix Chorale
Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil

Release Date March 2, 2015
Duration01:15:26
Genre
Classical
Styles
Choral
Recording DateMay 24, 2014 - May 26, 2014
Recording Location
Cathedral of St Peter the Apostle, Kansas City, Kansas