What are you listening to now?

[Judith]

This morning

Schubert 1st & 8th(unfinished symphonies)
ASMF
Neville Marriner

from box set
The Ten Symphonies


Tchaikovsky Symphony no 2
RLPO
Vasily Petrenko

Trying to familiarise myself with Tchaikovsky first three symphonies. Now know no 1 better.

[Turner]

Satie played by Auric, Fevrier etc. / Everest LP stereo

Nice, though not exceptional, rather too detached IMO. The sound is quite good.

[Spineur]

Irma Kolassi: CD 3&4
CD 3: Greek and Italian folk songs+italian baroque
CD 4: Chausson: Poeme de l'amour et de la mer
I love Chausson.  A more refined Wagner

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[Florestan]

[Karl Henning]

Most people seem to prefer Kennedy's earlier recording of the Elgar with Handley, but I rather like this one as well, and it includes a ravishing performance of the The Lark Ascending.

Big fan of this disc, myself.

[Cato]

Karl Henning's Nuhro: if you ever wanted proof of Karl's musical genius, here it is!

I used an excerpt from Nuhro yesterday in a Lenten project for my school: I received some queries from both students and faculty: "What was that one piece called?"   0:)

Curiously, even though I myself have listened three times to it in toto, the YouTube counter stays stuck at 92: does it not count a repeat visitor?

https://www.youtube.com/v/r2vn2PB_-9g

[Florestan]

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning's Nuhro: if you ever wanted proof of Karl's musical genius, here it is!

(* blush *)

[North Star]

Curiously, even though I myself have listened three times to it in toto, the YouTube counter stays stuck at 92: does it not count a repeat visitor?

There's probably some filtration at least, otherwise you could easily rank up thousands of views for your videos in order to make them appear more popular.

Thread-duty
Soler
10 Sonatas (CPO)
Hinrichs (on Spotify)

[Karl Henning]

Many thanks, Cato.  I admit I found it highly gratifying to revisit this performance this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/v/r2vn2PB_-9g

[Cato]

There's probably some filtration at least, otherwise you could easily rank up thousands of views for your videos in order to make them appear more popular.

I suppose that is the reason.

Recently I have also been revisiting the 3 early symphonies of Tchaikovsky: a particularly exuberant finale in the Second Symphony!

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

Many thanks, Cato.  I admit I found it highly gratifying to revisit this performance this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/v/r2vn2PB_-9g

Oh, I like this quite a bit! My choir-singing and choir-administrating wife perked her ears, too! Who's the publisher?

TD: repeat listening


#morninglistening to terrific #Froberger release on @aeolusianer w/ #BobvanAsperen

: http://a-fwd.to .1HEXS1o

on #organ & #harpsichord. #Toccatas interspersed with #motets. Perhaps the ideal entry point for #JohannJakobFroberger

[Spineur]

Pogorelich, Gaspard de la nuit.  Probably my favorite Gaspard, and there are many good ones...

[Karl Henning]

Oh, I like this quite a bit! My choir-singing and choir-administrating wife perked her ears, too! Who's the publisher?

Lux Nova Press

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luxnova.com%2Flnpwebstore%2Fcatalog.php%3Fpcode%3DLNP-0164&event=video_description&v=r2vn2PB_-9g&redir_token=zF-mXvA1sv9607_GdWeGjR25MmF8MTUxOTMwNDc4NEAxNTE5MjE4Mzg0

[Florestan]

Many thanks, Cato.  I admit I found it highly gratifying to revisit this performance this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/v/r2vn2PB_-9g

My favorite Henning work. A real gem.

TD

[Biffo]

Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Glagolitic Mass - Charles University Choir Prague conducted by Jiri Petrdlik with Petr Cech (organ) - written four years before Janacek's masterpiece this is a mainly gentle, reflective setting of the same (more or less) Old Slavonic text.

[Turner]

Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Glagolitic Mass - Charles University Choir Prague conducted by Jiri Petrdlik with Petr Cech (organ) - written four years before Janacek's masterpiece this is a mainly gentle, reflective setting of the same (more or less) Old Slavonic text.

Interesting post, thank you.
A lot of Foerster´s music is rather gentle, my favourites remain the Cyrano de Bergerac suite/Smetacek and the quite conservative three piano trios, don´t know the string quartets but they seem to be good.

[André]

The J.S. Bach concertos disc. Much water has flowed under the bridge since this was first issued. Nowadays it's no more than serviceable, I'm afraid.

[Todd]

Gitti Pirner's K282 starts with a largely restrained Adagio, characterized by clean and serious playing and a moderately attractive style.  No ornamentation calls undue attention to itself, and her rhythmic sense is solid.  The minuets are straight-forward and the Allegro is nicely energetic with good dynamic variation between voices.  Not a great recording, but a solid one, and the whole set might be good for listeners who want no-nonsense Mozart.

[André]

Re: Karajan's 1966 Haydn Creation:

Uh.......but actually there is in the final chorus.......the only one. The soloists in the final chorus are an SATB quartet to contrast with the SATB choir rather than STB soloists representing characters like in the rest of the oratorio........................

I would be extremely surprised if they didn't decide before the recording was being made that she would sing the alto solo at the end. Being as disorganised as that would be a sure way for any problems to arise when it comes to availability of the soloists.

That's why I said it's a legend  . One poster's comment doesn't a truth make! What I did read from a reliable source (Gramophone, 1984) is that Ludwig sings 5 bars (10 seconds of music) in that last chorus. I suppose that's why no other version I know of mentions an alto soloist (including 2 other Karajan recordings). Someone from the chorus (or the whole alto section) probably sings these 5 bars in the other recordings.