What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Johann-Christian Bach, Op 17 sonatas, played here on a pianoforte by Harald Hoeren.  The instrument seems in perfect harmony with the works.

That one is noted as I am currently exploring the orchestral music of JC Bach.

[Traverso]

Bach

[aligreto]

JC Bach: Symphonies Op. 6 Nos. 3 & 4 [Halstead]

[Que]

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[aligreto]

Vivaldi: Tito Manlio, Atto primo [Dantone]

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to @Filharmonien w/#MarissJansons in #Sibelius:

: http://a-fwd.to/2cdevEq

on EMI/@warnerclassics w/the Second #Symphony

[Mandryka]

This wonderful music screams for a state of the art HIP interpretation

Q

Rubsam.

[amw]

This recording is definitely closer to the score than Karajan, apart from omitting the first movement repeat, and even has the middle movements in the correct order. I also like it better in general. Sticking to the score faithfully gives the music more character, and Mitropoulos's rare "enhancements" function to enhance that character even further.

[Biffo]

Langgaard: Symphony No 5 (Version I) - Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard - a short work, more like a symphonic poem than a symphony; the 4th movement is magical, more like what I expect from Langgaard than the earlier symphonies.

[North Star]

Fresh from the mail for First-listen Saturday
Schubert
Piano Sonata in c minor, D958
Jan Vermeulen (fortepiano Nannette Streicher, Vienna 1825)
The Streicher is quite bright and thin, and I think it suits the music wonderfully well. Something speech-like in it that makes it feel so very human to me, for want of a more specific word, a quality which I think Schubert's music embodies more than any other.

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You may have meant to search for vermilion stretcher.

[amw]

Fresh from the mail for First-listen Saturday
Schubert
Piano Sonata in c minor, D958
Jan Vermeulen (fortepiano Nannette Streicher, Vienna 1825)
The Streicher is quite bright and thin, and I think it suits the music wonderfully well. Something speech-like in it that makes it feel so very human to me, for want of a more specific word, a quality which I think Schubert's music embodies more than any other.

This is a great set imo, though I know some people dislike it because they find the Streicher "clattery" and etc. It's certainly the exact opposite of lyrical hammerless legatoness à la Chamayou, but I think makes the music much more intimate and more radical-sounding, less like a Classical Music For Relaxation™ compilation.

[Mirror Image]

Debussy
Images, Series I & II
Kocsis

[Draško]

New release:

[asin]B07B6MHJL8[/asin]

Michel-Richard de Lalande Majesté, Poeme harmonique, Vencent Dumestre, Ensemble Aedes
The soloists of the Aedes ensemble are
EMMANUELLE DE NEGRI SOPRANO
DAGMAR ŠAŠKOVÁ SOPRANO
SEAN CLAYTON HAUTE-CONTRE
CYRIL AUVITY TÉNOR
ANDRÉ MORSCH BASSE


This CD contains:
Deitas Majestatem
Ecce nuc benedicite
Te Deum

As I have said in a review of de Lalande De Profundis, his treatment of female choruses is absolutely marvelous, and here the Ensemble Aedes shines like a diamond.
If you like french Baroque music or vocal ensembles, you should really enjoy this new release.

I've been streaming this one for the last couple of days and agree, simply superb disc. A bit resonant acoustic, as all Versailles recordings, but well recorded.

One thing though, do you have the physical CD, with the booklet? Does it say how the Te Deum has 5 verses more than any of the earlier recordings? That's full 15 minutes of music more. Is that some new unearthed material, or Dumestre interpolated some from elsewhere, or did the Christie and Colleaux left some parts out (that seems unlikely).

[Karl Henning]

A cross-post, yes:

http://www.youtube.com/v/ByD0_-dApKw

[Que]

Rubsam.

Thanks.  Though I do hope it will be issued on CD....

Q

[Spineur]

One thing though, do you have the physical CD, with the booklet? Does it say how the Te Deum has 5 verses more than any of the earlier recordings? That's full 15 minutes of music more. Is that some new unearthed material, or Dumestre interpolated some from elsewhere, or did the Christie and Colleaux left some parts out (that seems unlikely).

No it does not.  Here are all the verses (latin version).  The booklet has the french and english translations
Te Deum laudamus,
te Dominum confi temur.

Te æternum Patrem,
omnis terra veneratur.

Tibi omnes angeli,
tibi Cæli et universæ potestates,
tibi Cherubim et Seraphim,
incessabili voce proclamant:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Dominus Deus sabaoth.
Pleni sunt cæli et terra
majestatis gloriæ tuæ.

Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus,
te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus,
te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.

Te, per orbem terrarum,
sancta confi tetur Ecclesia,
Patrem immensæ majestatis,
venerandum tuum verum et unicum Filium;
Sanctum quoque Paraclitum Spiritum.

Tu Rex gloriæ, Christe.
Tu Patris sempiternus es Filius.

Tu, ad liberandum suscepturus hominem,
non horruisti Virginis uterum.

Tu, devicto mortis aculeo,
aperuisti credentibus regna cælorum.

Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes,
in gloria Patris.
Judex crederis esse venturus.

Te ergo quæsumus, tuis famulis subveni,
quos pretioso sanguine redemisti.

Æterna fac cum sanctis tuis in gloria numerari.

Salvum fac populum tuum, Domine,
et benedic hereditati tuæ.

Et rege eos
et extolle illos usque in æternum.

Per singulos dies benedicimus te.
et laudamus nomen tuum in sæculum,
et in sæculum sæculi.

Dignare, Domine, die isto,
sine peccato nos custodire.

Miserere nostri, Domine;
miserere nostri.

Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos,
quemadmodum speravimus in te.
In te, Domine, speravi:
non confundar in æternum.

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor - Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin - a dynamic performance from Slatkin.

[Todd]

[HIPster]

Managed to find a copy if this:

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A recording from 1968 in proto-HIP style, somewhere between Wanda Landowska and the real thing.

The unknown "harpsichord" used, sounds very peculiar - particularly in the lower registers almost like a harmonium...

This wonderful music screams for a state of the art HIP interpretation, not something that that sounds like straight out of a Victorian custome drama...  Fascinating, though! 

Q

Nice review! 

Though it's a completely different instrument, I very much enjoy John Butt's recording:

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Recommended by Gordo. 

Now playing ~

[asin]B000M05URG[/asin]

A recent purchase.  Sounds wonderful. 

[Que]

Now playing ~

[asin]B000M05URG[/asin]

A recent purchase.  Sounds wonderful. 

Cool! 

Q