What are you listening to now?

[Draško]

[Madiel]

I decided I could extend my vocal evening a little after the epic Mendelssohn oratorio.

Brahms: Rinaldo

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[North Star]

Antoine Boësset
Airs de cour et musique de ballet
Claire Lefilliâtre (dessus), Bruno Le Levreur (haute-contre), Jean-François Novelli (taille), Arnaud Marzorati (basse-contre)
Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre
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[Baron Scarpia]

Damn. How will I ever listen to anything else?

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That's the dilemma! 

[Madiel]

Delving into vocal Schoenberg again with the Four Orchestral Songs, op.22 - apparently the last works before a considerable period where Schoenberg completed nothing but developed 12-tone technique.

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Yeah, okay. Improved by the orchestral accompaniment. However, after hitting a sequence of vocal works in Schoenberg's chronology, I'm quite looking forward to the instrumental works coming up.

[Draško]

[Baron Scarpia]

Martinu Cello Sonata No 1 and 2

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To be honest, I didn't get much pleasure from these recordings (I have not heard the pieces before). Texture just too thick. I wonder if I have the wrong recording of these works.

A very quick preview led me to believe that the third sonata would be more to my liking, but I decided to save it for another day, to avoid being influenced by listening fatigue.

[Maestro267]

Korngold: Sinfonietta in B major
BBC PO/Bamert

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.
XII Solos a Violon ou traversiere avec la basse chiffree.
CD II. Solos 7-12.
Munchner Cammer-Music.

Gorgeous.

[Traverso]

Bach Cantatas

CD 56

[Karl Henning]

A new day, but the same ol' key . . .

"Papa"
Symphony № 71 in B^b (H.I/71)
AAM
Hogwood

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[Undersea]

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Mendelssohn: Symphony #2 in B Flat, Op. 52

Christoph von Dohnányi: Wiener Philharmoniker, etc.


Very impressed with this new set thus far.

[Mandryka]

I agree with Harry, that Pachelbel is badly served by recording artists. Stella did a fine J G Walther set. Maybe he would be a candidate for a good Pachelbel set.

I was listening to Muffat today, and this comment of yours came to mind and I thought to myself that the music from the south of Germany is harder to pull off than the music from the North, at least apart from Froberger.  In both cases some tantalising glimpses of small selections of the oeuvre, but not easy to find good large selections. Whether the problem's with the music or the performances I don't know, neither with Pachelbel nor with Muffat.

J G Walther is not really on my radar.

[Undersea]

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Dvořák: Piano Quintet #2 in A, Op. 81, B 155

Sviatoslav Richter & Borodin Quartet


Wonderful work - I especially like the lovely Dumka movement.

[Baron Scarpia]

Mendelssohn: Symphony #2 in B Flat, Op. 52

Christoph von Dohnányi: Wiener Philharmoniker, etc.


Very impressed with this new set thus far.

Agreed. If you are not already aware of it, you may want to consider his cycle of Schumann symphonies (with the Cleveland Orchestra) which is similarly superb.

[Karl Henning]

A new day, but the same ol' key . . .

"Papa"
Symphony № 71 in B^b (H.I/71)
AAM
Hogwood

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The Adagio con variazioni is every bit as exquisite as one expects.  But, the flute/bassoon duo is pure genius.

[North Star]

The Adagio con variazioni is every bit as exquisite as one expects.  But, the flute/bassoon duo is pure genius.

I've somehow avoided Haydn's symphonies almost completely for three months. Key signatures seem like a fine alternative listening plan, instead of going through them over again in chronological order..

Thread-duty - First-listen Friday
Tubin
Symphony No. 4 in A major 'Sinfonia lirica' (1943/78)
Bergen Philharmonic
Neeme Järvi
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[Karl Henning]

I've somehow avoided Haydn's symphonies almost completely for three months. Key signatures seem like a fine alternative listening plan, instead of going through them over again in chronological order.

A plan I more or less chanced upon.

. . . and later, in the same key:

"Papa"
Symphony № 77 in B^b (H.I/77)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

[Que]

Georg Philipp Telemann.
XII Solos a Violon ou traversiere avec la basse chiffree.
CD II. Solos 7-12.
Munchner Cammer-Music.

Gorgeous.

+1 

[Moonfish]

Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Flute

Performers: Frans Brüggen, recorder and transverse flute; Barthold Kuijken, second transverse flute; Walter van Hauwe, second recorder; Paul Dombrecht, oboe; Brian Pollard, bassoon; Sigiswald Kuijken, violin; Wieland Kuijken, Pardessus de Viol and Bass Viol; Anner Bylsma, Violoncello; Anthony Woodrow, Double Bass; Bob van Asperen, Obbligato Harpsichord; Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord (basso continuo).

Recorded at the Lutheran Church in Haarlem, Netherlands, in February and September 1978.