What are you listening to now?

[Marc]

I liked  his reviews too, I remember his name  that says enough.
I stopped  reading Luister, too many good reviewers left or  were  forced  to.

Joop Schrier was one of the first generation reviewers and he was a main member of the Dutch Swing College Band; he died in the late 1990s, iirc.
I stopped with Luister around 15 years ago. After Paul Korenhof left it became more and more a hollow 'glossy'. A real pity.

[Que]

After attending a Burgundian composers marathon by the Huelgas Ensemble at the Utrecht Early Music Festival yesterday, this seemed an appropriate start of the day (though not focused on Burgundian composers):

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[Traverso]

Joop Schrier was one of the first generation reviewers and he was a main member of the Dutch Swing College Band; he died in the late 1990s, iirc.
I stopped with Luister around 15 years ago. After Paul Korenhof left it became more and more a hollow 'glossy'. A real pity.

Exactly.

[Que]

Continued morning listening:

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Bob van Asperen on a roll with music from around Europe composed in the 16th and 17th century during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648).

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[aligreto]

Telemann: Overture [Orchestral Suite] in E minor TWV 55:e5 [Cappella Coloniensis]....from CD 1 of this set





The Cappella Coloniensis play with authority and elegance in a good, well balanced recording.

[Madiel]

Prokofiev, Symphony No.4 (revised version)

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As a symphony, it's still too obviously a ballet sometimes. There's nothing especially wrong with the music, just the label.

[aligreto]

After attending a Burgundian composers marathon by the Huelgas Ensemble at the Utrecht Early Music Festival yesterday....

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I trust that you enjoyed it Que?

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: La Cetra, Concertos Nos. 5 & 6 [Huggett/Kraemer]





These are buoyant, exciting performances that are well played by all concerned. The textures and atmosphere are both wonderful in a very fine recording that captures lots of detail.

[Draško]

That 1749/84 Goujon/Swanen is such a magnificent sounding instrument. Rousset is ok as well.

http://collectionsdumusee.philharmoniedeparis.fr/0158208-clavecin-jean-claude-goujon.aspx

[Que]

I trust that you enjoyed it Que?

Oh yes, great performances! 
I hope some of the less familiar repertoire will be recorded - plenty of material for at least two disks.

And the acoustics of the Jacobikerk are excellent:



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[Que]

That 1749/84 Goujon/Swanen is such a magnificent sounding instrument. Rousset is ok as well.

http://collectionsdumusee.philharmoniedeparis.fr/0158208-clavecin-jean-claude-goujon.aspx

I hope Rousset does better than just OK... 

Anyway, this is on my wish list!


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[Harry]

Francois Couperin. Complete Works for Harpsichord-CD 1. -New acquisition-
Premier Livre de pieces de Clavecin.
Premier ordre.
Second ordre, (beginning)
Olivier Baumont, Harpsichord. (Emile Jobin after a seventeenth-century French model)

[Judith]

A fiery and lively breakfast this morning. (Think it got the neighbours out of bed lol) Mahler Symphony no 5. Live recording from Mahler symphony box set by Klaus Tennstedt and London Philharmonic Orchestra.  Although love the whole symphony, the fourth movement Adagietto is so sublime🎼🎼

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 [Morris]





Buoyant and assertive as is usual in this cycle. One again the music is well driven and the performance has a wonderful flow to it. It has the energy and electricity of a good live performance.

[aligreto]

Oh yes, great performances! 
I hope some of the les familiar repertoire will be recorded - plenty of material for at least two disks.

And the acoustics of the Jacobikerk are excellent:



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Great 

[Florestan]

Mesmerizing!

Mompou is a composer who has been growing on me as of late. Besides liking his music, I rather share his musical aesthetics of simplicity and naturalness expressed in small forms, his love of nature (including urban nature) and his spirituality --- and I am quite attracted to his unassuming, quiet, reclusive personality.

Asked about his favorite composers, he answered "All of them except Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven". Two decades ago this would have actually made me reject him outrightly but nowadays I think I understand what he meant by that and appreciate him all the more.

[Karl Henning]

The source sounds are mostly yours truly either playing clarinet or singing.

This is the second phase towards the fixed media component for A Heart So White, a setting of a Shakespeare scene for two female voices, three winds (and fixed media).  I think all I need to add is some more knocking (for purposes of underscoring the text, although even so it is more metaphorical than strict stage direction).  The knocks, I shall add on returning to Boston.

http://www.youtube.com/v/XnZwyffRdjU

[aligreto]

Rameau: Anacréon [Térey-Smith]





This is beguiling, entertaining and appealing music that is played in a great spirit and with elegance on period instruments yielding refined textures in a pleasant acoustic.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 7

[Madiel]

I seriously need to find myself a Faure Requiem.

Deezer offers a huge number of options (though doubtless some will be reissues).

Might start listening to them then...

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