What are you listening to now?

[Moonfish]

Revisiting:

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I like it so much that I am tempted to buy all discs,....But then doubt sets in: do I really want to go to al the trouble and expense and waste shelf space, only to be confronted at some point by a cheaper and more convenient box set?

I like companies that don't waste our time end energy and issue a complete set right away!

Q

That O'Hanlon guy definitely mauled this recording on Amazon. However, that is usually the case with his reviews.  So what makes you like this one so much Q?  Compared to (I presume) all the other Mozart cycles in your collection?

And, yes, the box sets should be issued right away!!       Netflix are offering seasons of shows all at once after all...

[Moonfish]

CPE Bach: The Complete Works for Piano Solo    Markovina   

CD 10 from:

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Haydn: String Quartets Op 64 1, 2 & 6      Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet

Exquisite performance and recording!

[Moonfish]

Good morning GMGers!   

Starting off the day with this favorite:
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Will follow this up with a long beach walk. . .

I plan to dive into the Pierre Hantai box throughout the day.

All of that sounds like a wonderful Sunday. I am off to do an Easter Egg hunt with the kids, but think I would prefer the beach and music...

[Wakefield]

Netflix are offering seasons of shows all at once after all...

Yes! I was "forced" to watch the second season of House of Cards in two weeks and probably because of this its faults were more apparent.

[Lisztianwagner]

William Alwyn
Four Elizabethan Dances
The Magic Island

[ritter]

Earlier today:

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[madaboutmahler]

Had a bit of a romantic violin concerto phase recently, so in the last few days, repeats of these:
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[madaboutmahler]

Happy Easter all!

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[Wakefield]

Yes, but sometimes the interpretations may be more considered, when it has taken some time (perhaps several years) to do the recordings.

No doubt: slow fire should be the golden rule not just in cooking... Unfortunately, these days speediness is by far more valuated than precision. Soon "2+2=5" will be respected as a good approximation. 

[listener]

TALLIS: Spem in alium,  Sancte Deus, Salvator mundi.. I & II, Gaude gloriosa,
Miserere nostril, Loquebatur variis linguis
The Tallis Scholars       Peter Phillips, cond.
BACH-BUSONI: Air with Variations (Goldberg)
Three Arrangements from the WTC for piano duo
Concerto for Piano and Orch. in d (BWV1052)* - concert recording
BUSONI: Improvisation for two pianos on a Bach chorale ('Wie wohl est mir...'
Sara Davis Buechner, piano    Raffi Besalyn, 2nd piano
*Vancouver Symphony Orch.      Bramwell Tovey, cond.
The WTC arrangement omits six of the variations and all the repeats, and rearranges the sequence for a more dramatic concert effect.

[North Star]

That O'Hanlon guy definitely mauled this recording on Amazon. However, that is usually the case with his reviews.

That's a better sign of excellence than 1/1 from you-know-who for a HIP recording 

[Artem]

Konzert fur Schlagzeug und Orchester is rather nice.
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[Wakefield]

Haydn: String Quartets Vol. 1 - The Seven Last Words of Christ Hob. XX:1B, Op. 51
Leipziger Streichquartett

[Ken B]

Sneaking up on Moonfish, disc 9 of the big Markovina CPE Bach

[listener]

for the evening, VERDI's Jerusalem, a re-write for Paris of I Lombardi, with an added ballet.
In French, subtitled.

[Moonfish]

Spanish Guitar Recital with Julian Bream

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[pi2000]

Enescu conducts Tchaikovsky
21 april 1946 Moscow

[Mandryka]

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A ritualisation of the St John Passion by Peter Sellars, performed at Baden Baden last Friday by Simon Rattle/BPO, with Mark Padmore, Magdalena Kožená, Topi Lehtipuu, Christian Gerhaher, Roderick Williams.

In a way I see Peter Sellars as always working with a  pretty limited range of ideas -- when I watch this I've seen things I've seen before in other Sellars productions. But that's not to say that he's other than very good, and he has a knack for getting palpable commitment from the singers.


I missed the Sellars staging of the Matthew passion but I noticed it's playing in New York in Autumn, if I can get tickets I may go.

[The new erato]

Disc 3:

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Playing the occasional disc among other chores, without loud trumpeting (been 3days away with wife and 2 grown up kids at our coastal cottage). Beautiful weather, back home today and will do some gardening later today.

[Que]

That O'Hanlon guy definitely mauled this recording on Amazon. However, that is usually the case with his reviews.  So what makes you like this one so much Q?  Compared to (I presume) all the other Mozart cycles in your collection?

Hard to explain.  It was the Germans call an Aha Erlebnis - the moment where you gain a whole new insight in something.I feel Schoonderwoerd has taken these pieces apart, worked on each and every detail and then put them back together again. As  becomes more and more apparent, the Classical era has it own distinctive idiom. I feel Schonderwoerd takes this music one step further away from how Mozart was interpreted before. You could call it ultra HIP, uncomromising. The result may sound unfamiliar or even uncomfortable. But I don't thnk this is just a gimmick or being extreme for the sake of it. I like the raw execetiment , the intimacy I feel to the music and the suprisment of hearing familiar things that work in a slightly different way but feel "right" rightaway.  I do wonder wether Schoonderwoerd is a composer himself,  considering his clear insights.

Anyawy, I stil love Immerseel but he doesn't get the balance quite right at times and his Mozart sounds pretty, while this doesn't. There is still plenty of beauty and poetry but Schoonderwoerd's Mozart sounds more incisive,  more serious.

Q