What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

First listen to this. I feel kind of ridiculous to constantly gush with enthusiasm, but this is simply glorious.  Just came out a couple of weeks ago, apparently.  SOTA recording, and fantastic, fresh, vigorous playing.   
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Well you know if Letzbor is good he is usually very good.
Not much coming from this group that really disappoints.

[Que]

New acquisition, bought on seeing that Que had bought it too
So he's responsible (for me buying it), since we are pointing fingers these days


http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/02/new-acquisition-fasch-johann-friedrich.html?spref=tw

I still have quite of a list of items by Epoca Barocca to go!   Like the Platti, how is that?

Thread duty:

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Disc 6 includes the lovely Missa O Quam Gloriosum.

Q

[Harry]

I still have quite of a list of items by Epoca Barocca to go!   Like the Platti, how is that?

Thread duty:

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Disc 6 includes the lovely Missa O Quam Gloriosum.

Q

I have all the CD'S by this group save for the Fasch, which is now also in my possession.
You cannot tease me anymore.

[Mookalafalas]

Well you know if Letzbor is good he is usually very good.
Not much coming from this group that really disappoints.

  I've never heard them (or of them) before. I'll definitely be looking for more I've been playing this one continuously since I got it, which I virtually never do.  It's hard to imagine getting tired of it.
   The mic-ing, recording, and mixing are also spectacular.  To my ears this is reference quality recording.  I'm going to start hunting up my few other Arcana discs and see if they are comparable. I suddenly have a lot of love for that little label.

[Madiel]

I've been introducing myself today to Dvorak's Piano Quintet.

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Hell of a work. Incredible variety and range.

[Harry]

  I've never heard them (or of them) before. I'll definitely be looking for more I've been playing this one continuously since I got it, which I virtually never do.  It's hard to imagine getting tired of it.
   The mic-ing, recording, and mixing are also spectacular.  To my ears this is reference quality recording.  I'm going to start hunting up my few other Arcana discs and see if they are comparable. I suddenly have a lot of love for that little label.

He has recorded many a excellent cd, in fact why not start with the Music of the Habsburg empire?

[The new erato]

Last night I listened to this, absolutely outstanding en every way (like everything by Cinquecento), particularly the Vaet motets.

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[Madiel]

Word is that Sibelius' piano music isn't all that interesting.

After coming across op.5/5 earlier today (not this recording initially, but Gimse on Naxos), I think they might be lying.

https://www.youtube.com/v/S0QwAyJ0j9Q

[North Star]

Word is that Sibelius' piano music isn't all that interesting.

After coming across op.5/5 earlier today (not this recording initially, but Gimse on Naxos), I think they might be lying.

I like what I've heard, certainly including this piece, which gets played often enough on the classical radio station in Finland.

[Harry]

This cd comes with a strong recommendation to all that enjoy 16th century Italian keyboard music.
A exquisite release, and a runner up for my top 10 of 2015.
New Acquisition

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/02/new-acquisition-macque-giovanni-de1548.html?spref=tw

[Mookalafalas]

He has recorded many a excellent cd, in fact why not start with the Music of the Habsburg empire?

Ah, I heard a lot of talk about that here a little while back (you and Que and Gurn, perhaps?).  Intriguing. I'll look into it.

TD:
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[Harry]

Ah, I heard a lot of talk about that here a little while back (you and Que and Gurn, perhaps?).  Intriguing. I'll look into it.

TD:
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Well I bought it, and am at cd 2 now, taking it very slowly, for this is a magnificent box, Erato bought it too, and I work on it that many others buy it too, for this will not be long on the market, this I happen to know.

[Harry]

This one comes with a firm recommendation too............

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/02/new-acquisition-music-for-compline.html?spref=tw

[pjme]

Hilding Rosenberg manages to move me again and again: there's lyricism without sentimentality in his music. At times big boned & strong, then simple and quiet...

Excellent performance.

Peter

[The new erato]

Hilding Rosenberg manages to move me again and again: there's lyricism without sentimentality in his music. At times big boned & strong, then simple and quiet...

Excellent performance.

Peter

Compared to the quantity and quality of his output, I feel that he is the most underrecorded of any composer I am aware of.

[Sergeant Rock]

Norrington 4 lyfe #unjustlyeliminated

  ....I too was sorry to see him eliminated so early.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Rosenberg Symphony No.3, Blomstedt conducting the Stockholm Phil

https://www.youtube.com/v/dJXpIMM3ROg


Sarge

[Madiel]

Medtner: Skazki ('Fairy Tales'), op.51, as played by Geoffrey Tozer split across these 2 discs.

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Seriously good music. I've been listening online to Medtner's opuses in fits and starts, and the Skazki seem to be getting more and more substantial.

[prémont]

First listen to this. I feel kind of ridiculous to constantly gush with enthusiasm, but this is simply glorious.  Just came out a couple of weeks ago, apparently.  SOTA recording, and fantastic, fresh, vigorous playing.   
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This is an old recording, I got it about 10 years ago. Agree abot the vigorous playing.

[Mookalafalas]

This is an old recording, I got it about 10 years ago. Agree abot the vigorous playing.

Weird. Arcana doesn't acknowledge that it is a reissue (there is nothing to suggest it), but you are right. Song lengths and even the liner notes are the same...