What are you listening to now?

[listener]

Richard STRAUSS:  Sonata in E^b for Violin and Piano op. 18    RESPIGHI: Sonata in b...
Vladimir Weisman, violin   Eleanor Hancock, piano
A passacaglia for the third movement of the Respighi has a ten bar ostinato under frequent changes of meter.
BALAKIREV: 14 songs
Boris Christoff, bass   Alexandre Tcherepnine, piano
Intonation  orch. Tcherepnine   with the Lamoureux concerts Assn Orch., Georges Tzipine, cond.
Texts and French translations included, fortunately as most Russian songs for bass sound like warnings not to go into the graveyard.  But a fine disc nevertheless and still in good condition.
Balakirev seems to have heard a lot of other famous songs, there are frequent echoes of them and one sounds like a straight crib of 'Ich grolle nicht.'

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 3 and then off to bed.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

A really wonderful work by Debussy

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Michael Tilson Thomas provides us with a very good recording.  Complete; not the truncated version so often found; and the singers good.  Not much competition in this field; I would love to find a really top notch all-French recording.

As far as French Sebastien's, the full score version with Ansermet is wonderful. For symphonic fragments only Monteux is every bit as good even with the non-French orchestra.



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[Moonfish]

Joining John's earlier Mahler frenzy...

Mahler: Symphony No 1         NYP/Bernstein

This has become one of my favorite Titans as Bernstein somehow makes the NYP rise to the occasion. The music really comes alive in its whispering tendrils and rising crescendos, full of color and gust. It reminds me a bit of how Kempe makes Strauss come alive in the Staatskapelle Dresden recordings. The NYP is truly a fabulous orchestra. This rendition was the one that really made me appreciate M1 in a very different way.

[Moonfish]

As far as French Sebastien's, the full score version with Ansermet is wonderful.
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I must completely agree with you DD! Ansermet's rendition is indeed magical! I never thought I would enjoy Saint Sebastien until I encountered this recording.

[Que]

"Et In Arcadia Ego"
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli
Concerto Stella Matutina
Christoph Hammer



An utterly delightful soprano, a perfect baroque ensemble and a superb program = happiness, even if death is lurking around.

Looks very interesting! Since this is from Fra Bernardo: how is the packaging/presentation?

Q

[EigenUser]

Lots of Bartok today, no?

134 years of excellent music!

[Que]

Morning listening with disc 5:

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Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater, several Magnificats and motets dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Q

[Madiel]

A frank (and partly rhetorical) parenthesis . . . but given the various scorings of the Op.9, is an album with just one version the "complete choral works"?

Yes. It's just not the "complete versions of the choral works".

[Florestan]

Morning music.

[San Antone]

As far as French Sebastien's, the full score version with Ansermet is wonderful. For symphonic fragments only Monteux is every bit as good even with the non-French orchestra.

Thanks!

[Wanderer]

Good morning and happy Greek Independence Day, everyone!


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[Florestan]

Good morning and happy Greek Independence Day, everyone!

    Ἀπ' τὰ κόκκαλα βγαλμένη
    Τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὰ ἱερά,
    Καὶ σὰν πρῶτα ἀνδρειωμένη,
    Χαῖρε, ὢ χαῖρε, Ἐλευθεριά!

TD

https://www.youtube.com/v/o6kdVsooS8A

[Que]

Good morning and happy Greek Independence Day, everyone!

Happy Independence Day!

I'm aware that Greek independence was not attained easily,  and the road after that has been quite bumpy indeed.
Let's hope that current troubles will be overcome, best wishes for the future of Greece.

Q

[Obradovic]

    Ἀπ' τὰ κόκκαλα βγαλμένη
    Τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὰ ἱερά,
    Καὶ σὰν πρῶτα ἀνδρειωμένη,
    Χαῖρε, ὢ χαῖρε, Ἐλευθεριά!

https://www.youtube.com/v/o6kdVsooS8A

!!Amazing! (The obvious Balkan connection    Thank you very very much!! All the best!

[Obradovic]

Happy Independence Day!

I'm aware that Greek independence was not attained easily,  and the road after that has been quite bumpy indeed.
Let's hope that current troubles will be overcome, best wishes for the future of Greece.

Q

Thank you dear friend, all the best!
Something not very revolutionary for today though:

[Florestan]

!!Amazing! (The obvious Balkan connection    Thank you very very much!! All the best!

You´re welcome, so much so as one of the unintended consequences of the Greek War of Independence was the end of the Ottoman commercial monopoly on Wallachia and Moldavia. 

[North Star]

Το Χόβερκράφτ μου είναι γεμάτο χέλια!

Stravinsky
Apollo
Craft & LSO
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[Florestan]

https://www.youtube.com/v/qnPMXk_GaN8

[Harry]

Syrian Orthodox music! You will not get it more authentic as this. New Acquisition

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/03/new-acquisition-akathist-of-mother-of.html?spref=tw