What are you listening to now?

[San Antone]

Zemlimsky : String Quartets
Schoenberg Quartet

[Harry]

Another release by Naxos of this fine composer. New Acquisition, May 2015.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/05/new-acquisition-malipiero-gian.html?spref=tw

[San Antone]

[ritter]

Karl Böhm's valedictory reading of the Ninth:

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This is a marvelous recording. Slow, for sure (controversially so), but never sluggish...and there is something in the pacing, the attacks, the phrasing (I really can't pinpoint it precisely) that makes this performance glow in its solemnity. A great testament from a great conductor...

[Harry]

New acquisition and quite a bumpy ride it is. Not for the squeamish!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/05/new-acquisition-may-2015-brusa.html?spref=tw

[San Antone]

[Mandryka]

Serge Schoonbroodt plays some Sweelinck. If you're not going to play Sweelinck in the solemn manner, the archtypically Bernard Winsemius manner, then the Schoonbroodt way seems to me a very viable route to take. What we have is a sense of freshness and enthusiasm, almost frenzied enthusiasm at times, and, more importantly, a sense of modernity in the dissonant choices for registrations.

When I first got this CD I was put off by the resonance. Now that seems a silly reaction, there's so much wonderful, thought provoking music making here. I wish that I could find someone with a similar approach to Bruhns and Buxtehude.

Absolutely wonderful machine he uses, by the way, at St Jacques in Liège. Just amazing sounds.

I've just ordered his CD of François Couperin masses - has anyone heard it?

[Harry]

One of the best performances I have ever heard of these works. New acquisition.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/05/new-acquisition-may-2015-handel-georg.html?spref=tw

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Back to the Renaissance...

[San Antone]

[Obradovic]

Isn't this recording of Das Lied rather boxy and recessed? Using headphones you feel what I mean

[San Antone]

Isn't this recording of Das Lied rather boxy and recessed? Using headphones you feel what I mean

Dunno.  I am listening to the 5th, and not using earphones.

[Moonfish]

Heard some interesting things about this recording, in particular, of Zinman's cycle.  Its clarity (sound and approach) is remarkable, refreshing.  Wouldn't be my first choice for the 4th, BUT I'm enjoying it and for anyone hesitant to approach Mahler it's specially recommendable as a getting-to-know him first listen.  I met the conductor, many years ago...in a galaxy far, far away...

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I have also really enjoyed the Zinman cycle quite a bit. I am still digging into it. Enchanting!

[Mandryka]

Yes, for completeness Meyerson is to be preferred to Stella. But I still find Leonhardt´s and Alessandrini´s single Böhm-CDs unsurpassed.

Concerning the organ works the single CD by Christiaan Teeuwsen (Naxos) isn´t bad either.

I agree with you about all of this (apart from my slight preference for Leonhardt's Böhm on Teldec, at least when he uses harpsichord.) One other harpsichord recording I've been enjoying, quite distinctive, is Robert Woolley's. If Vartolo were to play Böhm it might sound a bit like Woolley.

[Moonfish]

Elgar: Enigma Variations            London SO/ C Davis

This piece (which I never listened to much in my past) is gaining prominence in my household (especially with my wife). Lovely work with themes that definitely settle in one's mind!

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Le Maitre de "Fricassee": Secular Music of Jean Japart      Les Flamboyants/Michael Form

Fantastic!

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[San Antone]

Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp Minor op. 27, no. 2

[king ubu]

some of this:

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good fun 

[Moonfish]

Weber: Overture Oberon               Oct 13, 1940
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen           Schey            Nov 23, 1939
Mahler: Symphony No 5 - Adagietto          May 1926

RCO/Mengelberg
 
I'm having a love affair with historical recordings. I am very impressed with these older RCO recordings with Mengelberg at the helm. Sure the sound is a bit muted, but it is transferred at a very high quality. I couldn't quite believe how good the 1926 Adagietto sounded!
               




Mahler: Symphony No 1                Chicago SO/Boulez

After having had several encounters with Boulez's rendition of Das klagende Lied I simply had to start to listen to his other Mahler recordings. His "Titan" is indeed both impressive and powerful! 

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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Le Maitre de "Fricassee": Secular Music of Jean Japart      Les Flamboyants/Michael Form

Fantastic!

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One of the most wonderful disks I've heard in the last few months.  Wish we could find more of his work in some archive somewhere...

[Moonfish]

One of the most wonderful disks I've heard in the last few months.  Wish we could find more of his work in some archive somewhere...

Yes, it took me by surprise!  I didn't quite expect such an experience!