What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

Vieuxtemps, Henri - Violin Concertos - up for a second listen and enjoying even more!   Dave

I told you Dave, these performances are far better as the Naxos recordings.

[Karl Henning]

“Il prete rosso”
Concerto in e minor for bassoon, RV484
The English Concert
Pinnock

[Karl Henning]

Piazzolla
Adiós, Nonino
Víctor Villadangos, gtr

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[Karl Henning]

Elizabeth Vercoe
Kleemation
Peter H. Bloom, fl
Mary Jane Rupert, pf

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[aligreto]

"Virtuoso Recorder Music" - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

Oh I might try to track that one down. I have just one CD from that ensemble in my collection which I like very much....

[aligreto]

Haydn: Symphonies 86 & 87 / Harnoncourt....





I found this set of Paris Symphonies to be wonderfully strong performances, well paced and articulate. I think that these will become a highly favoured set of performances of these works for me.

[Karl Henning]

RVW
Concerto grosso
LSO
Thomson

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[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 / Hickox....





A fine version IMHO.

[SimonNZ]

Mozart Flute Quartets - Rampal / Stern / Accardo / Rostropovich

[SimonNZ]

Oh I might try to track that one down. I have just one CD from that ensemble in my collection which I like very much....

As fine as the "Virtuso Recorder Music" album is, I used to have another on vinyl by them called "Baroque Recorder Music" which I really loved, and hope to find on cd.



Didn't realise they'd made so many (or any) albums on Channel.

[aligreto]

As fine as the "Virtuso Recorder Music" album is, I used to have another on vinyl by them called "Baroque Recorder Music" which I really loved, and hope to find on cd.

Thank you for that one also.

[André]

Einojuhani Rautavaara: symphonies 5 and 6 ("Vincentiana", after paintings by van Gogh). Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Max Pommer.

[kishnevi]

Brian suggested Honeck would do a good job with this music. 
Brian was right.

[listener]

DUFAY: Part-songs and sacred music
The Ambrosian Singers and Players,    Denis Stevens, cond.
and GILBERT & SULLIVAN  The Grand Duke
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (soloists and chorus)     Royal Philharmonic Orch.    Royston Nash, cond.
(random selection, no logical connection)

[Que]

"Virtuoso Recorder Music" - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

Oh I might try to track that one down. I have just one CD from that ensemble in my collection which I like very much....

Good to see more Loeki Stardust Quartet fans!

Q

[Que]

Thread duty - my morning listening:

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[Wanderer]

Glad to know of this (and your impressions invited). I saw Baráti live in a recital last year - works for solo violin - and thought he was terrific.

--Bruce

I did not expect to like this (I hadn't even heard Baráti's playing before and since more famous names stumble in this work by means of either indifferent or diabetic readings my confidence wasn't high) but I enjoyed it enormously. Baráti seems to strike the right balance so that the work would not sound saccharine, but mellifluous as it should be, with an appropriate amount of spikiness to keep things interesting throughout. His virtuosity is obvious but effortlessly projected, never annoyingly to the fore. The orchestra is also very good in supporting him, as well as highlighting Korngold's fanciful orchestration and harmonies. The Korngold violin sonata was also excellent, perhaps the best/more convincing rendition I've heard so far. I'm definitely going to listen to Baráti's takes on Brahms' and Beethoven's violin sonatas next.

I was enthusiastic about this piece the first time I listened to it (sometime in my Wooster days).  Somehow, my ears "blacked out" on it for decades.  Now, my inaugural ardor for the work has been completely restored.

Funny thing, life . . . .

And a mighty fine rendition and recording this is, if I might add. Slain! 

[Wanderer]

Yesterday and today:

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[Harry]

Started again this morning with the Akathist of the Mother of God in the Syrian orthodox tradition.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-third-rerun-akathist.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Who could resist this fine composer? Me?, certainly not!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-second-listen.html?spref=tw