What are you listening to now?

[mc ukrneal]

Second disc of today, a major disaster from the SEON box.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/monteverdi-claudio-1567-1643-madrigali.html?spref=tw

Ouch! Get that Vieuxtemps on post-haste!

[Mirror Image]

First-Listen Fridays

Prokofiev
Divertimento, Op. 43
Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 125*
Sinfonietta, Op. 5/48
Raphael Wallfisch, vc*
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi
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Thumbs up! I knew you would like this recording.

[Harry]

Well not Vieuxtemps Neal, but Bach, that worked too.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/bach-js-complete-organ-works-weinberger.html?spref=tw

[listener]

FRIDAY = VIERNEs  Symphony no. 2 in e op. 20 for organ
Rollin Smith, Aeolian-Skinner organ op.909, 1933   All Saints Church, Worcester, Mass
BEETHOVEN:  Piano Concerto no.2 in B^b op. 19  32 Variations on an Original Theme G.191
Emil Gilels, piano   The Cleveland Orch.,   Szell, cond.
LULLY:  Highlights from Thésée
Anne Ayer, Hugues Cuénod, Mimi Mattei   Vienna Volksoper Orch.,  Willard Straight, cond.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Third listen : Schubert arr Mahler, Death and the Maiden Quartet, adagietto 5th Symphony.  Marvellous.

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I don't have many cd/sacd on this label MDG, but the ones I do have are outstanding in sound quality.

[Karl Henning]

Third listen : Schubert arr Mahler, Death and the Maiden Quartet, adagietto 5th Symphony.  Marvellous.

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I don't have many cd/sacd on this label MDG, but the ones I do have are outstanding in sound quality.

The Adagietto is exquisite!

[AnthonyAthletic]

The Adagietto is exquisite!

Certainly is, Karl.  There's a richness in the quartet for orchestra which I really adore.  Not as personal as in the quartet form, but still great to hear it performed this way.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Just revisiting these two works (yesterday & today) in meditation mode whilst
watching the outside view, and listening to the rain intermittently pitter patter down.

Bryars...Jesus blood...& Sinking of the Titanic

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It has been a wet & gloomy, lazy week off
work.....but it has been a week OFF work 

[NikF]

Bonnal: Streichquartette Nr.1 & 2 - Le Quatuor Debussy.

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I'm loathe to say that these works remind me a little of Ravel, because I feel they can stand on their own. However I believe that's a reasonably fair way to describe them.

[SonicMan46]

Mozart, WA - Keyboard Sonatas w/ Bart van Oort on several different fortepianos - just arrived in the mail today and will start w/ the first disc after the Diane Rehm shows on NPR - Dave

[king ubu]

from the mighty haul:

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never heard these peformed by such a small group (one string instrument per part, adding up to 5) - sounds good!

[Brian]

This is a fairly entertaining, and very colorful, CD of new music.



The mood/color Garrop uses to capture various Greek mythological episodes is actually pretty spot-on. Don't mess with Medusa

[Harry]

A blast from the past, september 2014, and now in the second rerun.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/rodrigo-joaquin-complete-edition-cd-1.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Some Lute music to calm my nerves and close the listening day. New acquisition. From the SEON box.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/varietie-of-lute-lessons-renaissance.html?spref=tw

[king ubu]

the new one by L'Arpeggiata/Pluhar - with Nuria Rial and Hana Blazikova alternating as soloists:

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[Harry]

the new one by L'Arpeggiata/Pluhar - with Nuria Rial and Hana Blazikova alternating as soloists:

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I am a bit off Pluhar, she is always messing with the scores, adding things, and taking things out. Rial I like but not always. Blazikova of course I know from the Suzuki Bach cantates series, also a soprano that can go terribly wrong, but most of the time has enough quality in her voice to charm and delight. So how is this one. Rial her vibrato for instance?

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Concertino for two pf, Opus 94
Дмитрий Дмитриевич и Максим Дмитриевич [ Shostakovich père et fils ]

[Brian]

I don't quite know why, but after an hour of Stacy Garrop's musical language, putting on Maurice Ravel's string quartet feels like the most wonderful, refreshing thing. Like lying down for a nap after a hot afternoon.

[king ubu]

I am a bit off Pluhar, she is always messing with the scores, adding things, and taking things out. Rial I like but not always. Blazikova of course I know from the Suzuki Bach cantates series, also a soprano that can go terribly wrong, but most of the time has enough quality in her voice to charm and delight. So how is this one. Rial her vibrato for instance?

I enjoy what I've heard so far by Pluhar - the Purcell I found somewhat less interesting than other discs such as the Monteverdi Teatro d'Amore or Via Crucis (guess those two are my favourites). Rial's singing I love, she can do no wrong for me (does she ever apply too much vibrato? really? no need to start a fight over this, tastes differ, but if you can point to me to a piece where you think she does, please tell me and I'll re-listen). Blaziková is mostly new to me, but she's as charming as Rial here, I feel. And most of the charts seem quite reduced ... obviously there's some of that nutty baroque trumpet, but little drumming and fully-fledged "swinging" here.

I have the Cavalli double disc by Alarcon lined-up too - will be interesting to compare, I'm sure!

[Harry]

I enjoy what I've heard so far by Pluhar - the Purcell I found somewhat less interesting than other discs such as the Monteverdi Teatro d'Amore or Via Crucis (guess those two are my favourites). Rial's singing I love, she can do no wrong for me (does she ever apply too much vibrato? really? no need to start a fight over this, tastes differ, but if you can point to me to a piece where you think she does, please tell me and I'll re-listen). Blaziková is mostly new to me, but she's as charming as Rial here, I feel. And most of the charts seem quite reduced ... obviously there's some of that nutty baroque trumpet, but little drumming and fully-fledged "swinging" here.

I have the Cavalli double disc by Alarcon lined-up too - will be interesting to compare, I'm sure!

Of course not we will not fight over this, unless you want to?
I heard recently a sampler on which she sang something, I forgot what, but I was surprised about the vibrato, I will try to find which disc that was. And as you say tastes differ, and good that is!
I am sure what you have of Rial is all good. I am simply quickly put off by added vibrato. Still I find her a good singer.