What are you listening to now?

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

That's some wake. Anyway, I wouldn't know anything about all that. I look just like my avatar.

Pensive and sensitive are always fashionable.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

[prémont]

Did you notice that v10 of the complete Scheidt has been released? Music from the Görlitzer Tablaturbuch.

Yes, I have got it and heard it already.

It is an informed no-nonsense interpretation on an interesting small historical organ.

[prémont]

Well two people I respect on this forum are equally happy with this ensemble. I will start with some recordings of them, any recommendations?

They have recorded many different kinds of music, so maybe it depends more upon your musical interests.
I own at least a dozen of their recordings, and consider them a safe buy, whatever the repertoire..

[SimonNZ]

playing now:



Mozart Divertimento K.563 - Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, Yo-Yo Ma

[aligreto]

Borodin: Symphony No. 3....

[Sergeant Rock]

Tubin Symphony No.4 "Sinfonia lirico"




Sarge

[Harry]

They have recorded many different kinds of music, so maybe it depends more upon your musical interests.
I own at least a dozen of their recordings, and consider them a safe buy, whatever the repertoire..

Duly noted, I will browse around

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

[aligreto]

Boydell: String Quartet No. 2....

[prémont]

Duly noted, I will browse around

Amazon.fr (incl AMP), JPC  and Fnac are, as far as I can see, the best sites to look for recordings with Diabolus in Musica.

[Harry]

Amazon.fr (incl AMP), JPC  and Fnac are, as far as I can see, the best sites to look for recordings with Diabolus in Musica.

Thank you Poul, very helpful

[Todd]

Starting in on Boris Bloch's Liszt by listening to the longest CD I've ever seen.  Bloch's Harmonies poétiques et religieuses comes in at over 88', on one disc.  The playing is often unvirtuosic - almost antivirtuosic - but the music benefits.  Bloch's approach is basically either slow or slower, tied to a big sonority and not a little personal rubato.  Bloch also extends and emphasizes some arpeggios to excellent effect here and there.  This is probably the best of the three new sets I've hears so far this year, but then it just might be different from Korstick.  Sound is excellent seeing as the disc is cobbled together from two recitals.  There's some extraneous noise, but that's to be expected from recitals.

[HIPster]

Quicksilver - Fantasticus
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Purchased last evening, at the concert by the same group. 

Some very fine playing here.

[Todd]

Disc 3, LvB Opp 127 & 131.  Truly great performances of the some of the greatest music yet written.  The 2008 transfers, though, don't sound as good as the 1994 transfers used elsewhere.  YMMV.

[Todd]

Disc 45.  Tchaikovsky Op 50. 

[SimonNZ]

Zelenka's Missa Nativitatis Domini - Marek Štryncl, cond.

[CRMS]

How so, Claire?

Better than  description is an example ... Here is Antonacci in the last 10mins of Act 1 of Troyens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8CFKZKNcVg

And as a bonus, Nuit d'Ivresse with Susan Graham and Gregory Kunde.  I have seldom heard two voices more perfectly matched in a love duet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQEFkVuBXtU

[Todd]

Another go.

[Artem]

I prefer Power to Dunstaple. His music seems to be more mysterious.

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This is quite nice. I like it much more than the first volume.

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