What are you listening to now?

[Maestro267]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major
Bournemouth SO/Bakels

[Camphy]

String Quartets 2 & 4

[Obradovic]

Inextinguishable indeed! the best 4th Nielsen ever, overwhelming, fiery account

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Mendelssohn's Symphony No.3 "Scottish" - Tamás Vásáry, cond.

[andolink]

G.F. Handel: Alcina

[Camphy]

Symphony 3 "A Pastoral Symphony"

[The new erato]

Morning listening:

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Q

The first disc I bought from the Alpha label - very many years ago, and still a stunner!

[The new erato]

Inextinguishable indeed! the best 4th Nielsen ever, overwhelming, fiery account

I must break open the box I bought and play this! 

Now playing:

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Never heard the music before, but sound and playing is first class.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Cantata BWV 22 [for Quinquagesima]....

[North Star]

JS Bach: Cantata BWV 22 [for Quinquagesima]....

Coincidentally, I'm playing this, liturgical year be damned.

Bach
Cantatas BWV 12, 38 75
Carolyn Sampson, Daniel Taylor, Mark Padmore, Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

[aligreto]

Coincidentally, I'm playing this, liturgical year be damned.

Bach
Cantatas BWV 12, 38 75
Carolyn Sampson, Daniel Taylor, Mark Padmore, Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

Always a good time to listen to JSB 

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Berio's Sinfonia from the Boulez Erato box



Yup, I gotta listen to more Berio.

[Que]

Continuation with disc 2:

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The first disc I bought from the Alpha label - very many years ago, and still a stunner!

I actually got it on your recommendation! 
Revisting it was a very pleasant surprise - it made more impact than I remembered.

Q

[North Star]

Always a good time to listen to JSB 

It sure is.

Thread duty

Berg
Chamber Concerto
Barenboim, Zukerman
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Boulez
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[Tsaraslondon]

Dernesch, Cahill and Janet Baker, Gibson again. I have discs of the live relay the night I was there in Glasgow. It was in English; imagine Dernsch being so generous as to learn it in English! The discs have fillers of another Scottish Opera production with Dernsch and Baker; Ariadne.

Mike

I have that recording too, Mike, but the Sophie was Elizabeth Harwood, not Cahill. Cahill and Howells sang at the revival, which was in German. CfP recorded a highlights disc at the time of revival. I had it on LP, but I don't know if it ever appeared on CD.

[Tsaraslondon]

I went to an Edinburgh Festival performance of the opera with Baker. I attended the pre-theatre lecture by somne ancient French woman who taked ONLY and for ages, about what it would have been like had Callas been around to sing it....she was rude to offhand about Baker. All a tinsy bit pointless. I learned nothing about the opera.

There is a live relay from Covent Garden with Baker/Vickers/Davis available in poor sound from somewhere in the US called something like Opera House. But the seller manages to reverse the order of some scenes.....

Mike

I believe that Baker was standing in for Veasey at the live relay. It was at about the same time as the Scottish Opera performances and she only knew the role in English. Incongruously, she sings the opera in English, while the rest of the cast sing in French. It's available from Opera Depot



http://operadepot.com/collections/janet-baker/products/berlioz-les-troyens-silja-baker-glossop-vickers-davis

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Mass BWV 236....





....a wonderful work.

[amw]

Mateja Marinković's recording of Medtner's Violin Sonata No. 1 isn't quite as good as Lydia Mordkovitch's, but then, who is? It's actually quite recommendable for its tenderness and lyricism, with reasonable amounts of energy, though maybe a bit too straightforward. The third movement is even somewhat better to begin with due to its more spacious tempo (Mordkovitch somewhat over-energises the movement I think) and a more contrastful piano sound, though Mordkovitch eventually prevails due to Marinković weaker climax. I find ASV's sound more natural than/superior to Chandos's and Naxos's (Kayaleh/Stewart) muddy acoustics, though it's obviously not as good as Hyperion's (Hanslip/Tchetuev), who have the best engineers on the market these days, I think.

Will follow up with the "Epica" maybe tomorrow. (Technically, today now.)

[knight66]

I have that recording too, Mike, but the Sophie was Elizabeth Harwood, not Cahill. Cahill and Howells sang at the revival, which was in German. CfP recorded a highlights disc at the time of revival. I had it on LP, but I don't know if it ever appeared on CD.

Yes,I corrected myself behind the scenes. I did have the LP, but as you say, no CD has appeared.

Cheers,

Mike

[knight66]

I believe that Baker was standing in for Veasey at the live relay. It was at about the same time as the Scottish Opera performances and she only knew the role in English. Incongruously, she sings the opera in English, while the rest of the cast sing in French. It's available from Opera Depot



http://operadepot.com/collections/janet-baker/products/berlioz-les-troyens-silja-baker-glossop-vickers-davis

Greg, I recorded the performance live on transmission; but the cassettes went missing in one of our house moves. Fairly recently I sourced it via The House of Opera. However, the discs are badly produced. Some scenes are in the wrong order, also the sound is pretty awful.

Is it worth me forking out again for it? How is the sound quality in your opinion? I see it is alledged to be quite good on the review.

Mike