What are you listening to now?

[Sergeant Rock]

Frederic Cliffe (1857-1931) Symphony No.1 C minor




Sarge

[Todd]

The Third.  Unexceptionable and unexceptional. 

[prémont]

Correct, I just went by the picture on the cover.

BTW the G. Silbermann organ, Hofkirche, Dresden (which the cover depicts) is equally tuned.
This is probably not the original tuning, but I have not investigated it further.

[aligreto]

Berg: Nine short pieces for quartet, sextet or violin and piano....





I was very taken with this wonderful music which I have not heard before.

[aligreto]

Sor: Complete Fantasias for Guitar - Stefano Palamidessi.

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One for my List methinks 

[aligreto]

I gues we have a little Vivaldi thing going on today....

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Q

I do not have that one yet but it is on the List.

[Karl Henning]

Listened to this in the car while tooling about grocery shopping.  Some of it is great, nothing on this disc but what is at the least very good;  and the disc is one of many reasons for gratitude for "the Lenny boxes."

[Karl Henning]

And now: Adam Scott Neal's speaks (fixed media).

[(poco) Sforzando]

Spending the afternoon with this
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The CD lengths are annoyingly arbitrary.
The first twenty minutes of Act II are tacked onto the end of CD2, and the first twelve minutes of Act III are tacked onto CD 3....even though all of Acts II and III each could have easily fitted into one CD each.

Nevertheless still heavenly.

That's 1962 Kna, right? I have that set too, though with different cover art, and Karajan DG splits the acts similarly. It would be a pain, but as legitimate owners of the sets we could extract all the tracks and burn new CDs with more sensible layouts.

[kishnevi]

That's 1962 Kna, right? I have that set too, though with different cover art, and Karajan DG splits the acts similarly. It would be a pain, but as legitimate owners of the sets we could extract all the tracks and burn new CDs with more sensible layouts.

So it is. I think they thought "let's  make each CD an hour long" but never checked the dramatic layout.

TD
Approaching the final scene. One nonmusical note: I don't remember other Bayreuth recordings being so obviously live performances:  the sonics make me very much aware of how the performers moved around on the stage,  something not always obvious with live recordings. 

[Que]

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I do not have that one yet but it is on the List.

Notwithstanding the rather dutiful Arcadian/Pastoral themed libretto complete with switched and mistaken identities - musically this opera definitely stands out.
And a stupendous "star-studded" cast to match. 

Q

[Kontrapunctus]

This set arrived today, and I began with the String Quartet. What a wonderful work! I guess its formidable performing difficulties prevent it from being played often. Wonderful, life-like sound.

[Autumn Leaves]

This morning's listening:



Symphony #7



Symphony #3



Symphonies #7, 8 & 9
SQ's #2, 4 & 6

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Sun Music I all the way through to Sun Music IV

[Mirror Image]

A wonderful box, too!

+ 1

[listener]

ROSSINI: Aureliano in Parma
1996 recording from Bad Wilbad with the Czech Chamber Choir and I Virtuosi di Praga
Francesco Corti, cond

[Mirror Image]

Sun Music I all the way through to Sun Music IV

I think I'll follow your lead here. Wonderful music.

But first:



Listening to Far Calls, Coming Far!, which I'll follow with Visions (one of my favorites from Takemitsu).

[Autumn Leaves]

This afternoon's listening:



Symphonies #3 & 4



Symphony #13

Starting to like Symphony #13 now - that's progress I guess

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Music by Fernando De Las Infantes.

Atypical among Renaissance composers, Fernando de las Infantas was a wealthy independent nobleman whose published theological treatises were banned by the Inquisition.
[...]
Despite the quality and quantity of the works Infantas published, however, he never achieved, either in his own day or ours, a reputation to challenge that of such of his contemporaries as Victoria or Guerrero. For the first 45 years of his life, music was his first love and passion, even as pursuing the interests of the Spanish crown became his day-to-day business as a courtier. Having travelled to Italy in 1572, while engaged on a diplomatic mission on behalf of Philip II, Infantas prolonged his stay for musical pursuits that culminated with the publication, in Venice in the space of a single year, from the summer for 1578 to the spring of 1579, of four volumes of sacred music—3 books of motets, and one of learned contrapuncti—the equal in quality, scope, and vision, to the productions of most of his better known contemporaries, the great Palestrina not excepted.

Q

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Three sonatas for strings, Lament for strings, Irkanda IV