What are you listening to now?

[Drasko]

Anthoine Busnois - Missa "L'homme armé"

Josquin Desprez - Missa "L'homme armé super voces musicales"

[SimonNZ]

Played today:

[Harry]

Totally ignored, nevertheless gorgeous music.
Third rerun.

[Mandryka]

Josquin, THE great, his work completely paralyses me. I'll go out of my water and say, "the Mahler of the Renaissance period"? Would that be too much of a stretch?

The Busnois mass in that CD is also worth hearing.

[Karl Henning]

I'll go out of my water and say, "the Mahler of the Renaissance period"? Would that be too much of a stretch?

I don't know whether it's a stretch, if I don't understand it    0:)

[Mister Sharpe]

Georg Philipp was such splendid company yesterday I thought to ask him over again this morning. 

Read this about him on Wiki : "Most lexicographers started dismissing him as a "polygraph" who composed too many works, a Vielschreiber for whom quantity came before quality. Such views were influenced by an account of Telemann's music by Christoph Daniel Ebeling, a late-18th-century critic who in fact praised Telemann's music and made only passing critical remarks of his productivity. After the Bach revival, Telemann's works were judged as inferior to Bach's and lacking in deep religious feeling. For example, by 1911, the Encyclopædia Britannica lacked an article about Telemann, and in one of its few mentions of him referred to "the vastly inferior work of lesser composers such as Telemann" in comparison to Handel and Bach. Particularly striking examples of such judgements were produced by noted Bach biographers Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer, who criticized Telemann's cantatas and then praised works they thought were composed by Bach, but which were composed by Telemann."

Ah, the potholes, quicksand and sinkholes of classical music appreciation...  Guess I won't bring this up with him.  I wonder if Telemann will want to watch Television.

[ritter]

First listen (to this recording):

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Enjoying it immensely!   

[HIPster]

Good day music lovers! 

Starting the day with Vaet ~

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[Todd]

[Harry]

Third reruns.

[eljr]

Emerson String Quartet
Chaconnes and Fantasias: Music of Britten and Purcell

Release Date April 21, 2017
Duration01:13:33
Genre
Classical
Styles
Chamber Music
Recording DateJune, 2014 - January, 2015
Recording Location
Drew University, Madison, NJ
LeFrak Hall, Queens College, NY

[Brian]

Trying out a Sarge recommendation.

93, 101, 95, 104 at least to start with

[Todd]

[amw]

I didn't know this one and your description was intriguing, so I'm listening now. The timings immediately suggest I'll like it (I guess Mehta is no Bruno Walter, but whatever) and the LA Phil sounds great.

I like Neumann (Leipzig) and Kondrashin and Walter but not really anyone else in this symphony so far, including Mehta's other recording in New York. Will see how this one goes though.

Was good! Sort of like Solti, but less... Solti.




The D major sextet is on a higher level of invention and inspiration than any other work I've heard by Eduard Franck, in my view, and probably close in quality (and style, and temperament) to the Mendelssohn string quintets. Ok, maybe it's basically Mendelssohn's A major quintet in a different key with more instruments. Still though, I'm glad to have discovered it.

[aligreto]

Geminiani: Concerti Grossi Nos. 7-12 [Banchini]....





Lively, energetic and engaging music that also has a meditative element to it. Excellent performances in excellent recordings. Of particular note is the accompaniment to Concerto No. 12.

[millionrainbows]

Not 'easy' listening, but rewarding.

The Harbison is contrapuntal, melodic, not really what I would call serial, yet not the run-of-the-mill harmonic tonality. It is very interesting listening.
The Wernick seems to be the most 'serial' in its approach to what happens vertically in the harmony; very dissonant combinations.
The Gunther Schuller is uncompromising, yet harmonic; I can hear traces of b9 and 'jazz' sounding dominants, but not cloying or obvious. Some of the dense vertical structures are fascinating-sounding.

Mine has the newer cover art.

[aligreto]

More Bach, but an LP this time. Wonderful playing and sound.

I would like that one in my vinyl collection 
I must look out for it.

[aligreto]

Played today:

The only one that I know is the Herreweghe Brahms Requiem which is superb.
I love the artwork on the first two.

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky
Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis (1955)

[North Star]

Stravinsky
Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis (1955)

Good day, Karl!   And a good idea -

Stravinsky
Canticum Sacrum
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral
John Mark Ainsley (T), Stephen Roberts (Bt)
Iain Simcock (org)
City of London Sinfonietta
James O'Donnell
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