What are you listening to now?

[Mandryka]

Kagan and Richter play Mozart K 379. I'd forgotten how wonderful this performance is. I tried to listen to Podger and Grumiaux in the same sonata but I thought they were over emotional, Kagan is very restrained and that works perfectly for me

[San Antone]

A revisit, and after traversing through Marcel Peres and Graindelavoix as wellas other more tame recordings, this group/recording is what I had hoped to find.  It was actually one I had known about but hadn't listened to for ages.

I like the fact that it is a male group, and the pitching is lower by a fourth, or thereabouts, and the interpretation is not as wobbly as Peres and Schmelzer.

For the time being, my go-to recording of this work.

[San Antone]

Sticking with early music, going back even earlier than Machaut.



I've had this CD for a while but hardly ever listen to it.  I think subconsciously the ccover art is prejudicing me against it.  It is in truth a very good recording of very early music.

[San Antone]

Stockhausen : Stimmung
Paul Hillier and Theater of Voices



Kinda had a hankerin' for some Bb⁷ ....

[San Antone]

Okay, had enough of Bb⁷ ...



Although my original copy looked like this:

[Ken B]

Okay, had enough of Bb⁷ ...

Hankering for a little atonality are we? 
I am listening to Stamitz symphonies, the AAM, Hogwood.

[San Antone]

Hankering for a little atonality are we? 
I am listening to Stamitz symphonies, the AAM, Hogwood.

That's what happens after listening to a half hour of B-flat.

[SimonNZ]

Blamont, Clérambault and Courbois cantatas - Agnès Mellon, soprano and cond.

[Dee Sharp]

Tchaikovsky/Sibelius Violin Concertos. Lisa Batiashvili; Daniel Barenboim: Staatskapelle Berlin. An excellent disc.  I especially enjoyed the exuberant performance of the Tchaikovsky. I also have Batiashvili's earlier recording of the Sibelius with Sakari Oramo which I slightly prefer to this one, but both discs are outstanding.

[MN Dave]

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[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

First time listening to this......I might have to post this in the 'blown away' thread!

[Todd]

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Luc Ferrari with eRikm

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Now:



Listening to the Mass. So beautiful.

Like most things that I have heard which been released on Hyperion, I found the Symphony of Psalms here rather uninteresting.....I haven't heard the Mass though, so what is your assessment of it in comparison to other recordings?

[San Antone]

Luc Ferrari with eRikm

Good one.  Have you seen the Ferrari big box?

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Mandatory if you like his music.

Edit: I did not notice it was OOP. Mine was around $60-70 when I bought it. 

[Kontrapunctus]

Beautifully played and nicely recorded, but the playing time is rather skimpy (43 and 48 minutes for disc 1 and 2, respectively). He could easily have added another hour of music, but I suppose that would defeat the purposes of issuing only the French Suites!

[SimonNZ]

Like most things that I have heard which been released on Hyperion, I found the Symphony of Psalms here rather uninteresting.....I haven't heard the Mass though, so what is your assessment of it in comparison to other recordings?

Gasp! Heresy!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Good one.  Have you seen the Ferrari big box?

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Mandatory if you like his music.

Edit: I did not notice it was OOP. Mine was around $60-70 when I bought it. 

OOP but it IS on Spotify. If it were in print I'd probably buy it.........

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Gasp! Heresy!

Is Hyperion considered good or something? There are a handful of releases I do like, particularly the recordings of music by Leo Ornstein, Balakirev piano music and some early music albums. There is so much they have released which is repertoire I simply find uninteresting or I prefer other recordings, the latter is usually the case with a lot of the warhorse repertoire they've released.

[San Antone]