What are you listening to now?

[Mandryka]

No, I'm streaming it, but I believe there was a physical CD, long out of print now:

https://www.amazon.it/Desprez-Circumdederunt-Me-Labyrintho/dp/B000VXLKPK

Can someone here work out what the quality of the download is here? It's the website of the music publisher (you'll also find a pdf of the CD booklet on this site.)

http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/musicstore/website/it/index.php?section_name=music_store_item_show&article_obj_id=13&article_category=CD

Some of their downloads are lossless, but I haven't seen a way to find out before making the purchase!

http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/istruzioni/istruzioni_eng.pdf

[Madiel]

Can someone here work out what the quality of the download is here? It's the website of the music publisher (you'll also find a pdf of the CD booklet on this site.)

http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/musicstore/website/it/index.php?section_name=music_store_item_show&article_obj_id=13&article_category=CD

Some of their downloads are lossless, but I haven't seen a way to find out before making the purchase!

http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/istruzioni/istruzioni_eng.pdf

The way they're describing it, they seem to have designed it so you can't know whether it's one of the albums that fits the "generally" true statement about there being both an Apple lossless and an mp3 option until after you've ordered. Which is somewhat poor form. I think your best bet is to contact them and ask.

Or look for other sources.

[pi2000]

Enescu 3d- Violin Sonata Stanculeasa-Maddox

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[Madiel]

Beethoven, Cello Sonata No.4

[asin]B0031IHBDC[/asin]

[Draško]

Can someone here work out what the quality of the download is here? It's the website of the music publisher (you'll also find a pdf of the CD booklet on this site.)

http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/musicstore/website/it/index.php?section_name=music_store_item_show&article_obj_id=13&article_category=CD

Some of their downloads are lossless, but I haven't seen a way to find out before making the purchase!

http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/istruzioni/istruzioni_eng.pdf

Asking them seems the only way.
You have their email here, on the right side: http://www.elucevanlestelle.com/le-mouton-fabuleux/

[SimonNZ]

on the radio on the bike ride home from work:

Ysaye's Elegiac Poem - Charles Dutoit, cond.
Philips' O Maria Mater - Peter Walls, cond.
Debussy's String Quartet  - Juilliard String Quartet

[Que]

Alfredo Bernardini in a recording from 1995, wonderful! 

Q

[Undersea]

NP:



Bruckner: Symphony #4 In E Flat, WAB 104, "Romantic"
Eugen Jochum: Staatskapelle Dresden

In the process of re-evaluating the pictured Box-Set.
I like this recording of the 4th Symphony a lot.

[Mandryka]

Thanks, I've posted on the website and I've sent them an email. I'll let you know if I get a response.

[Madiel]

Schumann, Dichterliebe

[asin]B003UW6WE8[/asin]
Quite possibly my favourite song cycle, by anyone.

[North Star]

Schumann, Dichterliebe

Quite possibly my favourite song cycle, by anyone.

Good idea, I need to continue wading through this set, with disc 5 (miscellanea & Gedichte von Kerner Op. 35, the latter with Simon Keenlyside)

[Traverso]

Easter   Resurrexit

[Madiel]

Good idea, I need to continue wading through this set, with disc 5 (miscellanea & Gedichte von Kerner Op. 35, the latter with Simon Keenlyside)

I'm not quite going in CD order. I have a few more opuses from 1840 and early 1841 to go, and then I'll leave the later songs until... later!

[San Antone]

Easter   Resurrexit

Is that set an all male choir?

[Mandryka]

Very serene interpretation of Missa Pange Lingua contrasted with dramatic performances of few interspersed chosen motets: Qui velatus facie fuisti, Huc me sydereo and especially Stabat Mater. I really like the way that contrast works.

Singing is impeccable. One of De Labyrintho female sopranos has a very boyish timbre. I'm generally not that fond of boy trebles but when an adult singer's experience, intelligence and lungs are behind that sort of timbre it becomes very interesting color.

Well I find it hard to enjoy, possibly because of the sound quality. I don't find it particularly serene as interpretation by the way.

[Traverso]

Is that set an all male choir?

Yes it is and a vey fine one to! If you love Gregorian Chant, try to find one.
A reissue on the Newton label.




http://www.choralschola.at/start_eng.html

[Biffo]

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem - Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus & soloists conducted by Edward Gardner - streamed free from the Bergen Philharmonic website - a fine performance but not one I would particularly want to own.

[anothername]

Karajan conducting: Don Carlo.

[Draško]

Well I find it hard to enjoy, possibly because of the sound quality. I don't find it particularly serene as interpretation by the way.

I'm probably less sensitive to sound quality, sounded fine to me.



Janine Micheau had a lovely voice.

[Judith]

Listening to
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Mozart Clarinet Quintet

Andrew Marriner
ASMF and ASMF Chamber Ensemble
Sir Neville Marriner

Really enjoying this CD. Very refreshing.