What are you listening to now?

[Daverz]

Symphonie Marine, as seen on GMG:

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Via Tidal.

[André]

These sonatas are variously played on the harpsichord, the fortepiano or the modern piano. Hoeren is a harpsichordist who is just as is just as comfortable on a fortepiano (by Derek Adlam, after Heilmann). Substantial works, not as quirky and original as those of his brother Carl Phillip Emanuel. One can see why Mozart admired him.

[Todd]

First listen.  The Schuchs' second release is even better than their first.  And it moves from strength to strength.  The Mozart is very fine, but the Debussy sounds more cogent and fluid, and very clean.  The Zimmermann, though, in its modernist pastiche glory, is the best thing on the disc.  Given that the duo made Hindemith sound extra-compelling on their first disc, I'd like to hear what they can do in other modern fare.  I'd also like to hear them in Schubert four hands works.  They really need to record Schubert.  Also, Mr Schuch needs to lay down another solo disc soon.  I would not be averse to hearing what Ms Ensari can do on her own, either.

[Karl Henning]

Liszt's transcription of the LvB Op.67 c minor Symphony
Glenn St-Gould 

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This, by the way, is excellent.

[Ken B]

Ockeghem, Lament for Binchois
Graindelavoix, Schmelzer

More Schmelzer. I did not like his Machaut. I do like this, but I can also see some of the things I don't like. Not being a musician I have trouble articulating what I mean, but sometimes it's a bit like Peter, Paul, and Mary are hovering over the recording. It just somehow sounds modern and granola-inflected. Still, it is beautiful.

Does this make sense to anyone? Can anyone express it more exactly?

UPDATE I found this interesting YouTube video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uec85gC7m4

Dear god, I just heard their Missa Caput, The Kyrie, by Ockeghem. Deranged. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBZ-pmN5T0A World Music R Us.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Hot on the heels of Kultyshev's remarkable Chopin Etudes (in my collection, not chronologically) comes his scorching recording of The Twelve.

As in the Chopin, Kultyshev again shows that there's nothing technically that he can't achieve. His technique, however, isn't force-fed on the listener in empty, angry pursuits. The central aim is more to flesh out the poetry in the music, by means of technically mastering the notes first, then applying liberal doses of imagination. End result: a new favorite Twelve.

A big plus is the extraordinary recorded sound. We hear everything.



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[Mandryka]

Ockeghem, Lament for Binchois
Graindelavoix, Schmelzer

More Schmelzer. I did not like his Machaut. I do like this, but I can also see some of the things I don't like. Not being a musician I have trouble articulating what I mean, but sometimes it's a bit like Peter, Paul, and Mary are hovering over the recording. It just somehow sounds modern and granola-inflected. Still, it is beautiful.

Does this make sense to anyone? Can anyone express it more exactly?

UPDATE I found this interesting YouTube video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uec85gC7m4

Dear god, I just heard their Missa Caput, The Kyrie, by Ockeghem. Deranged. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBZ-pmN5T0A World Music R Us.

To me the deploration sounds like lapping waves of the sea, waves collide and new waves form.

I absolutely adore the timbre of the top voice. And I like their way of forming vowel sounds, it's not too rich and large, and it's pretty introspective.

It's slow. I find it hard to hear and follow the words.

Re world music R Us, that connection has been part of medieval music interpretation since the 1960s, maybe less so in music as late as this Ockeghem. The one thing we know about this period of music is that it didn't sound like Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. Everything else is up for grabs.

[Mandryka]

Here's a nice simple intimate one I just found, Bordeaux Broken Consort sing Ockeghem's Binchois deploration

https://youtube.com/v/hhnf5nni_dI

[Que]

Morning listening:



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[vandermolen]

Symphonie Marine, as seen on GMG:

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Via Tidal.

Have just ordered this CD having sampled Symphonie Marine on You Tube. I have very little Ibert in my collection.

[Que]

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[Maestro267]

Bax: November Woods
London PO/Boult

Bliss: Cello Concerto
Wallfisch (cello)/Ulster Orchestra/Handley

Bax: Symphony No. 5
RSNO/Lloyd-Jones

[aligreto]

Di Lasso: Motets [Turner]





Alma Redemptoris Mater
Ave Maria

[Florestan]

Two perennial Beethoven favorites

Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra op. 80
Piano Trio in B-flat major op. 97 "Archduke"

[North Star]

This, by the way, is excellent.

Time to revisit my copy. Picked this up from the local music store's bargain bin in 2009 or '10. I recall it being one of my two favourite Gould discs (along with his Brahms pieces; the only other Gould I have are the Goldbergs)

Beethoven / Liszt's
Symphony no. 5 in c minor, Op. 67
Glenn Gould
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[The new erato]

Now listening to some Ibert

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Fine disc, well worth the modest outlay on Amazon UK (haven't checked other sites)

[GioCar]

Josquin's Miserere, from this Amadeus-CD

[aligreto]

Gesualdo: Four Marian Motets [Tallis Scholars]





Ave, dulcissima Maris
Precibus et meritis
Ave, Regina coelorum
Maria, Mater gratiae

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Slavonic Dances, 2nd series - original piano version.



First ever listen (I do have the orchestral version), and the first dance, which is the one I know best, is immediately spectacular.

[aligreto]

Pergolesi: Magnificat [Willcocks]





This is a wonderfully engaging work which is given a buoyant and assertive rendition here.