What are you listening to now?

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

#5 - can't decide between it and #2 as my personal fave.  More decisively:  THANK YOU to GMGers for introducing me to Martinu; it's a safe bet I wouldn't have met up with him otherwise!  And I would have missed out on the really good stuff.

[Wakefield]

CPE Bach : Pensées nocturnes
Sonates, Fantaisies et Rondos de Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Mathieu Dupouy, clavicorde (Martin Kather nach Hubert 1787)

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I have heard three disks by Dupouy, playing three different composers (Haydn, Scarlatti & this CPE Bach) on three very different kinds of keyboards (fortepiano, harpsichord and clavichord).

All of those disks are, at least, very good and, IMO, for instance, this CPE Bach is exceptional, even mandatory for lovers of this music.

I did read he's also organist, but I haven't heard him playing the king...

[Brian]

#5 - can't decide between it and #2 as my personal fave.

What are some things you really admire about #5? It's currently my least favorite, but that doesn't mean I dislike it, it just means I love it less than the others. (#2 and #4 are my two biggies.)

And yes, definitely, without GMG I would not have gone crazy with love of Martinu in the past two years!

[Ken B]

Other Fire by Paul Dresher. Might interest Nate due to his obsession with birdsong ... 

Now Exit No Exit by Michael Nyman, good shed listening!

[pi2000]

Enescu Symphony 5 conductor Peter Ruzicka
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[Mandryka]

No Xenakis here, but have you listened to Aline d'Ambricourt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpWG96269vM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLuYLN_k4lA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwTsqvakF5I

BTW, her DVD Domenico Scarlatti L'Intemporel is a great purchase. 

Ah yes, she's on spotify too.

One thing I like about Lena Jacobson is that she takes the emphasis right off melody, and much more about rhythic repetition of very little motifs. And I like the way she makes the harpsichord make mad noises. Scarlatti as the Hasn Joachim Hespos of the harpsichord, pushing the boundaries of the instrument. She makes Scarlatti sound like a really major original thinker. There are about half a dozen sonatas on youtube, I think what she does is like, revealing the music for the first time, revealing the structure and the level of fantasy.

[Que]

So am I. This is in my opinion an intense and imaginative interpretation.

Here are my comments on Rousset's Louis Couperin set from dec 2011: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,1729.msg588396.html#msg588396



Noëlle Spieth's Louis Couperin is quite different: bold, spirited, swift and flowing, played a more lusch sounding (copy of a later) instrument. A bit how François Couperin would have been played, safe for the boldness.
And if anything that might be the downside to this recording. I just saw I called Spieth's approach "too generic" before, which is way to harsh because these are wonderful and authoritive interpretations. Though there is some truth in it... Nevertheless. .... premier league in my book.
I'd like to hear Moroney's interpretations some day, because his recordings of Louis' organ works seemed rather definitive to me and unearthing L. Couperin's individual voice.

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[Mandryka]

Do you like the fast way Rousset plays the C major Passacaille?

[North Star]

Time to spin this disc again - well, the files, anyway.

Fr. Couperin
Messe propre pour les convents de religieux et religieuses

And pieces by
Abraham van den Kerckhoven (ca. 1618 - ca. 1701),   Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746)
Georg Muffat (1653-1704),   Louis Marchand (1669-1732)  & John Blow (1649-1708)

Gustav Leonhardt (organ, by Dom Bedos for the abbey church of Sainte-Croix of Bordeaux, restored in 1996)
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[Que]

Do you like the fast way Rousset plays the C major Passacaille?

I just put it on to answer your question. I think your issue might not be the general speed, but with the fluctuations apllied, producing staggering efects where the music jams up, so to speak.

As you might have deduced by now, I see your point. But it does not put me off, it is still engaging to listen to. 

And this is Rousset - no recording with him would be without eccentricities like this...

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[Mandryka]

I just put it on to answer your question. I think your issue might not be the general speed, but with the fluctuations apllied, producing staggering efects where the music jams up, so to speak.

As you might have deduced by now, I see your point. But it does not put me off, it is still engaging to listen to. 

And this is Rousset - no recording with him would be without eccentricities like this...

Q

Two things. I wasn't making a point, or a judgement. I just think it's an interesting choice. And second, he's also quite fast in the G minor Passacaille (it was that one that I had in mind in fact - I confused G and C  ) I like the way he plays the G minor a lot. More unsure about the C.

One thing I do think about Louis Couperin is that the people who record it obviously love it- pretty well everything I've heard sounds fresh and meaningful. I think he may well be the greatest writer of harpsichord music.

[EigenUser]

It's 5:30AM here. Maurice Ohana's cello concerto In Dark and Blue fits the mood perfectly with breakfast.
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[Que]

Two things. I wasn't making a point, or a judgement. I just think it's an interesting choice.

I see. And I agree, I guess I still answered your question.

One thing I do think about Louis Couperin is that the people who record it obviously love it- pretty well everything I've heard sounds fresh and meaningful. I think he may well be the greatest writer of harpsichord music.

Indeed. And quite a diversity in approaches as wel!

I did not have Sempé in Chambonnières,  but I do have his L. Couperin recording on Alpha.
Has been a long time I heard that one - will be up tomorrow morning.

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[Karl Henning]

Henning
Sonata for Viola & Piano, Op.102
Dana Huyge, va
Carolyn Ray, pf
Performed in Rochester, NY (28 Sep 2010)

[North Star]

Bach, Bull, Byrd, Gibbons, Hassler, Pachelbel, Ritter, Stroges



Louis Couperin
Suites in D major & e minor, Pavane in f sharp minor & Passacaille in G minor
Leonhardt
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[Karl Henning]

Henning
Sonata for Viola & Piano, Op.102
Dana Huyge, va
Carolyn Ray, pf
Performed in Rochester, NY (28 Sep 2010)

Nearly four years later (well, composition was done a full years ago and more), and I find that this piece still does the composer proud.

Thanks again, Dana — wherever you are!

[Todd]

[Pat B]

One thing I do think about Louis Couperin is that the people who record it obviously love it- pretty well everything I've heard sounds fresh and meaningful. I think he may well be the greatest writer of harpsichord music.

I only have one disc (the one in the 15-disc Leonhardt "Edition") and it is excellent. I'm playing it now. I remember thinking, the first time I listened to it, that I preferred it to what I'd heard of his more-famous nephew François.

[Madiel]

I've been listening to the different parts on and off all through the month. Time to put it all together!

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[Karl Henning]

I only have one disc (the one in the 15-disc Leonhardt "Edition") and it is excellent. I'm playing it now. I remember thinking, the first time I listened to it, that I preferred it to what I'd heard of his more-famous nephew François.

http://www.youtube.com/v/csLXp5vXIn8