What are you listening to now?

[Sergeant Rock]

...it can actually mean being negative as well as positive, depending on the context.

You're correct. Your English comprehension is better than mine!

Sarge

[Sadko]

You're correct. Your English comprehension is better than mine!

Sarge

But thanks for the clarification neverheless. Not knowing "doozy" I did think it was (only) negative.

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky
Pater noster, Credo, Ave Maria (unaccompanied)
Mass
Canticum Sacrum

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral
John Mark Ainsley (T), Stephen Roberts (Bt)
Iain Simcock (organ)
City of London Sinfonietta
James O'Donnell
[asin]B000002ZO4[/asin]

I'm in!

[Mandryka]

Jacobs - Harnoncourt
39
10:04 - 10:42 (intro: 1:57 - 1:38)
8:05 - 7:36
3:25 - 3:51
8:09 - 8:21
40
7:15 - 7:27
15:08 - 12:08
3:47 - 4:18
9:18 - 10:37
41
10:38 - 13:00
9:52 - 9:30
3:23 - 5:14
12:01 - 11:39

Findings:
Harnoncourt is much faster in all slow music. This includes all three slow movements, most dramatically #40, and the intro to #39.
Jacobs is much faster in minuets. However, he leads them with a lighter touch so they're less hectic.
Elsewhere, it's either a toss-up or they trade off who is faster.

Yes, I meant in the first movement of 41. I wonder if the new Harnoncourt is the slowest ever there.

[Wakefield]

I duplicate, and triplicate, etc, etc, my favorite works but these Grumiaux-led Quintets....never felt the need or desire to hear anyone else. Definitive is a dirty word in this forum but I'd use it here.

Listening to the C minor now.




Sarge

You're not better than us, Sarge , simply you can get this kind of satisfaction in chamber music. But I bet you never did the same with your favorite symphonies or the symphonic repertoire in general. 

[Mandryka]

I duplicate, and triplicate, etc, etc, my favorite works but these Grumiaux-led Quintets....never felt the need or desire to hear anyone else. Definitive is a dirty word in this forum but I'd use it here.

Listening to the C minor now.




Sarge

I wonder what you think of this recent one from students at the Juilliard school, which I like very much for the forward motion and tension.

https://www.youtube.com/v/6xRqiAj-3UM

[Harry]

This particular CD from this set, stands out as a firm favourite of mine. Especially because of the Johann Scheibe organ which is truly unique.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/bach-js-complete-organ-works-cd-18.html?spref=tw

[Brian]

An interesting piece of comparison is the final bar of No. 39, listen how Jacobs plays it much softer, as if to finish with a whisper rather than with bravado. It's a sweet way of ending, I really kinda like it, especially the reverb left by the flute.

Bruggen does this too. I am not a fan.

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - Piano Sonatas w/ Ronald Brautigam - have not listened to Papa Joe in a while - so will start the box below - Dave

[Pat B]

Giving this another go. Saw Pat B.'s posting and just read Gramophone's review which called this recording "far batter than Brüggen's recent set" has me ready for a second listen.

Not me (at least I hope it wasn't me ). I haven't heard this recording of the "Oratorio."

Thread duty: Alkan: Allegro Barbaro, 3 Little Fantasies, 3 Preludes, 3 four-hand Marches (Sermet on Valois). Will comment in the Alkan thread.

[TheGSMoeller]

Not me (at least I hope it wasn't me ). I haven't heard this recording of the "Oratorio."

My apologizes, Pat, it was actually Baklavaboy, I must have gotten my animated avatars mixed up. 

[Karl Henning]

Игорь Фëдорович [ Igor Fyodorovich (Stravinsky) ]
Canticum sacrum
Gielen & al.

[asin]B001FXSN5A[/asin]

[Brian]

Celebrating the Re-isscher of Fischer!

[Karl Henning]

No surprise at all:

Игорь Фëдорович [ Igor Fyodorovich (Stravinsky) ]
ΑΓΩΗ
Gielen & al.

[asin]B001FXSN5A[/asin]

[Karl Henning]

Further non-surprise:

Игорь Фëдорович [ Igor Fyodorovich (Stravinsky) ]
Requiem Canticles
Gielen & al.

[asin]B001FXSN5A[/asin]

[Sadko]

Rameau

Suites

Marcelle Meyer (piano)



(ASIN: B000005GTW)

[listener]

all LPs today, my CD/DVD player plays PAL DVDs so it's going to a meeting tonight
ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance Marches op.39, Cockaigne Overture op. 40
London Philharmonic Orch. / Solti
J.C. BACH: Keyboard Concertos op-. 1/5&6 (with a finale being an unexpected set of variations on 'God Save the King'), op. 7/1&2
Ingrid Haebler, fortepiano  Capella AcademicaWien   Eduard Melkus, cond.
Nice piano sound, like a harp.
and from the New World LP's "The Indian Movement in American Music"
featuring music by Arthur FARWELL, Preston Ware OREM, and CADMAN

[Mandryka]

Hans Petermandl plays Ludus Tonalis.

What is strange is how this evening this music sounds so interesting, and Hans Petermandl's style, Hans Petermadl's serious, propulsive, lapidary teutonic style which makes no concetions whatsoever to accessibility - seems so right, so 20th century forward looking, and so musical. Like he's made mature tough poetry out of it.

[Pat B]

My apologizes, Pat, it was actually Baklavaboy, I must have gotten my animated avatars mixed up. 

Thread duty: Sibelius 2 (LSO, Monteux) and Karelia Suite (VPO, Maazel).

[Karl Henning]

Игорь Фëдорович [ Igor Fyodorovich (Stravinsky) ]
Canticum sacrum
Gielen & al.

[asin]B001FXSN5A[/asin]

No surprise at all:

Игорь Фëдорович [ Igor Fyodorovich (Stravinsky) ]
ΑΓΩΗ
Gielen & al.

[asin]B001FXSN5A[/asin]

These again, they're just so gosh-darned good.