What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

Will I be able to make it all the way through this Christmas album???

Depends if you're drunk enough.

[Ken B]

Will I be able to make it all the way through this Christmas album???



It's gonna be difficult!

Pfffft. You want suffering? You want an endurance test? You want to prove you can tough it out? Borrow Sarge's Klemp box.

[Brian]

Update: "III. Desseins eternels (Eternal Purposes)" was actually terrific. The beginning of IV. is dramatic. So there is hope.

[ritter]

From this album, which, after I had looked for it in vain for years, has finally made it to Madrid 



Leoš Janáček: Mša glagolskaja (Glagolitic Mass) - soloists, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Pierre Boulez (cond.) - composite of live perofrmances on Nov. 2 & 4, 2000 ...

[Sergeant Rock]

Brrr.


If you want to listen to that St Matthew by New Year's you'd better start now. With meal breaks and sleep, 9 days should just about do it.

After I finish the Passion, I'm going to tackle Celi's Bruckner 8. Should be done by Easter.

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Now:









An absolutely riveting performance of my favorite opera.

[ritter]

After I finish the Passion, I'm going to tackle Celi's Bruckner 8. Should be done by Easter.

Sarge

And then, listen to Jimmy Levine's Parsifal...that'll keep you going well into 2016...

[Moonfish]

After I finish the Passion, I'm going to tackle Celi's Bruckner 8. Should be done by Easter.

Sarge

Easter 2016?

[Brian]

Will I be able to make it all the way through this Christmas album???



It's gonna be difficult!

Huh, I actually liked this! There were some sections that wore on my patience (notably "VIII. The Magi"), but more often than not I really enjoyed it, particularly parts III, V, VI, and IX with its spectacular ending. This is young Messiaen, mid-1930s, showing his true self but not yet escaped from the gravity of French romantic organ tradition.

[Ken B]

Brats.

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From the big DHM box. Likely to be the last time I play this disc.

[Wakefield]

The Christian music marathon continues!



(It began with a first listen to Biber's Missa Bruxellensis.)

Some years ago, Weil's was my favorite cycle of Haydn's masses.

But currently I think it's this Naxos cycle, particularly because of the transparency of its voices and the sparkling instrumental performances. 

[Ken B]

Some years ago, Weil's was my favorite cycle of Haydn's masses.

But currently I think it's this Naxos cycle, particularly because of the transparency of its voices and the sparkling instrumental performances. 

Gordo, is that Trinity Choir from Wall Street, or somewhere else?

I think I will put on one of those Weil's tonight.

[Daverz]

Dvorak: Symphony No. 3 (24/96 download)
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Decca gets gorgeous sonics from the Rudolfinum.  I hope the Supraphon engineers were spying and taking notes.

[listener]

GOETZ:  The Taming of the Shrew  (Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung)
Sven Nilsson, Margarete Teschemacher, Elfriede Trotschel, Gottlob Frick, Pavel Mirov
Chorus and Orchestra of the Dresden State Opera
Karl Elmendorff, cond.
Urania 1952 release on LP, bought it because there's a text & trans. which another recording on cd did not have.

[André]

Puccini: Tosca, with Tebaldi, Del Monaco and London. Decca. More than serviceable, what with such big, steady voices, excellent playing and above average recording quality. But I fancy a little bit more histrionism than these ultimate steak and potatoes artists were willing to serve me.

Bach: the Christmas Oratorio. Karl Munchinger and his Stuttgarters, also recorded by Decca. Ameling, Watts, Pears and Krause are the very sonorous and dependable soloists. Not my favourite (that is still Harnoncourt'S first version on Telefunken. Still, very well played and sung.

Christmas with Leontyne Price (with Herbie von K and his WP). For some reason Price decides to sing in a most scholarly manner, as if to make sure the austro-german public would understand her every word. Simplicity and spontaneity went out the window in the proceeds. An utterly boring Alleluia (Mozart's K.165) concludes this recital. Next to hers, Sutherland's contemporaneous effort is bubbly as champagne.

[Wakefield]

Gordo, is that Trinity Choir from Wall Street, or somewhere else?

I think I will put on one of those Weil's tonight.

Yes, that's one, Ken: it's a chorus from Lower Manhattan area (Trinity Church/ St. Paul's Chapel).

You can listen to it  through Spotify.

Of course, Weil is superb, too, especially if you get the set re-released on Brilliant Classics.   

[Ken B]

Yes, that's one, Ken: it's a chorus from Lower Manhattan area (Trinity Church/ St. Paul's Chapel).

You can listen to it  through Spotify.

Of course, Weil is superb, too, especially if you get the set re-released on Brilliant Classics. 

Thanks Gordo. They are the ones who comissioned and recorded Moran's Trinity Requiem. A wonderful piece, one I am giving as a gift this year in fact.

TD
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[Wakefield]

This jewel:

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I have it as an individual 2-CD set, but it's easier to take it from here:

[Brian]

Dvorak: Symphony No. 3 (24/96 download)

Decca gets gorgeous sonics from the Rudolfinum.  I hope the Supraphon engineers were spying and taking notes.

What do you think of the performance? Todd wasn't too crazy about the cycle, I think. And what is your hi-res download site for Decca releases?

[PaulR]

Sibelius-a-thon!

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First started with Symphony #2, now on Symphony #6