What are you listening to now?

[EigenUser]

My favorite musical pair -- Ligeti's Melodien immediately followed by Ravel's Introduction and Allegro:
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[HIPster]

Paola Erdas plays some music by Cabezón and others. Not at all like the spanish inquisition. If you're going to have one Cabezón harpsichord CD, this is it. She loves the music, she's an authority on it, and it shows.

Noted - and wishlisted! - thank you.   

Thread duty ~

A super "sampler CD" of music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods, by Hesperion XX:
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[Robert]

Harry

Are you referring to Gallagher's "The Persistence Of Memory"?

[Moonfish]

Vivaldi: Il Cimento dell' Armonia e dell' Inventione
Concertos Nos 7-12 Op 8     
AAM/Hogwood



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[Moonfish]

JS Bach: Partitas 3, 5 and 6         Tureck

I have a thing for Tureck's Bach....

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[ritter]

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Giacomo Manzoni: Ode (1982)

It's been quite a while since I last listened to Manzoni, a composer whose music I find quite attractive...

[Harry]

Harry

Are you referring to Gallagher's "The Persistence Of Memory"?

No, dear Robert I was referring to the first CD Naxos released with his music.

[Moonfish]

Schumann: String Quartet Op 41.1                   Végh Quartet
Schumann: Piano Quintet Op 44                   R. Serkin/Végh Quartet
(recorded at the Prades Festival, Dec 6, 1956)

The ensemble's performance of Op 44 is magical!

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[Karl Henning]

Henning
Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels, Op.117
Peter H. Bloom, fl
kh, cl
Jim Dalton, gtr
Chas Turner, cb
Recorded 1.ii.2014

[Moonfish]

JS Bach: French Suites Nos 1-3 (BVW 812-814)           Watchorn

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[listener]

While I'm set up for LPs
PALESTRINA:  Veni Sponsa Christi    - Antiphon, Motet & Mass
Magnificat VI Ton, Exultate Deus      + 3 hymns
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge       George Guest, cond.
Sacred Music from Lisbon in the 16th and 17th centuries by
Estevão LOPES MORAGO and others
Gulbenkian Foundation Choir    Pierre Salzman, cond.
MESSIAEN:  L'Ascension, Le banquet celeste
Messiaen himself at the organ of La Trinité, Paris

[Que]

From the big box:

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[EigenUser]

Spineless Debussy: Toru Takemitsu's Dream/Window
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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

New to mine ears, 1st symphony :

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[Sadko]

Rimsky-Korsakov

May Night

Golovanov

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[Wakefield]

Never talked about Inqusition in the context of Paola Erdas. In fact she (and Baiano)  are my favorite Cabezon harpsichord players.

Personally, I prefer Glen Wilson to both of them.

I love his ascetic approach, so clean, almost Cartesian; but even so, full of attention to details and sensuality as coming from the sound itself. 

Some days ago, I listened to the "Glosas" (including all the Cabezón clan) and it's a superb disk, even more immediately appealing than the previous "Complete Tientos and Diferencias."

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[Todd]

The elements of a great recording are there.  Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch and Battalia play splendidly, particularly in the fastest music.  Sound is world-class.  Yet it rarely held my attention, and it seems to go on too long.  YMMV.

[André]

I just ordered that Biber set. The Rosary sonatas are magnificent works IMHO.

[André]

Brahms: First Piano Concerto. Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz-Paul Decker. EMI, 1965. One of the best discs of that work around.

[bhodges]

Sean Chen: La Valse (Ravel and Scriabin) - Enjoyable program by an excellent young pianist. The unusual item is Ravel's La valse, in Chen's own arrangement, compiled from Ravel's versions. Without another piano version handy, I can't comment on specific differences, but this is quite good.

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--Bruce