What are you listening to now?

[Camphy]

Mozart, Piano Concerto 19

[The new erato]

First listen:

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[aligreto]

Scheidt: Ludi Musici / Savall....

[Drasko]

This has over last few years, almost unnoticed, became my go-to recording of the 9th. A fine performance.

[Sergeant Rock]

Atterberg Symphony No.5 D minor "Sinfonia Funebre"




Sarge

[Camphy]

Weingartner, String Quartets 1 & 3, played by the Sarastro Quartet

[Que]

I love this stuff by Enrico Gatti and his Ensemble Aurora:



Now part of this 2CD set :

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Strongly recommended to lovers of Baroque violin music!

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn String Quartet G major op.54/1 and String Quartet C major op.54/2 played by the Amadeus




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Atterberg Symphony No.5 D minor "Sinfonia Funebre"




Sarge

Very nice, Sarge. I think I'll join you. Love this symphony.

[Sergeant Rock]

Very nice, Sarge. I think I'll join you. Love this symphony.

I think it might be my new favorite but I'll have to listen to 3 & 6 again, just to make sure. But later. Right now, Sibelius 7, Szell conducting the Cleveland (thanks, Bogey  )




Sarge

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Was gonna wash and wax the car this AM, but a storm front's come in and so now it's a turn down day. 

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[Wakefield]

I love this stuff by Enrico Gatti and his Ensemble Aurora:



Now part of this 2CD set :

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Strongly recommended to lovers of Baroque violin music!

Q

I experienced a sudden emotion when I saw your post. I thought Gatti had recorded Locatelli's L'Arte del Violino. 

It looks extremely interesting, anyway. Thanks! 

[SonicMan46]

Hi Dave - thanks for posting this Letzbor release.  Looks very fine indeed.

I have been spinning this Bertali release over the last few months:
 
Very enjoyable! 

Hi HIPster - thanks for the Bertali recommendation - also like the other one I purchased recently (inserted above, right) - has a lot of period horns - my first Bertali CDs and knew nothing about this composer until reading the liner notes - he was quite a prominent personage in 17th century Vienna, as explained in the short quote below.  Dave

Antonio Bertali was born in 1605 in Verona. In 1624 he moved to Vienna, where he was hired as a violinist and composer at the Habsburg Court and eventually served as Supremus Musices Praefectus of the Imperial orchestra. Following the death of Giovanni Valentini in 1649, King Ferdinand III appointed Bertali Kapellmeister—then the highest musical position in German-speaking lands—a post which he held until his death in 1669. Bertali was a prolific composer of both sacred and secular music, ranging from oratorios and operas to instrumental sonatas, but few of his works were published and almost none survive.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

DG deserves a good spanking (Verhauend) for not including lyrics in this CD reissue , one of the loveliest recordings I own :

[Drasko]

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[SonicMan46]

Glazunov, Alexander - String Works w/ the Utrecht SQ - first 3 volumes up for a second listening today - seem to be 2 more volumes from this group to complete the project - I'm really enjoying Glazunov's string writing - a couple of reviews attached for those interested - Dave

   

[Harry]

Glazunov, Alexander - String Works w/ the Utrecht SQ - first 3 volumes up for a second listening today - seem to be 2 more volumes from this group to complete the project - I'm really enjoying Glazunov's string writing - a couple of reviews attached for those interested - Dave

   

Dave my friend, Volume 4 and 5 were also in the MDG sale, so I wondered why you did not order them too???

[prémont]

Gustav Leonhardt plays Scheidemann's magnificat vi tone. I find it a satisfying, spiritual, intense, serious account which makes me think of J S Bach. I was wrong to suggest yesterday that Julia Brown recorded this magnificat, it turns out that van Dijk did it for Naxos.  But I think that I was probably right to suggest that Lecaudey is successful in giving Scheidemann a distinctively playful face.

This one - also on the Schnitger/Hamburg-  might be interesting for Sonic Man too, as almost half of it is music by Scheidemann.

An outstandimg recording in every respect.

[Camphy]

[Todd]

Jumped to disc 38, Smetana and the first Brahms piano trio.  About the closest thing to a complaint is that the BAT may smooth over the Smetana just a bit too much, rendering it, well, perfect.  That's not much of a complaint.  The 1970 and 1966 sound is fully up to snuff.