What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Oh I might try to track that one down. I have just one CD from that ensemble in my collection which I like very much....

As fine as the "Virtuso Recorder Music" album is, I used to have another on vinyl by them called "Baroque Recorder Music" which I really loved, and hope to find on cd.



Didn't realise they'd made so many (or any) albums on Channel.

[aligreto]

As fine as the "Virtuso Recorder Music" album is, I used to have another on vinyl by them called "Baroque Recorder Music" which I really loved, and hope to find on cd.

Thank you for that one also.

[André]

Einojuhani Rautavaara: symphonies 5 and 6 ("Vincentiana", after paintings by van Gogh). Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Max Pommer.

[kishnevi]

Brian suggested Honeck would do a good job with this music. 
Brian was right.

[listener]

DUFAY: Part-songs and sacred music
The Ambrosian Singers and Players,    Denis Stevens, cond.
and GILBERT & SULLIVAN  The Grand Duke
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (soloists and chorus)     Royal Philharmonic Orch.    Royston Nash, cond.
(random selection, no logical connection)

[Que]

"Virtuoso Recorder Music" - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

Oh I might try to track that one down. I have just one CD from that ensemble in my collection which I like very much....

Good to see more Loeki Stardust Quartet fans!

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[Que]

Thread duty - my morning listening:

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[Wanderer]

Glad to know of this (and your impressions invited). I saw Baráti live in a recital last year - works for solo violin - and thought he was terrific.

--Bruce

I did not expect to like this (I hadn't even heard Baráti's playing before and since more famous names stumble in this work by means of either indifferent or diabetic readings my confidence wasn't high) but I enjoyed it enormously. Baráti seems to strike the right balance so that the work would not sound saccharine, but mellifluous as it should be, with an appropriate amount of spikiness to keep things interesting throughout. His virtuosity is obvious but effortlessly projected, never annoyingly to the fore. The orchestra is also very good in supporting him, as well as highlighting Korngold's fanciful orchestration and harmonies. The Korngold violin sonata was also excellent, perhaps the best/more convincing rendition I've heard so far. I'm definitely going to listen to Baráti's takes on Brahms' and Beethoven's violin sonatas next.

I was enthusiastic about this piece the first time I listened to it (sometime in my Wooster days).  Somehow, my ears "blacked out" on it for decades.  Now, my inaugural ardor for the work has been completely restored.

Funny thing, life . . . .

And a mighty fine rendition and recording this is, if I might add. Slain! 

[Wanderer]

Yesterday and today:

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[Harry]

Started again this morning with the Akathist of the Mother of God in the Syrian orthodox tradition.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-third-rerun-akathist.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Who could resist this fine composer? Me?, certainly not!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-second-listen.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 11 соль минор « 1905-й год », соч. 103 [ Symphony № 11 in g minor, Opus 103 "1905" ] (1956-57)
Gürzenich Orchester Köln
Дмитрий Георгиевич  [ Dmitri Georgiyevich (Kitayenko) ]

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[Harry]

Another go at Sweelinck, CD 4.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-sweelinck-jan_6.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

Another go at Sweelinck, CD 4.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-sweelinck-jan_6.html?spref=tw

That one is a temptation.  I must hold out until my birthday 

[niknala]

Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata in C major Hob.XVI:50
Robert Schumann – Three Novelettes Op.21 - Nos.1, 2 & 8
— Sviatoslav Richter At Carnegie Hall (Columbia—Sony Classical)

[Mandryka]

The complete Scheidt vol. 9. This is my third in the series - I have 5 and 8 - and I don't know if it isn't the most successful of the three - some big works, great organ, rapt performances all very colourful, super singing too, colour and variety. I've just ordered 7 in a fit of enthusiasm, and I noticed that on the uk amazon and ebay at least the series is getting hard to find, I had to order mine from France. Maybe I should just order the lot, but it's nice to collect them slowly, let each ine sink in before the next arrives.

What a distinctive musical voice Scheidt has!

[mc ukrneal]

Direct from the Imperial Court....
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[Karl Henning]

The complete Scheidt [....]

What a distinctive musical voice Scheidt has!

My failing, I am sure, but I can hardly read these lines without smiling . . . .

[Mandryka]

My failing, I am sure, but I can hardly read these lines without smiling . . . .

It's the name of the composer and the name of the CD label combined which always makes me cringe.

[San Antone]

Direct from the Imperial Court....
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That's a good one.