What are you listening to now?

[Que]

The Rosary Sonatas should impress! And there are so many  recordings around these days. Haven't  heard Letzbor.

My morning listening  is this lute disc that came in yesterday:

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Paolo Cherici is a favourite. I seldom worry about sonics but Tactcus can by ocassion produce really atrocious sounding recordings....
Luckily this sounds fine, though a tad too close.

Q

[ritter]

Back to Le Marteau sans maître, which never ceases to amaze me...this time, sans Boulez:

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[Harry]

Disc 5 of this box. To start the day with

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-sweelinck-jan_7.html?spref=tw

[Que]

Disc 5 of this box. To start the day with

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/08/recent-acquisition-sweelinck-jan_7.html?spref=tw

Great!

The recent post by Gordo on a complete Soler by Barbara Harbach and the issue of a box with Belder 's recordings made me revisit this:

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I checked and I have all four previous slimline 2CD volumes of the solo repertoire and there is very space to be gained to swap that for the box set,  so I am going to leave things as a they are.

Now on rehearing this recording I was again impressed by Belder. This is just really excellent: vibrant and expressive interpretations. The only quibble one might have that Belder 's generally muscular and intense style might have too little of the delicate, dreamy touch associated  with Iberian keyboard music and a bit too "pushy". Not to my taste however - I think Belder holds back when necessay and don't mind a bit of "Soler on steriods"... A bit like Scott Ross' Scarlatti...

Q

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Friday Froberger :

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[amw]

The Rosary Sonatas should impress! And there are so many  recordings around these days. Haven't  heard Letzbor.

He's one of the best. I don't know if anyone has ever done a Rosary Sonatas Blind Comparison or whatever, but Letzbor would probably end in the top four or five

Currently, first listen to Josef Suk's Epilogue

[Karl Henning]

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I believe I saw the Goya original at the MFA last year . . . .

[mc ukrneal]

I believe I saw the Goya original at the MFA last year . . . .

MFA - what is that? I think that is usually at the Prado, but perhaps it was in an exhibition? Though there is more than one in this style, so perhaps I have mixed them up.

[Karl Henning]

Some jovial Friday music:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 9 ми-бемоль мажор, соч. 70 [ Symphony № 9 in E^b, Opus 70 ] (1945)
Gürzenich Orchester Köln
Дмитрий Георгиевич  [ Dmitri Georgiyevich (Kitayenko) ]

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[Karl Henning]

MFA - what is that? I think that is usually at the Prado, but perhaps it was in an exhibition? Though there is more than one in this style, so perhaps I have mixed them up.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, yes a visiting exhibit.

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/ePBB-NO8vKg

[mc ukrneal]

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, yes a visiting exhibit.

Cool! I love Goya. Sounds like it must have been an interesting exhibition.

[Karl Henning]

Cool! I love Goya. Sounds like it must have been an interesting exhibition.

It was a beauty!

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/goya

[Karl Henning]

No surprise:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 8 до минор, соч. 65 [ Symphony № 8 in c minor, Opus 65 ] (1943)
Gürzenich Orchester Köln
Дмитрий Георгиевич  [ Dmitri Georgiyevich (Kitayenko) ]

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[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.10

[king ubu]

first spin:

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[ritter]

I believe I saw the Goya original at the MFA last year . . . .

This is El Pelele, a "carton" by Goya for a tapestry by the Royal Factory of Spain, destined for the study room of King Charles IV. Yep, the original is in the Prado. It's amazing how in these cartons, Goya depicts scenes of the leisure of the popular classes of Madrid in his time, in what at first sight seems a cerafree approach, but if you look closely alos has something sardonic (or even sinister). Soooo modern for his time, such a great painter (national pride aside  )....

[SonicMan46]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - Concerti e Musica di Tavola w/ Shalev Ad-El & Accademia Daniel - recommended earlier in this thread, I believe - nice mixture of mainly string & wind concerti.

Frederick the Great (1712-1786) - Flute Sonatas w/ Mary Oleskiewicz on a Baroque flute - this Prussian ruler (1740-1786) was a patron on the arts and an excellent flutist who also composed - some brief information quoted below (Wiki) - Quantz & CPE Bach were several of his court composers.  MP3 download burned to CD-R - Dave

Frederick was a patron of music as well as a gifted musician who played the transverse flute. He composed 100 sonatas for the flute as well as four symphonies. The Hohenfriedberger Marsch, a military march, was supposedly written by Frederick to commemorate his victory in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg during the Second Silesian War. His court musicians included C. P. E. Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz, Carl Heinrich Graun and Franz Benda. A meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach in 1747 in Potsdam led to Bach's writing The Musical Offering.

 

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 from this set....

[Karl Henning]

Keepin' on:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 7 до мажор « Ленинградская », соч. 60 [ Symphony № 7 in C, Opus 60 "Leningrad" ] (1941)
Gürzenich Orchester Köln
Дмитрий Георгиевич  [ Dmitri Georgiyevich (Kitayenko) ]

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