What are you listening to now?

[Que]

I see my Willaert post made some waves....

Probably less controversial:

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Comment by the Mrs: "rather old fashioned violin playing...".  Quite right!
And I like it that way, it definitely gives the Franck sonata  added charm. ...

Q

[aligreto]

A wonderful friend of mine sent me this recording recently, so I've just started listening to it, starting at no. 1!



I'm loving the sound on this one. And I think Solti gets the strings to play measured tremolos at the start of the 7th, which makes this recording sooo much more awesome than most! Epiiiiic

That was one of the earliest Mahler cycles that I bought and I always thought well of it.

[Mandryka]

Alamire do John Taverner's  antiphon Gaude Plurium. It lasts a long time for early music, a good quarter of an hour, and builds up tension very effectively. I've decided I like Taverner a lot, at least here and in the masses, because the music seems somehow unconstrained and  exciting, full of interesting events. Not at all drab. The performance seems quite satisfactory:  clear, small scale and expressive.

[aligreto]

Cherubini: String Quintet from this....

[The new erato]

This is fully up to the very high standards of the 3 previous Casella volumes in this series.

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[Harry]

Alamire do John Taverner's  antiphon Gaude Plurium. It lasts a long time for early music, a good quarter of an hour, and builds up tension very effectively. I've decided I like Taverner a lot, at least here and in the masses, because the music seems somehow unconstrained and  exciting, full of interesting events. Not at all drab. The performance seems quite satisfactory:  clear, small scale and expressive.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
Thats a great line, keep to it!

[The new erato]

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
Thats a great line, keep to it!

Quite the opposite, I've found Mandryka's posts on early music to be among the most illuminating here. I learn something from them all the time.

[Harry]

Quite the opposite, I've found Mandryka's posts on early music to be among the most illuminating here. I learn something from them all the time.

Right, well obviously you seem only to see that aspect of Mandryka, and overlook the insults towards the Willaert discs.
Meaning there is nothing to learn from me.
I had enough.
Everyone is welcome to my blog, but I will not post on this forum anymore.
I am done with it.

[North Star]

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
Thats a great line, keep to it!

Right, well obviously you seem only to see that aspect of Mandryka, and overlook the insults towards the Willaert discs.
Meaning there is nothing to learn from me.
I had enough.
Everyone is welcome to my blog, but I will not post on this forum anymore.
I am done with it.

Well, instead of being offended by others' reactions to your insults, you could have voiced your different opinion of the music in the first place, and not a blatant ad hominem, Harry. Respecting a forum member whom you have insulted does not necessarily mean disrespecting your learnedness on the subject.



First-listen Friday (this recording)
Vaughan Williams
Five Tudor Portraits
Elizabeth Bainbridge & John Carol Case
Bach Choir
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir David Wilcocks

[Rinaldo]

Inspired by the discussion in the Organ thread..

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Disc #5, the Grigny Hymnes.

[North Star]

Digging deeper into the RVW Collector's Edition box

First Listen Friday

Vaughan Williams
Benedicite for soprano, chorus, & orchestra
Heather Harper
Bach Choir
Sir David Wilcocks & LSO

First Listen Friday (this recording)

Symphony no. 5
Royal Liverpool Phil
Handley

[SimonNZ]

Rossini String Sonatas - I Musici

[Mandryka]

Inspired by the discussion in the Organ thread..

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Disc #5, the Grigny Hymnes.

That disc has recordings of Grigny hymns made 30 years apart - at Poitiers in 1996 and at Sarlat in 1965. I like the liturgical presentation of the Poitiers.

[The new erato]

Right, well obviously you seem only to see that aspect of Mandryka, and overlook the insults towards the Willaert discs.
Meaning there is nothing to learn from me.
I had enough.
Everyone is welcome to my blog, but I will not post on this forum anymore.
I am done with it.

Well, one cannot insult a disc. And I find it very strange that you cannot accept anybody seeing things differently from you, particularly when their opinions are well argued. I learn from you both all of the time, but this is not a competition about who is the most right. No learning without discussion and argument, so long as it is civil. I agree that if you only want to present your own view without anybody disagreeing, a blog seem to be a better media than a discussion forum for you. Sorry to see you go, but that's your choice and I sincerely hope to see you back in a less combative mood.

[aligreto]

I spent my Friday evening in the company of a 3 LP set of Verdi's Il Trovatore sung by, among others, Callas and Di Stefano....





....and a very pleasant time I had too 

[Wakefield]

first spin, sounds wonderful:

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A strangely beautiful and anomalous jewel. Truly splendid, indeed.

[Sergeant Rock]

George Lloyd Symphony No.8, Downes conducting the Philharmonia




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Now:



A new acquisition. Listening to Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44. Outstanding! Perhaps even greater than my current favorite: Ashkenazy/RCO.

[Mirror Image]

This is fully up to the very high standards of the 3 previous Casella volumes in this series.

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The misstep in this Casella Noseda series, IMHO, was Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3). It felt like the slow movement wasn't given much thought and the details seemed like they were just glanced over. There is a bit of a 'pet symphony' of mine, so I would like to think I know what I'm talking about, but I actually don't have a clue in reality.

[Mirror Image]

^ I like it.

I like the Decca Dorati better.

And I like the thirties Stokowski bestest.

Remember I said it's one of the best I've heard. I think quite highly of Abbado and Boulez (on Sony) as well. But there are so many great performances of this classic available.