What are you listening to now?

[Wanderer]

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[SimonNZ]

Great! Who knows, I may see you there. Full disclosure: the article I'm writing is the programme notes for that very concert. 

PS, the scheduled violinist is Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who is highly regarded (I have not yet heard her). She recently suffered tendonitis that caused her to cancel her November and December concerts, so hoping she will be recovered by February.

--Bruce

Oh my! You're in for a treat! She's one of the most interesting and exciting violinists of recent times.

If you're involved will you have an opportunity to meet her?

(also: is there any way you can share the programme notes with us at any point? I'd be very interested)

[listener]

ZEMLINSKY:  Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) "short' version which I think I prefer, and Psalm
XIII
Chailly and the Berlin Radio S.O.  with chorus for the Psalm
MASSENET: Ève   an French-style oratorio
Euregio Symphony Orch., Three Nation Choir, Jeanpierre Faber, cond.
from a festival performance in Passau involving German, Czech and Austrian groups.

[king ubu]

first listen - I'm hooked!

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[bhodges]

Oh my! You're in for a treat! She's one of the most interesting and exciting violinists of recent times.

If you're involved will you have an opportunity to meet her?

(also: is there any way you can share the programme notes with us at any point? I'd be very interested)

Thank you, Simon!  I may get over there (concert is 7 February), but won't know for awhile, unfortunately. I have heard great things about Kopatchinskaja but we just haven't crossed paths yet - hope to remedy soon. I did meet Anu Komsi about 7-8 years ago when she was here - lovely person.

And I will PM you about the notes!

--Bruce

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Mutter and Mozart - works for me!. Love her recording of the Violin Concertos, coupled with the Sinfonia Concertante with Yuri Bashmet, and alsoher disc of  the Piano Trios with Previn and Muller-Schott.

I absolutely treasure Mutter's Sinfonia Concertante as well- especially her racy first movement- which to my ears doesn't sound 'aggressive' but rather 'right.'

It really does have an exuberant eloquence all its own.

I play it incessantly but never too often.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Segerstam's Sibelius' First with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra on Chandos has the most powerful brass I've ever heard in the first movement- its thrilling and ennobling in every way. Is this the music of Nordic Super Heroes?- I think it is.



Sea Hawk suite



Sursum Corda

[kishnevi]

SEON box CDs 51/52

Strange this recording did not do better in the blind listening.

[Mirror Image]

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Outstanding recording.

[Todd]

Some of year three.  So, so good.

[Mirror Image]

Oh, another favourite Igor piece! 

The hits just keep on coming.    That is perhaps my favourite disc now, in that entire Sony Stravinsky box. 

Why don't you just say you like all of Stravinsky's ballets, Ray?

Thread duty:

[Mirror Image]

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 from this set:

[SimonNZ]

Kurtag's Kafka-Fragmente - Juliane Banse, soprano, András Keller, violin

Was there some recent talk of Barbara Hannigan upthread? It wasn't in relation to this piece was it? Because listening to this now I'm thinking how perfect it would be for her.

And now I need to set up this video, that continues to amaze no matter how many times I see it, for another watch after the Kurtag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmCmrZfybPQ

[CRMS]

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony (#1)
Halle Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder
Katherine Broderick
Roderick Williams

I have known and loved this work since for decades during which I have had (and still have) recordings by Sir Adrian Boult, Vernon Handley and Bernard Haitink, with the Handley being my version of choice for a long time.  Well now this new recording goes up to the top of the list ... or at least tied for first.  Amazingly, this performance, which was recorded live in the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester earlier this year, is the first time that Elder has conducted the work!  The first time maybe, but he clearly understands it and leads a marvelous performance which has been captured in excellent sound (which btw, is my one gripe about my Handley recording - the rather recessed soloists).  A very strong recommendation.

[Wanderer]

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Some Tippett for this fine morning, and then some Ravel (I'm thinking the concerti with Lortie) and Prokofiev (Bronfman).

Edit: And Sibelius (sampling Maazel/VPO and Kamu/Lahti SO).

Outstanding recording.

It's quite good, though it doesn't surpass Anda and (esp.) Kovacevich in these works.

PS, the scheduled violinist is Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who is highly regarded (I have not yet heard her).

Oh my! You're in for a treat! She's one of the most interesting and exciting violinists of recent times.

Indeed! What she's recorded so far ranges from excellent to superb. I suspect, Bruce, you'll have fun at the concert. 

[The new erato]

Visiting an old favorite, recently aquired on CD. I like that this version has retained the old LP cover, that probably generated a buying impulse as the LP is very cherished.

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[Que]

My morning listening is a nother run of this:

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Doulce Mémoire performs the Requiem by Antoine de Févin, director of The Chapelle du Roi, which is presumed to be played at the funeral of Anne of Britanny in 1514. IMO a key recording of early French repertoire. Another triumph for Doulce Mémoire next to their Du Caurroy recordings

Q

[Mookalafalas]

A co-worker recorded this somewhere and said I had to listen to it. I'm glad I did.

[Mookalafalas]

Seems I'm the only one awake

Now this:
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no. 11. Sublime does not seem too strong a word, but I have to confess I am sipping on a very large vodka

[Que]

Seems I'm the only one awake

Now this:
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no. 11. Sublime does not seem too strong a word, but I have to confess I am sipping on a very large vodka

As a complete cycle I think this is the best pre HIP available!

Enjoy your drink, I'm afraid I cannot join you since I just got out of bed....