What are you listening to now?

[CRMS]

Thanks for that, North Star.

I'll definitely check it out. . .

I have to be candid though: I'm not a fan of Vanska's Sibelius cycle or Kullervo at all- as they are entirely too laid back and attenuated for my tastes (although I think he does a tolerably-well dramatic job on parts of his Origin of Fire).

So I can only imagine how he approaches Pohjola's Daughter.

Vanska's Kullervo is so slow that it makes my epinephrine level go sky-high!

[CRMS]

William Alwyn - Lyra Angelica - Concerto for Harp & Orchestra
Suzanne Willison
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / David Lloyd-Jones

Despite having known Alwyn's symphonies for a loooong time, it was only a few years ago that I discovered this sublime work.  If I ever get to program a real concert, this will be at the top of my list to include - the only problem being that I have at least a dozen other works that are at the top of the same list!

[SimonNZ]

Yevhen Stankovych's Symphony No.3 "I Affirm Myself" - Fyodor Glushchenko, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni_IEUzL-fU

[Todd]

[SimonNZ]

Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat - François Périer, Philippe Clay, Gabriel Cattand et al

[The new erato]

An extremely fine recording of a very moving work.

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[aligreto]

The second of two cantatas for Advent by Telemann this morning. I listed the first one in the Music for Advent and Christmas thread. This time it is Saget den verzagten Herzen....

[Que]

I want to look into Gombert a bit more. A good start seems revisting this set:

   

Q

[Mookalafalas]

Following Gordo's recommendation. 

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[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Preludes and Fugues

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[king ubu]

into disc 2 by now:

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[jlaurson]

That's a VERY cute cover!

[Obradovic]

The French who would be Mendelssohn (but, alas...)

[Que]

into disc 2 by now:

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Looks like a nice set!

Q

[Que]

Trying to work my way through the backlog, so I can be up to date when composing my End of the Year List....

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Not a chore with this disc, more of an unadulterated please!
Beautiful singing by Maria Luz Alvarez.


Q

[Mookalafalas]

first listen

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[jlaurson]

Seasonal, y'know.



Favorite Carols
The Choir of King's College
King's College
German link - UK link

[king ubu]

 

Looks like a nice set!

Q

Yes! There's also an Easter set, this x-mas one was the second to appear, last year. All that's missing are recording details - you only get lump info (recorded 1982-2010) and it's too troublesome to look it all up I found. Of course older collectors with plenty of Ricercar sets will run into plenty of duplication. And it seems there are some releases included in their entirety, such as the Tubéry Bach set here:
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Tubery.htm#C1
Or the Graupner 2CD set here:
http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Ricercar_RIC307.html
All in all, it seems to be nicely paced - shorter and longer pieces, choral, choral with soloists, organ solos (by Foccroulle) ... and you get lengthy comments, too (en/fr/ger)

I'm just ending disc 3 now and I think I'll go on with more (probably time won't allow the Graupner discs - the last two - to be played today, will see).

[Brian]

[Mirror Image]

Brian, how are you enjoying the Martinu recordings you bought? Satisfactory purchases?