What are you listening to now?

[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?

[Mirror Image]

Fantasia on a Theme of Handel from this recording:

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Am spending another day with these before going all VW (during which time my VW collection entire will be listened to, LP or CD).

Even if the piano dominates in the Haydn piano trios (BAT works hard to "play fair" in them), they might make an excellent introduction to chamber music for those here (and there are several I know of) who are chamber-music-phobic.  By turns joyful, ruminative, sometimes danceable, even harmonically adventurous esp. later ones.  Most rewarding listening.

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[The new erato]

Fine performances of some interesting music:

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[Maestro267]

Elgar: The Apostles
London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult

[Tsaraslondon]

I know a great many of the performances in the new Warner Schwarzkopf box, but this two disc set of Brahms' Deutshce Volkslieder is completely new to me, and what a delight it turns out to be. Some might think the approach too sophisticated for these essentially simple, strophic songs, but, with magical accompaniments by Gerald Moore, the approach works just fine for me.

[Tsaraslondon]

Metallica's "Fight Fire With Fire"?- 'no.' Immortal's "One by One"?- 'no.' Kreator's "Phantom Antichrist??- 'nah.'

I need something 'more' driving, 'more intense,'  'more' dramatically compelling.

I need something so spine-tingling-incendiary that it gives me literal chills and thrills.

In a word, I need 'FIERCE'!!!





- So I turn to the defining moment of it: Callas' "E che? Io son Medea!" from her 1953 live Florence performance.

God I love her galvanizing singing!!!

Spine-tingling is right. Has ever singer unleashed such powerful ferocity, whilst exercising such precise control of her instrument? I doubt it.

[aligreto]

Sonatas for Trumpet and Organ by various composers....





....uplifting music.