What are you listening to now?

[kishnevi]

Stormy weather...even a tornado watch.
Good day to stay inside and actually listen to something from the Opera Pile.
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[aligreto]

C.P.E. Bach: Quartet in A minor....

[SimonNZ]

Mozart's Divertimento K.247 - Collegium Aureum

[Mandryka]

This has been on my radar since long. It´s time to order it, I suppose.

My impression is that she's less inclined to play flamboyantly than Julia Brown.  The organ seems perfectly OK to me (as does Brown's.)

What other big Magnificat cycles are there, apart from this, Hieronymus Praetorius and Titelouze and Scheidt? Of those, I'm most impressed by Scheidemann's I think.

[aligreto]

Albrechtsberger: Concerto for Jew's Harp & Mandora in F major....





The Jew's Harp is an unusual concerto instrument but I really like the scoring for the mandora in these works.

[prémont]

My impression is that she's less inclined to play flamboyantly than Julia Brown.  The organ seems perfectly OK to me (as does Brown's.)

What other big Magnificat cycles are there, apart from this, Jacob Praetorius and Titelouze and Scheidt? Of those, I'm most impressed by Scheidemann's I think.

Wikipedia has a useful list of Magnificat composers, both organ works and vocal works, and that list is very long:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Magnificat_composers

I agree that Scheidemann´s Magnificat´s are the most impressive.
How flamboyant the playing seems may to some degree depend on the organ, on the "boldness" of the stops and on the temperature.

[aligreto]

Wikipedia has a useful list of Magnificat composers, both organ works and vocal works, and that list is very long:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Magnificat_composers

I agree that Scheidemann´s Magnificat´s are the most impressive.
How flamboyant the playing seems may to some degree depend on the organ, on the "boldness" of the stops and on the temperature.

Thank you for posting that information. It is a fine resource.

[aligreto]

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Cluytens conducting....

[André]

Mahler : Des Knaben Wunderhorn and 5 Rückert Lieder. With Maureen Forrester, Heinz Rehfuss; cond. by Felix Prohaska and Ferenc Fricsay.

[Todd]

Disc 17.  Filled with slower than normal pieces, it's one of the better discs so far.

[CRMS]

My used (but near-mint) copy of this arrived today (bought via amazon from Oxfam):

I am increasingly convinced that Les Troyens is one of the greatest operas of all time, and I wanted to complement my Dutoit set (which I bought when it first came out in the early 90s) with this pioneering effort by Colin Davis.

I've gone straight to Acts IV and V, and this recording is a great achievement (but I must confess that--once again--I simply cannot warm to Jon Vickers's singing   ).

I know that I have a minority opinion about this but having both the original Davis since the original release along with the newer LSO/Live, I am still very partial to the John Eliot Gardiner/Chatelet production on DVD which features Susan Graham & Gregory Kunde, two perfectly matched voices.  I have yet to hear another sextet, septet & Nuit d'Ivresse which is quite as magical as that one.  Add in Anna Caterina Antonacci as an incredibly powerful Cassandra (dare I say Callas-like?!) and Gardiner's careful attention to using Berlioz' specified instrumentation, and it is a wonderful set.  Take a look at some of the bits of it that are available on YouTube.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Mutter's just too hot and fierce- she sets off fire alarms wherever she goes. I know how she feels.

That's some wake. Anyway, I wouldn't know anything about all that. I look just like my avatar.

[SimonNZ]

playing now:



Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks - Pierre Boulez, cond.

[Que]

2016 is going to be an awesome collecting year - the new favourites come streaming in!

Like this gorgeous recording that came in the mail this week:

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Though Johannes Ockeghem's name is prominently on the cover, the disc contains musical settings by his younger contemporaries of a poem by Guilllaume Cretin in his remembrance. A mass by Jacob Obrecht takes center stage, next to shorther compositions by De la Rue, Desprez, Busnois, and Lupus.
Performance wise Diabolus In Musica seems to go from strength to strength. And every time it is such a relief to enjoy music like this in performances that are not transposed up...

Q

[SimonNZ]

Christophe Bertrand's String Quartet No.1 - Arditti Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4tZRElF9vc

Christophe Bertrand's Okhtor - Pascal Rophé, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiaHEmxY9X4

[aligreto]

Finishing off this disc with the wonderful Symphony in D major Op. 12/1....

[Harry]

Finishing off this disc with the wonderful Symphony in D major Op. 12/1....

It is one of the better releases in this series. All of them are good, some of them are excellent.

[aligreto]

It is one of the better releases in this series. All of them are good, some of them are excellent.

Thank you Harry. Stay well, along with your wife 

[Harry]

Thank you Harry. Stay well, along with your wife 

I'll do my best. Thank you for the wishes.

[aligreto]

I'll do my best. Thank you for the wishes.

Cheers Harry. I do not pray but I do empathise.