What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

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

All combined make a powerful message, so it is all welcome

[Que]

Inspired by North Star: 

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[North Star]

Inspired by North Star: 

Q

Huzzah!

Thread duty

Gesualdo
Concerto Italiano
Alessandrini
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[Madiel]

First ever listen to Jeu de Cartes

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I basically don't know any post-Rite Stravinsky.

[Que]

Part 2 of this new addition to my collection of harpsichord music:

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Every time there is more interesting harpsichord music just around the corner!
A Polish recording of Dresden based Christlieb Siegmund Binder, who wrote in a transitional style between late Baroque and the early Classical, Galant style.
I already love it... This must be a pretty significant and underrated composer by the sound of it.

Q

[aligreto]

Hofmann: Sinfonia in B flat major....

[prémont]

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

Certainly. I had decided to reduce my CD-purchases this year, but it seems impossible to do so, and I already feel the pain in my wallet.

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...

AMEN!

[Madiel]

After two listens to Jeu de Cartes, time for my first ever listen to Orpheus.

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And wow, the start is very alluring indeed.

[Harry]

Certainly. I had decided to reduce my CD-purchases this year, but it seems impossible to do so, and I already feel the pain in my wallet.

AMEN!

Well two people I respect on this forum are equally happy with this ensemble. I will start with some recordings of them, any recommendations?

[Mandryka]

Certainly. I had decided to reduce my CD-purchases this year, but it seems impossible to do so, and I already feel the pain in my wallet.

Did you notice that v10 of the complete Scheidt has been released? Music from the Görlitzer Tablaturbuch.

[North Star]

Well two people I respect on this forum are equally happy with this ensemble. I will start with some recordings of them, any recommendations?

Their two Dufay discs on Alpha are both beauties, Harry.

[Richard]

And if you like Baroque vocal music at all, you will want this box (contains the Monteverdi set in question, among others), now.

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A simply brilliant collection!!

And may I suggest if you want to dig deeper into the Baroque opera repertoire, get this before it's gone:

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[aligreto]

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Markevitch....





Still my favourite version but I have not yet managed to buy the Markevitch/Berlin Philharmonic version. Perhaps I will in early 2016.

[Harry]

Their two Dufay discs on Alpha are both beauties, Harry.

Right they go on my list my friend, thank you!

[André]

[Todd]

Disc 4 from the Petri box.  A nice Brahms Paganini Variations performance coupled to lots of Busoni.  There's a reason I don't listen to much Busoni.  In a fair number of pieces, take all the counterpoint of Bach, but remove the enjoyable music portion, and you're left with Busoni.  The Busonified Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole here (with orchestra!) is exactly the type of Liszt and Liszt approximations I don't like - it's the antithesis of Albanese's magnificent take on the work proper.

[aligreto]

De Gant: Recorder Sonatas....





Most charming and enjoyable.

[EigenUser]

Messiaen's Poemes pour Mi (orchestral version):
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[Mandryka]

 


Franz Raml plays Samuel Scheidt's In Ortus Cardine, Domini Veni Redemptor Gentium and a couple of Magnificats, all from Bk 3 of Samuel Scheidt's Tabulatura Nova.

The first thing to say is that this volume by Raml, which collects together all of Book 3 of the Tabulatura Nova, contains some complicated  music, same genre as Froberger's capricci (I'm thinking of Egarr) or Sweelinck's Fantasias (I'm thinking of Asperen.)

I chose these pieces because I wanted to compare Raml with volume 5 of The Fagott Complete Scheidt, Christopher Lehman's CD. Lehman plays with dramatic contrasts, relishes fruity registrations and long lyrical phrases.  Raml is leaner and lither, he makes the music come alive through the voicing.

Raml's sound quality is excellent, as is Lehman's - and the sound quality of each seems to suit the different approaches. Raml is strobe lit - everything clear. Lehman sounds richer and more resonant.

[North Star]

Schumann
Violin Sonatas
Widmann & Várjon
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