What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

Starting in on Boris Bloch's Liszt by listening to the longest CD I've ever seen.  Bloch's Harmonies poétiques et religieuses comes in at over 88', on one disc.  The playing is often unvirtuosic - almost antivirtuosic - but the music benefits.  Bloch's approach is basically either slow or slower, tied to a big sonority and not a little personal rubato.  Bloch also extends and emphasizes some arpeggios to excellent effect here and there.  This is probably the best of the three new sets I've hears so far this year, but then it just might be different from Korstick.  Sound is excellent seeing as the disc is cobbled together from two recitals.  There's some extraneous noise, but that's to be expected from recitals.

[HIPster]

Quicksilver - Fantasticus
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Purchased last evening, at the concert by the same group. 

Some very fine playing here.

[Todd]

Disc 3, LvB Opp 127 & 131.  Truly great performances of the some of the greatest music yet written.  The 2008 transfers, though, don't sound as good as the 1994 transfers used elsewhere.  YMMV.

[Todd]

Disc 45.  Tchaikovsky Op 50. 

[SimonNZ]

Zelenka's Missa Nativitatis Domini - Marek Štryncl, cond.

[CRMS]

How so, Claire?

Better than  description is an example ... Here is Antonacci in the last 10mins of Act 1 of Troyens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8CFKZKNcVg

And as a bonus, Nuit d'Ivresse with Susan Graham and Gregory Kunde.  I have seldom heard two voices more perfectly matched in a love duet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQEFkVuBXtU

[Todd]

Another go.

[Artem]

I prefer Power to Dunstaple. His music seems to be more mysterious.

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This is quite nice. I like it much more than the first volume.

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[SimonNZ]

Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf - David Bowie, narrator, Eugene Ormandy, cond.

(its seems like there ought also to be an Alan Rickman narration of this out there somewhere)




Bartok's Music For Strings Percussion And Celesta - Pierre Boulez, cond.

[Que]

Morning listening, just in - hopefully another winner.

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With Johannes Ciconia (1370 - 1412) we go back to the Early Renaissance.
For further introductions: the Amazon reviews are very informative.

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

Posted my reply at the Early Music Club.

Q

[Maestro267]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
Royal Liverpool PO/Petrenko

Duruflé: Mass, "Cum Jubilo"
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse/Plasson

[Que]

Since I love historical Italian organs, at the sale on Amazon.fr I couldn't resist picking this up together with another volume from the series:



On six historical organs from the region of Puglia an array of organ music is performed, composed by: Alessandro Scarlatti, Bernardo Storace, Giovanni de Macque, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Franceso Lombardi, Giovanni Salvatore, Gregorio Strozzi, Giovanni Battista Fasolo, Giacomo Insanguine and Giovani Battista Pergolesi...

Q

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Cantata BWV 155 [for the Second Sunday after Epiphany]....

[Wakefield]

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

I hope, Harry, your number of respected people isn't limited to two people, as used to say an old member, now gone for three or four years. 

[Harry]

I hope, Harry, your number of respected people isn't limited to two people, as used to say an old member, now gone for three or four years. 

O, dear me no, I was only referring in respect to particular recordings.
Of course my dear friend I respect a lot of people on this forum, you being among them.
I am so sorry for the confusion. 0:)

[NikF]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: String Quartets 1 and 2 - The English String Quartet.

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[Wakefield]

O, dear me no, I was only referring in respect to particular recordings.
Of course my dear friend I respect a lot of people on this forum, you being among them.
I am so sorry for the confusion. 0:)

There wasn't confusion at all, dear Harry.

I just wanted to recall our old member Stuart (coopmv)... 

He respected Que (good choice, no doubt) and one not revealed name (smart move!). 

[prémont]

I just wanted to recall our old member Stuart (coopmv)... 

He respected Que (good choice, no doubt) and one not revealed name (smart move!). 

That one was probably himself     

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Mass in F BWV 233 [Missa Brevis]....

[North Star]

Going through this cycle during the weekend

Beethoven
Sonatas
François-Frédéric Guy
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