What are you listening to now?

[Muse Wanderer]

Listening to Shostakovich 10th symphony conducted by Neeme Jarvi.

Riveting experience!

[aligreto]

Brahms - Choral Works


Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman

That is a wonderful CD. I also have another one with the same forces. I am only going on memory at the moment but I think that it is called A Cappella which I also like a lot. Do you know it?

[Brian]

"Les Chansons des roses", an extraordinarily beautiful setting - although with Lauridsen, extraordinary beauty is the norm.

[aligreto]

BTW: What is the music on your avatar?

Nothing specific actually. It is just a generic shot of a vinyl to illustrate my great fondness for the medium.

[aligreto]

MONTEVERDI: Madrigals, Book 6 (Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali, 1614)
La Venexiana

Sestina: Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata

My current listening project is to listen to the nine books of Monteverdi Madrigals 

[Mahlerian]

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Paul Sacher conducting a varied Stravinsky program (Monumentum pro Gesualdo da Venosa, Abraham and Isaac, A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer, and the Symphony in Three Movements).

Yes, I too actually listen to Stravinsky! 

Sermon, Narrative, Prayer...now there's another work in need of a new recording.  Now that we have a fine recent version of Threni, I'm hopeful.  How's Sacher's, though?

This one from Boulez(!) is the most interesting alternative to Stravinsky's that I've found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PRBP22YNQ

[listener]

WEINBERGER (the Schwanda guy): Overture to a Chivalrous Play, Six Bohemian Songs and Dances, Passacaglia for Organ and Large Organ
Berlin Deutsches Symphonie Orch.   Gerd Albrecht, cond.

[ritter]

Sermon, Narrative, Prayer...now there's another work in need of a new recording.  Now that we have a fine recent version of Threni, I'm hopeful.  How's Sacher's, though?

This one from Boulez(!) is the most interesting alternative to Stravinsky's that I've found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PRBP22YNQ

I'm enjoying the Sacher quite a lot, I must say. Both A Sermon... and (especially) Abraham and Isaac receive a very lyrical treatment from the Swiss conductor, and I think this benefits the music (even if the rendition of A Sermon... verges on blandness). The vocal soloists are quite good IMHO: Jeanne Deroubaix (of Le Marteau... fame  ) and Hugues Cuénod in A Sermon..., and the--hitherto unkonwn to me--Derrick Olsen as the narrator in A Sermon... and the baritone in Abraham... (but unfortunately I cannot say whether his Hebrew is idiomatic or not  ).

I know the Boulez recording of A Sermon...(from the long OOP set on the Montaigne label's "golden" series from the Théatre des Champs-Elysées). Haven't listened to it for ages. One of the few available recordings of Boulez doing late Stravinsky (as discussed some time ago here.

Regards,

[SimonNZ]

on the radio, just finished:

CPE Bach's Flute Concerto wq169 - Alexis Kossenko, flute and cond.

starting now:



Sarasate's Caprice Basque - Julia Fischer, violin, Milana Chernyavska, cond.

[Kontrapunctus]

No. 84 and 85. Got this wonderful 4-disc set for $1.98!

[André]

Holst: The Planets. Hilary Clinton Davan Wetton

A glorious trip to the outer world 

[ludwigii]

Alfred Schnittke
Fuga for solo violin (1953)

Mark Lubotsky (violin)

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My purpose is to listen to the entire production of Schnittke chronologically.
The adventure starts here.
I'm sorry that there is not John aka Mirror Image, this listening is dedicated to him.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Charlotte Bray:
At the Speed of Stillnes
Fire Burning in Snow
Oneiroi
Replay
Songs from Yellow Leaves
Caught in Treetops

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Florent Schmitt's Antoine et Cléopatre - JoAnn Falletta, cond.

[André]

There's no real excuse to listen to that kind of old fart discs, except to report that it is very well played and recorded (almost 60 years ago) and makes you feel you are in the concert hall.

Besides, Cluytens was an old hand at russian music, and the Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire did have that tart sound, unpredictable delivery that makes you feel it's live.

[Dee Sharp]

Ives: Symphony No. 4. José Serebrier, London Philharmonic Orchestra. So American. I just love Ives, he was truly original. This is an excellent performance .  The Second by Ormandy is great, too. Recommended.

[HIPster]

My current listening project is to listen to the nine books of Monteverdi Madrigals 

Very nice, aligreto! 

The Fifth Book has been in constant rotation chez HIPster for the past several months.

Thread duty ~

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Enjoying this release immensely.  Has anyone heard the Fasolis?

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[Mister Sharpe]

The ill-fated Hans Rott, Bruckner's favorite pupil at the Vienna Conservatory and whose symphony so much influenced Mahler.  First listen.

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[Karl Henning]

Alfred Schnittke
Fuga for solo violin (1953)

Mark Lubotsky (violin)

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My purpose is to listen to the entire production of Schnittke chronologically.
The adventure starts here.
I'm sorry that there is not John aka Mirror Image, this listening is dedicated to him.

Great little disc.

Happy listening!

[kishnevi]

Bravo! 

I decided a while ago not to get it: some of it I already have, some is nice but outdated & superseded.
Which leaves very little in the need-to-have category....for me, at least!  And I'm already scrambling for shelf space as it is....

Q

The SEON box has the Kiukjens's Couperin recordings, which should be on everyone's need-to-have list.  At least a couple of them are unobtainable any other way.
I also liked the Leonhardt Bach recordings much better than Harry.
The only recordings in the bunch I did not like were the ones featuring a certain male alto named Jacobs.
TD
Reger
CD 14 of the Naxos Complete Organ Works set
Josef Still on the Klais Organ of Trier Cathedral
Five Easily Performable Preludes and Fugues Op. 56
52 Easy Chorale Preludes on the most common Protestant Chorales Op. 67, Nos. 1-15

The rest of Opus 67 is found on other CDs.