What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

A recent purchase I believe I haven't posted before:



An absolute peach of a recording with some wonderful singing and playing that I got for just a couple of euros, shipping included (!). I guess there is not much love for this repertoire... Still, Sandrine Piau here gives the best performance of Händel's Laschia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo) I've ever heard. Worth the price of admission alone.

Anyway... 

Love it!

Great Greta ! 

[Papy Oli]

LVB
Op.59/2
Gewandhaus Qt



Good afternoon all! 

[Traverso]

Buxtehude-Weckmann-van Kerckhoven-Pachelbel-Kerll-Blow & Bach

Organ
Pieter van Dijk
Gustav Leonhardt
Leo van Doeselaar
Theo Theunissen



One of the organs used

[Traverso]

LVB
Op.59/2
Gewandhaus Qt



Good afternoon all! 

And a Good afternoon to you Olivier...

[Harry]

I expected something nice, but this is exceeding my expectations.

Again a series I missed when it was released. And now they are OOP, and only available if one pays the price.....
Qobuz has them not in their collection, so in both ways I am disappointed, unlike the lucky fellows that bought them in time.

[Traverso]

Again a series I missed when it was released. And now they are OOP, and only available if one pays the price.....
Qobuz has them not in their collection, so in both ways I am disappointed, unlike the lucky fellows that bought them in time.

There is a complete set for sale on " Marktplaats" for 50 euros,it's a bargain. Do not hesitate,reliable seller.

Many recordings are also in this set included.

[Harry]

"Mille Consigli"
17th Century Italian Violin Sonatas.
Ensemble Aurora.
All details on the back cover.



It is played in a rousing manner, this I can safely say. That doesn't mean it is too much of the thing, on the contrary! The selection of composers is well chosen, the playing is exemplary, and the recording leaves no wishes open. A good opening of my listening day, even though it started in the afternoon.

[Harry]

Musica Mediterranea.
Music of the Italian & Spanish Renaissance.
Kithara, Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey.
See details on back cover.
Recorded 1993, Oxford Church, Suffolk, UK.



To me a very special disc. When it was released I did miss it, when I realized that it was in all respects an unusual and creative recording, it went OOP. and to my surprise I found it on Qobuz, well what do you know!   Shirley Rumsey, singing, instead of playing the Lute was certainly a revelation to me. In all respects her voice is well equipped to sing this material, and sweet she does it. The mix of composers is challenging, and keeps one at attention for the fine interpretations. The sound is SOTA, Chandos knew how to record perfect sound.

[Todd]

[DavidW]

Haydn symphonies 58-60

[Brian]

Liszt has a reputation as a soulless banger? That's news to me. There are certainly the flamboyant show pieces like the Hungarian Rhapsodies, but Annees de Pelerinage is almost universally regarded as high poetry for the piano. If Liszt suffers it is from a reputation as a lily-livered romantic. I am anxious to hear Grimwood, given the praise I've read, but you can't convince me the Bolet, Cziffra, Ciccolini, Arrau, didn't know how to play Liszt.

I'm a Liszt lover and Bolet fan particularly (though in Annees my prior favorites include the likes of Rubackyte and Gorus rather than Berman, Arrau, etc.). I guess I was inarticulate. Perhaps the correct conclusion is more like this: on a modern instrument, someone like Rubackyte must actively intervene to restore the poetry of the original composition after its sound has been inflated and made more grandiose by today's concert pianos. For Grimwood, no such intervention is necessary; he can play relatively quickly and virtuosically but the piano itself ensures that he cannot sound pompous.

For me, as a non-Liszt-skeptic, the Grimwood effect is not as enormous as it was on folks like Jens, but now after this discussion it's clarified for me that until him, I favored more interventionist approaches that try to work against the modern Steinway (or whatever).

[ando]

Haydn: Missa In Tempore Belli "Paukenmesse" Hob. XXII: 9 in C Bernstein (1985, Philips) Spotify
Judith Blegen/Brigitte Fassbaender/Claes H. Ahnsjö/Hans Sotin/Symphonie-Orchester & Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks

[ando]

There is a complete set for sale on " Marktplaats" for 50 euros,it's a bargain. Do not hesitate,reliable seller.

Many recordings are also in this set included.

Thanks. 

[Bachtoven]

[steve ridgway]

This was the first Takemitsu I heard, in the 10 CD Masterworks Of The 20th Century box which can be had as a cheap download from Supraphonline.cz .

[Traverso]

Thanks. 

I'm sorry to say but this box is also oop.

The box was released to celebrate the label's fortieth anniversary

[Spotted Horses]

I'm sure they all very well knew how to play Liszt. What a period instrument does is show that the poetry is not just in the notes, but also in the sound. Plus it will provide the quicker action beneficial to performing Liszt's virtuosity.

I listened to some of Grimwood and it is beautiful, both the reedy sound of the instrument and what he does with it. Maybe after listening to the rest of it, it will rise to be among my top picks. But it is not going to change the way I think of Liszt.

In any case, peculiar that modern pianos came to sound more-or-less the same (American Steinway, German Steinway, Bosendorfer, Fasoli) although the Baldwin piano the Bolet used has it's own sound which works well in Liszt, I think.

[Todd]

[Mandryka]

I'm sure they all very well knew how to play Liszt. What a period instrument does is show that the poetry is not just in the notes, but also in the sound. Plus it will provide the quicker action beneficial to performing Liszt's virtuosity.

Yes, so if you listen to Grimwood play Villa d'Este II (as I just did) then you hear timbres you won't hear on a modern piano, which is kind of cool. However, I just wish he had the sense of cantabile and rubato that I hear in, for example, Cziffra - maybe it's not so easy on an old fortepiano, because of the shorter decay - I don't know.

[Traverso]

Bach

Christ lag in Todes Banden  BWV 4

A cantata that I love dearly, excellent performed by Andrew Parrott and his musicians.