What are you listening 2 now?

[classicalgeek]

Prokofiev
Symphony no. 5
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
(on CD)



Overall an excellent Prokofiev 5! Muti definitely has a feel for Prokofiev - his 'Romeo and Juliet' (I have it as part of the Muti box on Warner) is also top-notch.

[Harry]

Paolo Aretino.
Lamentationes & Responsorien "Sabbat Sancto".
Odhecaton, Paolo da Col.
See for details the back cover.

Following in the footsteps of @Que, playing the music for holy Saturday, which for me is next week. As Que said, a beautiful interpretation of one of Arentino's masterworks. The Choir is not a small one, but luckily only one counter tenor, which is not bothering me. Two Baritones and two Basses is a huge plus. Definitively my kind of performance, well recorded too.

[Que]

This popped up on Spotify, and I happily took the opportunity:

[Que]

Finishing a listening run (in reversed order) of this set, which has been great fun and delight:



Disc 1:
Arise, my muse - Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1690.
Welcome to all pleasures - Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1683.
Now does the glorious day appear - Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1689.

[vandermolen]

Prokofiev
Symphony no. 5
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
(on CD)



Overall an excellent Prokofiev 5! Muti definitely has a feel for Prokofiev - his 'Romeo and Juliet' (I have it as part of the Muti box on Warner) is also top-notch.

I agree! I have that CD too. I like the cover picture.

[vandermolen]

Back amongst the Pine Trees!
I find Thomson's Bax recordings to be especially atmospheric. For example his 'Nympholept' (on another CD) is easily my favourite recording:

[Mandryka]

Op. 106

Have you heard Hamelin?: (just found it myself -- sounds interesting to me, quite delicate.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a720FGpqMLc&ab_channel=JG

[AnotherSpin]

Have you heard Hamelin?: (just found it myself -- sounds interesting to me, quite delicate.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a720FGpqMLc&ab_channel=JG

I can't remember listening to his Beethoven, he doesn't seem to record B. much. I'll listen with interest, thanks for the link.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

@Harry You can check out some of her music on her website--if interested.

https://sigrunrichter.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=12&Itemid=165&lang=en

PD

[Harry]

@Harry You can check out some of her music on her website--if interested.

https://sigrunrichter.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=12&Itemid=165&lang=en

PD

Will do, thank you for the link!

[Madiel]

Mozart: Divertimento no.11, which is a septet for oboe, horns and strings (the "Nannerl Septet").



I actually started with a different version on Idagio and lasted about 3 seconds, the acoustic was so distant and echoing and I hated it.

[Mandryka]

I can't remember listening to his Beethoven, he doesn't seem to record B. much. I'll listen with interest, thanks for the link.

I can let you have his ops 110 and 111 if you like.

[Harry]

Jacques Bittner.
Works for Lute, 1682-1702.
André Henrich, 11 course lute  Andreas von Holst, Munich, 2012, after  Hans Frei.
Recording: 2021, Kyllburg (D), Stiftskirche.
SACD sound.

Another @Que recommendation, albeit being a mild one. First of all the recording is SOTA, and I like his style enormously. Rhythmically as stable as a house of bricks, steady tempi, and open and very lucid presentation. I like what I hear very much. So I am glad I was pointed towards this CD. Keep them coming. My wife remarked not too long ago in the following manner, "How many Lute recordings are there, and by now you already need a lifetime to hear them all, so what about the rest" Needless to say the number of Lute Recordings are infinitive, but I do my very best to stomach as much as I can.

[AnotherSpin]

I can let you have his ops 110 and 111 if you like.

PM sent

[brewski]

Fausto Romitelli: An Index of Metals (Ictus / Donatienne Michel-Dansac, voice / Georges-Elie Octors, conductor). Romitelli's last work, which I hadn't heard in a long time, perhaps since this recording came out in 2005. Went to the home of a sound engineer and listened to it on his superb system, and on this revisit, the score really seems like a weird masterpiece.

Notes from the recording here. Described as a video opera, the score combines live musicians, a soprano, and a prominent role for electric guitar, all combined with electronics in dense layers. Last night it worked fine without the images.

From the notes:

"An Index of Metals bears vigorous witness to this determination to go beyond: sizzling orchestration, electric and psychedelic; a voice which plays on effects, murmurs with reverb, cackles into a megaphone, screams like a pop star; and an electric guitar score of a kind that no 'serious' composer has ever written, sliding across an infinite range of tones with a lightness of touch and blurring of contours."
 

-Bruce

[Que]

Not sure if the world needed another recording of Vivaldi's mandolin concerto RV 425, but it is a very good performance. Of course the less famous mandolin concertos by Giovanni Paisiello, Francesco Lecce and Hummel are the real draw here, laced with concert pieces (not featuring the mandolin) by Galuppi, Paisiello and Haydn.

Great recording, recommended for those into this kind of repertoire.

[ritter]

First listen to this recent purchase (it was available dirt cheap, new, on Amazon.es):



The main reason to buy this was for the curiosity that concludes the programme, the suite from Victor de Sabata's  ballet Mille e una notte.

The CD starts with Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. TBH, I've never really cared for this concerto (I much prefer the Concerto for the Left Hand), but Chailly and particularly Stefano Bollani deliver a convincing performance.

Small pieces by Stravinsky and Weill complete the disc.

[Papy Oli]

Byrd - Keyboard Music - Davitt Moroney
A few tracks of CD 2.

[Harry]

Uuno Klami.
Chamber Music.
See back cover for details.
Recorded at the Kuusankoski Hall, 2020.

This is a wonderful surprise, the music I mean! Impressive and deep, even magical. It had huge impact on me. Of course I will try to find more of this composers Chamber music. The performance is good, and the sound also, but will look further for other interpretations. But that proved to be a lost battle, for Qobuz has not many recordings of Klami's music, which is what I expected more or less.

[Todd]

I finally got around to the last disc in this set.  I bought the box in 2014.  This has set the record for longest time needed to consume an entire box.  The final disc is given over to a collection of smaller works.  Only a few are awful, while the rest are mediocre.  I will never listen to the entire box again, and there is a high probability that I never listen to any of it again.  I'd sell it, but it's boxed up in the garage, and it would take too long to get to it to warrant the measly lucre I might get for its sale.