What are you listening 2 now?

[SimonNZ]

Palestrina MPM

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Palestrina MPM

I'm a big admiror of both Allegri and especially Palestrina, is famous missa Papea Marcelli , I got to have a dozen copy of this masse. Have you Heard brend new release of Josquin: missa Mater Patris split whit Baudewey missa: De Pacem, I happen to have so many records that, did not pay attention to my purchase , did not listen to it propper, tell me what you think if you heard it SimonNZ

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Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47. Hilary Hahn, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish RSO. I love this recording. As for the work itself, it is growing on me, but I think it's one of Sibelius' most powerful and expansive works, alongside the 2nd and 7th symphonies, and Tapiola. Salonen proves he would be an absolutely killer Sibelian conductor, if only he conducted more of his works!

I can't help but nod my head along with you here, although I've become quite taken with Ida Haendel's performance with Berglund (and the Bournemouth SO). Hahn's performance was actually the one that convinced me how great this concerto was.

Check out this performance (if you haven't already):

https://www.youtube.com/v/J0w0t4Qn6LY

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Sibelius
The Oceanides, Op. 73
Berglund
Bournemouth SO

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Can't say I'm much in a Sibelius mood...

Anyway, spinning this for the first-time:

[Carlo Gesualdo]

I'm finishing a listen of a CPO great offering: Festive Hanseatic Music by Weser Bremmen Renaissance, conducted Manfred Cordes, an excellent record, this guy never sleep, delivered exceptional work of early to late  renaissance composers, really love his works..

After this Hieronymus Praetorius Magnificat and Motets by The cardinal's musick lead by Andrew Carwood, this gentelman to I acknowledge his skills & execution of great master, is Lassus missa Surgen Proppera is perfect on a small label(dont recalled the label name sorry for being lazy, but my album(the CD's are all mix up it would take me 40 minutes to find it).

Alternative option for tonight would be Robert Fayrfax same direction and ensemble.

That it folks, or tercio if I don't fell like listening to these after the first mention album that finish up whit Franco-Flemish, luminary composer , Jacob Clemens, Jacob Obrecht, Orlande de Lassus.

I may spin some vinyl on my pick-up player, sweet  & awesome analogue sexy to my ears, like Prophetiea Sybillarum of Lassus on Non-Such or Medieval carmina Burana  vol 1 & vol 2 on Telefunken.

To be follow in a next episode.Good night!! all!!! take care.

P.s I order a composer randomly because he was  a 16th/early 17th century, Philipp Dulichius a German, CPO never deceive me so far.My question is this CD of Motets good, have you heard it, do you know the composer, have the CD, since I only have two tracks of him so far???

[T. D.]

After a lot of recent Cage and Feldman, something normal. Nice old 3-CD box on Dorian.

[JBS]

CD 2
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[Symphonic Addict]

Piano Concerto

Uplifting! The great melody in the 1st movement had fascinated me since I was a child. Surely I had heard it on a TV commercial or something like that but I couldn't never give it a name.

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Villa-Lobos
Symphony No. 10 'Amerindia'
Saulo Javan (bass)
Leonardo Neiva (baritone)
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
Coro da Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
Isaac Karabtchevsky



Mahler had Symphony of a Thousand, Schoenberg had Gurrelieder, and Villa-Lobos had this symphony. It's a huge, sprawling work full of melodic twists, lyrical themes, spacious harmonies, and pounding, primal rhythms. A real aural delight for the ears, but what does it all mean exactly? I haven't the faintest clue, but Villa-Lobos sure does make some magnificent sounds in the process. I remember some member here called Villa-Lobos' larger orchestral works 'everything but the kitchen sink, jungle music' and that pretty much sums it up. But, man, I do dig Villa-Lobos' style very much.

[Que]

I'm listening to De leidse Koorboeken vol(VI) by Egidius Kwartet & Egidius College.

Lot's of good here, a missa of Pierre de Manchicourt,  Claufin de Sermisy, Lupus Hellinck and etc it's a double album.

Good night folks

Excellent! 
I hope that set will help to satisfy your craving for music by lesser known Franco-Flemish composers.

Q

[Que]

Morning listening  (Spotify):



Q

[Irons]

TD
Gordon Jacob: Concerto for Three Hands. My favourite work by this composer. Amazingly there is no CD release:

Rawsthorne: Concerto for String Orchestra.



Another without a CD release! Not to mention Gibson's Elgar 1st on RCA again no CD.

Leslie Jones with his "little" orchestra perform the vibrant first movement with great gusto. The essentially solemn middle movement is perfectly paced which leads without a break to the finale where the sun comes out. Both better recorded and played then the recording Boult made for the BBC. The Concerto for String Orchestra is one of my favourite Rawsthorne works and Leslie Jones is to be commended.

[Irons]

Knocking noise??  Do give it a try elsewhere--like via a computer....even just for a few minutes; you've got me really curious now as to what the issue is!    Is it scratched at all?

PD

No I haven't, P. I have mentioned this before, and a poster advised me the noise is caused by the laser arm trying to track a defective disc. I would rather bin it and as always another will come along sooner or later. I only paid £2 for it.

PS. The disc is unmarked.

[Harry]

Jan Dismas Zelenka & Johann Georg Pisendel.
Concerti at al.
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz

Well played and recorded, but has not enough bite to charm the whole disc in one go. All soloistic contributions are top notch though.
Some pieces have a bit of an anonymous outlook. No matter, I am happy with the music.

[Madiel]

Essentially a first listen to:

Scriabin, Symphony No.2



EDIT: Out of the things I bought in my last binge, this set has been one of the disappointments so far. I feel disengaged. I don't know how much of that is Scriabin just throwing too many notes around (and it seems to me being less harmonically adventurous in his orchestral writing), and how much is the recording.

[vers la flamme]

Can't say I'm much in a Sibelius mood...

Anyway, spinning this for the first-time:

Would you agree that appreciation of Sibelius is "moodier" than other composers? I find I don't enjoy his music nearly as much unless I'm completely in the mood for it, ie. when I don't want to hear anything else but Sibelius. Another example of this would be Mahler. I can't say I feel the same about other favorites of mine.

[Madiel]

Sibelius, Tapiola

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"Contemporaries of Mozart"
John STANLEY: Concertos for Strings, op. 7
Collegium Musicum 90    Simon Standage, cond.
Samuel WESLEY:
Symphony in D (Sinfonia obbligato)  and 4 other Symphonies
London Mozart Players     Matthias Bamert, cond.

VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras 8 for orchestra, 9 for string orchestra
Chôros n°2 for flute and clarinet   Chôros n°5 for piano 'Alma Brasileira'   Chôros n°10 for choir and orchestra      2 Chôros (bis) or violin and cello
French Radio Orch. and Chorus    Villa-Lobos, cond.        mono recordings, live performances of the orchestra and chorus works would probably be exciting.
the other remaining 2 discs will come eventually

PROKOFIEV: Festive Poem for the 10th Anniversary of October 1917 op.111
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphonic Poem  - October  op.132
Music to the film "The Young Guards" op. 75a
ESHPAI:  Cantata "Lenin Is Among Us"
Assorted Russian orchestras

That Olympia CD looks interesting. Never seen it before. What's the Eshpai like? I enjoy his music.

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Interesting!  How many (in general) works did Gordon Jacob compose?  I'm 'only' familiar with the work that he did with Vaughan Williams.

PD

Not too sure PD but I enjoy his first two symphonies (Lyrita CD) and there are numerous concertos. He was well known as an educationalist and teacher.