What are you listening 2 now?

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NP:

Bach
Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde, BWV 54
Andreas Scholl
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

[SonicMan46]

Opus 32 nos 4-6
Nomos Quartett

Hello - I already own these quartets (nearly all by the groups listed) but I was reviewing the recordings on Amazon and a 2*/5* review was left (shown below) complaining that the sleeves were glued together - cannot believe the complaint - can you clarify?  Will help others considering a purchase - thanks.  Dave

2.0 out of 5 stars COULDN'T EVEN OPEN CD SLEEVES TO GET THEM OUT WITHOUT DAMAGING THEM> WANT MY MONEY BACK ON THIS ITEM
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2023
All the CD sleeves were completely glued together and therefore impossible to pen without riping them. I would like my money back on this oder because I have never had CD sleeves completely impossible to open before without damaging tehm.

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And now a contrast with the Bach:

Webern
4 Songs Op. 13 For Voice And Orchestra
Françoise Pollet (soprano)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez

From this set -

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More Webern:

Cantata No. 1, Op. 29
Simon Joly (chorus master), Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, BBC Singers
Pierre Boulez

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NP:

Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano)

[Karl Henning]

NP:

Bach
Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde, BWV 54
Andreas Scholl
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

Big fan of Herreweghe!

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Big fan of Herreweghe!

Me, too, Karl. Hugely impressed with everything I've heard him conduct on record: Bach, Berlioz, Mendelssohn et. al.

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Closing the night out with a pair of rather contrasting VCs with Anne-Sophie Mutter:

Bach
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Trondheim Soloists

Berg
Violin Concerto, "To the memory of an angel"
CSO
Levine

From these recordings -

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Alright, one more work for the night:

Bach
Sonata No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1014
Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)

From this set -

[Harry]

Anton Gosswin. (ca 1546-ca 1598)
Selected works.
Church music, Songs & Madrigals.
Le Miroir de Musique, Baptiste Romain.
Recording: Leymen (F), église Saint-Léger, 2022.
Cover illustration: Lambert Lombard (1505-1566) St Paul before the altar of the unknown god (ca 1530).

A decent selection of this unknown composer, well performed and recorded. I like his music and he delivers certainly quality compositions. The back cover gives some info about him and his role in the time he lived.

[Harry]

Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764)
Trio Sonatas Op. 4.
Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler.
Recorded: Südwestrundfunk, 2019, SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Music and performance equally invite you to a sophisticated sense of well-being. There is everything to applaud in these interpretations, and almost nothing to criticise. Pramsohler keeps his steady flow of excellent recordings going to an ever increasing level of sophistic excellence. This is one of them.

[Que]

LOL!    You guys are killing me!     I already own half of these discs, so do I need the remaining 12 of Psalms, which are hard to find at a decent price (been searching and $80 or so $USD would be my cost - too much - may listen to them just once)? NOW, about to be released is the 3-disc set below on Brilliant w/ a 'sampling' of the 150 Psalms (recordings are from the 1980/90s but w/ some excellent people - Amazon description attached) - at any rate, I've setup a Spotify playlist of both recordings and will take a listen.  Thanks!  Dave

A short note of advice: on the Glossa set each psalm in set by Sweelinck is preceded by the (plain) original. Although it is something interesting to hear both versions next to each other, skipping the originals and sticking to Sweelinck makes for a more rewarding listening experience. 

[Que]

[Que]

Excellent! Much better than Alejandro Casal on Brilliant...

[Traverso]

A short note of advice: on the Glossa set each psalm in set by Sweelinck is preceded by the (plain) original. Although it is something interesting to hear both versions next to each other, skipping the originals and sticking to Sweelinck makes for a more rewarding listening experience. 

I have a different opinion about this

[prémont]

A short note of advice: on the Glossa set each psalm in set by Sweelinck is preceded by the (plain) original. Although it is something interesting to hear both versions next to each other, skipping the originals and sticking to Sweelinck makes for a more rewarding listening experience. 

I suppose the inclusion of the plain original psalms are directed to those who don't know the psalms beforehand. So if one knows the psalms the originals are superfluous.

[Madiel]

I've been waiting for the right night to pull the trigger on this fabulousness...

Dvorak: String quartet in G major, op.106

[vandermolen]

Bruckner: Symphony No.9 (4 movement version) Frankfurt RSO, Inbal

[arpeggio]

It seems that this set in only for real Liszt aficionados.

I have completed listening to all of the original works for piano. They only account for 1/3 of the CD's in the set.

The rest include his transcriptions and arrangements. His transcription of the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique is awesome.

There are nine discs devoted to drafts and fragments.

[Cato]

It has been too long since I listened to the Symphony #5 of Tchaikovsky.

The first time I heard it was in the early 1960's: I had found the RCA monaural Boston Symphony recording with Serge Koussevitzky conducting.

It might have been this one from the mid-1940's, re-issued as a high fidelity 33 1/3 record in the 1950's.