What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Monteux conducting the following:


Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture
Berlioz: Grande Ouverture de Benvenuto Cellini


from the box set

[Iota]

I keep seeing this. Damn, it looks good. Might need to pick it up.

There are certainly worse things you could pick up. A bejewelled recording.


Spinning here:



Tallis: Missa Salve intemerata


I suspect this performance is now somewhat bangers 'n mash, compared with the haute cuisine of many newer ensembles, but it still brings the sun out for me. (The performance of Spem in Alium, not so much .. ).

Not that I really hang round in the right places, but I rarely hear mention of the Missa Salve intemerata, so don't know if it's generally less highly regarded, but there's something about it that really appeals.

[aligreto]

What a great painting !

Absolutely!

[Florestan]

Started this set with disc 1:



Love it. Much better and clearer sound than Boehm.

[vers la flamme]

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, op.49. Trio Wanderer. Can't get enough piano trios lately, and Mendelssohn wrote two of the best ever.

[Marc]

Mozart, before calling it a day.

Sonata for violin & (forte)piano in F, KV 376.
Rachel Podger, violin & Gary Cooper, fortepiano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_6pemaEPc

https://www.youtube.com/v/fE_6pemaEPc

[Florestan]

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, op.49. Trio Wanderer. Can't get enough piano trios lately, and Mendelssohn wrote two of the best ever.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

[vers la flamme]

Agreed wholeheartedly.

They are both so good! But anyway, moving onto a piano trio of a completely different sort, now...:



Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor. Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley. I just got this CD, and so far, so good. Man, are these musicians ideally suited to the music, or what. I've loved everything I've heard of les frères Capuçon + Braley, but I expect this one just might take the cake. I'm not very familiar with the other works on the disc, so I'm starting here. Excited to explore these works of Ravel's in further depth through this great recording.

[Papy Oli]

Tallis: Missa Salve intemerata

I suspect this performance is now somewhat bangers 'n mash, compared with the haute cuisine of many newer ensembles, but it still brings the sun out for me. (The performance of Spem in Alium, not so much .. ).

Not that I really hang round in the right places, but I rarely hear mention of the Missa Salve intemerata, so don't know if it's generally less highly regarded, but there's something about it that really appeals.

You are not the only seeing this work as a highlight, Iota. This is one of the first classical CD I bought for the Spem in Alium, and much preferred the Salve right from the off. It is still one of my top 10 works of all time. A gem indeed.

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphony in A minor

The only orchestral symphony by this composer, and quite good it is.

[bhodges]

Elgar: Serenade for Strings (Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra) - A lovely, fleet live performance, from 2016 in Utrecht. No conductor, and all musicians but the cellos standing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4XK0oF88hc

--Bruce

[André]

Symphony in A minor

The only orchestral symphony by this composer, and quite good it is.

Love that disc ! And the whole Liège box, too  0:).

[André]

Symphony no 2.

I had not listened to anything from the Inbal/Frankfurt cycle in 3-4 years. Inbal is a 'straight', clear-headed, no nonsense Mahler conductor - like Kubelik, Abravanel, Haitink RCOA or Gielen. Nothing is italicized. The percussion is given due prominence in the orchestral texture - helped in that by the super-clear recording, but also thanks to keeping the brass in their place. This is particularly striking in the last movement. Inbal's pacing is taut, the rythms gripping and the orchestra is on their toes throughout.

I found the ladies ok vocally, but no more. Both (Doris Soffel and Helen Donath) have slightly fluttery voices and their intonation is sometimes a hair away from being suspect. At least they have the idiom down pat and sing with sincerity. In a sense it adds to the frisson of the performance. The conductor contributes audible grunts and moans to the massed forces  . The chorus makes the requisite impact. A truly excellent version and a great listening experience.

[Symphonic Addict]

Love that disc ! And the whole Liège box, too  0:).

Sure! Bartholomée and the Liège PO have given us some good rarities.

[bhodges]

Symphony no 2.

I had not listened to anything from the Inbal/Frankfurt cycle in 3-4 years. Inbal is a 'straight', clear-headed, no nonsense Mahler conductor - like Kubelik, Abravanel, Haitink RCOA or Gielen. Nothing is italicized. The percussion is given due prominence in the orchestral texture - helped in that by the super-clear recording, but also thanks to keeping the brass in their place. This is particularly striking in the last movement. Inbal's pacing is taut, the rythms gripping and the orchestra is on their toes throughout.

I found the ladies ok vocally, but no more. Both (Doris Soffel and Helen Donath) have slightly fluttery voices and their intonation is sometimes a hair away from being suspect. At least they have the idiom down pat and sing with sincerity. In a sense it adds to the frisson of the performance. The conductor contributes audible grunts and moans to the massed forces  . The chorus makes the requisite impact. A truly excellent version and a great listening experience.

I have not heard any of this cycle, and your comments make me want to.

--Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

I like this reading of the Glagolitic Mass because it's not rushed as in other recordings. For me it's almost critical that the endings of Slava and Veruju aren't taken too fast, part of the greatness of those movements depend on those majestic moments IMO. The other works on the CD are powerful as well.

[Marc]

I have not heard any of this cycle, and your comments make me want to.

--Bruce

It's a very reliable cycle throughout, with great sound. I agree about Soffel, but in my memory Donath was fine. It's been 10 years maybe since I last listened to it, but yes, I remember Inbal's moaning and grunting. It didn't really bother me. (Barbirolli does the same in 'his' famous 6th.)
Helen Donath was/is even more than fine in the Finale of Number 4. Because of that, and because of the teasingly slightly slow tempo of the 2nd movement, the 4th is my favourite performance of this cycle.

[JBS]

I have not heard any of this cycle, and your comments make me want to.

--Bruce

Inbal's Mahler is well done overall. He doesn't hit anything out of the park, but there are no misses.  Reliable, as Marc says.

TD
Tonight's program

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First listen to Langaard's chamber music. Liking it so far.
Then somethingna bit more familiar.

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[T. D.]

[Mirror Image]

An all Stravinsky program for me right now:

Disc 2 from this set: