What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

As our dear @Karl Henning would assert: pounds the table!

Long time no hear that! 

[Que]

[Que]

A Google-tranlated article (from Dutch) with some background information:

https://www-stretto-be.translate.goog/2022/07/19/ontdek-josquin-baston-flemish-and-french-chansons-door-ratas-del-viejo-mundo-op-het-label-ramee/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=nl&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[AnotherSpin]

As many know, Christian Tetzlaff cancelled his 2005 U.S. tour, citing 'utter anger' and discomfort with the political climate there. He also expressed serious concerns about Trump's cozying up to Russia. Now, I'm well aware that politics isn't exactly welcome on this forum, especially when it's aimed against all things Russian. Still, I do hope Christian Tetzlaff doesn't become a persona non grata in the playlists of the forum's respected members.

[Lisztianwagner]

Alfred Schnittke
Symphony No.1

Leif Segerstam & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.7 CD 2

[Que]

Hat tip Mandryka. 

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/CarpeDiem_CD-16329.html

PS I like the choice of music, like playing the playing. But the sound of oldest surviving Austrian clavichord is not unpleasant with quite thin, even for a clavichord. It's almost if we just hear the strings, without much of a soundboard.

[Traverso]

Hat tip Mandryka. 

Sapperloot !!!   

[Traverso]

Vivaldi

CD 7

[Que]

[vandermolen]

John McCabe: The Chagall Windows etc

[brewski]

Hat tip Mandryka. 

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/CarpeDiem_CD-16329.html

PS I like the choice of music, like playing the playing. But the sound of oldest surviving Austrian clavichord is not unpleasant with quite thin, even for a clavichord. It's almost if we just hear the strings, without much of a soundboard.

What an unusual recording — and that cover! I'm intrigued.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Lutosławski Silesian Triptych

[Toni Bernet]

When Spohr became court conductor at the court in Kassel in 1822 after his virtuoso period as a famous violinist, he also had a choir at his disposal. Spohr himself knew the old choral repertoire from Telemann, Graun and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach from his own singing experience, so he did not have to rediscover the old sacred choral tradition like the next generation of Mendelssohn and Schumann. So he was interested in composing and performing an oratorio when, in 1825, he received a libretto he had written himself from Friedrich Rochlitz, the longstanding editor of the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikzeitschrift, which effectively arranged a selection of exclusively biblical quotations on the existential theme of the 'last things'. Despite the biblical texts, however, neither Rochlitz nor Spohr intended to create a liturgical work for church services. Rather, they wanted to address each person individually, especially at the beginning of the 19th century during the difficult turning points of the Enlightenment, the upheaval in the understanding of the Bible, the French Revolution, the Congress of Vienna and the Restoration. Music in the Romantic sense made it possible to skilfully recreate how the existential questions of death and the afterlife affected the individual's inner life. In this respect, Spohr's oratorio 'The Last Things' is an example of an artistic religion that emancipated itself from worship or sought to complement it autonomously for the bourgeois self-image.

More cf.:
https://www.discoveringsacredmusic.ch/19th-century/spohr

[brewski]

After seeing Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) recently, I can't get enough of Nino Rota's score. This is the second album of excerpts from Muti and La Scala, and both are faves.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

[Karl Henning]

Again!

[nico1616]

More than 3 hours of Smetana's orchestral music. Listening to disc 3, a top recording of Ma Vlast.

[Karl Henning]

A piece by a virtual acquaintance:

[SonicMan46]

Brahms, Chopin, & Clementi - Piano Music - much of the week have been listening to selections from the piano collections below, mostly boxes except Shelley which I have as 6 2-CD sets (nicely in thin double jewel cases) - Dave