What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

You might like this (a lot!)



(One of) the best LvB cycles ever IMO, live or studio.

What do you think about the cycle from Wilhelm Backhaus with Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra)?

[Madiel]

Vivaldi: Bassoon concertos (hmm, someone else has been listening to those lately)



RV 474 in C major is an exceptionally sweet and melodious work.

RV 480 in C minor is a work that, as the liner notes point out, is not far away from religious music in its sombre tone.

[Madiel]

The Sanctus of each Haydn late mass.

They all follow similar plans, really. I can't write more, I have to start watching a movie before it expires at midnight...

[Que]

Back in harpsichord territory again. Almost exclusively Louis Couperin, but with a Froberger Toccata (in a beautiful performance) and a piece by Dufau(l)t.

[Traverso]

Bach

Sonntag nach Trinitatis (10.9.1724) - Kantate BWV 78 "Jesu, der du meine Seele" / Johann Ludwig Krebs: Choralvorspiel "Jesu, der du meine Seele" / Johann Rist: Jesu, der du meine Seele
Sonntag nach Trinitatis (17.9.1724) - Kantate BWV 99 "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" / Johann Ludwig Krebs: Choralvorspiel "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" / Severus Gastorius: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
Sonntag nach Trinitatis (24.9.1724) - Kantate BWV 8 "Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben" / Francois Saint-Yves: Orgel-Improvisation über "Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben" / Caspar Neumann: Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben (Bach: Schemelli

[Papy Oli]

Claudio Santoro
Symphony No.7 'Brasilia'

(Naxos - The Music of Brazil series' 🇧🇷 )

[Mandryka]

I just put on the second CD of his Leipzig Chorales at Groningen on Lawo - it's much better than I'd remembered. Lyrical rather than contrapuntal, inner voices sometimes played down in order to bring out the "main" melody, but nonetheless I think enjoyable.

[San Antone]

Rolf Lislevand - Passacaglia al modo mio (Official Video)

[Karl Henning]

There's no clarinetist because neither of the works recorded is scored for clarinet. Just the two Brahms String Quintets.

Thanks. I'll learn to read, one of these days. I appreciate your delicacy.

[Iota]

Bach:Partita No. 6 In E Minor BWV 830
David Fray (piano)

Utterly mesmerising playing, which reaches such intense meditative states at times you feel as if it would be hard to be more closely inside or connected to the music. A truly marvellous thing.

[Papy Oli]

Francisco Mignone
Fantasias Brasileiras

No.1 & No.2

(Naxos - The music of Brazil 🇧🇷)

[Traverso]

Pieter Hellendaal  (1721-1799)



Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

Jan Willem de Vriend

[Madiel]

Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque no.1 in G minor



Heck of a work to pick to listen to at midnight, after watching Mozart/Tom Hulce die...

[AnotherSpin]

I just put on the second CD of his Leipzig Chorales at Groningen on Lawo - it's much better than I'd remembered. Lyrical rather than contrapuntal, inner voices sometimes played down in order to bring out the "main" melody, but nonetheless I think enjoyable.

Very close to what I heard

[AnotherSpin]

Just finished the last CD.

It's a wonderful set. Nothing flashy, just pure, honest music. My old ideas about Couperin quietly fell away while listening. No big drama, they simply stopped making sense. Jean Rondeau plays as if the harpsichord is breathing with him; everything feels natural and alive.

In times when so much explodes around, it's a relief to hear something that doesn't shout or force its way in. It softly unties a knot that was there before and leaves a clearer, warmer feeling behind.

I'm glad I listened. I hear this music differently now, and I like the new way much better.

[Papy Oli]

Francisco Mignone
Fantasias Brasileiras

No.1 & No.2

(Naxos - The music of Brazil 🇧🇷)

No.3 & No.4 as well. Very entertaining!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Dear Manabu
Surely it is. I would actually appreciate your input on regionalism in Japanese composers, a topic that, apart from the Ainu, is completely unknown to me. I only know Kikuko Tanai, who was associated with Okinawan folklore.
obviously it's better to put it here:
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,6161.msg147568.html#msg147568
TIA

Thank you for the link to the Japanese composers thread! Very exotic!

[Spotted Horses]

Thanks. I'll learn to read, one of these days. I appreciate your delicacy.

I wonder if Brahms would approve replacing the first viola in these works with Clarinet?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pujol guitar music.

[VonStupp]

Good to "see" you, buddy!

Good to be back listening again. Hopefully things are going well to the East and you are keeping warm and dry!
VS


Malcolm Arnold
Symphony 7
Symphony 8
Royal PO - Vernon Handley

Arnold's 7th is a harrowing work. I could say the same of his 8th, but there are moments of lightness and levity halfheartedly sprinkled in throughout.
VS