What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

[Belle]

Adrian Boult conducting Elgar's "Enigma Variations" in 1936 with heavy lashings of portamento.  Absolutely WONDERFUL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brFK1UGM1QI&list=RDbrFK1UGM1QI&start_radio=1

[Que]

https://www.ficta.cat/en/cd/420-ave-maris-stella-cd-cristobal-de-morales.html

[Traverso]

[ritter]

Bruno Canino plays Debussy.



Canino is one of my favourite pianists ever. I have his recording of Debussy's Préludes in my collection, but not this companion disc, which proved very elusive. I finally located a copy on eBay (ex-library, with stickers and such, but well), and it was delivered today.

This CD has many early and, IMHO, minor pieces (I think the Deux Arabesques are the only Debussy piano works I actively dislike), but things pick up with Pour le piano, the Estampes and the Suite Bergamasque. A real pity that Canino never completed his Debussy cycle for the Stradivarius label, so we don't have, e.g., the Études or Images (much is available on YouTube from a couple of recitals in which the pianist performed the complete(ish) Debussy piano music at the "La Sapienza" University in Rome in 1996).

Great performances. Canino is a superb Debussyist!

[Traverso]

Thomas Tallis

The days of buying all the Tallis Scholars recordings are long gone. The Clerks Group are to blame for that; they changed my taste after initial reluctance. Nevertheless, this is a beautiful rendition of the English anthems, including  the one so brilliantly arranged by Vaughan Williams.

[AnotherSpin]

Beethoven: Piano Concertos (Complete)
Yukio Yokoyama, Japan Chamber Orchestra

Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37

[Madiel]

Mozart: Adagio and Allegro for (mechanical) organ, K.594



I gather it gets transcribed a bit. I have a transcription of the other late mechanical organ work, but not this one.

[Papy Oli]

Bach, J S:

Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, Cantata, BWV 32

Elly Ameling (soprano), Ingo Goritzki (oboe), Hermann Prey (baritone), Saschko Gawriloff (violin)
Deutsche Bachsolisten, Chorus Of The German Bach Soloists

Helmut Winschermann


Second time I am stopped in  my tracks by Elly Ameling's voice. Not a singer I have come across before. Or so I thought, as there is one (only) entry in her discography I have which is her participation in the Haitink Mahler cycle. I'll have to dig that up.

Found out she had a Bach edition boxset. Excited at first but I sampled quickly some of her cantatas with Leppard. Singing is gorgeous but the music is a bit...rustic.. 

[Madiel]

Brahms, Clarinet sonata no.1 in F minor



For some reason the trio of the 3rd movement really struck me this time.

Apparently it's now a tradition that I listen to this work on the 2nd of January, seeing as I've done it twice in a row.

[Papy Oli]

Brahms, Clarinet sonata no.1 in F minor



For some reason the trio of the 3rd movement really struck me this time.

A gem of a record! 

[Papy Oli]

onwards...

Bach, J S
Cantata BWV134 'Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiss'

Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Julia Hamari (contralto)
Deutsche Bachsolisten, Kantorei Barmen Gemarke

Helmut Winschermann

[Que]

Bach, J S:

Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, Cantata, BWV 32

Elly Ameling (soprano), Ingo Goritzki (oboe), Hermann Prey (baritone), Saschko Gawriloff (violin)
Deutsche Bachsolisten, Chorus Of The German Bach Soloists

Helmut Winschermann


Second time I am stopped in  my tracks by Elly Ameling's voice. Not a singer I have come across before. Or so I thought, as there is one (only) entry in her discography I have which is her participation in the Haitink Mahler cycle. I'll have to dig that up.

Found out she had a Bach edition boxset. Excited at first but I sampled quickly some of her cantatas with Leppard. Singing is gorgeous but the music is a bit...rustic.. 

Try her CPE Bach Magnificat recording (DHM), her recordings of Schubert & Schumann Lieder (Philips) and Fauré's Mélodies (with Gérard Souzay on EMI)

[Que]

More of this... with (the equivalent) of six discs plenty to go on! 

[Todd]

[Madiel]

Poulenc: Figure humaine



Poulenc's choral works are definitely on the list of things to add to my collection. It's a genre that just suits him perfectly.

[Papy Oli]

Try her CPE Bach Magnificat recording (DHM), her recordings of Schubert & Schumann Lieder (Philips) and Fauré's Mélodies (with Gérard Souzay on EMI)

Thank you very much @Que , I'll hunt those down on Presto streaming. 

[Harry]

As I went to Walsingham.
Elizabethan Music.
The Musicians of Swanne Alley, Lyle Nordstrom & Paul O'Dette.
Recorded in 1994, and re- released in 1986. Bethel United Church of Christ, Manchester, Michigan.
No PDF File attached.

A fine disc recorded in 1994, but still in good sound and excellent performance. A young American Soprano Emily Van Evera, is not as experienced as she would later be. She still has an unsteady voice, and that made me skip some of her contributions.

[Papy Oli]

I have the full series by Lars Ulrich Mortensen to revisit at some point but first I am dipping a toe in Koopman's set of Buxtehude's Chamber Music.

[AnotherSpin]

Ockeghem: Requiem / Missa Fors Seulement
The Clerks' Group
Edward Wickham

Thanks, @Traverso, for mentioning The Clerks' Group.

Indeed, the performers are truly remarkable, and the sound quality of the Ockeghem album is exceptional.