What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Moniuszko: Paria.

[AnotherSpin]

6 Masses attributed to Antoine Busnoys

Giuseppe Maletto
Cantica Symphonia

[JBS]

The Fifth and Sixth

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Komitas, Tsintsadze, Skalkottas, et al..
Alessio Pianelli · Avos Chamber Orchestra.

@Irons and @Roy Bland : I was wondering if you would like the recording.

[VonStupp]

Sir Malcolm Arnold
Complete Solo Piano Music
Benjamin Frith, piano

It is the Piano Sonata and the Variations which are the substantive pieces here. Everything else is fairly lightweight, with a notable jazz idiom in some of these numbers.
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CD4 from this set:

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Monday! @Cato 

[Cato]

Webern: Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909)
Leonkoro Quartet

Achingly beautiful and mesmerising music, with more excellent playing from the Leonkoro.

For those who do not know Webern's Opus 5:

Komitas, Tsintsadze, Skalkottas, et al..
Alessio Pianelli · Avos Chamber Orchestra.

@Irons and @Roy Bland : I was wondering if you would like the recording.

Nikos Skalkottas is an all-around fave!  I cannot find excerpts from the above CD, but here is the entire work, 36 Greek Dances:

And I finally had some time today for an entire work: a famous performance!

And so...why not? 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

For those who do not know Webern's Opus 5:

Nikos Skalkottas is an all-around fave!  I cannot find excerpts from the above CD, but here is the entire work, 36 Greek Dances:

And I finally had some time today for an entire work: a famous performance!

And so...why not? 

Do you happen to know about this book? I have the book but haven't started it yet.







Review of A Sicilian Traveller.

https://www.thestrad.com/reviews/alessio-pianelli-a-sicilian-traveller/12641.article

[AnotherSpin]

Guillaume Dufay: O gemma, lux

Huelgas-Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel

[André]

Nice cover art but in truth it doesn't reveal much so here goes:



The Grétry Suite is sandwiched by the two Mozart works - so, not in the order the back jacket would lead one to believe.

This has to be husked, deconstructed bit by bit.

- Orkester Nord is a furiously committed PI band where winds and horns dominate - until drums enter. What a sound !
- Conductor Martin Wahlberg, a Norse who set roots in Normandy, just like his Viking ancestors a Millenium ago, has specialized in French pre-classical and classical opera and ballet music from the Louis XV era (1715-1775).
- The Mozart symphony here has all repeats taken, a course I normally don't encourage but which proves itself to be just what the listener needs to imprint those fast tempi, raw and piquant textures to the hard drive.
- An orchestra whose range of sounds goes from androgynous, almost emasculated flute tones to saturnine, cojones-laden low brass ones. Quite something even as HIP etc standards go.
- A program that includes an important work (K183) with two just as good but much less touted works from the same period. Grétry's Céphale et Procris is quite forgotten these days, but parts of it survive in various incarnations (the Ricercar set of Parisian Symphonies among others), and Mozart's own magnificent Thamos, a work I first heard almost 40 years ago in this Philips disc:



I do wish that Wahlberg & friends would have given us the two big choruses - precursors of those in Zauberflöte. That would have made it a recording for the ages.

In any case, let this last tiny detail not prevent anyone from exploring this magnificent disc.

[Roy Bland]

Komitas, Tsintsadze, Skalkottas, et al..
Alessio Pianelli · Avos Chamber Orchestra.

@Irons and @Roy Bland : I was wondering if you would like the recording.

Dear Manabu
Thanks for suggestion!
I will definitely consider it even though the program is heterogeneous
Best

[Karl Henning]

Earlier today I heard the Korngold String Sextet for the first time. Here it is, in a lovely reading with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players.

Great piece!

[Mapman]

Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat, MWV R 18
Quatuor Talich

This is Mendelssohn's first quartet, written when he was 14 but not published. The first three movements are a good, but not remarkable, Classical quartet. But, wow! The final movement is a remarkable double fugue (that also has another fugue start partway through).

[Wanderer]

The Tchaikovsky trio is a personal favourite...how is the performance?

It's a great favourite work of mine as well. I'm liking this performance; not as breathless as Argerich et al. (the one I usually reach for), which allows for some beautiful details to come through within the soundscape. And they take the repeat in the finale! 

[AnotherSpin]

[maticevska]

After an emotional experience with metadata and what was eventually discovered to just be a UI bug in PowerAmp I need the most comforting music there is:

Bruckner
Symphony No. 8
Wieners conducted by Pete

[Mandryka]

It occurred to me listening to this D959 that Osborne is a sort of Clifford Curzon. I'm going to hear him play D960 and the Diabelli Variations in London in a few weeks, I'm not 100% looking forward to it. Too refined, studied maybe.

[Que]

6 Masses attributed to Antoine Busnoys

Giuseppe Maletto
Cantica Symphonia

Probably the same masses as recorded by the Huelgas Ensemble (pictured below). Unfortunately still not complete... and partially in instrumental version?

[Que]

One of the 1st French Baroque recordings I ever bought.
Little did I know back then, but still an amazing and very special performance of one of the two organ masses that Couperin wrote.
A recording that deserved more of my attention over the years. But.. distractions, distractions.... A great rediscovery! 

[ritter]

The Quatuor Gong plays Joseph Jongen, String Quartets op. 3 (1894) & op. 50 (1916).