What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Schubert



After listening to the first half-dozen songs, I feel that Hampson is in excellent form here. He's doing a great job of overcoming my slight allergies to both some aspects of earlier Schubert and the chore of wading through Graham Johnson's liner notes to find the bits I actually want...

[SimonNZ]

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Richard Lionhearted. Je nuns hon pris, what a great song ideal for singing in the shower, ideal for red carpet treatment, glorious & triumphant one of my favorite ars vetus songs, there more I'm revisiting ars vetus tonight in the depth what a sound and what an era, I really like and enjoy!!

[vandermolen]

Inspired by a Hurwitz video, listened to a couple Elgar Symphony No. 2 recordings, Slatkin (one of his main recs) and Handley (not one of the recs, just one I already had)

You know, I'm not sure I like this music anymore. 

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(There's a new Sony box of the Slatkin recordings:

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https://www.youtube.com/v/pzs95_Qj9lk

I find these Hurwitz videos, which I only discovered through this forum, highly entertaining, so thanks for posting it. He makes me laugh with his comments like 'this is a passionate and exciting performance - not at all 'English''. I don't know the Slatkin performance nor the Mackerras but it does not surprise me as Mackerras's performance of Walton's First Symphony is one of the best I think. I'm tempted to look out for Boult's Lyrita performances of the Elgar symphonies which I have never owned. I heard Elgar's Second Symphony live at the Proms some years ago at the same concert which featured Moeran's Symphony (Sinaisky). Here is the 'March of the Mogul Emperors'' from the 'Crown of India Suite' which Hurwitz goes on about:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zoweJ1q00T8

[Que]

Morning listening:



A recording I always left alone, because of the New mixed in with the Old.
But it was just a few euros.... 

The Old (Phinot, Lechner, Richafort, Schütz, Senfl) is great, the New (Ivan Moody,  Brian Elias, Joanne Metcalf, Wilhelm Keller) ranges from interesting to bearable. As a recital disc,  I don't think it works for me.

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[Madiel]

Brahms quartets op.64

[Traverso]

Bach

These Französische Suiten are so utterly beautiful but not only that they are also comforting as almost no other music is able to.Yes I really love thse suites from the first time I heard them 45 years ago.
Leonhardt is playing them with a supreme aristocratic and yet tender way,really majestic.
Did I already mention that I love this music?

[Christo]

I find these Hurwitz videos, which I only discovered through this forum, highly entertaining, so thanks for posting it. He make me laugh with his comments like 'this is a passionate and exciting performance - not at all 'English''.

Same here, have been listening to a whole bunch of them and love it: good-humoured, entertaining, often very well informed. Hope he makes more! 

[Traverso]

Same here, have been listening to a whole bunch of them and love it: good-humoured, entertaining, often very well informed. Hope he makes more! 

I think he surely will,you don't have to agree with everything he says, but his enthusiasm for music is evident and infectious.

[Que]

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The 3rd and last disc with Olimpio Medori on the Agati organ of the Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Gavinana (Toscany).
A really splendid set.

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[Que]

More frin Italy:



A recording featuring various keyboard instruments: organ, harpsichord, clavichord, spinet and clavicymbalum.

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

I think that's more of a comment on Virgil Thomson, whose own music I find rather boring (but maybe that's a comment on me!  )

All life is a hot, self-referential mess! :-)

TD:

Again:



#morninglistening to #Beethoven's #Mandolin works on @naiveclassique w/@JMartineauFR & social media savvy pianist @VBenelliMosell

: http://a-fwd.to/5ciuKKm

[Harry]

More Italian Baroque:



A recording featuring various keyboard instruments: organ, harpsichord, clavichord, spinet and clavicymbalum.

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Had this CD already, and consider it a fine one in every respect.

[Madiel]

Bartok, Piano Quintet

[Traverso]

La Belle Danse

A fine recording

[Harry]

New arrival, first listen.

Biagio Marini.

Per l musiche di Camera/concerti/A quatro 5,6, Voci & Instromenti/Opera Settima. (Venezia, Gardano 1634)

Played on Historical Instruments by Cremona Antiqua.
Vocals by: Ensemble Costanzo Porta.
Direction: Antonio Greco.

Marini's music is closely aligned to Monteverdi output, albeit not on the same level, but pretty close. The vocal contributions are as a general rule good, but the recording is somewhat close, especially the sopranos can be overbearing in volume.  My near field monitors lets me hear this fact to a painful level. The music however is excellent.

EDIT
Second CD is far better recorded

[vandermolen]

I think he surely will,you don't have to agree with everything he says, but his enthusiasm for music is evident and infectious.

+1

[vandermolen]

Shostakovich: Symphony 13 'Babi Yar'
Kondrashin
Apparently only the second performance from 1962:

[Que]

A favourite from the shelves:



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[aukhawk]

I find these Hurwitz videos, which I only discovered through this forum, highly entertaining, so thanks for posting it. He makes me laugh with his comments like 'this is a passionate and exciting performance - not at all 'English''. I don't know the Slatkin performance nor the Mackerras but it does not surprise me as Mackerras's performance of Walton's First Symphony is one of the best I think. I'm tempted to look out for Boult's Lyrita performances of the Elgar symphonies which I have never owned. I heard Elgar's Second Symphony live at the Proms some years ago at the same concert which featured Moeran's Symphony (Sinaisky). Here is the 'March of the Mogul Emperors'' from the 'Crown of India Suite' which Hurwitz goes on about:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zoweJ1q00T8

Maybe I'm being too literal-minded and unimaginative, but I found that particular Elgar video confusing.  He takes three pieces of music by Elgar, the March, the 2nd Symphony, the Dream of Gerontius - and ranks them in that order.  Clearly a heavy-handed sort of internet joke, right?  He then, without any change of expression, demeanour, or delivery, goes on to trash certain well-known recordings of the 2nd and commend others.  For a while I was assuming this was still part of the same joke.  Should I in fact be seeking out Svetlanov and Sinopoli?  I can't say I trust his final choices at all.