What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Novel

You never know what someone might produce if given five circular diagrams with instructions to start anywhere and go in either direction but I think Roger Woodward's multi tracked mix is a great outcome.

[bhodges]

Your queue, Bruce, is the stuff of legend

Hehehe, probably more like a bad dream. 

--Bruce

[bhodges]

Your queue, Bruce, is the stuff of legend

(And PS, it's kind of incredible how much there is to listen to in the digital age, between CDs, DVDs, downloads, livestreams, and elsewhere. You could spend your whole life on YouTube alone.)

--Bruce

[Florestan]

You could spend your whole life on YouTube alone

Sounds like Poju...   

[bhodges]

Sounds like Poju...   

Oh dear.

*changes course immediately*



--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

The Schwarz is still with me:

Schuman
Symphony № 8 (1962)
Seattle Symphony
Schwarz

Skipping for the nonce the fillers on this disc: Night Journey (1947) and Schuman's arrangement of Ives's Variations on "America" as I concentrate on my long-overdue return to the symphonies.

[SonicMan46]

Mozart, WA - String Quintets w/ Klenke Quartett + Harald Schoneweg - listening off Spotify, BUT at the end of last year I purchased the 5-CD set of the group's Mozart String Quartets (shown below, packaged in a convenient 2-CD size jewel box) - multiple reviews attached of both sets of works for those interested.  Dave

 

[Carlo Gesualdo]

I'm listening to Jacobus Vaet - sacred works - a four CD's Box-set, it's excellent  purchased from Brilliant Classics, year's ago, it's very good, love Vaet works, very pleasing to my ears, well done, great overall release.

And minor exiting detail expecting in the mail: The forgotten Kingdom (2010) one of my own favorite of Jordi Savall tree CD's , superb box-set, great colorful presentation, perhaps one of the best  he done whit Istambul and thee Gombert Masses double CD's on Beauty Farm release from 2021.

[Todd]

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

From the Overture to the final chorus this is a sheer delight. And of course there's nothing like a French cast in a French opera (Gedda is quite an honorary Frenchman in this respect).

Auber has been quite the 2021 discovery for me. In my book, to put a smile on one's face is a much greater achievement than to make one angry or despondent. Especially in the dire times we're living through, music that makes one happy and cheerful gets the pride of place in my listening habits.

D'accord!  Wonder if you've heard Auber's Le Philtre? I have not myself, but according to persons reliable it is also a treat.  Its book was the inspiration for Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, widely regarded as superior to Auber; I own three or four performances of L'elisir I enjoy it so much.   

[Florestan]

Wonder if you've heard Auber's Le Philtre?

No, I haven't. Is there any recording of it, preferably with an all-French cast?

AfaIc, L'elisir d'amore is an immortal masterpiece.

[bhodges]

This was the most expensive CD I've ever purchased: found a used copy for something like $45, and glad to have it. (I think it probably went out of print rather quickly.) What are your thoughts on it?

--Bruce

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

No, I haven't. Is there any recording of it, preferably with an all-French cast?

AfaIc, L'elisir d'amore is an immortal masterpiece.

Perhaps I ought to have checked before I asked!  It doesn't look good for a recording of it, though it is occasionally performed! It sure looks appealing:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EsAA9ntTmQ

[listener]

Percy  WHTLOCK (1903-1946),
Five Short Pieces (1929), Sonata in c (1926), Reflections (Three Short Pieces for Organ (1942-46),  Wessex Suite: Rustic Cavalry March
Robert Gower,  organ of Selby Abbey
MYASKOVSKY:Symphony no.24 in f, Symphony 25 in D^b
Moscow Philharmonic Orch   Dimitry Yablonsky, cond.

[Papy Oli]

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

For the dinner hour, these are not among my favorite Milhaud symphonies, but they're enjoyable - and interesting - nonetheless:

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Listening to a new box-set 15 CD's Brillant Classics,
The Complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book whit performer
keyboardist Pieter-Jan Belder. I am at CD 1

Featuring in order: John Bull, Gilles Farnaby, Martin Peerson, William Byrd, Peter Philips, Giovanni Pichi, Thomas Tomkins.

Great program I will explore it slowly, each day a new CD.
It actually very good , nice presentation, love it.


Great purchase, really wanted this one, excellent box-set 15 CD's at a reasonable price   

[Mookalafalas]

[Todd]

This was the most expensive CD I've ever purchased: found a used copy for something like $45, and glad to have it. (I think it probably went out of print rather quickly.) What are your thoughts on it?

--Bruce

Some of Abbado's best work was in 20th Century rep.  On this disc, I can take or leave the Sciarrino, but the Schoenberg rates with the best Schoenberg I've heard (I wish Abbado would have recorded Moses und Aron), and the two Ligeti pieces are fantastic.  The recorded sound is a bit bright, but that actually helps the Ligeti pieces.  The Oboe pierces in the Double Concerto.  I have two other Abbado Wien Modern discs, and all three are just splendid. 

[Todd]