What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Early morning listening.
Samuel Barber: 'Knoxville: summer of 1915'

[vandermolen]

NP: Copland 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson (Addison/Copland)

That was a very nice three CD series John.

[Que]

   

Surprise, surprise. A recording with a Christmas Mass by Giovanni Alberti Ristori, an Italian composer at the Dresden court completely unknown to me!  But stylistically a perfect match with Heinichen, Zelenka and Hasse.

[Que]

More from this 12CD boxset:

   

http://www.glossamusic.com/glossa/reference.aspx?id=165

Note that, as discussed, this not quite what is says on the box:  it is basically a Spanish (mainly) Baroque collection with José Miguel Moreno as a solist or accompanist playing the vihuela or the guitar, or as a director. However, this suits my own purposes just fine: these are top shelf performances of unique repertoire.

[Biffo]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 5 in D major, K 175 - English Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim conductor and soloist

[Que]

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Violin concertos vol. III with Igor Ruhadze and the Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

An unusal occurence in a boxset of this size: every disc is a treasure! 

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

An overstatement of sorts, isn't it? Anyway, one work I love by this composer is his Piano Quartet in E major. The meaning of loveliness. The melodies and development are so attractive. It must be counted among the best examples in the genre in the first half of XIX century...

I would say, yes.    Overstatement is routinely used to emphasize appreciation in the arts, but it's what makes Shaw's comment stand out in a crowd and listeners sit-up and take notice.  Unfortunately, Shaw - widely seen at the time as an arbiter of taste and culture - went even further:  "Brahms, who alone touches [Goetz] in mere brute musical faculty, is a dolt in comparison to him."     Music can make people say the wackiest things.  Bottom Line:  there's no question Goetz was one of those composers who was taken from us too soon.  Thanks so much,  Symphonic, for the lead on Goetz's Piano Quartet.

[Iota]

An outstanding work as is the Requiem Canticles.

Indeed, another sparse and penetrating wonder from the endlessly fecund Stravinsky. Another top 10-er for me.


But for now ..



Maderna: Oboe Concerto No.1


Maderna creates a magically detailed soundworld punctuated by haunting, lonely oboe soliloquies. An unforgettable and beautiful thing.

[Harry]

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Violin concertos vol. III with Igor Ruhadze and the Ensemble Violini Capricciosi

An unusal occurence in a boxset of this size: every disc is a treasure! 

+ 1!

[Iota]

Overstatement is routinely used to emphasize appreciation in the arts, but it's what makes Shaw's comment stand out in a crowd and listeners sit-up and take notice.  Unfortunately, Shaw - widely seen at the time as an arbiter of taste and culture ..

...

https://www.youtube.com/v/uycsfu4574w 

[Que]

Early musical influences on Mozart.

[MusicTurner]

Surprisingly, these are two downright superb CDs from very cheap JPC sales, also by comparison with other recordings. Very nice discoveries. The beautiful Pfitzner and Strauss sonatas are given a true symphonic flight, making the music sound more important than expected; Wolf seems to be a violinist of rare quality. The Hartmann concerto a not too martial, beautiful and idiomatic performance; the early Schubert ouverture is nice, and the Beethoven quartet gets a more lyrical, yet still contrastful reading, say compared to the more abrupt Tønnesen recordings on BIS.

- Schubert Ouverture D8, Beethoven String Quartet in string orchestra arrangement, K.A.Hartmann Concerto Funebre /Bernius /carus CD

- Pfitzner, Strauss Violin Sonatas /Wolf /farao CD (sadly, the price has since gone up again)

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Morning listening another setting of Lamentations:



This time by Constanzo Festa (1485 - 1545), who was the first major native Italian polyphonist after the domination of composers from the Netherlands in Italy and combined both styles. Despite the fact that a substantial amount of his music is preserved, recordings seem very thin on the ground. Paul van Nevel did a disc of choral music, included in the "Secret Labyrinth" box, and an instrumental one. Festa is said to be the beacon for his successors, notably Palestrina.

This is the only complete recording of the Lamentations, and despite some minor reservations I think we are lucky to have it.
The 11 male members of the French ensemble Scandicus give a dedicated, small and intimate  performance. The sound the ensemble is on the smoother and mellow side. It could more edgy, but it is beautifully done - intimate and touching. The music itself is pretty, though perhaps not breathtaking. Scandicus keep these predominantly homophonic works sufficiently transparent.Though this would be a perfect piece for Cinquecento to record!

My copy has no liner notes... but since the label is now defunct, there is nowhere to send my complaint ..

Hello Dear QUE look amazing love Constanzo Festa works, whit Huelgas ensemble , and to paralel your discution this morning I'm listening to Ensemble Scandinus : Dominique Phinot it's well done goodrecording, found it this morning since , I've put some order into my library of CD's and LP this week, Motets Quam Pulchra Es and lament Incipit Oratio Jeremiae Prophetae is to be heard, fine work done, his music refined ans has a special signature,, remind me of Gombert at time, for modus operandi of cadences and usage of dissonance propperly speaking.

[Mirror Image]

That was a very nice three CD series John.

It sure is, Jeffrey. I have to say that Copland has been well-served on disc.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Ives Orchestral Set No. 2 (MTT)



It's as if Debussy and 'free atonal' period Schoenberg merged and used church hymns and old American folk music as its starting point. A fantastic piece.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Janáček String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8, "The Kreutzer Sonata" (Takács Quartet)

[Biffo]

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Overture
Ireland: A London Overture

London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G major - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Istvan Kertesz, via Spotify. Still pondering the Decca box set. I have Symphonies No 4 & 7 and the Requiem on LP and the Requiem and Tone Poems etc on CD. This fine performance of No 8 hasn't really clarified matters. Do I really need another symphony cycle? Probably not. Meanwhile I have saved the box set to my Spotify library.

[bhodges]

An assortment of Bruckner motets, like "Os justi" and "Locus iste" (below) by different choirs. Lots of beauties to choose from on YouTube.

Steven Darlington
Christ Church Cathedral Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1jfmbPM-A

--Bruce

[pi2000]

 Sergiu Celibidache in Copenhagen

[MusicTurner]

Sergiu Celibidache in Copenhagen

Ha, he seems to be right outside our old Kongelige Teater/Royal Theatre, on the Kongens Nytorv Square, where the Royal Danish Orchestra also gave concerts with him ... but he's reading an Italian newspaper, apparently; I also had a job once selling foreign newspapers from a kiosk. Contrary to what you'd probably think, he was apparently very sensitive to local reviews, and when the reviewer Hansgeorg Lenz (who was a Karajan fan, but often insightful) criticized him in the newspaper "Information", it made him angry enough to cancel work here.