What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Mozart, Symphony No.11 (edit: and No.10, after various other little non-symphonic things in the same part of the Koechel catalogue)



I'm inclined to stick with this Tate series for streaming the early symphonies I don't own. Enjoyable versions.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

On Spotify:



Well sung and largely OVPP.
On the downside: rather slow, languid, and the inevitable instrumental accompaniment although nothing crazy.

Streaming music is a great invention: you can enjoy a recording for a listen, and then move on...

Q

Hello QUE, this look's and sound's, awesome, love Dufay, perhaps I should , purchase it, this  most be super, don't have enough Dufay for my standard, he such a great architect of polyphony, one true master of masters, king of kings. Thanks for sharing have a nice day sir!

[aligreto]

Miaskovsky: Silence [Svetlanov]





This is a particularly fine and truly a wonderful, dark and exciting relatively early work [Op. 9]. It was certainly a portent of things to come on a larger scale. It is like he was honing his musical language and craft. A terrific work.

[Madiel]

Grieg, 12 songs ("Vinjesagene"), op.33

[Que]

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

A composer whose true name was Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a Dutch composer of German extraction who claimed he was Swiss and was registered as Viennese at the University of Leiden and whose music is thoroughly (and delightfully) Italian..."a close copy, in fact, of Albinoni and Corelli, but sometimes...less predictable, less schematic and less polished than his models." (New Grove)

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for Viola d'amore, Lute and Orchestra RV 540 [Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble]





This is a wonderfully intimate presentation which serves the music very well. It is wonderfully played and recorded.

[Mirror Image]

I'm not ashamed to claim that this is one of my all-time favorite compositions. I feel fully involved in its epic journey. This performance is so clean, convincing and detailed. Everything went quite well here.

A work for a desert island.

Very nice, Cesar. Looks like a lovely recording. I do wonder how it fares against HvK, Kempe, Sinopoli, etc.?

[Biffo]

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote - Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Rudolf Kempe with Paul Tortelier cello & Max Rostal viola

[aligreto]

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote - Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Rudolf Kempe with Paul Tortelier cello & Max Rostal viola

That is a very fine performance. I hope that you enjoyed it.

[Biffo]

That is a very fine performance. I hope that you enjoyed it.

Yes, I did, Kempe is one of my favourite Straussians and the 2013 remastering is a big improvement on the EMI green box issue.

[aligreto]

Yes, I did, Kempe is one of my favourite Straussians and the 2013 remastering is a big improvement on the EMI green box issue.

OK, good to know on both counts.

[Iota]

 

A pioneering HIP recording from 1979, which sounds rather antiquated...

I have the Warners Mozart 250th anniversary edition of complete sacred works with Harnoncourt and the Concentus musicus Wien, and was listening to the C minor Mass (rec. 1985) a couple of days ago, which suffered somewhat from the same problem and I sort of gave up on it. It was mainly in the big choruses where it felt unwieldy and congested, which is a shame because some of it is interpretively very interesting, almost Beethovenian at times.

I might steel myself to try again when I'm in a slightly more open mood, but it doesn't seem a certainty. 

[bhodges]

I'm not ashamed to claim that this is one of my all-time favorite compositions. I feel fully involved in its epic journey. This performance is so clean, convincing and detailed. Everything went quite well here.

A work for a desert island.

I bet this is a great recording, having heard both the orchestra and the conductor elsewhere, in other repertoire.

My first time hearing the piece (and I love it, too) was with von Karajan and Berlin, on a program with Stravinsky's Apollo (which I had never heard either). Karajan had his issues, to be sure, but never mind. Have loved the piece ever since.

--Bruce

[Que]

I have the Warners Mozart 250th anniversary edition of complete sacred works with Harnoncourt and the Concentus musicus Wien, and was listening to the C minor Mass (rec. 1985) a couple of days ago, which suffered somewhat from the same problem and I sort of gave up on it. It was mainly in the big choruses where it felt unwieldy and congested, which is a shame because some of it is interpretively very interesting, almost Beethovenian at times.

I might steel myself to try again when I'm in a slightly more open mood, but it doesn't seem a certainty. 

Harnoncourt is too angular and heavy handed for my taste....

Hogwood did a great recording of the Mass in C minor - with Arleen Auger! 

[aligreto]

Edgard Varese:





Ionisation [Chailly] Once my ears got used to all of the percussion I did find this to be an exciting work. To me, it sounded like something that modern dance could be choreographed for.
Density 21-5 [Chailly] This is a very appealing work for solo flute but I actually miss the cacophony of Varese's normal sound world!

[Traverso]

Schubert

A great singer died,may she rest in peace.

[Mirror Image]

That is a very fine performance. I hope that you enjoyed it.

+ 1

NP:

Sibelius
Luonnotar, Op. 70
Helena Juntunen, soprano
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä



An outstanding performance of an incredible piece. Vänskä's early Lahti recordings of Sibelius are some of my favorite recordings of any of his music. He really knew and understood this composer on such a deeper, intuitive level that what he sometimes may lack in the orchestral heft of Karajan et. al. he makes up for in the kind of introspection this music needs to allure and mesmerize.

[aligreto]

Schubert

A great singer died,may she rest in peace.

That is indeed sad news and a great loss of a wonderful voice that has served us very well over many years with various and wonderful recordings.

[SonicMan46]

The Lost Music of Canterbury - listening off Spotify to this 5-disc set which has appeared before in this thread - nice for a Sunday morning - opening description from the producer's website (more there in the link, if interested) - Dave

The 5-CD boxed set The Lost Music of Canterbury: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks is the capstone of a landmark project of international musical significance which presents extraordinary music from the last generation of medieval Catholicism in England. Judged by this music, Catholic culture remained vital and confident during this turbulent period. The fifth disc in the series was recognized with the Gramophone Award for Early Music 2018, making Blue Heron the first North American ensemble to have won the Early Music Award in the 41 years it has been given. (Source)