What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

the sleeve awesome.

Agreed. The most interesting and imaginative and refined Josquin based release for a long long time, maybe ever. The Gombert is extraordinary too!  I am blown away, as they say.

What fantastic singers he has - he really knows how to get them to give their best.

[Que]

Since I scaled down buying I'm discovering all the wonderful music I own and haven't heard for years. And often better than some of the obscure stuff I've been buying in quantity.

I'm lately moving in the same direction. I've limited the exploration of new stuff in time and to Spotify.
Only when I feel a recording will have lasting significance for me, I'll buy it.

Also ridding my current collection of stuff that doesn't really interest me anymore. Very liberating! 
(But what to do with all that stuff?  )

[Mookalafalas]

Ma's recent disks have seemed a bit off-hand. I didn't expect much from this one, either. And if anyone is looking for plumbing the depths LvrB, this isn't it--which the title and cover should tell you, anyway. But what a joyful rediscovery.  It reminds me of some of Rubinstein's best small group work--where it sounded like friends (extremely talented and virtuosic friends, mind you) having a good time.

[Harry]

Henry Cotter Nixon.

Complete Orchestral Music, Volume II.

Ian Hobson, Piano.
Kodaly PPO, Paul Mann.

I thoroughly enjoy this composer, his works are well crafted, and Paul Mann ensures a good presentation.

[listener]

Ludovico Antonio RONCALLI (1654-1713)   Capricci Armonici per chitarra spagnola
Suites1-4, 7,8
Giacomo Parimbelli
SIBELIUS: Symphonies 1 & 7, Karelia Overture
London S.O.     Anthony Collins, cond.

[Que]

On Spotify:

[Harry]

Richard Wagner.

Two Symphonies & other Works.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.

Fine Symphonies and some overtures to boot. The music is surprising for the likes of Wagner, but pleasant exercises in molding melodies, with hints of Schubert, Schumann and Bruckner.
Good performances and ditto sound.

[mahler10th]

I have had the old Denon Inbal set for many years now...So it's 8 from this, the first Mahler cycle recorded specifically for release in CD format.  I play through an old (second hand) Denon 5.1, which brings a fabulous soundscape.  Inbals Mahler has always been one of my favourites. To me he brings a musical narrative like he's telling a story through the music, more apparent in Symphonies 1, 3, 5 and 7.
 

[Traverso]

Bach

Suite No.1 in G BWV 1007

[Traverso]

Bach

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Francisco Mignone: Maracatu de Chico Rei

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

NP:

Pettersson
Symphony No. 7
Stockholm PO
Dorati



This is the world premiere recording of Pettersson's most famous symphony, his 7th. It's interesting to compare this performance with say the Segerstam on BIS. The phrasing and just general way with the music is quite different, but both are valid views of the symphony.

Looks interesting. I will look for the rcording.

[Harry]

Jacques Offenbach.

Overtures.

Orchestre da la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi.

A large bundle of joy.

[Spotted Horses]

Started listening to the viola sonata (first two movements).



I like everything I hear by Bliss, it seems.

[Biffo]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor - New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein - fine performance.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Respighi
Concerto gregoriano
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Edward Downes

[Mirror Image]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor - New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein - fine performance.

On which label: Sony or DG?

[Harry]

Klezmer
Premiere recordings.

Kleztory.
Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky.

Another bundle of Friday joy.

[Traverso]

Mozart

Clarinet Concerto

Anthony Pay

[SonicMan46]

Beach, Amy (1867-1944) - Orchestral & Chamber Works shown below in my collection; upcoming her piano music - she had over 300 works published (list HERE) w/ much choral/vocal works of which I own none.  Short synopsis below, much more at the link.  Dave

Amy Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era. As a pianist, she was acclaimed for concerts she gave featuring her own music in the United States and in Germany. (Source)