What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Indeed.  His singing is worse though. 

By the way, que, I picked up a recording yesterday which you would love, this



https://www.discogs.com/release/3680973-Toyohiko-Satoh-Lute-Music-From-The-Netherlands/image/SW1hZ2U6NzA1MzY0Mw==

The world needs a great recording dedicated to Joachim van den Hove.

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/bTR78-NEqLA

[aligreto]

https://www.youtube.com/v/bTR78-NEqLA

Snap 

[Sergeant Rock]

Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande [Plasson]





This is beguiling and atmospheric music.

Indeed. I especially love the gorgeous Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Arnold Peterloo and Symphony No. 5, the composer conducting




Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Arnold Beckus the Dandipratt

* Pounds the table with the hoover and the polisher*
(I know, not the right piece but they were there handy, would be rude not to)

[Tsaraslondon]

Yes, the Korngold is worth the price of admission. A stunning performance and a favorite of mine.

I have Gil Shaham's version too (which also has Previn conducting) and it is also very good, but I think I marginally prefer this Mutter version.

[Traverso]

By the way, que, I picked up a recording yesterday which you would love, this



https://www.discogs.com/release/3680973-Toyohiko-Satoh-Lute-Music-From-The-Netherlands/image/SW1hZ2U6NzA1MzY0Mw==

The world needs a great recording dedicated to Joachim van den Hove.

It's quite expensive

[Sergeant Rock]

* Pounds the table with the hoover and the polisher*
(I know, not the right piece but they were there handy, would be rude not to)

  I'll play the right piece after I finish his Fifth symphony.

Sarge

[Traverso]

 I join in with another recording of Toyohiko Satoh

[Sergeant Rock]

Arnold A Grand, Grand Overture, Handley conducting



Sarge

[classicalgeek]

Vaughan Williams
Symphony no. 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
(on Spotify)



A very good performance overall, perhaps excepting the Scherzo, with comes across a touch slow and flat-footed. But that doesn't detract from the recording as a whole.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Mes Ami(s)s Lady & gentelmen, I'm listening to
The followingg purchase near my home  in christian library, Claude Lejeune new album on Aplha Classic a, division of Outhere records. The recording is straight flush  instant winner I hail this album 

[asin]B093RP1G6Q[/asin]

You will love it and perhaps if you give up on French protestant classical composer such as Goudimel, Lescotart, my afvice is buy this re-consider.

[vandermolen]

Arnold Peterloo and Symphony No. 5, the composer conducting




Sarge

That's a great double CD set - difficult to find now.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Hummel Mania the last 2 days - finishing up my Johann Hummel collection yesterday and this morning/afternoon w/ the discs/works/performers shown below - for Andrei, I did select 3 'used' Howard Shelley piano discs on Chandos (about $10 each).  Dave

Are you now humming Hummel after your happy wallow in his music? 

PD

[classicalgeek]

Bruckner
Symphony no. 4
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
(on Spotify)

[SonicMan46]

Telemann, GP (1681-1767) - Paris Quartets - I own two 3-disc sets of these works, their story below (and much more at the link) - both on period instruments - reviews of Wentz attached; could not find much on the Kuijken Bros/Leonhardt except a WANT in Fanfare (no review there, though) - there are certainly other recordings and the 3 volumes w/ the Florilegium on Channel Classics is mentioned positively in one of the Wentz reviews - Wentz uses 5 musicians and the Kuijkens four - enjoy both performances equally.  Dave

The Paris quartets is a collective designation for two sets of Chamber music compositions, each consisting of six works for flute, violin, viola da gamba (or cello), and continuo, by Georg Philipp Telemann, first published in 1730 and 1738, respectively. Telemann called his two collections Quadri and Nouveaux Quatuors. The collective designation "Paris quartets" was only first bestowed upon them in the second half of the twentieth century by the editors of the Telemann Musikalische Werke, because of their association with Telemann's celebrity visit to Paris in 1737–38. (Source)

 

[Sergeant Rock]

That's a great double CD set - difficult to find now.

Yeah, Arnold was, based on the evidence of these CDs, a great conductor.

Sarge

[Florestan]

Hummel Mania the last 2 days - finishing up my Johann Hummel collection yesterday and this morning/afternoon w/ the discs/works/performers shown below - for Andrei, I did select 3 'used' Howard Shelley piano discs on Chandos (about $10 each).  Dave

Excellent, Dave! I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do.

[aligreto]

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 [Tennstedt]





It has been quite a while since I have listened to any of Mahler's symphonies. I have decided to rectify that by listening to Tennstedt's cycle which I have not heard before. In the past I had read many reports that were unfavourable to Tennstedt's interpretation of Mahler's music.

My immediate impression is that Tennstedt is on the slow side in opening the first movement; he feels a little laboured in the "introduction". However, once he gets into the flow the music is very accessible in his hands and it is well delivered. The pacing of the rest of the movement is fine. However, I am not fully satisfied here. The presentation feels a little on the light side; lacking a certain depth, I suggest. The same applies to the second movement. All of the notes are being played very accurately but the incision into the score is lacking for me. The second half of the second movement sounds more like the Mahler that I know and love. Tennstedt handles the Funeral March very sympathetically; the "feel" is a little different here but still engaging. The presentation of the final movement does justice to the tour de force that this movement is. It is filled with the requisite tension, drama, weight and excitement. It has a suitably resplendent conclusion.