What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Looks excellent. I ordered it.

Glad you could find a copy. Really excellent choice! 

[vers la flamme]

I love me some Telemann. I have Jan to thank for putting me onto his music—he put me onto some great Handel too like the Carmelite Vespers recording that I just finished, and tons of other great stuff, too  Excited to check out this Paris Quartets recording.

Just started this:



Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232. John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

Amazing stuff... This recording is phenomenal, but there are others I want, too: the Leonhardt on DHM, Parrott on Virgin, and Klemperer on EMI.

[Traverso]

I love me some Telemann. I have Jan to thank for putting me onto his music—he put me onto some great Handel too like the Carmelite Vespers recording that I just finished, and tons of other great stuff, too  Excited to check out this Paris Quartets recording.

Just started this:



Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232. John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

Amazing stuff... This recording is phenomenal, but there are others I want, too: the Leonhardt on DHM, Parrott on Virgin, and Klemperer on EMI.

You will enjoy the Paris quartets, they are also  beautifully recorded so that a great mix of musical colors can be heard that only brings the experience closer.. You will be happy with it. I could name highlights but there are too many, you can congratulate yourself on this acquisition.

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[Mandryka]

Very good sound and entertaining easy going music - Byrdy and Sweelincky type stuff, all with a catchy tune, including that enormous set of variations by HL Hassler. Colourful instruments played with verve.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Shchedrin
Concerto for Orchestra No. 2, "The Chimes"
Russian NO
Pletnev



A cool work that isn't far removed from Schnittke's sound-world.

[Todd]

Second listen.  Through cans.  The impression of beauty over everything else sounds more pervasive here.  Not complaining.

[VonStupp]

Philip Glass
The Canyon

Atlanta SO - Robert Shaw

Not as impressed with The Canyon, maybe the lack of voices which set Itaipu apart.

I haven't heard the third part of his Nature trilogy, The Light, but I saw Marin Alsop on Naxos has a recording of it paired with his 4th Symphony.

VS

[Brian]

This is my third time through it.  (Assuming I make it all the way through.)  Verdict: Accomplished background music.  I prefer the set to the Fischer cycle, though the symphonies from the Dorati set that I have heard are uniformly superior.  I think I need that Dorati cycle.

I'm hoping Universal goes crazy and releases a Dorati Very Big Box with the Mercury stuff in it, too.

[vandermolen]

Hovhaness 'Exile Symphony' (Symphony No.1)
Probably my favourite of the Naxos Hovhaness releases, featuring two fine symphonies, from two Delos recordings:

[Todd]

I'm hoping Universal goes crazy and releases a Dorati Very Big Box with the Mercury stuff in it, too.

A comprehensive Dorati box is self-recommending, so I doubt it will ever be released.  The Haydn set can be streamed, but such massive boxes end up presenting one of the weaknesses of streaming - how do you remember which of 17,121 tracks you were on?  Much better to buy, rip, store in a useful grouping - say, the London Symphonies from such a box. 

[MusicTurner]

Hovhaness 'Exile Symphony' (Symphony No.1)
Probably my favourite of the Naxos Hovhaness releases, featuring two fine symphonies, from two Delos recordings:

A good one indeed. Would like to see a budget CD 'St. Vartan Symphony' too, coupled with a few further interesting, maybe non-recorded works; one thinks that it should have some appeal. I do have the Unicorn LP of that symphony though.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo e Banda Mantiqueira

[vers la flamme]

Just the Agnus Dei:



Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Chor und Orchester

This is just a stellar recording. I know a lot of people don't like Richter's take on Bach, but I can't get enough of it—when I'm in the mood for it.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I love me some Telemann. I have Jan to thank for putting me onto his music—he put me onto some great Handel too like the Carmelite Vespers recording that I just finished, and tons of other great stuff, too  Excited to check out this Paris Quartets recording.

Just started this:



Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232. John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

Amazing stuff... This recording is phenomenal, but there are others I want, too: the Leonhardt on DHM, Parrott on Virgin, and Klemperer on EMI.

That indeed is an amazing recording!  As an aside, I well remember using it to audition speakers some years ago.   

Current listening:  Britten's first sweet for cello (hadn't listened to that in ages!) followed by George Crumb's Sonata for Solo Cello from 1955.  According to the liner notes, this was the first time that it had been recorded.  Both from a CD by Matt Haimovitz entitled "The 20th-century Cello".





PD

[MusicTurner]

Excellent, not at least the Crumb recording, IMO !

[vandermolen]

Andrei Eshpai: Symphony No.4 'Symphony-Ballet' (1981)

[vers la flamme]

Baroque and Renaissance mood this morning...:



Johann Sebastian Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1081. Robert Kohnen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Barthold Kuijken, Wieland Kuijken

This recording doesn't get as much spin time because I have others that I like more, but it's a fine one.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Excellent, not at least the Crumb recording, IMO !

Whose recording of the Crumb are you familiar with MT?  This is the first time that I've heard it; also, I'm looking forward to listening to some other works that I haven't heard before in this set.

PD

[MusicTurner]

Mainly Haimowitz, which I like a lot. I once checked maybe 5 versions on you-t, but only liked one Asian player and Haimowitz. Recordings of this brief, catchy work vary to a surprising extent !

[ritter]

Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 6 and No. 7, plus the Ouverture Méditerranéenne. Michel Plasson conducts the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.