What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

My first recommendation would be these two recordings

   

Thanks Jan! I'll seek out that Bach and Monteverdi, they look great. By the way, I just ordered that Hilliard Ensemble box you were listening to. I found a copy for $20, shipping included.

[The new erato]

Simply wonderful disc:

[Traverso]

Simply wonderful disc:

All their recordings are wonderful 

[VonStupp]

Good afternoon all.

A first listen to those works:

Beautiful performances, and perhaps my favorite of the Mass in C.

[Mandryka]

Simply wonderful disc:

Yes! Outstanding music making.

All their recordings are wonderful 

Yes.

[Traverso]

Schütz

Vocals:
Also includes the mighty Psalm 136

James Bowman-Nigel Rogers-Richard Wistreich-Ian Partridge and others

[Cato]

 Karl Henning and I have been discussing a formerly "lost" work by Alexander Tcherepnin: I received it last year and recommended it then.

A song cycle called My Flowering Staff : Karl was able to verify that the text given for the first track is not what is being sung.  A mystery as to what happened: perhaps Tcherepnin altered the original poem (by Sergei Gorodetsky)

[Cato]

Karl Henning and I have been discussing a formerly "lost" work by Alexander Tcherepnin: I received it last year and recommended it then.

A song cycle called My Flowering Staff : Karl was able to verify that the text given for the first track is not what is being sung.  A mystery as to what happened: perhaps Tcherepnin altered the original poem (by Sergei Gorodetsky)

An excerpt:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Zzr-u2Ajckw&list=OLAK5uy_kxXt9MobEoiwSeoVQizCoCeId-WrlYYoc&index=17

[Spotted Horses]

One more return to Honegger's Symphony No 5. I listened again to Dutoit/Bayerischen Rundfunks and Markevitch/Lamouroux (over two days)






In my view, Markevitch gets this music just right, conveying the sense of urgency and horror that seems animate this music, which is generally thought of as being reflective of Honegger's pessimistic view of human civilization after the Second World War. Dutoiit tends to luxuriate in the wonderful sonorities in this music, but the impact is reduced.

Unfortunately Markevitch suffers from somewhat shrill mono sound. Listening a second time I found I could imagine what the performance really sounded like, peeling off the technical imperfection of the recording.

[Mirror Image]

For me a very special recording.

It certainly is --- an otherworldly symphony.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Vaughan Williams
Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8
LSO
Previn

[Tsaraslondon]

I had felt the same way about the 8th for quite some time, but these days it's my favorite Mahler symphony. The one to make it click was the Haitink/RCO.

Well maybe I should try again. Apparently there is a live Tennstedt on the LPO's own label, which is absolutely superb, but I haven't heard that one. Maybe the piece does need an audience. It certainly seems to.

[Mirror Image]

I've been working my way through the Mahler Symphonies and have now reached the eighth, which I've never quite got on with. I used ot have the famous Solti recording on LP, but for a long time didn't bother to get a recording on CD. In the interests of completeness I eventually decided to go for the Tennstedt on CD to see if it would change my views, but I can't say it has and it's still the Mahler symphony I listen to least. Tennstedt doesn't have Solti's starry line up, but his soloists are all pretty good. I can't really fault the performance.

This one is coupled to a rather disappointing version of Des Knaben Wunderhorn which is completely lacking in atmosphere. Popp and Weikl are recorded far too close and both seem uncharacteristically out of sorts.

I'm repeating myself here again, but Tennstedt's "studio" Mahler recordings aren't too good. It's the live recordings he made with the LPO is where the conductor becomes electrified. Check out his live LPO recordings.

[Papy Oli]

Beautiful performances, and perhaps my favorite of the Mass in C.

It was quite a superb work, VS. In the wish list it went for a future purchase.

TD:
A first listen to Langgaard's String quartets - No.2 to start.

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TD:
A first listen to Langgaard's String quartets - No.2 to start.

Great stuff, Olivier!

[Traverso]

Telemann

Tafelmusik

A fine Telemann recording


Monica Hugget,Alison Bury
Ku Ebbinge,Michel Henry
Crispian Steele-Perkins

[kyjo]

Stravinsky: Suite italienne, from Pulcinella for violin and piano

Stravinsky in his light-hearted side. A real delight. The performance has only a quibble from me. Kavakos's breathing could be a little intense at times.





Falla: Noches en los jardines de España

Absolutely spectacular work. I've come to think that this work has some gestures from Saint-Saëns and Rachmaninov in the most charming and passionate passages respectively. Top-notch sound.

+1 to both works. The Stravinsky also exists in a version for cello and piano which is even more delightful.

[kyjo]

Good afternoon all.

A first listen to those works:

What a coincidence! I'm currently playing in the orchestra for a performance of this work at my school and have also been listening to the wonderful Gardiner recording. I don't think I had ever heard the work before, and what a great one it is - it's always a pleasure to discover a new (to me) work by a major composer. It's top shelf mid-period Beethoven, filled with energy, drama, heartfelt lyricism, and interesting harmonies. It's a more immediately accessible work than the Missa Solemnis, and hardly less effective either.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto. Kondrashin/Pieterson.

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Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto. Kondrashin/Pieterson.

Love that piece!