What are you listening 2 now?

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No 59 in A major Fire - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

[Que]

Good morning all.

Sampling some Sweelinck this morning :

Wonderful set, great music.

[Harry]

Thomas de Hartmann.
Orchestral Music.

Koliadky: Noels Ukrainiens, opus 60.
Symphonie-Poeme, no. 4, opus 90.
Concierto Andaluz for solo flute, Strings and Percussion, opus 81.
Une Fete en Ukraine: Suite for Large Orchestra, opus 62.

Bulent Evcil, Flute.
Lviv National Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar..

New release.

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Symphony no.8

The flute solos alone are proof enough of the man's genius.

[foxandpeng]

Thomas de Hartmann.
Orchestral Music.

Koliadky: Noels Ukrainiens, opus 60.
Symphonie-Poeme, no. 4, opus 90.
Concierto Andaluz for solo flute, Strings and Percussion, opus 81.
Une Fete en Ukraine: Suite for Large Orchestra, opus 62.

Bulent Evcil, Flute.
Lviv National Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar..

New release.

Good to see someone else flagging this release. Great disc with the highlight for me being the 'Une Fete en Ukraine: Suite for Large Orchestra'. I know it is topical for so many, but this stands alone from geopolitics as a fine piece of music.

[Iota]

Morning listening:



GRAMOPHONE:

This is the new Italian sound of renaissance church music: a gentle vibrato, but a wonderfully loose and relaxed sound with a kind of breathy production. In the normal four-voice Palestrina texture both the two top
voices are taken by women; but the sopranos are extremely light in their sound so they never dominate the
texture, and the altos are of that wonderful variety that I have so far heard only from Italians, with a firm and
infinitely attractive chest register that goes confidently down to a low F... the Camerata Nova bring across the spirit and the polyphonic vitality of his music with astonishing power. Considerable credit must go to Luigi Taglioni for producing such a gentle and controlled ensemble.

I'm going to do more Palestrina in the weeks ahead! 

Interesting!


Here:



Schumann: Nachtstücke
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Jan Lisiecki (piano)


Nachtstücke - Very interpreted. Very Interesting. The most alluring slow central section to the third piece I think I've ever heard.

Gaspard - Technically brilliant and nuanced performance with which I didn't really connect. The substance to surface ratio felt a little lacking to me.

[Harry]

Good to see someone else flagging this release. Great disc with the highlight for me being the 'Une Fete en Ukraine: Suite for Large Orchestra'. I know it is topical for so many, but this stands alone from geopolitics as a fine piece of music.

Yes that is also the highlight for me on this disc. I alerted Jeffrey (van der Molen) also in regards to this disc and he has to my knowledge also ordered it.

[Que]

Sinfonias Kv 16a ("Odense")(dubious), Kv 45a ("Alte Lambach"), Kv 76 and Kv 43.

[Harry]

Bela Bartok.

Kossuth.
Concerto for Orchestra.
Rumanische Volkstanze.

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Cornelius Meister.

SACD recording, New acquisition.

[aligreto]

Cross post from another thread:

Vivaldi: Serenata a Tre [Clemencic]





This work combines all of the wonderful aspects that I find in both Vivaldi's orchestral and vocal works. Clemencic offers a very fine presentation here. The performances of the vocalists are very fine and there is also some fine violin playing to booth. It is a work that is definitely worth investigating if you do not know it.

[Papy Oli]

Trying some Bach lute works on this new release:

[Todd]

[Que]

Cross post from another thread:

Vivaldi: Serenata a Tre [Clemencic]





This work combines all of the wonderful aspects that I find in both Vivaldi's orchestral and vocal works. Clemencic offers a very fine presentation here. The performances of the vocalists are very fine and there is also some fine violin playing to booth. It is a work that is definitely worth investigating if you do not know it.

I have the CD reissue and fully agree! 

[Traverso]

Music from the Court of King Janus at Nicosia

Another splendid recording,why more words, let us be silent and enjoy the music.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Music from the Court of King Janus at Nicosia

Another splendid recording,why more words, let us be silent and enjoy the music.

Traverso I have this box-se, love it a lot +1 for you

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Barber
Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Cheryl Studer - soprano, John Browning - piano

From this set -



I'm not completely sure how I feel about Studer's performances in this set. Thomas Hampson is excellent per usual. And you couldn't ask for a better accompanist than John Browning.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Chávez
String Quartet No. 3
Southwest Chamber Music

[foxandpeng]

William Schuman
Symphony 3
Gerald Schwarz
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Naxos

Edit: As I am a bit thick, I found this helpful...

https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/32750/Symphony-No-3--William-Schuman/

[Mirror Image]

William Schuman
Symphony 3
Gerald Schwarz
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Naxos

Excellent! But please do give a listen to Bernstein on Columbia (Sony). For me, his is the definitive performance of the 3rd.

[Harry]

Felix Woyrsch.

Symphony No. 4 in F major & No. 5 in D major.
Gartenszene aus dem "Szenen zu goethes Faust"

NDR Radiophilharmonie, Thomas Dorsch.

New acquisition.

This instalment of the Woyrsch Symphonies, flew under my radar somehow, thus I missed it, thinking all the time I already it in my collection.
Corrected now.