What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

JSB - Cantata BWV 158 - 'Der Friede sei mit dir' (Leonhardt)
JSB - Cantata BWV 158 - 'Der Friede sei mit dir' (Rilling)

[kyjo]

NP:



Palmgren is a major discovery for me, his piano music is right up my alley.

Have you heard his compact, colorful PCs recorded on the Alba label, Andrei? I find them very enjoyable.

[Irons]

Grieg: Peer Gynt & Piano Concerto/ Clifford Curzon (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oivin Fjeldstad

I believe Fjeldstad's recording of Peer Gynt to be the high-water mark of Decca recordings. Best of the best.

[ritter]

And now on to Bruno Maderna as conductor: Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum and Boulez's Cummings ist der Dichter, live in Salzburg in 1973 (just some months before Maderna's death in November of that year) with the ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus:


This one hell of a performance of the Canticum! Perhaps Maderna's deep knowledge of the Venetian choral tradition made him especially suited to conduct this music...

[Florestan]

Have you heard his compact, colorful PCs recorded on the Alba label, Andrei? I find them very enjoyable.

I have this one:



and one of these days I'm going to spin it.

[Florestan]

It is a arrangement  from the piano quintet 

Thanks. Not sure I want to hear it. 

[Florestan]

I do not hold out much hope for a conversion any time soon, John. I have disliked the sound of solo piano for fifty years now. 

We can still be friends, Fergus. 

[Que]

Cristobal de Morales.

Super Lamentationes Hieremiae Prophetae.

Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola.
Num. Vigilavit iugum iniquitatum
Heth. Cogitavit Dominus
Zain. Candidiores nazarei
Coph. Vocavi amicos meos
Phe. Expandit Sion

Elia Casanova, Hugo Bolivar, Fran Braojos, Albert Riera, Capella de Ministrers, Carles Magraner.

Recommendation from Que, streaming now.

And what do you think?

[Tsaraslondon]

Some rare Respighi. This must have been one of Dame Janet's last recordings, if not her very last. She would have been approaching 60, but she still sounds remarkably good.

[Jo498]

Oh, I can definitely find people who agree with me on that one. As you like referring to reviews: https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-14020/

I find it interesting that you included the positive review from Classics Today of the Festetics, but not the scathing review of the London from the same source. I query the value of you including reviews if you're going to curate them in that way. Just give us your views.

I wasn't aware that Hurwitz had trashed the LHQ, or at least this particular recording. In fact I think I missed this whole series until I saw it mentioned on this forum here 6 years ago or so. As I was so well-provided with Haydn and also couldn't really like the slow "moderato" movements in the first movements (although I found myself some other recordings a bit on the fast side, the LHQ (still looks like a particle accelerator acronym) seemed just too slow) of op.9,17,20 I always put off buying on of that series, even for the later volumes...

[Linz]

Beethoven Piano Concertos 3 & 4 Leon Fleisher and Georg Szell and the Clevelan Orchestra

[Bachtoven]

No.1-10 (out of 63) in brilliant performances by this gifted player.

[Papy Oli]

I had forgotten how stunning this was:

[Traverso]

Debussy


Préludes Livre 1

[DavidW]

Thanks Madiel & David for your thoughts on the London Haydn Quartet (LHQ); as I'm listening to them along w/ the Q. Festetics (QF) & now Q. Mosaiques (QM) in a kind of A:B comparison, I'm preferring the Quatuors period instruments and performances more - also returned to the Haydn Haus thread and searched on the LHQ - numerous posts w/ much varied opinions about the group - I was likely somewhat awed that the series was still ongoing and many of the reviews quite positive (and some dreadful such as the Classics Today reviewers - however, when Hurwitz goes that low I feel he must have eaten a bad meal -  ).  At any rate, I'm quite happy with the period recordings of QF and QM, so a third might not be needed in my collection - perhaps I should look for a 'modern performance'?  Thanks again - Dave

Yes the Festetics reign supreme in my book.  For MI on the pre-Op 20 SQs I prefer Kodaly, and on Op 20 onwards Angeles and Auryn.  The former is oop though, and the latter is expensive.

[DavidW]

Cantata BWV 158 - 'Der Friede sei mit dir' (Herreweghe)
Cantata BWV 158 - 'Der Friede sei mit dir' (Gardiner SDG)

Which did you prefer in that work?

[Harry]

And what do you think?

Voices are well blended and balanced, albeit the Counter is singing a bit too loud for comfort, but in general this is the best performance so far I heard from the "Super Lamentationes Hieremiae Prophetae". The "Requiem" is quite often recorded, and I like that too, but I have a great preference for the "Lamentationes". As an interpretation I find it to be the best CD so far I heard from the "Capella de Ministrers", with Carles Magraner as their leader. So this is going on my order list. Recordings with the music by Cristobal de Morales are rare, so this is a definite choice. Thank you for alerting me to it.

[Que]

Voices are well blended and balanced, albeit the Counter is singing a bit too loud for comfort, but in general this is the best performance so far I heard from the "Super Lamentationes Hieremiae Prophetae". The "Requiem" is quite often recorded, and I like that too, but I have a great preference for the "Lamentationes". As an interpretation I find it to be the best CD so far I heard from the "Capella de Ministrers", with Carles Magraner as their leader. So this is going on my order list. Recordings with the music by Cristobal de Morales are rare, so this is a definite choice. Thank you for alerting me to it.

Glad you liked it. 

[Papy Oli]

Which did you prefer in that work?

Hi David,
I loved the Herreweghe in this bunch of 158's. The Bass was much deeper and had more impact.

[Traverso]

Debussy

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