What are you listening 2 now?

[Tsaraslondon]

NP:

Ravel
Shéhérazade
Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Plasson

From this outstanding, OOP set -



This particular set never gets enough attention. For the Ravelian, it's unmissable, IMHO.

It's a superb set, which I reviewed on my blog back in April this year. There isn't a bad performance in the set, though I might prefer other singers in certain songs. http://tsaraslondon.com/2022/04/13/ravels-complete-melodies/

[Mandryka]

Attention everybody. Roderick Williams can sing songs. This is excellent.

[Operafreak]

Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 3- Doric String Quartet

[Iota]

Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
Fretwork

There's a singular exquisiteness and glowing intimacy to this music and playing that grabs me every time I put it on. Effectively programmed too, with the Dowland interspersed with various bits of Byrd. Fretwork seem to be able to do no wrong.

[Madiel]

Dvorak: The Cunning Peasant



There doesn't seem to be an English libretto readily available online, so I'll just be listening to the music with a very basic awareness of the plot.

The recording only has middling reviews, but it's the only vaguely modern one (1985/6) available.

[Traverso]

Ravel


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[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.5

[Traverso]

Debussy & Ravel

[Madiel]

Dvorak: the 3rd and last set of Moravian Duets (op.38/B69)



I don't think any other album could give you a better sense of what domestic music-making was like in the 1870s. It's so well done.

[pjme]

Completely lovely Debussy!

[Todd]

Yes I've been enjoying what they do very much.

Any ensemble that can nail Ursula Mamlok's first string quartet with such seeming ease must surely be able to do very well in Mozart.

[Traverso]

Saint-Saëns

Symphony No.3

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Weinberg
Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151
Kremerata Baltica
Kremer

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.5

Now, from the same box set:

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 4

[Todd]

[VonStupp]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Sons of Light

The Bach Choir & Royal College of Music Chorus
London PO - Sir David Willcocks (rec. 1980)

VS

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: 'A Sea Symphony' (from the boxed set) - a fine performance:

[Operafreak]

Tippett: A Child of our Time

Elsie Morison, Pamela Bowden, Richard Lewis, Richard Standen, April Cantelo-Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, The John Alldis Choir,
Sir John Pritchard, Sir Colin Davis

[Mandryka]

Something good is going on in the Schumann. It's a very fine recording on a piano with an excellent clear bass response and that reveals a lot of music in the lower register , well contrasted Florestan and Eusebius, impetuosity and reverie. This is a thing I will explore.

This is just an excellent DBT. Fresh! Of the rest, there's a piece by Marco Zdralek which made me listen.

[Mirror Image]

It's a superb set, which I reviewed on my blog back in April this year. There isn't a bad performance in the set, though I might prefer other singers in certain songs. http://tsaraslondon.com/2022/04/13/ravels-complete-melodies/

Yes, indeed. Beautiful performances all-around.