What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

A definite recommendation.
It is a very fine recording.

As the title on the cover already indicates, it makes me sad but in a way that I find enjoyable. As if you come into contact with deeper layers of yourself. The musical theme may be sad but not in the least gloomy. I feel deeply touched.

[Traverso]

Mahler: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"
Concertgebouw, Elly Ameling (soprano), Aafje Heynis (contralto), Haitink (cond.)

Hopping onto the wave of Mahler listenings, I spun the above. Haitink seems to keep his gunpowder dry in the opening movement, feeling less intense than some others perhaps, but it all gradually melds into a coherent and magnificent whole. Stellar singing too.
Broadly I think I like Haitink's way with Mahler more than any other, there's something of understatement and transparency to it that takes it so naturally to the unearthly depths and heights. .

You must be a Haitink admiror.....

[Traverso]

Desprez

What to say about this wonderful recording,it is just something that made me speechless....

[Karl Henning]

Sibelius
Night Ride & Sunrise, Op. 55
Philharmonia
Simon Rattle

[bhodges]

Broadly I think I like Haitink's way with Mahler more than any other, there's something of understatement and transparency to it that takes it so naturally to the unearthly depths and heights. .

Hard to disagree. I like many different conductors with Mahler -- from Bernstein to Boulez to Tennstedt to Vänskä -- but Haitink has a certain magic like no one else. It doesn't hurt, either, that so many of his recordings are with the fantastic Amsterdam crew.

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Boarding the train

[Traverso]

Boarding the train

I hope you are comfortable during the ride 

[Karl Henning]

I hope you are comfortable during the ride 

Very plush!

[SonicMan46]

Spanish Piano Box - six disc set w/ Jean-Francois Heisser - now I also own Larrocha in Iberia (along w/ M-A Hamelin) and the Goyescas -    Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

Spanish Piano Box - six disc set w/ Jean-Francois Heisser - now I also own Larrocha in Iberia (along w/ M-A Hamelin) and the Goyescas -    Dave

 

Sweet!

[Linz]

CD2 of Szell Forgotten Recordings with Brahms, Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 and Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a, Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 and Igor Stravinsky,  The Firebird Suite (1919 Version)

[Todd]

[prémont]

A definite recommendation.
It is a very fine recording.

+ 1

[San Antone]

Dufay: Triste Plaisir

Enchantingly beautiful music that goes straight to the heart.Old music, yet only in name because it speaks as if it were today's music.Difficult no, unusual perhaps and especially for those who have never learned to listen and ignore the world of early music This music deserves to be heard alongside all the symphonic force of Mahler and Bruckner. Minimal means and optimal expressiveness. In the overwhelming amount of music available to us, this is a pearl that deserves to be heard. Is this a recommendation.....?

For those of us who listen to a lot of early music, Dufay, Machaut, Josquin, etc., it is a welcome acknowledgement of the wealth of beauty to be found in this period's music.  I have noticed on classical music forums the listening habits appear to be for orchestral music from the 19th century and very little time devoted to the pre-17th century.

But I've also noticed that often those listeners who enjoy 20th century and beyond are also fans of early music.  I have theorized that what these two periods share, despite being separated by several centuries is the lack of diatonic tonality.

Thanks for posting about this album.  While I listen to a lot of Dufay I was not aware of this particular recording, and am listening to it now and enjoying it very much.

[Karl Henning]

Cool.

[Traverso]

For those of us who listen to a lot of early music, Dufay, Machaut, Josquin, etc., it is a welcome acknowledgement of the wealth of beauty to be found in this period's music.  I have noticed on classical music forums the listening habits appear to be for orchestral music from the 19th century and very little time devoted to the pre-17th century.

But I've also noticed that often those listeners who enjoy 20th century and beyond are also fans of early music.  I have theorized that what these two periods share, despite being separated by several centuries is the lack of diatonic tonality.

Thanks for posting about this album.  While I listen to a lot of Dufay I was not aware of this particular recording, and am listening to it now and enjoying it very much.

Glad to see that you are enjoying it now 

[ritter]

Cristóbal Halffter conducts his own music (with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra): Odradek ("Hommage à Franz Kafka"), Dortmunder Variationen, and Tiento del primer tono y batalla imperial (the composer's best known and most widely performed work).

[LKB]

For those of us who listen to a lot of early music, Dufay, Machaut, Josquin, etc., it is a welcome acknowledgement of the wealth of beauty to be found in this period's music.  I have noticed on classical music forums the listening habits appear to be for orchestral music from the 19th century and very little time devoted to the pre-17th century.

But I've also noticed that often those listeners who enjoy 20th century and beyond are also fans of early music.  I have theorized that what these two periods share, despite being separated by several centuries is the lack of diatonic tonality.

Thanks for posting about this album.  While I listen to a lot of Dufay I was not aware of this particular recording, and am listening to it now and enjoying it very much.

There was one semester when l was in seven ensembles while majoring in vocal performance. One was the Collegium Musicum, headed up by the university's bassoon professor ( and resident alcoholic ). We did a good number of concerts, with everyone in costume both singing or playing as required. I usually sang, but also played bass recorder and, whenever l could, bass crumhorn. Dufay, Josquin, Dowland, Hassler, Monteverdi, Isaac, and more l can't recall now. I still love certain pre- Baroque works greatly, particularly by Josquin, Lassus, Palestrina, Victoria, and Dowland.

So l agree: the musical banquet is a whole lot more than just 1700 - 1900.

[San Antone]

Dufay | Triste plaisir

[LKB]

Not exactly OT, but thinking about Renaissance music reminds me:

This...

is...

AWESOME:

https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Ravenscroft-There-Three-Ravens/dp/B00000DNUI/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1KPJ3RVRDPZN5&keywords=Ravenscroft+Consort+of+Musicke&qid=1659989386&sprefix=ravenscroft+consort+of+musicke+%2Caps%2C275&sr=8-1