What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Juon: Piano Sextet in C minor

I love this man's chamber music, and this is one of his best works IMO.

[Karl Henning]

Have a great Thanksgiving, Karl!

Thanks! You, too!

[Peter Power Pop]

[snip]

I have that CD and like it a lot. I'm a fan of "The Royal Philharmonic Collection" series. Excelsior!

[Symphonic Addict]

Shostakovich: Suite from 'Hamlet', op. 116a

[Keemun]

Trying new recordings of one of my favorite symphonies.  This one first....

[Irons]

I don't think that you'll regret it Lol 

Sure I will not, Jeffrey. A CD order arriving today which for the first and probably last time I may have beaten you to the punch. More anon.

From vinyl thread.



Rubbra's Violin Concerto is one of those pieces that get better each time you hear them.

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Complete Cantatas.
Volume 47. Leipzig 1726.
Schwingt freudig euch Empor.
Wer sich selbst Erhohet, der soll erniedriget werden.
Wer Weiss wie nahe mir mein Ende.
Appendix: Wer Weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende.
Blazikova, Blaze, Mizukoshi, Kooij.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.

Blazikova sings like a dream, And the unknown tenor Satoshi Mizukoshi is a very welcome addition to the soloists in this series.A wonderful rendition of all Cantatas.

[Harry]

New arrival.

Jehan Titelouze.
Hymnes de Eglise pour toucher sur L'orgue avec les Fugues et recherches sur leur plain-chant (1623)
CD I.
Leon Berben plays on a Jean de Villiers & Jacques Carouge organ 1663.
Eglise Notre-Dame, Juvigny.
Tremblant grand-orgue
Soft Tremblant positive
Tremblant soft great-organ and recital
Tremblant fort great-organ and recital
Coupling with positive drawer on great-organ.
Wind: 85 mm CE, 3 wedge-shaped bellows.
Diapason: a tone below the modern pitch.
Temperament according to Lambert Chaumont:
4 pure thirds (ce, df#, fa, gb).



At first listening this is pretty impressive. Beautifully recorded.

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams conducts his 5th Symphony (1952 recording)
Somm CD

[aukhawk]

This (Bate) is a great set indeed, Thiry is also very fine and he was my first introduction to the organ works of Messiaen.
Latry is impressive but that doesn't make it my first choice, Bate gets more under my skin and Thiry is my favorite next to Bate.

Yes I like the Thiry recordings too - and I don't much care for Latry, with those farting pedal notes from Notre Dame.  As a blind musician, Thiry's level of achievement was outstanding.

As I advance in years (mid-'70s) and my hearing deteriorates noticeably, I use a track from Thiry's recording of Messe de la Pentecote to serve as a high-frequency hearing test.  At the end of the track entitled Les oiseaux et les sources there is a held very high note - I don't have a score but I estimate it to be B₈, that is, nearly an octave higher than the top key of a normal piano keyboard.  Played at normal listening levels, at the beginning of this year I could hear this note.  Now I can't. 
I hasten to add that this doesn't seem to interfere with my enjoyment of this or any other music. 

[SimonNZ]

[Operafreak]

Mozart: Davide Penitente, K469

Trine Wilsberg Lund (soprano), Kristina Wahlin (soprano) & Lothar Odinius (tenor)

Immortal Bach Ensemble & Leipziger Kammerorchester, Morten Schuldt-Jensen

[Harry]

Vaughan Williams conducts his 5th Symphony (1952 recording)
Somm CD

Well you have done it, the image in full glory.

[Traverso]

John Sheppard

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven - Symphony No.8
From the Ancerl Live Recordings box

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube, first listen to this particular recording:

Arnold Schönberg
Pelleas und Melisande

[Traverso]

Mahler


Symphony No.3

[bhodges]

Nino Rota: Suite from La Strada (Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Christoph Koncz) - The Frankfurt ensemble's YouTube channel is filled with delights — like this.

-Bruce

[Papy Oli]

Continuing the Ancerl Live recordings in the background :

Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4
R. Strauss - Don Juan
Dvorak - Symphony No.7

Good stuff! 

[eoghan]

Just listened to a little organ piece by Elgar called "Loughborough Memorial Chimes". Did a bit of reading around and it turns out it was written for the sexiest instrument ever invented, the carillon (although the uilleann pipes and the tambura might dispute that claim).

In fact it was written for the unveiling of the carillon in Loughborough. My reading around (OK, Wikipedia) tells me that the bells of the carillon were made by Taylor's of Loughborough, one of the most venerable bell foundries in the world, who are still going strong and have a museum attached. I might have to make a little trip to Loughborough one day to see both the museum and the carillon.