What are you listening 2 now?

[Bachtoven]

[Symphonic Addict]

Very fine performances (rather on the brisk side) and superb recording. It's probably the best Pohjola's Daughter I've ever heard. I realize Sibelius wrote wonderfully for woodwinds in that work.

[Symphonic Addict]

Chávez: Symphony No. 5 (for string orchestra)
Suk: Epilogue

[Mookalafalas]

This review certainly wetted my appetite for this set. Thanks.

 Admittedly, I was "drinking ale and smiling" as I listened, too, which did not harm my appreciation. But for $8, to me this is a no-brainer.
  I would like to see the HIP movement embrace the ubiquity of beer drinking in the 18th century. I was amazed to learn that in England, apprentice contracts (this is for young boys) would include how much beer they would receive each day--and it was a lot. It was standard to drink all day while working. Ben Franklin complained about it vociferously when he was living in England.

[Bachtoven]

I love Henze's "The Royal Winter Music." Bream requested that Henze write a guitar equivalent of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata. Be careful what you wish for... 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I love Henze's "The Royal Winter Music." Bream requested that Henze write a guitar equivalent of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata. Be careful what you wish for... 

Great compilation album.

[Todd]

Revisited for the first time in the last, I don't know, eight to twelve years.  I covered this in the New Music Log back in 2007, and I must say that I enjoy the main work much more now, though it will never be an oft listened to work.  I'm also not keen on the taped content.  In contrast, the Ebony Fantasies are slightly less fulfilling, but they still sound quite fine.  I will probably revisit in the 2030s.

[Mapman]

Stanford: Irish Rhapsody #2, "The Lament for the Son of Ossian"
Handley: Ulster

A mostly beautiful piece based on Irish folk music, with some angry outbursts.

[Klavierman]

No.5 and 7 tonight in honor of the birthday boy. I haven't heard the remastered digital version, but these LPs certainly sound great.

[Symphonic Addict]

Rochberg: String Quartet No. 2

Anyone who finds Schönberg's String Quartet No. 2 interesting, this piece shouldn't be alien to their tastes.

[Operafreak]

 Philip Glass: Piano Works-Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)-Siggi String Quartet

[Roasted Swan]

Chávez: Symphony No. 5 (for string orchestra)
Suk: Epilogue

Love the music but that Mata/Chavez set has to be one of the most disappointing/least met my expectations boxes I know.  On paper it should be a dream-team for this repertoire but everyone sounds so uninvolved!

[Harry]

10 degrees celsius in the house. That's cold.
So lets play some warming Renaissance music.

Nicolas Gombert.
CD II of this set.
Missa Philomena Praevia a 5.
Beati Omnes a 5.
Missa Beati Omnes a 4.
Beauty Farm.

My admiration for the singers of Beauty Farm grows by the day. Their approach is unconventional, and daring in expression, but the results are at times magical. Primarily achieved because the choral balance is near to perfect. The voices create a seamless interaction that is fluently, in fact as a choir or ensemble should function. There are no ego's displaying their excellence, but the singing is in the service of beauty.

[The new erato]

I scan the new release lists eagerly for any new releases by Beauty Farm.

Now disc 3 of Hamelins perusal of Medtner in the Hyperion set. Simply a superb set I have discovered, quite som years after I bought it. A lull in buying new stuff have advantages.

[pjme]

10 degrees celsius in the house.

Why?
problems with the heating....

[Harry]

Joseph Haydn.
Complete Symphonies.
CD 7.
Symphonies- 6-8, Le Matin, Le Midi, Le Soir.
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood.

The crown on his lifework, this complete set of Haydn symphonies is. It is so well considered, and almost obsessive to the tiniest morsel of detail, that makes the expression of the music even above all others, a task well executed. Of course I have more complete sets of Hadyn's symphonies, but these recordings hoover well above all of them. Under Hogwood's hands it all sounds so easy and relaxed, but I know from what I read that it was a task that took all the resources he had, and more. It is Hayn that speaks loud, clear and pure.
The recordings are State of the Art.

[Harry]

Why?
problems with the heating....

Yes the gasmeter is defect, it takes 6 times as much as what is actually used. Calling the provider, they said that they would sent someone to check it, but yesterday I got a mail that they would come to my home on the 21 of December, and until then they did not give a damn that two seniors are sitting in the cold. If I would keep the temperature only on 16 degrees, that would cost me 1500 euros a month. And this I cannot pay. Hence the cold.

[Que]

10 degrees celsius in the house. That's cold.
So lets play some warming Renaissance music.

Nicolas Gombert.
CD II of this set.
Missa Philomena Praevia a 5.
Beati Omnes a 5.
Missa Beati Omnes a 4.
Beauty Farm.

My admiration for the singers of Beauty Farm grows by the day. Their approach is unconventional, and daring in expression, but the results are at times magical. Primarily achieved because the choral balance is near to perfect. The voices create a seamless interaction that is fluently, in fact as a choir or ensemble should function. There are no ego's displaying their excellence, but the singing is in the service of beauty.

Excellent, glad you like it as well! 

[The new erato]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Very fine performances (rather on the brisk side) and superb recording. It's probably the best Pohjola's Daughter I've ever heard. I realize Sibelius wrote wonderfully for woodwinds in that work.

Oooohhh!  Now you have intrigued me!  I'll have to try and find samples of that somewhere.

I also seem to recall watching an interview of this conductor.

EDIT:  I found it here.  Will listen to it after refilling coffee.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs_Y0gCErf8

PD