What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Evening....Christmas music is icumen.

Camille Saint-Saens.
Weihnachtsoratorium
Dresdner Kreuzchor & Dresdner Philharmonie, Martin Flamig.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Von Himmel Hoch.
Same performers.

I adore the Saint Saens Weihnachtoratorium.

[vandermolen]

Copland: The Red Pony

[j winter]

First listen to the orchestral version of this... lovely HIP performance, textures very clean and beautifully recorded.  So far I'm actually preferring this to the string quartet arrangement, although it will take several listens to see if that's just the novelty of it...

[Todd]

She shoots, she misses.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alicia De Larrocha – The First Recordings 1954-55.

[j winter]

Old school Brandenburgs
From the Paillard Bach set

I see your old-school Paillard, and raise you an old-school Richter...

[Harry]

Music for Christmas.
A concert of Festive music from around Europe.
The following pieces are taken from a 14 hours live Radio broadcast by European broadcasting union members, which was transmitted on 18 December 1994 to listeners in over 25 countries.

Some interesting music on this disc.

[Lisztianwagner]

Schönberg's Gurrelieder again, but this time, this particular recording on youtube:

Arnold Schönberg
Gurrelieder



I have never listened to it before; Salonen did an excellent job with both the Piano Concerto and the Violin Concerto, so I have great expectations for his interpretation of the Gurrelieder too.

[Harry]

Musik zur Weihnachtszeit.
Divers composers.
Janet Whitmore Johnson, Soprano.
Konrad Other, violin.
Hans-Joachim Scheitzbach, Cello.
Klaus and Rainer Feldmann, Guitars.

Songs and, Arias & Instrumental works by Manfredini, Bach, Walther, Pachelbel, G. J.J. Hahn, Händel, Kauffmann, Buxtehude, Telemann, Corelli.

Janet Whitmore is a not a soprano who has a steady voice a bit wobbly even, and her vibrato is a tad too much for comfort, obscuring the fact that she is not top tier, and not the voice for this kind of music, but the instrumental works are top notch. NCA made a good recording.

[Todd]

Revisiting perhaps the most micromanaged Scriabin ever recorded.  So beautiful.

[Peter Power Pop]

Copland: The Red Pony

Verrry nice.

[Karl Henning]

Verrry nice.

We played that in my college orchestra.

[Mapman]

Diepenbrock: De Vogels
Vonk: Residentie Orch, The Hague

Lots of imitations of birds, especially in the winds.



Hanson: Lament for Beowulf
Schwarz: Seattle

I enjoyed this a lot. One of the more immediately accessible works by Hanson. It also helps that this CD is very well recorded.

[Klavierman]

Sonata No.5 and 9. Tremendous playing and very good sound, but it's quite reverberant--sounds like a huge hall!

[SimonNZ]

[JBS]

CD 1
Preludes Books 1 and 2


The remastering from 1911 is a definite improvement over the one used for the GROC version I had from before.

[Peter Power Pop]

Great album. I have the same CD but with the titles in English:

[Operafreak]

I never see youre pic's  is it just me?

[Operafreak]

Bach: Goldberg Variations-Trio Zimmermann

[SimonNZ]

I never see youre pic's  is it just me?

That's odd. I try to use Amazon images, because they tend to be the least problematic in this way.