What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Penderecki

Choral nightwatches...

[Brahmsian]

Penderecki

Choral nightwatches...

I love Kosmogonia!

[Karl Henning]

JSB
BWV 65 « Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen »

And, the notorious:

Brahms
String Quartet № 1 in c minor, Op. 51 № 1
Takács Quartet

[Karl Henning]

JSB
BWV 65 « Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen »

Loving the horns and the oboi da caccia

[vers la flamme]

Kurt Atterberg: Symphony No.1 in B minor, op.3. Ari Rasilainen, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

Very rich dark Nordic late Romantic music. Quite what I wanted to hear right now.

[JBS]

First listen.
Six Preludes Opus 1(1854)
Six Etudes Opus 81 (1870)
Ondine, Etude Opus 1
Piano etude in C Major--Allegro Moderato

Total timing 87:41

And it's a single CD btw.

[vandermolen]

NYM Symphony 24
(Japanese Premiere)
I especially like this recording of this fine symphony

[Que]

Morning listening on Spotify:



PS Not surprising from this composer, this is absolutely  gorgeous music.
Performances are more than just serviceable, quite good. I'm really surprised that none of the bigger labels has recorded this repertoire (as far as I can tell).

[Madiel]

Returning to a listening exploration plan that I completely forgot about for several months...



I don't know this music at all, and apparently recordings of it aren't common. But it seems I'm not the only one who was particularly taken with the first few minutes of the Fantasie at the very beginning of the album, all mysterious hushed tones and quite magical.

The rest ain't bad either! But it's interesting that the recording is just a little bit distant and recessed. It gives everything a slight reticence that works well enough for Schubert.

[Harry]

First CD in the morning.

A Store Housse of Treasure.
John Baldwin's Commonplace Book.

Prologue
John Baldwin (before 1560–1615)
Quattuor vocum

The Master William Byrd and Recusant Music
William Byrd (1543–1623) Aspice Domine
Thomas Preston (died after 1559) O lux beata Trinitas
Anonymous Kyrie (Ms. f.116')
William Byrd And ye childe
William Byrd Ne irascaris

Consort Music, Canons and Proportions
John Bedyngham (died c.1459/60) Vide Domine
Anonymous Perce Domine
Nathaniel Giles (c.1558–1634) In te Domine speravi
Christopher Tye (c.1505–73) Sit fast
Anonymous Holde faste
In Service and in Praise of God
Elway Bevin (c.1554–1638) Lord whoe shall dwell
Consort Music, Canons and Proportions II
Anonymous A piece without title
Anonymous Salva nos

In Nomines and other Solfainge Songs
William Byrd Memento Domine (solmised)
Alfonso Ferrabosco I (1543–88) Ut re mi fa sol la
John Taverner (c.1490–1545) In Nomine (solmised)
Robert Goldar (c.1510–63) In Nomine
Anonymous In Nomine (solmised)

An Evening's entertainment
Elway Bevin Browning
Elway Bevin I had both monye & a frende
Elway Bevin By mirthe much sicknes
John Baldwin In the merie monthe of maye
Luca Marenzio (1553/54–99) Piango che amor
Luca Marenzio Ecco che un'altra volta
The Master II
Anonymous Kyrie (Ms. f.117')
William Byrd O quam gloriosum

Grace Newcombe, soprano.
Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano (tracks 6, 25).
Julian Podger, tenor.
Breno Quinderé, baritone.
Irene Klein, treble & alto viols, direction.
Elizabeth Rumsey, alto & tenor viols.
Jane Achtman, alto & tenor viols, direction.
Leonardo Bortolotto, bass viol.

Recorded 20–24 January 2020 at St. Leodegar, Möhlin, Switzerland.
TT = 70:00.

This is extremely fine and relaxing music well performed and of a certain uniqueness. Good sound too. I enjoyed this more as expected. I would like this ensemble live in my home in the morning, and if not than at least the CD in the player, or streamer as is the case.

In his Commonplace Book, the singer, composer, and copyist John Baldwin (1560-1615) collected the repertoire he used to play in church, in the theater, and at private performances. This surviving collection is a unique and extremely valuable testimony to the rich music-making practice in England

[Harry]

Leuven Chansonnier, Vol.1 (1470-75).
Johannes Ockeghem.
Michelet (15th century).
Gilles Binchois (1400-1460).
or Guillaume Du Fay (1397-1474).
Gilles Mureau (1450-1512).
Anonymous.

Sollazzo Ensemble.

Yukie Sato, Perrine Devillers, soprano.
Vivien Simon, tenor.
Johanna Bartz, traverso.
Sophia Danilevskaia, vielle.
Christoph Sommer, lute.
Anna Danilevskaia, vielle and director.

Recorded AMUZ, Antwerpen (Belgium), January 2019 by Manuel Mohino.
TT.= 62:02.

Quite an adventure. Volume one of the Leuven Chansonnier, and a second waiting. This is an unique musical image of long past, and so it feels. Otherworldly almost. The singing by the sopranos Yukie Sato, and Perrine Devillers is a brittle yet beautiful affair, seductive and involving. It takes stamina to keep the singing floating and flowing as they do. Concentration too, and the ability to sing softly yet keeping the tone tight as a string, with no lapses in intonation, or added harshness, and this they accomplish without fail. Well recorded and a performance that has yet to find its equal. The texts in the songs is of great poetic value!

For when I can make out
your noble eye, you will see
my heart rejoice greatly,
leaping to the heavens,
forgetting the anguished times
in which I now
find myself, without a doubt.

[Harry]

Morning listening on Spotify:



PS Not surprising from this composer, this is absolutely  gorgeous music.
Performances are more than just serviceable, quite good. I'm really surprised that none of the bigger labels has recorded this repertoire (as far as I can tell).

Quite true, when I perused my collection on this composer I saw that CD, and the notes attached had one word "Gorgeous".

[Harry]

HEUREUX QUI, COMME ULYSSE.
TEXTES DE JOACHIM DU BELLAY(1522-1560).

Didier Le Blanc,Qui prestera la parole.
Jacques Arcadelt: Du temps que j'estois amoureux (2 Versionen: vokal & instrumental); Si vous regardez, ma dame; En ce moys delicieux (2 Versionen: vocal & instrumental); Si le bien qui au plus grand bien; Je ne puis dissimuler; Vieille plus vieille que le monde
Orlando di Lasso: La nuit froyde et sombre; O foible esprit; On peut faindre par le cizeau
Nicolas Gombert: Hors envyeux (instrumental)
Nicolas Gombert: En ce moys delicieux
Cornelis Verdonck: L'homme vertueux est riche.
Pierre Attaingnant (Editeur): Pavane (instrumental); Bransles (instrumental)
Anthoine de Bertrand: Cet' humeur vient de mon oil.
Clement Janequin: Qui voudra voir.
Corneille de Montfort: Si Vous Regardez, Ma Dame.
Jehan Chardavoine: Si Vous Regardez, Ma Dame.

DOULCE MÉMOIRE.
DENIS RAISIN DADRE DIRECTION.
KWAL SLAM.
CAMILLE FRITSCH SOPRANO.
OLIVIER COIFFET ALTO.
HUGUES PRIMARD TENOR.
FRANÇOIS-OLIVIER JEAN TENOR
MARC BUSNEL BASS.
FLORENT MARIE EIGHT-COURSE LUTE BY JEAN-LOUIS MARIE, 2015;
FOUR-COURSE GUITAR BY JEAN-LOUIS MARIE, 2013
BAPTISTE ROMAINRENAISSANCE VIOLIN BY RICHARD EARLE, 2008;
LIRA DA BRACCIO BY UGO CASALONGA, 2013; LIRA DA BRACCIO BY FABRIZIO REGINATO, 1978
SÉBASTIEN WONNER RENAISSANCE. SPINET BY PHILIPPE HUMEAU, 2008
DENIS RAISIN DADRE ALTO RECORDER IN G BY FRANCESCO LI VIRGHI, 2017;
TENOR RECORDER BY FRANCESCO LI VIRGHI, 2009.
RECORDED IN JANUARY 2022, MUSÉE JEAN LURÇAT, ANGERS (FRANCE)

I fall from the surprise into the next surprise while streaming music, and this one made me sit up, and lest I fall into the trap of most wonderful terms, as I am prone to do, let me say only this, listen and be amazed. The performance is classy, the sound is pristine, and the music makes one happy.

[Que]

Quite true, when I perused my collection on this composer I saw that CD, and the notes attached had one word "Gorgeous".

 

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Onwards in that Segovia series with Volume 4.

[Florestan]

Returning to a listening exploration plan that I completely forgot about for several months...



I don't know this music at all, and apparently recordings of it aren't common.

D934 it's a fantastic piece of music, one of Schubert's best. I have it in these incarnations:

[Madiel]

D934 it's a fantastic piece of music, one of Schubert's best. I have it in these incarnations:

Okay, it's common enough. 

[Madiel]

Now playing: the man has only recorded 16 albums, I can probably manage to try them all.



Because I like a great deal of the few bits I've already heard (all Chopin).

EDIT: And I am liking this. A lot. Somehow Pogorelich is exceptionally good and communicating the rhetoric of a piece. He believes in how Chopin was influenced by singers.

[Florestan]

Violin Concerto Op. 25 "1001 Nights in the Harem"

Love it.

[Lisztianwagner]

Edvard Grieg
Violin Sonata No.1

Maria Joao Pires (piano), Augustin Dumay (violin)