What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Que]

Locatelli: Il Labirinto - Ilya Gringolts (violin), Finnish Baroque Orchestra

Nice! This reminds me to revisit the complete set by Igor Ruhadze on Brilliant. 

[Mandryka]

Morning listening:

There's a new recording of music from this manuscript, released this month I think, from a group called Vox Clemantis. Here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/62/000155326.pdf

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Segovia - American recordings 1950's Vol.1 (Naxos) - Absolutely perfect for a Sunday morning. Good sound to boot.



Bach • Suite for Solo Violoncello No. 1 in G major BWV 1007: I. Prélude (Arr. for Guitar)
Bach • Suite for Solo Violoncello No. 6 in D major BWV 1012 (Arr. for Guitar / Lute) • V. Gavotte I - Gavotte II
Bach • Partita for Solo Violin No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002 (Arr. for Guitar) • VII. Tempo di Borea
Bach • Suite for Solo Violoncello No. 3 in C major BWV 1009 (Arr. for Guitar / Lute) • III. Courante
Bach • Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001 (Arr. for Lute / Guitar) • III. Siciliana
Bach • Suite for Lute (Lute-Harpsichord) in E minor BWV 996 • V. Bourrée
Bach • Kleines Präludium (Little Prelude) for Lute-Harpsichord in C minor BWV 999 (Arr. for Lute / Guitar)
Bach • Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 (Arr. for Guitar) • III. Gavotte en Rondeau
Bach • Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004 (Arr. for Guitar) • V. Ciaccona
Bach • Suite for Solo Violoncello No. 3 in C major BWV 1009 (Arr. for Guitar / Lute) • V. Bourrée I – VI. Bourrée II
Bach • Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001 (Arr. for Lute / Guitar) • II. Fuga. Allegro
Handel • Suite for Harpsichord No. 4 in D minor HWV 437: Sarabande con variazioni (Arr. for Guitar) • Sarabande con variazioni
Handel • Minuet in G major HWV 531 (Arr. for Guitar)
Handel • Suite in G Minor, HWV 453: Menuet I-II (arr. for guitar) • I. Allegretto grazioso (Menuet I & II)
Handel • Gavotte in G major HWV 491 (Arr. for Guitar)
Bach • Keyboard Concerto in D Major, Wq. 27, H. 433: II. Siciliana (arr. for guitar) • I. Siciliana in F sharp minor
Gluck • Orfeo ed Euridice GluckWV 1.30: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Act II) (Arr. A. Segovia for Solo Guitar) • Andante
Haydn • Symphony No. 96 in D major Hob. I:96 "The Miracle": Menuetto (Arr. for Guitar) • (Allegretto)

[Que]

There's a new recording of music from this manuscript, released this month I think, from a group called Vox Clemantis. Here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/62/000155326.pdf

So I noticed when googling for the cover!   
An Estonian group. It's on Spotify , so I might sample it.

[Tsaraslondon]

Some lovely singing, but the most impressive element of this recording, for me anyway, is the stunning playing of Winton Marsalis. A nice programme, but, with a preponderance of fast, florid music, there is little variety.

[Que]

[vandermolen]

NYM Symphony No.24

[Papy Oli]

A handful of Scriabin's Mazurkas - Op.3 (Deyanova)

[Papy Oli]

Rameau - Suites from Les Indes Galantes (Brüggen)

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:

Charles Villiers Stanford
Symphony No.5

Vernon Handley & Ulster Orchestra


Stanford's music seems quite interesting so far, this and Symphony No.3 sound very lyrical and elegant, but also expressive works, with a wide orchestration and a sense of majesty in the style of the German Romantic composers. The Blue Bird instead was brief, nonetheless deep and intimate.

[Tsaraslondon]

These two compilations feature 78s made by Björling in the 1930s and the 1940s in Sweden. He would have been only twenty-two at the time of the first recording (Vladimir's Cavatina from Prince Igor) and 38 at the time of the last, so we can certainly consider this the time of his vocal prime. The voice is of course a magnificent one and its wonderful ringing top register one of its greatest glories (right up to a stunning top Db in Rossini's Cujus animam). He is sometimes considered a cool performer, but I rather prefer his comparative restraint to the sobbing and sliding we get from some of his Italian contemporaries. I don't know whether he spoke French or Italian, but he sings the languages well. However I do wonder if he spoke French better, as it is the performances of French repertoire that I find the most sensitive. The ebulliently joyful aria from Offenbach's La belle Hélène is admittedly sung in Swedish, but all the French items are beautifully sung, particularly Faust's Salut, demeure and Des Grireux's arias from Manon. The voice would appear to have grown in size over these years and he gains in vocal confidence, though, if I'm honest, I prefer his earlier recording of O soave fanciulla (with Hjördis Schymberg) where he takes the written, quiet, lower ending, to the later one (with his sister Anna-Lisa Björling) where they both blast out the top C. Still these two discs kept my interest throughout. No chance of these heading for the jettison pile.

[vandermolen]

On youtube:

Charles Villiers Stanford
Symphony No.5

Vernon Handley & Ulster Orchestra


Stanford's music seems quite interesting so far, this and Symphony No.3 sound very lyrical and elegant, but also expressive works, with a wide orchestration and a sense of majesty in the style of the German Romantic composers. The Blue Bird instead was brief, nonetheless deep and intimate.

3 and 5 are, by far, my favourites.

[aligreto]

Gregorian Chant [Clervaux] CD 1





Wonderful!

[San Antone]

Rudolf Buchbinder : The Diabelli Project

[Sergeant Rock]

Atterberg Cello Concerto




Sarge

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 2

Harpsichord Concertos  IV BWV 1055 -V BWV 1056  -VI BWV 1057 & VII BWV 1058

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bloch: Suite For Viola and Orchestra. Timothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins.
Orientalist beauty.

[Todd]

Disc 11, Debussy, Ravel, and Mozart from 1948-49.  The Debussy Images sound fantastic, light and breezy, with nimbleness on display.  Though the 78s mask it, Gieseking also plays with some dynamic power.  The smaller pieces sound superb.  The Ravel Miroirs sounds freer, more spontaneous than the later recording, based on memory, though A/Bs will be easy.  Indeed, everything here sounds more spontaneous because it is.  The disc closes with Mozart's K545, with Gieseking playing with precious restraint, as in his later Mozart.  This single disc offers an almost ideal encapsulation of the pianist's art.

[VonStupp]

And this is the CD

Good catch!