What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Track 11 (Act 1, Scene 5):Vede orgogliosa l'onda.

Pretty!  I'll have to see if I can find the lyrics somewhere--particularly as I know nothing about the opera.  I found it on youtube (same artist and group):

PD

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.10 CD 2

[Wanderer]

There is one aria in this that I utterly adore and bought the track on iTunes just so I could listen to it over and over.

And who can blame you. The whole opera is a delight.

Track 11 (Act 1, Scene 5):Vede orgogliosa l'onda.

I had a feeling this was it. Agitata da due venti would've been too obvious!

[Wanderer]

[Mandryka]

 

Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan are invited to join the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the final night of a year-long residency at the Royal Festival Hall. The comedians learn various roles in the orchestra - from conducting to opera - before they face their final challenge at the sold-out venue.

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Prometheus

Kurt Masur & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Franz Berwald symphonies.

[vers la flamme]

Richard Wetz: Ein Weihnachtsoratorium, op.53. George Alexander Albrecht, Thüringisches Kammerorchester Weimar, Philharmonisches Chor Weimar, Dombergchor Erfurt

Unseasonal, but I was in the mood for late Romantic German oratorio, and I already heard Gurrelieder today

Edit: I finished, that was a really beautiful oratorio!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Marguerite Long.

[vers la flamme]

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.25. Renaud & Gautier Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Nicholas Angelich

[AnotherSpin]

[JBS]

[Symphonic Addict]

Hindemith: Clarinet Quintet

Absolutely stupendous! Some recordings of this label leave much to be desired, but this one is so good, so is the rendition.

[vers la flamme]

Hindemith: Clarinet Quintet

Absolutely stupendous! Some recordings of this label leave much to be desired, but this one is so good, so is the rendition.

I have that, bought it for the great Heckelphone Trio. I should listen to it again soon.



Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus. Philip Thomas

[Wanderer]

[Que]

Morning listening:



http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/Mar11/VivatLeo_CC72366.htm

[Irons]

Marguerite Long.

Masterful in French music.



An album I treasure. Fauré Piano Quartets. No.2 is early (1940) with Jacques Thibaud, Maurice Vieux and Pierre Fournier. No.1 in remarkably good sound from 1956 supported by Trio Pasquier.

[ritter]

Our fellow GMGer  @Dry Brett Kavanaugh alerted me to Spanish pianist Luis Galve, whose recorded legacy is rather slim. I could locate a copy of this release:



The CD includes Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, with the RTVE Orchestra under Enrique García Asensio), recoded live in mono in the Teatro Real in 1974 (after it had reponed as a concert hall, and two decades before it was reconverted back to its use as Madrid's main opera house), and what appear were encores of that concert--Debussy's La Sérénade interrompue, La Puerta del Vino, and Arabesque No. 2--Then we get Falla's Homenaje a Debussy, and solo piano transcriptions of El amor brujo and El sombrero de tres picos (stereo, live in 1976 from the Palau de la Música Catalana in Bareclona).

So far, Galve's playing in the Emperor sounds superb, "apollonian" is the term hat come to mind. Crisp yet poetic. The orchestral accompaniment is a bit bland, OTOH (the recorded sounds may be partly to blame). Let's see how the solo pieces turn out to be, but I am quite optimistic!

EDIT: Despite the occasional wrong note in La Sérénade, the two Debussy preludes are very good IMHO, even if perhaps the playing lacks a bit of individuality. But, even if I consider Debussy one of my very, very favourite composer ever, I really do not like either of the Arabesques at all (no fault found in the performance, it's the music itself I do not care for). OTOH, what a miraculous composition La Puerta del Vino is!!!! I'm always bowled over when I listen to it...

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.10 CD 3

Coming to the last CD of this beautiful set, I really enjoyed it.I will leave this repertoire alone for a while. I want to do some comparisons later with a fresh mind.
For now I can only recommend this set to all organ enthusiasts.
It is a very exceptional set, especially since it was created without any external subsidy. It was of course an advantage that Pieter van Dijk is the organist on this magnificent organ in Alkmaar.

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Die Walküre

Poul Elming (Siegmund), John Tomlinson (Wotan), Nadine Secunde (Sieglinde), Matthias Hölle (Hunding), Anne Evans (Brunnhilde), Linda Finnie (Fricka)
Daniel Barenboim & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele