What are you listening 2 now?

[San Antone]

A very fine recording, love the works on that disc.

Yes, it was very enjoyable.

[San Antone]

Mozart: String Quartets - K. 80, 458, 499
Armida Quartett

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NYM: Cello Sonata No.1:

[André]

First listen to these two works.

[vandermolen]

I let the CD run on to the final work - Kabalevsky Cello Sonata Op.71 (1962) which is terrific, a darkly brooding and memorable score and a nice discovery for me. Oddly enough there is a section, near the end, reminiscent of the coda from Howard Hanson's First Symphony, written forty years earlier.

[André]

The c minor sonata, D.958. One of Brendel's triumphs as an interpreter. Schubert's outbursts, the jagged rythms, the blunt edges are unsettling, as they should, without letting the music become inchoate, lose focus or direction. Brendel never prettifies Schubert. No doubt there are other very valid ways to play it (Kempff for one), but I'm never tempted to make comparisons.

[Ken B]

St-Luke Passion by Schütz.

Strictly a capella, not even a continuo. More a spiritual than a musical experience, actually. Many decades ago I bought it on lp (Vox Box) and rejected it out of hand. I felt cheated. Not that I disliked a capella singing, but Palestrina is positively orgiastic in comparison. And yet, I find it soothing and peace inducing.

I love Schutz. For a time he was one of my five most listened to composers. I think I had that disc.

TD Mozart, early violin sonatas Kuijken

[SymphonicAddict]

I have been listening to Classical music for over forty years now and I must say that Mozart has never fallen out of favour with me. I am delighted that you have "rediscovered" his music: it has so much to say. Enjoy the music.

Thank you. I've been hugely impressed by all these symphonies. Spark and true genius are rules on them.

Yes, I have that problem. Overexposure sometimes tires me, no matter what composer is. I have to listen with moderate musical dose.

[SymphonicAddict]

I like your message,a warning for us all......

Mozart

Starting with this lovely Minuet....and more,more

Minuet in G K.409
Symphony No.37 (symphony of Michael Haydn K.444 )
Symphony No.38 in D K.504 The "Prager"
Symphony No.39 in E flat K.543

[Ken B]

Thank you. I've been hugely impressed by all these symphonies. Spark and true genius are rules on them.

Yes, I have that problem. Overexposure sometimes tires me, no matter what composer is. I have to listen with moderate musical dose.

And the piano concertos are better!

[André]

La Damnation de Faust; 3 Overtures.

The Damnation is mono, but excellent mono. Nothing to detract the ear from Munch's exciting, revelatory conducting. The singers are very good to remarkable. Poleri's Faust stands out in a crowded field, his voice gleaming, stable and powerful. Much as I admire other Fausts (Turp, Gedda, Verreau), Poleri has more 'ping' on top and a true 'heroique' feel to his voice. Danco is a grande dame Marguerite and, like with Schwarzkopf, I always have the feeling of attending a master class when listening to her singing. Nonetheless, some turns of phrase are simply inimitable.

[SimonNZ]

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo [Jurgens]

Nice. I haven't heard that recording. How does it hold up?

[Karl Henning]

First listen to these two works.

Beauty!

[JBS]

Windy Ludwig
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A nice excursion into a corner of LvB that seems to be overlooked.
Contents
Sextet in E Flat Op 71
Duo for clarinet and bassoon WoO 27 number 1
Octet in E Flat Op 103
Rondino in E Flat WoO 25
March in B Flat WoO 29

[Que]

Morning listening:

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This new addition completes a series of three volumes of Habsburg violin music from a manuscript with over a hundred sonatas in the Minoritenkonvent, Vienna. Thanks, Harry.

Q

[Tsaraslondon]

The centrepiece of this disc is the suite from Williamson's opera Our Man in Havana, an unjustly neglected work, if this is anything to go by.

An interesting and entertaining disc.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Florestan]

[Harry]

New release 2019.

Polish Lute Music.

Albert Dlugoraj, (1558- after 1619)
Diomedes Cato, (1565-1628)
Jakub Polak. (c.1545-1605)

Joachim Held, Lute.

Unfortunately there is no info about the Lute on which he plays, and that irks me! Joachim Held is for most people an unknown name, but I already have several recordings in which he features, and have a high regard for his abilities as a Lute player. Educated by Eugen Dombois and Hopkinson Smith, he is held to be an excellent musician, and so it is. This CD proves that abundantly. Polish Lute Music, by composers totally unknown to me and most, what a treat that is! Held is a sensitive player, who takes his time to unfold the music in a elegant and yet very refined way. He is one of those Lutenists who successfully combines historically informed practice, with a insightful technique. No lavish ornamentation in this music, but fine changes in colour throughout. And that makes his style very approachable. Deeply affectionate performances.
Stephan Reh is the engineer of this CD, and him too I hold in high regard, for this is a State of the Art recording.
Recommended.

[Madiel]

Over the course of the day I listened to Dvorak's opera The Jacobin.



Which I rather liked. Noting that this was just in the background with only the vaguest idea of the plot. I did, though, listen to an Act at a time so that I didn't fall prey to aural exhaustion.

3 more Dvorak operas from the end of his career to go.