What are you listening 2 now?

[SimonNZ]

is the organ part in this really so difficult that it needs someone of Marie-Claire Alain's talent to play it?

[Harry]

Found that also to be a good disc!

[Harry]

CD IV from this box.

Spain.
De Vez en cuando la Vida.

A mix with old and new songs, and my reaction on the new is in the negative, I do not like this popular over romanticized hotchpot. And this is I am afraid the main part of this CD. A pity, for me there is more to dislike as to like, so I rather pass and skip to the next CD. Apart from this I also have a rather adversity against the voices of The Cappella Mediterranea, led by Leonardo Garcia  Alarcon.

[Harry]

CD V from this box.

North Afrika, Rayon de Lune.

Aromates, Michele Claude.

Had this CD already and knew it to be good, so thumbs up here.

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Guillaume Dufay: Missa "Se la face ay pale". David Munrow, Early Music Consort of London. This was a serendipitous find in a local record store recently. It's a monumental performance that puts the music right in line with the greatest masterpieces of the later Renaissance or the Baroque. I don't know much about Dufay or Renaissance polyphony at all, and I heard this performance described as crude and not in alignment with current scholarship. But I know what I like, and this music is brilliant. And I know this much, I am definitely going to be seeking out other recordings of David Munrow and this ensemble. Luminous music.

[Harry]

Turkey, La Porte de Felicite, Constantinople 1453-Entre Orient et Occident.

CD VI.

Doulce Memoire
Ensemble Kudsi Erguner.

A thoroughly enjoyable disc, with a good and sensible mix of Orient and Occident. Well performed and recorded.

[Traverso]

Bach

Musikalisches Opfer

[Todd]

Second listen to disc two.  Schynder's style works well with the G Major, with that beautiful Bechstein doing its magic.  Mr Gaffigan and the Lucerne band turn in a trio of crisp, classical yet still nicely dramatic overtures as filler.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Suites for Cello Solo Nos. 2-5 [Shafran]





Shafran attacks the music in places and is assertive in his delivery and presentation. The playing is both earnest and robust and yet is still sympathetic to the music. I very much like the timbre of the instrument which is very well caught on a detailed recording. The recording is on the reverberant side but is electric in its delivery of these live performances.

[aligreto]

Zinman's Beethoven cycle  was very well received when issued in 1999, with the first two symphonies being singled out for special praise; on modern instruments but with eighteenth century manners.

Very enjoyable.

I also find the Zinman to be a very worthy one. For me it is a modern instrument cycle that really deserves attention from those who do not know it. It is not of quite the same standard but is certainly in the same league as the von Karajan 1963 cycle for me.

[aligreto]

Guillaume Dufay: Missa "Se la face ay pale". David Munrow, Early Music Consort of London. This was a serendipitous find in a local record store recently. It's a monumental performance that puts the music right in line with the greatest masterpieces of the later Renaissance or the Baroque. I don't know much about Dufay or Renaissance polyphony at all, and I heard this performance described as crude and not in alignment with current scholarship. But I know what I like, and this music is brilliant. And I know this much, I am definitely going to be seeking out other recordings of David Munrow and this ensemble. Luminous music.

I also own that CD and I share your enthusiasm for it. I am a like long fan of David Munrow's music making and interpreting form the LP age and I would definitely encourage you to investigate further. I would not necessarily recommend anything in particular as I feel that anything that he touched was marked by his unique individualism and genius. Get hold of whatever you can of his recordings. They can be raw but they are always a worthwhile and an engaging listening experience. His was a truly great and tragic loss to the world of music. I would also encourage you to check out his like story on the internet in order to help you to understand where he was coming from.

[Maestro267]

Fricker: Symphony No. 5
Weir (organ)/BBC SO/C. Davis

Scott: Early One Morning
Ogdon (piano)/London PO/Herrmann

Stanford: Piano Concerto No. 2
Binns (piano)/London SO/Braithwaite

[JBS]

I also find the Zinman to be a very worthy one. For me it is a modern instrument cycle that really deserves attention from those who do not know it. It is not of quite the same standard but is certainly in the same league as the von Karajan 1963 cycle for me.

It has the added benefit of being an almost complete collection of Beethoven's orchestral works,  since the full ZZZ [Zinman Zurich Zyklus] includes the concertos, overtures, and the Missa Solemnis (but not everything: no Mass in C, no Egmont Incidental Music, etc)

TD

Speaking of which
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Beethoven
Symphony no 3
Leonore Overtures 1 and 2

[aligreto]

It has the added benefit of being an almost complete collection of Beethoven's orchestral works,  since the full ZZZ [Zinman Zurich Zyklus] includes the concertos, overtures, and the Missa Solemnis (but not everything: no Mass in C, no Egmont Incidental Music, etc)

Yes indeed, thank you for reminding me of the Zinman version of the Missa Solemnis which is also one that I admire.

[Traverso]

Purcell

8 suites for the Harpsichord

Pieter-Jan Belder

[vers la flamme]

I also own that CD and I share your enthusiasm for it. I am a like long fan of David Munrow's music making and interpreting form the LP age and I would definitely encourage you to investigate further. I would not necessarily recommend anything in particular as I feel that anything that he touched was marked by his unique individualism and genius. Get hold of whatever you can of his recordings. They can be raw but they are always a worthwhile and an engaging listening experience. His was a truly great and tragic loss to the world of music. I would also encourage you to check out his like story on the internet in order to help you to understand where he was coming from.

Thanks for the words. Yes, I have read up some on his life. Frankly, it was reading about his tragic demise that piqued my interest to the point that I really wanted to explore his music (I must admit to some morbid fascinations). Moreover, anyone who can make such a revolutionary impact on the world of music in a few short decades is worthy, in my book, of exploration, if not always admiration. In his case, I seem to really sympathize with his musical vision. Raw is a good way to put it. Yet very interpretive, very three-dimensional.

Anyway, if you know of any worthy reading materials regarding David Munrow's life and work and care to share, I am open to it.

A disc I plan on checking out is his "Art of the Netherlands" 2CD on Virgin/Veritas. I have listened to bits and pieces and really enjoyed it all.

[vers la flamme]

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, op.67. Carlos Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic. This is a very classic recording that I am now hearing for the first time. Frankly, I am not impressed so far. Not sure what it is, something about the string sound and the tempi. I will reconsider over time. At the moment, I am enamored with the Leonard Bernstein/NYPO recording from the 1960s. It changed the way I hear this music.

[Todd]

Generally very well played, though a bit direct and "modern" in conception.  Pontinen's program almost entirely overlaps Piotr Anderszewski's Szymanowski disc, and here is a case where the approaches are so different, and Anderszewski's execution is even better, quite obviously so, that one can hear the difference between a recording for the ages and one that is not.  The Mazurkas on this disc unfortunately sound too heavy-handed.  It's not a bad disc, and makes a welcome addition to my collection because there's just not enough Szymanowski out there, but it will not be a first choice when listening in the future. 

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Franz Berwald - Sinfonie Singulière  / Symphony No.3 in C Major
Danish NRSO - Thomas Dausgaard

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[aligreto]

Zelenka: Sonata No. IV for two oboes and bassoon [Ensemble Zefiro]