What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5 [Quatuor Mosaiques]





This is a very fine work marked by a terrifically invigorating and exciting final movement.

[aukhawk]

Sibelius: Violin Concerto [Oistrakh/Ormandy]

Oistrakh wasn't born - he was quarried.

[aukhawk]

Just finished listening to Messiaen, what can I say, it is so beautiful and it has such an impact on me that it fills me with a silence that reaches to another dimension, I am just happy.
Louis Thiry is a very gifted musician and I love his Messiaen recordings,
the recordings of Calliope sound very good

I was listening to Thiry playing Messiaen yesterday.  Selected tracks (the quieter ones!) from this album.  Wonderful.


Messiaen :  Messe de la Pentecôte  : Louis Thiry

[vandermolen]

French Cello Music
Bengt Forsberg & Mats Lidström
Hyperion

Looks like a nice CD.

[aligreto]

Mozart: String Quartet, Prussian K.575 [Chilingirian Quartet]

[aligreto]

Oistrakh wasn't born - he was quarried.

 

[aligreto]

Looks like a nice CD.

+1

[Harry]

Johann Kuhnau, Complete Sacred Works, Vol. I.

Opella Musica-camerata Lipsiensis, Gregor Meyer.

Second rerun.
I cannot imagine better interpretations as the present ones, if it comes to the Kuhnau Cantates. The singing is uniformly excellent, the absence of a choir is a good choice, the soloists are despite the fact that they are unknown to me, superb. The only snag I have is that at times the soloists when required to substitute the choir, tend to sing a tad to loud, in this case sopranos only. But those are few and wide apart. The recorded sound is close to state of the Art.

[prémont]

Anyone heard his Art of Fugue?

https://www.bayardmusique.com/album/405/l-art-de-la-fugue-bwv-1080-louis-thiry

Oh yes, but not recently. I recall it as being melodious and beautiful.

Apropos AoF. Belder's strikes me as being crystal clear in the part playing and a bit polished. His articulation is surprisingly often rather legato - reminding me of Leonhardt 1953.

[vers la flamme]

Jean Sibelius: Kullervo, op.7. Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki University Chorus. This is an amazing performance. I'm currently on the final movement, I've never made it this far into Kullervo before, usually stopping after the first few movements. I must admit that this is a lot better than the other recording I have, Robert Spano conducting the Atlanta Symphony. I have much love for the home team but it takes a Finn to really bring this one home, I guess.

[aligreto]

Mozart: Violin Concerto Concertos No. 5 [Oistrakh/Berlin Philharmonic]





Oistrakh, for me, adds breadth and depth to the Mozart Violin Concertos.

[Harry]

New arrival.

Eino Tamberg, Orchestral music.

[aligreto]

Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No. 1 [Shafran/Kabalevsky]





I have not heard this concerto before now. This is a relatively short work but I find it to be an entertaining, charming and engaging one. Drama and emotion abound in the opening movement. The slow movement is something of a lament and Shafran makes the cello sing out for all that it is worth. I find that the final movement is exciting, assertive and atmospheric.

[San Antone]

John Luther Adams : The Wind in High Places
JACK Quartet

The Wind in High Places has a duration of roughly 16 minutes and is composed in three movements:

    Above Sunset Pass
    Maclaren Summit
    Looking Toward Hope

The composition was developed from the 2007 piece Three High Places for solo violin, which Adams composed in memory of his friend and collaborator Gordon Wright. The piece uses only natural harmonics and open strings.

[Traverso]

I was listening to Thiry playing Messiaen yesterday.  Selected tracks (the quieter ones!) from this album.  Wonderful.


Messiaen :  Messe de la Pentecôte  : Louis Thiry

Yes,this are really very fine recordings,Latry is more "en vogue"but Louis Thiry is one of my favorites together with Jennifer Bate,but I have to listen more to Hans-Ola Ericsson too 

[San Antone]

Read more about Roel at
https://www.roeldieltiens.be/

I did visit his website and read some about him - thanks for bringing to my attention.

His second recording is nicely played (among my favourites) but spoiled by an over-reverberant acoustic.

The second recording on EtCetera is not available to stream, and I doubt if I will purchase it.  Although I would be curious to hear the differences, at least for now, the 1991 recording will have to suffice.  Thanks.

[Traverso]

Oh yes, but not recently. I recall it melodious and beautiful.

Apropos AoF. Belder's strikes me as being crystal clear in the part playing and a bit polished. His articulation is surprisingly often rather legato - reminding me of Leonhardt 1953.

I must have that Thiry recording,from the few samples I heard I cannot do otherwise.  :)I hope I can find a copy.

[aligreto]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 [Klemperer]





This work contains some very lyrical music and there is drama and tension there too of course with lots of brass. I find it very reminiscent Mahler's music, but Mahler somewhat at peace.

[aligreto]

I must have that Thiry recording,from the few samples I heard I cannot do otherwise.  I hope I can find a copy.

You must succeed. You will succeed. 

[SimonNZ]

Faure: La bonne chanson