What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Works by Vivaldi & Corelli [Leppard]

[aligreto]

Bach

I bought that CD many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed listening to it a number of times. It has been quite a while since my last listen so I should listen to these secular cantata performances again soon.

[aligreto]

I had that one on cassette tape but did not buy it when I originally switched my collection to the CD format.

[prémont]

Organ is big and a Schnitger-style reconstruction after the organ of the St. Jacobi in Hamburg,

Maybe too big for Böhm's rather small scaled music.

I was pleased to see the slimness of the packing: three discs and a booklet in a 4-way folding cardboard slipcase.
Though less pleased when trying to squeeze out the 1st disc produced a small rip.... I won't repeat here my utterings at that particular moment.... But it seems that anything less than a digipack or a carboard box is literally a ripoff....

A very impractical slipcase. To prevent damage I have put the CDs into a multi-CD jewel box.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Right! Perhaps the finest First of all time IMHO, incredible that even this fine recording lay lingering on the shelves for almost two decades. 

That Cooke CD went straight into the basket, Johan. All 3 works are really good ! Starting the day with Cooke's 1st again.

https://www.youtube.com/v/60u197JXSXQ

[aligreto]

Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major





This is a large scale and very engaging work.

[ritter]

Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op. 15, played by Jean-Philippe Collard (p), Augustin Dumay (vln), Bruno Pasquier (vla), and Frédéric Lodéon (vlc). From this set:

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[Madiel]

Debussy, Flots, palmes, sables (Waves, palms, sands) which includes a harp in the accompaniment.



Prettily exotic. The wealth of early songs and the way they sound really casts Debussy's development in a new light. I think the world tends to skip the first half of his body of work.

[aligreto]

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 [Anda]


   

[Mandryka]

Davidsson treats this giant like a baby and manages to create intimacy when needed.


Q

Yes I think that's right, at least if Freu dich sehr, o meine seele is anything to go by.

[Traverso]

I apologise for seeming contradictory, but I believe that is his second recording.
I know I bought that double CD and was severely disappointed, having previously heard Bylsma's Bach on the radio, to discover I had not bought the version I'd heard.
His earlier recording (generally fleeter and lighter in texture) can be found packaged as 'Sony Essential Classics' and maybe in other ways, I don't know.

It is his second,no doubt about that,I have also a preference for his first for the reasons you mentioned.

[Madiel]

Kindertotenlieder

[Traverso]

Keyboard Music by Reincken,Scheidemann,J.S.Bach,Böhm,Handel & J.C.Bach

CD20

[Madiel]

Finishing off my night, after Kindertotenlieder, with what I think is probably Faure's greatest piano piece. The 6th Nocturne.

[Todd]

 

 

 

 


I spent the early morning work hours exploring some of the non-Martinu output of the Martinu Quartet and a slug of Maurizio Baglini recordings.  The ensemble is effective in the selected works, but I prefer others in the Dvorak and Janacek big titles.  The Myslivecek is strikingly good, though. 

Baglini is predictably good in everything except the HIP Chopin.  Like Demidenko, he plays just about as fast and powerfully as he can.  Meh.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 [Cluytens]

[Mookalafalas]

Apparently this is OOP.  Hearing it for first time, and am in love with Reine Gianoli's Schumann.  I guess she recorded for Westminster in the old days, but none of her stuff is in the 3 Westminster legacy boxes on CD.

[Mandryka]

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

I'm surprised how attractive it is, it makes me regret that he didn't record the big sets of chorales. Thanks for letting me know about it.

(re Belder, I haven't listened to it since it came out, I'll try again with it later. But I did listen to him playing some Byrd yesterday and was struck by the ornamentation in a big Fantasia, MB 25, though I don't know if that's written into the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book text.  Again rather good in its way. )

[Todd]

Disc two from the big box.  The Mozart is very fine, but the appended Chopin B Minor sonata is the real draw.  It's a corker, better than Firkusny's later takes (EMI and Orfeo), and one of the best I've heard.