What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Secondo Libro di Toccate
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Mm, looks nice!

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Mm, looks nice!

Ah..dear sir, you have good taste, very clever, stuff, Girolamo Frescobaldi is a great favorite of mine , his Harpsicord & organ work, needless to says I like his works a lot , and they are ethereal ,moving to me.

One of the greatest Italians ever in keyboard works, any sane and rational Italians and the world should know about he introduce me toward some baroque of J.s Bach, where are talking masters in there own era.

[Mirror Image]

A beautiful, really beautiful recording by the great Ciccolini of the seldom performed solo piano version of the Six épigraphes.... A perennial favourite of mine.

Good day to you, John.

Good day to you as well, Rafael. I thought I would never move onto another work from Debussy after getting hung up on Dans le jardin --- I must've listened to this melodie at least 6-7 times in a row (Ameling/Baldwin from the Debussy Complete Warner set). I totally agree with you about Six épigraphes antiques. This work has really become one of my favorites and I actually prefer it solo piano rather than the version for piano duo (I know it also exists in an orchestration from Amsermet, but there's no way it's better than the original piano versions done by the composer). This is a later work and I find late period Debussy to be enigmatic (in the best possible sense and in no way a criticism), but, yet, so beautifully touching and compelling.

[T. D.]

Recent purchase, first listen. I like it!

[Que]

Mm, looks nice!

[Frescobaldi/ Francesco Cera]

Indeed it does.... 

[Que]

A new discovery on Spotify:



Q

[Tsaraslondon]

Excellent performances of these two patriotic works, which don't entirely escape the charge of jingosim. Hugely enjoyable none the less. Superb soloists, with Teresa Cahill's soaring soprano being expecially impressive in The Spirit of England.

[Irons]

Arensky: 1st Symphony.



A pleasant surprise. This symphony, Russian in flavour in the mould of Glazunov and Borodin, posses a wide sweep and not short of a tune. The "sweet and sour" first movement had echoes of Miaskovsky with in turn gentle and forceful themes.   

[vandermolen]

Suite for organ and strings in G major

Respighi at his softest, most spiritual and most solemn. A lovely piece. Aria and Cantico were the most outstanding movements.




Diptyque méditerranéen

A musical painting. This is so vivid and colourful, even sensuous. d'Indy is another composer I've misjudged unjustly. He wrote some gorgeous music, often with a lustrous orchestration.

That Cala Respighi disc is quite special. I like every work on it and think that Geoffrey Simon deserves more praise than he usually gets.

[vandermolen]

I've intended to give it a try soon as I'm not familiar with it.

Excellent Cesar!

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Ansermet]





I like this is robust performance. The slow movement is a wonderfully flowing, lyrical presentation. I find the requisite tension and drama is present in the final movement and I also like the vocal soloists.

[aligreto]

I was pretty sure you were going to like that marvelous symphony [Rimsky-Korsakov, No. 2. Because of their extreme popularity, Scheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol have eclipsed his other orchestral works.

Cheers for that. Yes, that can sometimes happen with one popular work. Ravel and Holst would immediately come to mind. I suppose one has to make an effort to dig deeper; one usually finds treasures below as is certainly the case in the two composers that I have mentioned. I will have to do so with Rimsky-Korsakov. Other than Jarvi mentioned already do you have any recommendations?

[aligreto]

Schumann: Fantasie in C [Pollini]

[Harry]

Jean Philippe Rameau.
Hippolyte et Aricie.
Orchestral Suite, Prologue, Suite  1-5.

Le Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken.

A performance that fulfills all my expectations of this music. It is well performed and recorded. The drive is obvious and the tension arches are well implemented. Kuijken makes it into a feast obviously.
Gorgeous.

[Tsaraslondon]

I suppose Cluytens's Ravel recordings have now been superseded, but they were very well thought of in their day and still sound good.

This is an early Japanese transfer to CD.

[Traverso]

Jean Philippe Rameau.
Hippolyte et Aricie.
Orchestral Suite, Prologue, Suite  1-5.

Le Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken.

A performance that fulfills all my expectations of this music. It is well performed and recorded. The drive is obvious and the tension arches are well implemented. Kuijken makes it into a feast obviously.
Gorgeous.

Indeed a very enjoyable recording,one of my favorites,for example the traverso part is so beautiful

[vandermolen]

Glazunov Symphony No.3
This is increasingly one of my favourite Glazunov symphonies and I find the fragment of Symphony No.9 to be rather poignant and moving:


Now. Ippolitov-Ivanov
Three Musical Tableaux from Ossian. Should appeal to admirers of Liadov:

[Harry]

Glazunov Symphony No.3
This is increasingly one of my favourite Glazunov symphonies and I find the fragment of Symphony No.9 to be rather poignant and moving:

Some 20 odd years ago I bought the Jarvi set on Orfeo, and played that set at least 25 times, complete mind! Then came the Jose Serebrier set on Warner, and the sheer brilliance of that set, plus a much better sound made me boil over a second time in raptures. And although the approach of many people that Glazunov's symphonic efforts are bloodless and slight in stature, I think contrary. For me they belong to the core repertoire of Russian Orchestral music.

[Traverso]

Buxtehude

CD 1

[Harry]

Rameau.
Suites from Platee & Dardanus.

Philharmonia Baroque, Nicolas McGegan

Another fine rendition of this music by a much underrated conductor, who is well versed into performing on authentic instruments, and who's effort are never less than excellent, and often even excelling in style and expression. A very precise musician with a nose for the intricate complexities of Rameau's music. This is one to have. The sound is superb.