What are you listening 2 now?

[Irons]

I do enjoy Chorale.

I will give a listen.

[Tsaraslondon]

A fantastic performance of Mozart's wonderful Great Mass in C Minor.

[vandermolen]

Alfven: Symphony No.4 'From the Outermost Skerries'.
I've just realised how similar it is in places of Zemlinsky's 'The Mermaid':

[aligreto]

Music of the Italian Renaissance played and sung by Shirley Rumsey





Rumsey, always a proficient instrumentalist, also has a wonderful, crystal clear and very appealing voice. Both traits are well brought to bear in a CD that should be considered for every Early Music collection.

[aligreto]

Mendelssohn, Felix - starting now on this child prodigy (only matched by Mozart possibly) w/ his String Symphonies written before he was 15 y/o - amazingly wonderful and coherent works - I've owned and culled a number of performances over the decades but now own the two boxes below - Dave

 

+1 Dave. They are indeed wonderful and wondrous works. I also particularly like that set above.

[aligreto]

Albinoni: Sonatas for Trumpet and Organ [Freeman-Atwood/Simcock]





Sonata in C major
Sonata in A major, Op.1 No. 3
Sonata in A major, Op.6 No. 11

[vandermolen]

Tikhon Khrennikov: Symphony No.2

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 [Monteux]





This is a strong, robust presentation that is spirited, assertive and well driven.

[Madiel]

Doing a fairly unusual thing for me and just putting a whole album on.



Having really enjoyed Bebbington's performances of Bridge when I listened on a work-by-work basis, I'm doing him the rare courtesy of just pressing play and listening to his programming choices.

Any time you're dealing with Bridge, chronology makes a huge difference so it'll be interesting to hear some late pieces mixed with the earlier ones. Culminating in the great piano sonata.

[Traverso]

Dutch Organs

CD7

Bach-Homilius & Böhm

[Iota]

Mendelssohn, Felix - starting now on this child prodigy (only matched by Mozart possibly) w/ his String Symphonies written before he was 15 y/o - amazingly wonderful and coherent works.

Amazing works indeed! <please imagine large yellow thumb of approval>


Here:



Debussy: Preludes Book I

A surpassingly lovely performance of the preludes! On first hearing as good as any I've heard. I remember seeing this disc here sometime last year and thinking it looked interesting ... little did I know!

[aligreto]

Delibes: Sylvia [Monteux]

[Papy Oli]

Back to this one :

Shostakovich - Symphony No.1 (Barshaï)

[Traverso]

Sweelinck

CD 5

[vandermolen]

Szymanowski: Stabat Mater

[Spineur]

Part of the set bought by André (Purchased Today).  Probably my favorite alto-countertenor.

[Kaga2]

John Jenkins
Consort Musick

From the Florilegium big box.

[Harry]

Carlo Gesualdo de Venosa.
Responsoria -1611-Et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae Spectantia.
With Spiritual Madrigals by de Macque/Luzzaschi/Marenzio/Vinci.
CD 1. Feria Quinta.

La Compagnia del Madrigale.

Superb in every respect.

[Que]

More of "the one that got away", streaming from Spotify:

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The more I hear of it, the more I regret missing the opportunity to buy the CD set. 
It ran OOP pretty quickly...

Q

[Tsaraslondon]

The 8th comes down quite a long way in my list of Mahler symphonies, but this Tennstedt recording makes an excellent case for it. I prefer it to Solti's extrovert version (though Solti probably has the better soloists).

I also like Tennstedt's Des Knaben Wunderhorn, though Schwarzkopf/Fischer-Dieskau, Szell would still be my top choice. This one is less subtle, less sophisticated, and no doubt many will prefer it for exactly that reason. Personally I like both approaches.