What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Hah! Yes, indeed, Karl.

Personally I prefer the younger Nielsen myself.
TD
Decided to start on Paul Badura-Skoda's fortepiano Beethoven cycle.
So, Sonatas Op 2 nos 1-3.

[Karl Henning]

A marvelous recording, Cesar! Love Langgaard!

+ 1

[Todd]

Another Qobuz freebie.  Very spry.  It almost makes Hengelbrock seem ponderous.

[Symphonic Addict]

A marvelous recording, Cesar! Love Langgaard!

BTW, that Nielsen avatar is funny!

[Karl Henning]

Cheers, John! I did pick this one up as an impulse on an Amazon flash sale.  In the random sampling I've done, some percentage is standard rep which I have IMO much better recordings elsewhere.

This is one of the CDs I had in mind when I wrote that:



CD 12:

LvB
Symphony no. 5 in c minor, Op. 67
Symphony no. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral)

LSO
Doráti

... But I have no idea, now, why I reacted so indifferently, then.  Pure Beethoven enjoyment.

[Wakefield]

Pietro Torri (ca.1660-1737): La Vanità del mondo
CD1: Parte Prima (46:26)
CD2: Parte seconda (45:13)
Enregistrement / Live Recording : juillet 1988, église du Collège Saint-Michel, Fribourg, Suisse
Prise de son et montage / Sound Engineer and editing : RTS/Espace 2 (Radio Télévision Suisse)
Mastering : Marc Doutrepont – EQuuS

Barbara Schlick, soprano
Ingrid Schmithüsen, soprano
Derek Lee Ragin, counter-tenor
Michael Schopper, bass
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel, conductor

[asin]B07HSMCMMF[/asin]

This 2-CD set flew under my radar when it was released 18 months ago. But this live performance from 1988, it's an excellent chance to listen to Musica Antiqua Köln again.

Lineup, production, and Torri are all highly recommendable. 

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Kottos. An interesting mixture of musical and non-musical cello sounds. Having been disappointed by the works in the Avant Garde Project I am now finding compositions much more to my liking. Maybe those had been more obscure and unpopular recordings.

[Mirror Image]

Nielsen
Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments", Op. 16
Blomstedt
SFSO



Outstanding performance. Blomstedt's San Francisco cycle is the first cycle of Nielsen's symphonies I heard. I wasn't sure what to make of the music initially, but Nielsen has grown on me tremendously in the past 5-6 years. He is every bit the equal of Sibelius. The Four Temperaments is an interesting symphony as it continues to show the progress of the composer and the musical language at this juncture was firmly in place. Does it get as much attention as the 4th and 5th? No, but that shouldn't be the case. There is an absolutely heart-wrenchingly beautiful slow movement here in which you can kind of hear the blueprint for what would become the first movement in the 4th. Lovely symphony and I'm looking forward to continuing my revisitation of this masterful composer's oeuvre.

[Mirror Image]

BTW, that Nielsen avatar is funny!

Yeah, I had to get rid of it because it wasn't displaying properly and I cropped it in many different ways. Oh well, I like this one I currently have --- a younger, but confident looking Carl.

[Que]

Pietro Torri (ca.1660-1737): La Vanità del mondo
CD1: Parte Prima (46:26)
CD2: Parte seconda (45:13)
Enregistrement / Live Recording : juillet 1988, église du Collège Saint-Michel, Fribourg, Suisse
Prise de son et montage / Sound Engineer and editing : RTS/Espace 2 (Radio Télévision Suisse)
Mastering : Marc Doutrepont – EQuuS

Barbara Schlick, soprano
Ingrid Schmithüsen, soprano
Derek Lee Ragin, counter-tenor
Michael Schopper, bass
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel, conductor

[asin]B07HSMCMMF[/asin]

This 2-CD set flew under my radar when it was released 18 months ago. But this live performance from 1988, it's an excellent chance to listen to Musica Antiqua Köln again.

Lineup, production, and Torri are all highly recommendable. 

Looks interesting, will investigate! 

PS  Good to see you here again, hope all is well!

[Irons]

Wonderful! I'm most jealous Lol.
What was Walton's house like?

Sprawling, Jeffrey. A fairly large concert room surrounded with artefacts. There is the longest veranda I have ever seen built
up high on wooden columns looking out on a beautiful tropical garden.

[Irons]

That's very nice to hear ... 😀

I need little encouragement to bore with my holiday snaps!

[MusicTurner]

I need little encouragement to bore with my holiday snaps!

Me too 😄

[vandermolen]

A marvelous recording, Cesar! Love Langgaard!

+1 that's a great disc.
I wonder if Cesar and John know the more recent release with symphonies 2 and 6 on which is just as recommendable.

[vandermolen]

I need little encouragement to bore with my holiday snaps!

Actually those photos are very interesting Lol and thanks for posting them - I was especially interested in the portrait sculptures. I take it that the second one is Edith Sitwell. Which reminds me of a terribly precious joke told me by a colleague when I was working in the silk department of Harrods (I wanted to be in books or records) in my youth:

Question:

'Is there more than one Sitwell?'

Answer:

'Yes, there are Sacheverell'

Terrible isn't it?

[Que]

Morning listening:



I'm not going to pretend this performance sounds remotely Italian.
It has largish vocal forces and is calm, considered, smooth and precise.

But l (still) love it....
Gesualdo is supposed to be penetrating and engaging, even unsettling.
But if you are in a more indulging mood and ready for some ethereal floating, this is the right recording to pick off the shelves. Those who know Herreweghe's old Palestrina recording know what to expect. It has the same intoxicating effect of sublime vocal blending and precision.

A perfect additional choice.

Q

[Florestan]

Two engaging works with colorful orchestration. Very good.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

some more maiden listening this morning :

Weiss - Lute Works (Lindberg)

[SimonNZ]

[Mandryka]

Just found this, a sort of precursor to his well known Ecole du Nord CD, also at Belfort. Very good I think.