What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

John Bull.
In Nomine.
Selected Keyboard Works.
Thilo Muster, plays on a Historical organ at the St. Thomas de Cantorbery, (Thomas Beckett) de Mont Saint Aignan, (Normandie)
Unequal temperament. The Pitch is not given in the booklet.
Restored and reconstruction by Pascal Quorin 2001.

Thank you Que, for alerting me to this recording, it has become one of my favourites this year.

My pleasure! 
It's the quality of the performances combined with the uniqueness of the organ that makes it to me one of the extraspecial ones.

Q

PS More information on the organ here:

http://orguesfrance.com/MontStAignanStThomas.html

Pitch is 440 Hz

[Que]

[Madiel]

Fauré, Pelléas et Mélisande (1898)



Sibelius, Pelléas och Mélisande (1905)



Schoenberg, Pelleas und Melisande (1903)

[Traverso]

I've never heard of this recording—what do you think?

Now playing:



Johann Sebastian Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079. Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

This is an amazing recording!! I might like it as much as the Jordi Savall—compared to it, this has more of a precise, "academic" feeling, for lack of a better descriptor, which I think fits this work very well. I wouldn't want to be without either recording, and I actually have a third Musical Offering en route to me as well, with Leonhardt & the Kuijkens. I love this work. It and BWV 1080 are twin peaks of Bach's contrapuntal art at its most developed.

This Lucy van Dael recording is a very fine one,she was concertmaster of the Orchestra of the 18th Century for 18 years. She is also a member of the Amsterdam Fortepiano Trio and L'Archibudelli. Lucy Van Dael plays a very nice instrument  the CD  hardly gives any information, I think this recording is very worthwhile and it certainly has my preference over many famous names.

https://www.youtube.com/v/CUfuVXtGb40

[Harry]

New acquisition. (September 2020)

Karl Goldmark.
Symphonic Poems, Volume I.

Bamberger Symphoniker, Fabrice Bollon.

Overture, Sakuntala/Penthesilea/Sappho.
Scherzo for Orchestra, opus 19 & 45.

Little known works by a composer I have a weak spot for. Started listening to Goldmark's music when 16, taped by a girlfriend of mine, and since then I have a fascination for what Goldmark composed.
Sappho is quite a mesmerizing piece, as is the Scherzo opus 45 in A major. Both works hold the essence of his musical style, beautifully captured by this orchestra.

[Traverso]

Nicolas Vallet

[vers la flamme]

William Byrd: Mass for 4 voices. The Hilliard Ensemble

First listen to this disc which I got yesterday, and first serious listen to this composer, a Catholic in Elizabethan England. Very rich high Renaissance polyphony with a very liturgical tone. Good stuff!

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Stanley Bate - Symphony No.3

[Harry]

New acquisition, (September 2020)

Johann Strauss.

Aschenbrödel, Complete Ballet.

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Ernst Theis.

I knew that at a certain point in his long lasting career Strauss wrote a ballet, which was just in his alley considering his talent for waltzes. When he had written about 450 pages of music, drafts, corrections and melodic fragments, he died suddenly of a double pneumonia, and left it to his widow and Josef Bayer, also a renowned composer of popular ballets. He quickly made a sketch of the ballet and combined all music together. It was performed a couple of times but failed to charm the musical directors amongst them Gustav Mahler and Emil Graeb, and so was only performed in a truncated way, and finally forgotten. The conductor on this CD started reconstruction in 2001 with the music from the truncated version, for the original papers by Strauss had been stolen, but recovered by the German agencies, no dates given or any other details where it was found.
I am happy about this recording, finally hearing this work, thus it charms me no end. The performance and recording is excellent, and a huge satisfying addition to my large ballet collection, after all my favourite music genre!

[vandermolen]

Good afternoon all,

Stanley Bate - Symphony No.3

Make sure that you listen to Chisholm's 'Pictures from Dante' as well Olivier.

[Todd]

[Papy Oli]

Make sure that you listen to Chisholm's 'Pictures from Dante' as well Olivier.

Oh I did, Jeffrey. Terrific works. No idea why I didn't like that Bate 3 on the previous attempts either. Both great works. Definitely a future purchase.

[Christo]

Good afternoon all,

Stanley Bate - Symphony No.3

I play it every few months & am always impressed by it again: one of the real 'discoveries' from the last ten years.

[Todd]

Another go.  Jed Distler almost praised this recording enough.  (I mean, it cannot be praised highly enough.)

[Harry]

New acquisition. (September 2020)

Heinrich Sutermeister.
Orchestral Works Volume I.

Romeo and Juliet, Symphonic suite for Large orchestra. (1940)
Die Alpen: Fantasy on Swiss Folksongs for Orchestra and speaker, (1946-48)
Aubade pour Morges. (1978-79)
Divertimento No. 2. (1959-60)

Bruno Cathomas, Speaker.
Royal PO, Rainer Held.

Absolutely brilliant, and a great discovery.

[vandermolen]

Oh I did, Jeffrey. Terrific works. No idea why I didn't like that Bate 3 on the previous attempts either. Both great works. Definitely a future purchase.

[vandermolen]

I play it every few months & am always impressed by it again: one of the real 'discoveries' from the last ten years.

+1 - it is one of my very favourite Dutton discs, along with Arnell's 3rd and 5th symphonies.

[André]

New acquisition. (September 2020)

Heinrich Sutermeister.
Orchestral Works Volume I.

Romeo and Juliet, Symphonic suite for Large orchestra. (1940)
Die Alpen: Fantasy on Swiss Folksongs for Orchestra and speaker, (1946-48)
Aubade pour Morges. (1978-79)
Divertimento No. 2. (1959-60)

Bruno Cathomas, Speaker.
Royal PO, Rainer Held.

Absolutely brilliant, and a great discovery.

Thanks for your comments, Harry !

It's in my JPC cart, but I'm afraid it won't get here any time soon  .

[Papy Oli]

Lots of ruthless short random sampling in the last 2-3 days on Qobuz.

Lots more of enticing new stuff to me that made the cut, many new composers* as well:

*Langgaard (symphonies, string quartets) 
Holmboe (chamber music, chamber Ctos, sinfonias)
Wiren (String quartets)
*Madetoja (symphonies)
*Peterson-Berger (symphonies)
*Gade (sonatas for violin and piano, symphonies)
Sibelius (Tone Poems - BIS edition)
*Frescobaldi (Harpsichord works - Rousset)
*Heino Eller - Symphonic Poems
*Sweelinck - Cantiones Sacrae
*Scriabin - symphony No.1, Poeme de l'Extase
*Italian Virtuosi of the Chitarrone (Jakob Lindberg)
*Bloch (Symphony in C)
Bach (Violin Ctos - Faust)
*Liadov (Orchestral Works)
Enescu (Symphonies)
*Melartin (symphonies)
*Kalliwoda (symphonies)
Novak (Serenades, In the Tatras Mountains)
*Pfitzner (symphony in C, String quartets)
Bach (concertos for several instruments - Cafe Zimmerman)
CPE Bach (symphonies, Cello Cto, sonatas for Violin and Piano)
Braga Santos (Concerto for Strings)

Happy with that 

TD:

Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony (Haitink).

[Traverso]

Telemann