What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

Yes, I do, one of his many top masterpieces. I did listen the Mackerras. Absolutely stunning in every regard. Actually, Janacek didn't write any bad opera. Even the early Sarka and Osud have fantastic music, methinks.

Interesting. As much as I love Janáček, I don't believe I've heard Sarka or Osud. Looks like I've got more homework.

[Mirror Image]

Mahler
Symphony No. 7 in E minor
CSO
Abbado

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphonic Prologue

It's a pity there are so few recordings of Fernström's orchestral music. This piece is worth your attention. Sounds severe in mood with a certain sense of urgency in some fragments. Very substantial and its name doesn't do justice to the music.




Mi-Parti

Stunning. A feast of textures, sonorities, chaotic and oniric atmospheres, like a sort of musical collage.




Three Divertimenti

Three supremely delicious miniatures. Three mini-pieces with a personality.

[Symphonic Addict]

Interesting. As much as I love Janáček, I don't believe I've heard Sarka or Osud. Looks like I've got more homework.

Certainly. They shouldn't disappoint. This composer rarely wrote duds.

[Mirror Image]

Three Divertimenti

Three supremely delicious miniatures. Three mini-pieces with a personality.

My favorite English composer without a doubt in my mind. All of those works he wrote for string quartet are great even those earlier pieces. Have you explored many of his vocal works?

[Carlo Gesualdo]

I am listening tonight to thee splendid and superb skill of the out of this work surreal voice of the sound and the fury ensemble Gombert vol 1-3
There simply put amazing, nothing better had been done White Nicolas Gombert, It's fantastic, sublime , no one reach there sharpen knife in term of execution if they were surgeon and I need an operation I would trust them, very professional

The vol 1 is Missa Puchra es

The Vol 2 is Missa Milles Regrets

The vo 3 is Thee Motets (featuring a great favorite crux splendidor and super flumina babilonis)

That all folks, I do a little marathon tonight these tree tantastiic album on ORF the mighty label that arbor great talents, for franco-fflemish

[Que]

This morning I'm searching Spotify for some decent Palestrina recordings.

Tried some in the series by Sergio Vartolo (Bongiovanni)... horrible singing & conducting, with performances that seem to drag their way through... Vartolo and I really can't get along.
Torturous stuff, for me at least, nuff said. 

Next some of the huge Palestrina series by The Sixteen...
I can't recognise any Palestrina in this smooth eathereal stuff,  but I'm sure it's just me!

Then I stumbled upon this, which sounds much better:



Of course, the real danger is that I really like it and I'll have to try to find some rare OOP discs.. 

Q

[Harry]

This morning I'm searching Spotify for some decent Palestrina recordings.

Tried some in the series by Sergio Vartolo (Bongiovanni)... horrible singing & conducting, with performances that seem to drag their way through... Vartolo and I really can't get along.
Torturous stuff, for me at least, nuff said. 

Next some of the huge Palestrina series by The Sixteen...
I can't recognise any Palestrina in this smooth eathereal stuff,  but I'm sure it's just me!

Then I stumbled upon this, which sounds much better:



Of course, the real danger is that I really like it and I'll have to try to find some rare OOP discs.. 

Q

I threw away a few Vartolo discs, so I agree with you about the bad quality. The Sixteen is an absolute no go for me, I find the singing especially from the soprano' s horrible, and the whole concept of their performance style is unpalatable for me.

[Harry]

Johann Pachelbel.
Complete Keyboard Works.
Volume XI.
Miscellaneous works.
Simone Stella plays on a Pinchi-Skrabl organ from 2013.

Still a awesome project!

[Que]

I threw away a few Vartolo discs, so I agree with you about the bad quality. The Sixteen is an absolute no go for me, I find the singing especially from the soprano' s horrible, and the whole concept of their performance style is unpalatable for me.

We are in agreement.... 

[bergonzi]

Really interesting! Tks for this advice.

Johann Pachelbel.
Complete Keyboard Works.
Volume XI.
Miscellaneous works.
Simone Stella plays on a Pinchi-Skrabl organ from 2013.

Still a awesome project!

[Irons]

Chuffed on the home islands today here on the East Coast of the colonies.



Still have two Audio-Technica cartridges in their cases that I've yet to use. Needle diamonds have lasted quite well. 

Nice recording.

[The new erato]

We are in agreement.... 

it is strange to me how seriously underrecorded Palestrina is. And how many of the available recordings are made by large choirs in a too reverberant acoustic.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It's a fabulous work!

Do you own the Dacapo recording Jeffrey?

[71 dB]

Of course, the real danger is that I really like it and I'll have to try to find some rare OOP discs.. 

Q

Looks like the logic is: If you manage to produce a KILLER performance, release it as limited as possible! The whole World will want it so make only 500 copies of it! Hahahaa! People have to pay $900 for it in the eBay!! Hahahaah!!  On the other hand, if your recording is a dud, make millions of copies of it!! People won't want it even if given for free! 

[Que]

it is strange to me how seriously underrecorded Palestrina is. And how many of the available recordings are made by large choirs in a too reverberant acoustic.

Absolutely!

[Madiel]

Mozart, Mass in C minor K.139/47a, "Orphanage".

Traditionally numbered as mass no.4 but one of the earliest. Again I'm busy realising what certain 12-13 year old boys are capable of.

[ritter]

Some more Milhaud today (a purchase that arrived this morning).


I've never been a fan of the violin + piano combination, but was willing to give good old Darius's output in this genre a shot. The first CD opens with the Violin Sonata No.1, op. 3, written at the tender age of 19. Not at all what we'd expect from the mature Milhaud, even if the booklet notes claim that "the Sonata speaks clearly for the composer's aesthetic goals" (whatever that may mean); this is full-blown late-romantic violin sonata, and I find little to admire in it. Things improve significantly with the short Printemps, op 18 (from 1914), and the Violin Sonata No. 2, op. 40 (written in Brazil in 1917). These works really sound like Milhaud, with his unmistakable harmonic language, and this unique combination of joy and "sunshine" with a certain nostalgic tinge, that permeates so much of the composer's vast output. Despite my aversion to the violin sonata form, I'm actually enjoying these works.

The second CD has the works for viola (which are later in the composer's career--mid-1940s); let's see what they're like.

The Gran Duo Italiano (Mauro Tortorelli on the violin--and viola on CD 2--and Angela Meluso at the piano) play beautifully.

[steve ridgway]

Some more 1970 compositions last night. Boulez - Cummings Ist Der Dichter and Takemitsu - Eucalypts I.

[Traverso]

Cipriano De Rore