What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

I've decided to get on with trying to be more familiar with Haydn's last 6 great Masses.

Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida, or "Heiligmesse".

[Harry]

New arrival, first listen.

Miklos Rozsa.
Orchestral Works, Volume II.
Jennifer Pike, Violin.
Paul Watkins, Cello.
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba.

A really energizing adventure. What a marvelous orchestrator he is.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Dominique Phinot on ensemble scandinus, is it better than Ensemble Brabant effort, nope only different, I love the work of this composer is motets  or so strong he wrote 90 of them can Beauty Farm  do it  his 90 motet is  is best in two  double CD or a triple CD, ambitious task  but I would by it that for sure, Motets of 16th century is what I like best like Gombert and Lully after there were gay but who care when you listen to there music is marvelous, I search long time to find an equivalent sound polychoral polyphony and found this composer remarkable , but if your looking for an all Motets CD you will be disappointed since they are scattered on few's CD and his Motets or so neglected he highly would influence Palestrina Heinrich Fink highly regard is work ass one of the best composer of is time I quote him, he would use same ink as Gombert you can sometime mystake these two if your a nnnoob to polyphony, yet he is so non explore his Motets should be all printed together because they were the best he did Naxos should do it 3 separated CD..

His musssic show a rare perfume, not heard before or after?
Who agree whit me?

Seem I am the only one that agree he was a great composer but little is know about is work his motets need more exposure just like Pierre Moulu which is remarkable too and not explore enough by ensemble and musicologists which is sad to me ...

[Harry]

New acquisition, first listen.

Bohuslav Martinu.
Early orchestral works, Volume three.

Vanishing Midnight.
Ballade, after Böcklin's picture Villa by the Sea.
Dream of the past.

Sinfonia Varsovia, Ian Hobson.
Agnieszka Kopacka, Piano

Well worth hearing.....

[Biffo]

Martinu: Sonata for Cello and Piano No 3 - Janos Starker cello & Rudolf Firkusny piano

[MusicTurner]

Händel - Belshazzar /Knothe,Schreier etc. /Brilliant 40CD box. Sung in German.

The reviewer I linked to above for this set doesn't, very idiosyncratically, like Händel in the Grand Manner, and gave it a very poor rating, just because of that. But so far, it's a perfectly suitable recording, I think.

Whereas his appraisal of Auger in the more intimate German Cantatas in that set is perhaps exaggerated; they seem a bit bland to me.

[Maestro267]

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection")
Auger (soprano), Baker (contralto)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham SO/Rattle

[Florestan]

Rachmaninoff without tunes... The Russian Brahms... Rubbish! Medtner was his own man, with a distinctive voice. If need for comparison be, I'd say that his wide literary culture and his drawing inspiration from it, his almost childlike purity of feeling and thought as well as his uncompromising nature regarding his own music remind me of Schumann more than anyone else.

[Harry]

Johann Pachelbel.
Complete Keyboard works, volume XIII.
Simone Stella plays on a Pinchi-Skrabl organ, 2013.

The last CD in this box, and my conclusion is that if you love the music of Bach, you cannot do without Pachelbel, and this unique and wonderful interpretation by Stella. As a bonus you also get a magnificent organ on this recording Nothing left to wish for.

[ritter]

Rachmaninoff without tunes... The Russian Brahms... Rubbish! Medtner was his own man, with a distinctive voice. If need for comparison be, I'd say that his wide literary culture and his drawing inspiration from it, his almost childlike purity of feeling and thought as well as his uncompromising nature regarding his own music remind me of Schumann more than anyone else.

But from that picture on the cover, one would think that even the pianist herself fell asleep at the keyboard (granted, with a big smile on her face)...

Good day to you, Andrei.

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

CD 13

Soantas KK 204a-216

[Harry]

Erkki Melartin.

Symphonies, No. 5 & 6

Tampere PO. Leonid Grin.

[MusicTurner]

Birtwistle - Chamber Music /Batiashvili etc. /ecm CD

One of the most immediately striking CDs of contemporary British music I've come across. If sparse, more lyrical than you'd perhaps think, in relation this composer.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8039742--harrison-birtwistle-chamber-music

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Messiaen

2 CD 1994

La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ

[Mirror Image]

Janáček
Otcenáš 'Our Father'
Jamie MacDougall (tenor)
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Hugh Webb (harp)
New London Chamber Choir
James Wood

[Biffo]

Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D major - Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli - live recording from October 1964. Superb performance.

[Florestan]

Good day to you, Andrei.

Cheers, Rafael.

[The new erato]

Tubin 3 & 5 from BIS, as well as some Milhaud backlog.

[kyjo]

I think his neglect is justified, IMHO.

Well you can keep your 2nd Viennese School for all I'm concerned I bet just a couple months ago you would've loved Fernström's music. Now only the "great revolutionary masters" of the 20th century matter to you.