What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

What did you expect from someone who listens to Music for Advent and Christmas from an ensemble called "The Suspicious Cheese-Lords"? And isn't "wrong" the theme of 2020?

[Traverso]

Mahler

Symphony No.1

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Very nice! I have the RVW recording on the left, but I can't locate it, so this one will do:

...with Dame Janet Baker?  That one will certainly 'do'! 

Caught the tail end of the 9 Lessons and Carols (was doing a bit more food shopping with a friend and then had to put things away)....will have a think about what to listen to now.

PD

[Mirror Image]

...with Dame Janet Baker?  That one will certainly 'do'! 

Yes, indeed! A majestic performance all-around.

[Que]

Christmas Eve has arrived....




Happy Holidays to all! 

Q

[Florestan]

Christmas Eve has arrived....




Happy Holidays to all! 

Q

To you as well, Que!

[Traverso]

Christmas Eve has arrived....




Happy Holidays to all! 

Q

I wish everyone happy days! 

[Karl Henning]

Scarlatti

CD 34


sonatas  KK 81-88-91,287,288 & 328

You've motivated me to revisit that wonderful box, and I am alternately listening to the Prokofiev Sonatas

https://www.youtube.com/v/hGRWUiO37s4

[SonicMan46]

New arrival:

Mozart, WA - String Quartets, Last 10 w/ the Klenke Quartett - just started listening to first two discs (although I had made a Spotify playlist last week for a 'test drive') - well reviewed, especially from Jerry Dubins (see attachment if interested); complements my current collection of the Quartetto Italiano in all of the early & mature works and the PI performances of the Quatuor Mosaiques in the last ten SQs - the packaging is excellent, i.e. all 5 discs contained in a 2-CD size jewel box for easy storage. Recorded in 2004-2007 but just 'boxed up' last year.   Dave

 

[Brass Hole]

New arrival:

Mozart, WA w/ the Klenke Quartett - just started listening to first two discs

You are welcome, GMG forum veteran.

[Brahmsian]

You are welcome, GMG forum veteran.

Brass Hole, how does this recording of the Mozart string quintets compare with the Talich?

[Karl Henning]

New arrival:

Mozart, WA - String Quartets, Last 10 w/ the Klenke Quartett - just started listening to first two discs (although I had made a Spotify playlist last week for a 'test drive') - well reviewed, especially from Jerry Dubins (see attachment if interested); complements my current collection of the Quartetto Italiano in all of the early & mature works and the PI performances of the Quatuor Mosaiques in the last ten SQs - the packaging is excellent, i.e. all 5 discs contained in a 2-CD size jewel box for easy storage. Recorded in 2004-2007 but just 'boxed up' last year.   Dave

 

Nice!

[Brass Hole]

Brass Hole, how does this recording of the Mozart string quintets compare with the Talich?

First of all, he is talking about quartets. You can replace the "Quartetto Italiano" in his justification with "Talich" and the meaning wouldn't change as Talich is almost as superb. Klenke's quartets as supplement with any combination of Alban Berg on Teldec, Leipziger, QI and Talich supported by Festetics or Mosaiques is justifiable.
Quintets are a different story, 515 and especially 516 are masterworks. Rehak with Talich is among my favorites. Klenke is fighting for the 7th or 8th place.

[Florestan]

First of all, he is talking about quartets. You can replace the "Quartetto Italiano" in his justification with "Talich" and the meaning wouldn't change as Talich is almost as superb. Klenke's quartets as supplement with any combination of Alban Berg on Teldec, Leipziger, QI and Talich supported by Festetics or Mosaiques is justifiable.
Quintets are a different story, 515 and especially 516 are masterworks. Rehak with Talich is among my favorites. Klenke is fighting for the 7th or 8th place.

Are you familiar with this?



I've recently finished listening to the whole thing and was blown away by the consistently superb performances and great sonics.

[Brahmsian]

First of all, he is talking about quartets. You can replace the "Quartetto Italiano" in his justification with "Talich" and the meaning wouldn't change as Talich is almost as superb. Klenke's quartets as supplement with any combination of Alban Berg on Teldec, Leipziger, QI and Talich supported by Festetics or Mosaiques is justifiable.
Quintets are a different story, 515 and especially 516 are masterworks. Rehak with Talich is among my favorites. Klenke is fighting for the 7th or 8th place.

My apologies. I thought I saw quintets. My mistake.

Thank you, though. I do enjoy Alban Berg in the quartets.

[Brass Hole]

Are you familiar with this?



I've recently finished listening to the whole thing and was blown away by the consistently superb performances and great sonics.

Wow! I know it from my LP times. I didn't know that it existed on digital. They were fine in the 60s. I'm done with the quartets unless any of my favorite current HIP ensembles take them on.

[Florestan]

Wow! I know it from my LP times. I didn't know that it existed on digital. They were fine in the 60s.

Thanks.

[André]

Two masses from different periods in Haydn's life, 1777 (before his appointment at the court of the Salzburg Archbishop) and 1805, a mere 9 months before his death. Both are written for small forces: soli are SSA, the chorus is also SSA, and the instrumental complement consists of 2 violins, basso continuo and organ, both as basso continuo and as a solo instrument. These are intimate, joyous, carefree works. The passion and entombment are evoked with a kind of chaste sorrow. Quite wonderful.

Unadvertised on the disc cover is another such mass by one Hans Kössler (1853-1926), described in the notes as belonging to the Rheinberger school. He had a rather prestigious professional career as a teacher, first in Cologne, then Budapest, where he taught Bartók, Kodály and Dohnányi. Kössler's mass is for female voices with organ accompaniment. It displays some chromaticism, but otherwise it is in the same spirit as Haydn's works. Both composers' view of Catholicism seem to have been of the kind, gentle persuasion. No tortured spirits, these two. Performances, sound and presentation are top notch.

[Florestan]

Both composers' view of Catholicism seem to have been of the kind, gentle persuasion. No tortured spirits, these two.

They're in good company: Vivaldi, (the other) Haydn, Mozart...

Btw, I've always wondered how a Protestant-born, tortured spirit like Schumann could compose such a serene, gentle and kind Requiem. 

[Christo]

Very nice! I have the RVW recording on the left, but I can't locate it, so this one will do:

Another all-time favourite. For now a newer edition, still an all-Vaughan Williams Christmas, serves equally well: