What are you listening 2 now?

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Up next, Hanson's Organ Concerto, along with a bite to eat ("if music be the food of love..."):

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This recording:

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NP: Reger: Cello Sonata No. 3 In F Major, Op. 78 (Reimund Korupp, Rudolf Meister)

[Sergeant Rock]

Prokofiev Symphony No. 5, Celi conducting the SWR Stuttgart RSO




Sarge

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NP: Stravinsky Le Chant du rossignol (Maazel)



I don't believe I've even listened to this Stravinsky performance from Maazel and I've owned this box set for over a decade or more. Anyway, this is so good.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Antoine Forqueray was "the foremost viol player of his day."  And likely also the most vile-tempered, a shame about the wife (and child) beating...

[vers la flamme]

I realized too late that today was International Women's Day, but figured I could still honor it a bit. So after a bit of Clara Schumann I decided to put on this great performance:



Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47. Hilary Hahn, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

What a performance.

[Brahmsian]

I realized too late that today was International Women's Day, but figured I could still honor it a bit. So after a bit of Clara Schumann I decided to put on this great performance:



Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47. Hilary Hahn, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

What a performance.

Indeed a marvelous performance! 

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Indeed a marvelous performance! 

+ 1 After the Haendel/Berglund performance, this one is my go-to for this concerto.

[André]

Better known as Hercules. Produced in Rome, where pontifical law forbade women on stage, it was cast with one tenor (Hercules) and seven castrati singing the various male and female roles. In this production there are two tenors, a countertenor and five women. Stellar cast, great singing and playing. Mezzos Joyce Di Donato and Romina Basso are outstanding. Tenor Rolando Villazón is a charismatic Hercules. A superb production.

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NP: Boulanger Psalm 130, 'Du fond de l'abime' (Stringer et. al.)

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello guys, listening to Tomas Luis De Victoria -Officium Defunctorum
on Lauda Label Spain

-La grande Chapelle & Albert Recasens/Schola Antiqua JuanCarlos Asensio
The CD media sleeve looks good and the CD sound so good, THIS IS A 2020 album , I suspect this is a super audio CD.

Had five CD's of Victoria, one of Nordic voice The motets which was super but lost it, two on Accent label that were drab to me, one on Dorian that did not impressed me, last a Naxos  that was lifeless for my expectancy toward the composer. So I had a love and hate  syndrome of this composer, felt at first he was a bid boring, too orthodox, but whit this awesome by Lauda & Nordic Voices my idea on the persona and skill of De Victoria change.

Did the same genre of experience happen to , you were not sold to a composer until you would listen to the right albums. Rarely find composer of renaissance not captivating, all you need is buy the right albums this exploration demand cash, to find the right one.

Goodnight : friend , music lovers, musicologist, fan of my post if there is any, take care.

P.s I order The forgotten Kingdom an old 2010 album of Jordi Savall 3 CD, look and sound surreal, had it in download but sometime you loose download and it's lame, and the sound is better you have a media actually iit's brand new and I feel the CD was becoming out of print at Presto Classical everywhere, only on music market it was available witch is: Ebay and I don't make affair whit Amazon, got trouble once, so I purchase it and it's coming my way in the mail.

[JBS]

Another installment of le Maitre Pierre

[vers la flamme]

Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No.1. Silesian Quartet

Another great female composer... I need to get to know these quartets better.

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Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No.1. Silesian Quartet

Another great female composer... I need to get to know these quartets better.

As do I, as do I...

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Another installment of le Maitre Pierre

Very nice, I think I'll join you:

Boulez Pli selon pli (Christine Schäfer/Boulez)

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Since it's women's day I am listening to Saints Inouis album by ensemble Scholastica - Rebecca Bain & Pascal Duhamel, remind me of Hildegard von Bingen, it's written on album  lost sacred chants, found of XII.

Hello lady out there and listening afterward to Hyperion Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - A feather on the breath of GOD-, by gothic voices.

splendid!

[Symphonic Addict]

Alan Rawsthorne is not a composer with whom I have too much affinity, and this disc kind of confirms that, except for the SQ in D major which has engaging and "warmer" music, and possibly the 3rd SQ. IOW, these works do justice to his last name by making a word game: raw and thorny.

[DavidW]

For the day-- Amy Beach's piano concerto.

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Closing out tonight's listening session with an all Szymanowski program:

Métopes, Op. 29
Violin Sonata, Op. 9
Veni Creator, Op. 57

From these recordings: