What are you listening 2 now?

[pi2000]

Ha, he seems to be right outside our old Kongelige Teater/Royal Theatre, on the Kongens Nytorv Square, where the Royal Danish Orchestra also gave concerts with him ... but he's reading an Italian newspaper, apparently; I also had a job once selling foreign newspapers from a kiosk. Contrary to what you'd probably think, he was apparently very sensitive to local reviews, and when the reviewer Hansgeorg Lenz (who was a Karajan fan, but often insightsful) criticized him in the newspaper "Information", it made him angry enough to cancel work here.

The concert is rather "light" for Celibidache but very nice (and fragments from an interview)

[MusicTurner]

Interesting. There's a "Bolero" live video with him from Copenhagen on you-tube from 1971 (?), maybe actually the same.

[DavidW]

Schubert's 9th
Delius and Elgar Violin Sonatas

[Biffo]

Bax: Tintagel - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

[prémont]

Ha, he seems to be right outside our old Kongelige Teater/Royal Theatre, on the Kongens Nytorv Square, where the Royal Danish Orchestra also gave concerts with him ... but he's reading an Italian newspaper, apparently;

Well spotted!

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - Keyboard Sonatas - Ekaterina Derzhavina vs. Ronald Brautigam (on a Paul McNulty fortepiano, Amsterdam, 1992 after Anton Walter, ca. 1795) - just alternating the first few discs of each box; box sizes vary, i.e. 9 vs. 15, the latter for Brautigam who includes a lot of 'other' solo piano works + the Seven Last Words of Christ (piano version); also the 'time spans' of these recordings are quite different, i.e. 1993-2008 for Derzhavina and 1998-2002 for Brautigam; reviews attached, for those interested.

Also own the 14-CD set w/ Christine Schornsheim - must say that I've culled others out over the years and these 3 boxes remain in my collection, all enjoyed by me - so no changes to be made -    Dave

   

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Now listening to works directed by Alejandro Planchart & Capella Cordina, there Lyricord, may god or providence be my witness love Lyricord recording, highly praise them, as top notch, it there of media quality & recording overall.

So now playing: Ars Nova by afore mention director and ensemble , prodige for respective era 60-70'',.

After the program his Johannes Ockeghem:  Missa Caput, motets & chanson LP



My personal views, his Masse, Missa Caput his one of the best I have ever heard before or after, he understood Ockeghem more than anyone, fluid & clear, cream of excellence!


Have a nice day fellows

[Todd]

Exactly as good as it should be.

[Florestan]

Haydn, Joseph - Keyboard Sonatas - Ekaterina Derzhavina vs. Ronald Brautigam (on a Paul McNulty fortepiano, Amsterdam, 1992 after Anton Walter, ca. 1795) - just alternating the first few discs of each box; box sizes vary, i.e. 9 vs. 15, the latter for Brautigam who includes a lot of 'other' solo piano works + the Seven Last Words of Christ (piano version); also the 'time spans' of these recordings are quite different, i.e. 1993-2008 for Derzhavina and 1998-2002 for Brautigam; reviews attached, for those interested.

Also own the 14-CD set w/ Christine Schornsheim - must say that I've culled others out over the years and these 3 boxes remain in my collection, all enjoyed by me - so no changes to be made -    Dave

   

There's also this:



which I've listened through in its entirety during the 2020 lockdown and was an unending source of joy.

And this:



which I also have but didn't listen to --- the same goes for the Derzhavina and Brautigam sets.

[Karl Henning]

There's all the difference in the world between electing to listen to some music, and its being all that the local station plays....

Welcome home, Lenny!

LvB Symphony № 1 in C, Op. 21
Symphony № 3 (Héroïque), Op. 55
NY Phil
Lenny

[Fëanor]

I quite enjoyed this relaxing piano sonata/nocturne ...

Elliott Carter:  Night Fantasies {1980} ~ Paul Jacobs

[Karl Henning]

I quite enjoyed this relaxing piano sonata/nocturne ...

Elliott Carter:  Night Fantasies {1980} ~ Paul Jacobs

Sweet!

[ritter]

I quite enjoyed this relaxing piano sonata/nocturne ...

Elliott Carter:  Night Fantasies {1980} ~ Paul Jacobs

Splendid idea! I'll join you with the same piece, but played by a different pianist, Charles Rosen.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

A greater French influence on these German dance suites than I anticipated, though I knew full-well that influence was widespread at the time, post-Thirty Years War.  A lot of fun :

[SimonNZ]

[André]

I know it's probably a coincidence, but my favourite performances of the Missa all clock in at around 80 minutes. Slow enough to let the devotional aspect develop properly (a mass is a liturgical ritual) and energetic enough to make the big fugues the aural equivalents of a cathedral nave's pillars: daunting in their girth, breathtaking in their height.

One thing that Haitink achieves with uncanny accuracy - better than anyone else actually - is the capital role of the timpani in marking the rythm. Sharp and sonorous at once, the music bouncing from the timp strokes like from a springboard. Another big plus here is the wonderfully precise singing of the chorus: sharply articulated and sung with perfect intonation.

The soloists are very good, but the bass Hanno Müller-Brachmann distinguishes himself with splendid singing in the Agnus Dei. The violin solo in the Benedictus is superb, but when the vocal soloists enter it should recede a bit, his role becoming more accompaniment than commentary IMO. It sounds as if there's one soloist too many.

All told, a superb performance and one of the best Missas on disc.

[ritter]

And now, volume 2 of Françoise Choveaux's traversal of Milhaud's piano music.


This CD includes the two books of Printemps, L'Automne, La muse ménagère and othe shorter pieces.

[DavidW]

RVW's 8th

[Todd]

Better than it should be, really.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello enjoying right now  an obscur  llate renaissance or more so early baroque made in Nouvelle-France era, Quebec ,Canada, North America in the end, we get an interesting program here all lesser know almost forgotten composer: Jean-Batiste Geoffroy*, Anrdé Campra, Henry Du Mont (not to be confused whit Southern Flanders  composer of same era), Artus-Aux-Cousteaux**, Charle Amador Martin, Paul Nivers.

Whit the following album



ATMA Musique sacrée en Nouvelle-France CD

*Left us Motets
**left us a missa

Interesting CD for local and people looking for exotic ancient music of this era, in new world.

P.s Perhaps they left us more Missa or Motets, we don't know much on  these two * & **