What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

A superb set, especially for the late quartets IMHO.

Many listeners have talked about this set, but I honestly find myself more drawn the Alban Berg Quartett's first cycle on EMI. I like my Beethoven a bit more steely and volatile. The Takács are an excellent quartet as I love their Bartók and Janáček for example, but this Beethoven so far sounds like a misfire or it's simply not the kind of interpretation that I gravitate towards.

[Karl Henning]

Bernstein
Symphony № 3 « Kaddish »
Jennie Tourel, mezzo
Felicia Montealegre, speaker
Camerata Singers
Columbus Boychoir
NY Phil
The composer conducting

[Karl Henning]

Bernstein
Symphony № 3 « Kaddish »
Jennie Tourel, mezzo
Felicia Montealegre, speaker
Camerata Singers
Columbus Boychoir
NY Phil
The composer conducting

The Kaddish has also grown on me over time.  Love this one, too.

[Mirror Image]

The Kaddish has also grown on me over time.  Love this one, too.

Yes, it is a fine work, indeed. I usually don't like narration in music, but I didn't mind the Kaddish. This earlier performance from Bernstein is the best one I've heard.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Schoenberg Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22 (Wyn-Rogers/Craft)



A little side note: you know, it still seems odd to me that UMG hasn't issued a Schoenberg Edition or something along these lines, especially since DG has issued complete editions of Berg and Webern.

[Karl Henning]

RVW
A London Symphony
LSO
Previn

[Symphonic Addict]

The sixth. The fourth movement is my favorite of this work. Sparkling and fantastically developed.

[SimonNZ]

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Three instants classics of C.M, composers of Kingdom of Burgundy, por favor!

Shawl we!!, perhaps I'm the only one here that had enjoy Johannes Tinctoris LP on NON-SUCH label, close to Ockeghem yet lesser or deep and prolific, but the feather & ink usage to write this work: Missa Trium Vocum is similar in a way, since same time span hey?, this one  just finished listen, now I am captivated by Ockeghem : Missa Caput on Lyricord, heck!! he's super director, quality label, Flemish Master, were can someone get wrong whit this, it's fabulous in analogue, the B-side is Chansons, will skip this and now, gonna spin Josquin/Pierre de Manchicourt on label BAM, whit Manchicourt Mass called: Quo Abiit Dilectus Tuus, don't know if wrong on this but this is a rare Mass, never seen others ensembles perform it...

Later on in Digital might listen to the new Gombert Masses on
Fra Bernardo's (Beauty Farm ensemble) in CD format the two of them, this mean four others Masses.


Goodnight, farewell, goodbye for now and take good care okay 

[Symphonic Addict]

The fourth. I like the pacing and playing here because of the details and the grandeur displayed. Really appealing to me. Fast tempos are not always akin to my tastes.

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Eonta.

[vandermolen]

Cheers, Jeffrey ... and now, of course:

Bernstein
Symphony № 2 « The Age of Anxiety »
Philippe Entremont, pf
NY Phil
The composer conducting

The Age of Anxiety is my favorite of Lenny's symphonies, but Jeremiah comes a close second

'The Age of Anxiety' is a work that I've increasingly come to appreciate in recent years Karl. I like Slatkin's recording. This morning I'm continuing my survey of selected Vaughan Williams recording conducted by Leonard Slatkin:

[vandermolen]

No, it's the regular quiet ending. Svetlanov also used a big bang final chord on Dvorak's New World symphony. It's a live performance, so maybe he tampered with scores in concert and not on disc.

OK, thanks André.

[vandermolen]

Again, ostensibly because this still makes only three times I've listened to the wonderful Harris, but also because, with all the discussion in the Dvořák thread, I knew that the e minor symphony would be perfect morning music.

Dvořák
Symphony № 9 in e minor, « From the New World »
Harris
Symphony № 3 (in one movement)
NY Phil
Lenny

Harris's 3rd Symphony is one of my favourites. My older brother had it on a marvellous CBS LP coupled with Bernstein's 'Jeremiah' (great cover art too) so, I have known both works for decades IMO these are the finest recorded performances of both works. I'm sorry that these performances have never been coupled together on CD:

[vandermolen]

Yes, it is a fine work, indeed. I usually don't like narration in music, but I didn't mind the Kaddish. This earlier performance from Bernstein is the best one I've heard.

I need to get my head round that work!

[Que]

Morning listening: another performance of the Lamentations by Emilio De' Cavalieri

[Harry]

Starting this morning with:

German Baroque Sacred Music.
Passion & Resurrection.
CD IV.
Works by Nicolaus Bruhns, Georg Böhm, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Michael Bach, Johann Christoph Bach.

Ricercar Consort.
Les Agremens.
Choir de Chambre de Namur, Jean Tubery.
Cappella Sancti Michaelis, Eric van Nevel.
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe.

In general a fine box with good music and performances. The Works by Nicolaus Bruhns are a highlight for me.

[Harry]

J.S Bach.
Complete Organ Works, Volume VII.
18 chorales, Part II, Partita, Prelude and Fugue.
Prelude & Fugue in A minor ("The Great"), BWV 543
Eighteen (Leipzig) Chorales (Part 2):
Chorale Prelude Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (II), BWV 659
Chorale Prelude (Trio super) Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (I), BWV 660
Chorale Prelude Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (IV), BWV 661
Chorale Prelude Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (I), BWV 662
Chorale Prelude Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (III), BWV 663
Chorale Prelude (Trio super) Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 664
Chorale Prelude Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (II), BWV 665
Chorale Prelude Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (IV), BWV 666
Chorale Prelude Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist (III), BWV 667
Chorale Prelude Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit (I), BWV 668
Chorale Partita O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767

Ewald Kooiman plays on a Anthony Hinsz organ 1738, Broederkerk, Kampen, The Netherlands.
Tuning after Hinsz, A=ca 443 Hz.

Like part I every bit as successful. The same beautiful Hinsz organ is used, and the wellness applied by Kooiman is soothing and rewarding at the same time.

[Que]

Well Harry, your impressions on Kooiman's Coronata cycle confirm my own positive impressions based on the few bits I've heard. 

Listening now just in:



I had some "collector's anxiety" when I discovered that I somehow inadvertently missed/skipped this volume in the violin concertos series, and that it was seriously OOP with some insane prices...

Lo and behold... suddenly an affordable used copy appeared offered by Momox/Medimops, which turns out to be "as new" without the cellophane. Phew!    And stunning performances as well...

Q

[Biffo]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat major, K 271 - English Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim conductor & soloist