What are you listening 2 now?

[Carlo Gesualdo]

ARS BRITANNICA- Old Hall Manuscrit / Lute Songs & Madrigals, Pro Cantione Antiqua and remarkable director 90 year old now happy birthday, you done so much for music. On Das Alte Werk/ Telefunken, so this is three LP's.

Neat offering it's either this or the French Chanson genre, Claude LE Jeune, de Jacques Feuillies lol. Three LP's called Le Printemps on label Arion.

[Mirror Image]

Alright, that's all the Dvořák I'm going to be able to take for quite some time...

In response to Mandryka's question about more modern performances of Debussy's Préludes, Book II...

NP:

Debussy
Préludes, Book II
Sasaki



You simply need to listen to this Mandryka. Her touch is magnificent and, interpretatively, Sasaki must be in some kind of hallucinogenic dream state. My mind certainly feels at one and completely at peace in this performance.

[Symphonic Addict]

Walton: String Quartet No. 1
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1

I'm surprised by how dissonant and daring Walton's String Quartet (from 1922) is. Being an early work, it's nothing short of brilliant and substantial. Very glad to having revisited it.

Schumann's quartet has impressed me once again. This is really fine music. The 2nd movement is just exciting in its marked drive. These could be my reference recordings for Schumann's string quartets. Superlative playing from all involved.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Adrian Willaert, the Flemish master, of master , wrote Motets worth your time, whit ensemble Singer Pur from Austria, top notch rendition , make these Motets fluid and warm, bold, may I dare say there his some sort of Beauty Farm splendor to the work whiteout being related. Great super release, in CD format, sound's better than a download, anyway, ya know my liking for well elaborated motets, well?, there we are ,

[Madiel]

I have the original issues of those. The photos were all DSCH at or about the same time as the symphony on the CD. In this case it's [I'm fairly sure] Shostakovich, Barshai (as conductor) and the vocal soloists taking their bow at one of the symphony's premiere performances.

To be precise, it was taken on 1 October 1969 after a performance in Leningrad. So based on other information that's 2 days after the premiere.

[Mirror Image]

One more work before bed:

Prokofiev
Visions Fugitives, Op. 22
Raekallio



Oh...this box set is going to be good. Raekallio is superb.

[vandermolen]

Concerto gregoriano

It always intrigues me how similar the 1st movement sounds to anything by VW.

When I first heard it on the radio I thought that it must be something by Finzi.

[Que]

Morning listening via Spotify:



I'm quite taken with this cycle!

Which is a mixed blessing, since these are four separate, expensive volumes... 

Q

[vandermolen]

Walton: Henry V
My favourite CD of Walton's film music:

[The new erato]

I grabbed a random Mozart disc from this set and was so captivated that, a few days later, I've played more or less all 11 discs in it:



Marvellous playing, fine sound, and all those old masters one tends to forget while exploring all those exciting new issues. Mozart, Haydn and Schubert, just wow!

BTW; Mozart's late quartets contains some of his very best music.

[Irons]

Such an endearing piece indeed. The very gentle beginning always puts me in the right mood.

I do like this side of Arnold. My mood was further improved by the English and Scottish Dances.

[Harry]

J.S. Bach: Orgelwerke, Vol. 11: Klavierübung III (2)
Clavier-Übung III (Part 2 - The Smaller Chorales):


1. Chorale Prelude Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (II), BWV 672 [1:30]
2. Chorale Prelude Christe, aller Welt Trost (II), BWV 673 [1:40]
3. Chorale Prelude Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (II), BWV 674 [1:48]
4. Chorale Prelude Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (V), BWV 675 [3:31]
5. Chorale Prelude (Fughetta super) Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 677 [1:21]
6. Chorale Prelude (Fughetta super) Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot, BWV 679 [2:18]
7. Chorale Prelude (Fughetta super) Wir glauben all an einen Gott, BWV 681 [1:11]
8. Chorale Prelude Vater unser im Himmelreich (III), BWV 683 [1:28]
9. Chorale Prelude Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (I), BWV 685 [1:39]
10. Chorale Prelude Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (II), BWV 687 [5:44]
11. Chorale Prelude (Fuga super) Jesus Christus unser Heiland, BWV 689 [5:12]
12. Duetto No. 1 in E minor, BWV 802 [3:05]
13. Duetto No. 2 in F major, BWV 803 [4:27]
14. Duetto No. 3 in G major, BWV 804 [3:20]
15. Duetto No. 4 in A minor, BWV 805 [3:46]
16-20. Canonic variations on the Christmas hymn Vom himmel hoch, da komm ich her (II), BWV 769a [1:41, 1:49, 4:16, 3:16, 3:38]
21-22. Prelude & Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 [7:16, 6:51]

Ewald Kooiman plays on a Gabler organ 1750, Weingarten, Germany.
Temperament: Modified Gäbler.
Pitch A= 419 Hz, at 15 degrees C.

Somewhat better recorded,  although some pieces are still overly bright, playing is much more relaxed as in the first volume of the Clavierübung, but not in all pieces, so the detailing is one to follow now,  but not in every track. Still not my favoutite interpretation.

[Traverso]

One more work before bed:

Prokofiev
Visions Fugitives, Op. 22
Raekallio



Oh...this box set is going to be good. Raekallio is superb.

He certainly is 

[Traverso]

Morning listening via Spotify:



I'm quite taken with this cycle!

Which is a mixed blessing, since these are four separate, expensive volumes... 

Q

I have listened to some samples and I find the Rousset recordings still unsurpassed.

[Florestan]

Symphony No. 5 in D major --- Vernon Handley, Royal Liverpool PO

Hat tip to Jeffrey (vandermolen) for this moving, poignant and beautiful work.

[Traverso]

She plays them like Debussy's preludes, an exploration of timbre and rhythm but impressionistic, I mean - it does not sound like abstract music.

That made me curious,she is more delicate in her playing than others

[Traverso]

Praetorius

A very fine one with the Huelgas Ensemble

[Harry]

Heinrich Schütz.
Symphoniae Sacrae III.
Dresdner Kammerchor, Barockorchester, Hans-Christoph Rademann.

As sublime as the first CD. Same soloists and orchestra. Well recorded and performed. A box with 10 CD'S with a comprehensive booklet, for a price that would not even buy you a full price CD.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Boulez - Livre pour Quatuor

[Sergeant Rock]

Wagner Symphony in C major, Rögner conducting the RSO Berlin




Sarge