What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

The Lost Music of Canterbury - listening off Spotify to this 5-disc set which has appeared before in this thread - nice for a Sunday morning - opening description from the producer's website (more there in the link, if interested) - Dave

 

I really like it.   

[SonicMan46]

I really like it.   

1+ Que - believe that you've been the one posting on this interesting and beautiful production!  Dave

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Listening to a new purchase of Sixteenth-Century Viol Music For The Richest man in the World,
(this is what written on the CD) of Franco-Flemish composers, we get some: Heinrich Isaac, Pierre de la Rue, Josquin, Petrus Alamire, Brumel, Senfl, Paul Hoffhaimer*, Adam Rener*

Very pleasant  to hear, a breath of fresh air, for viol music

P.s I am not Familiar whit these two*, sweet offering on INVENTA label, a label I am also not familiar whit?

[Karl Henning]

Indeed so, Jan, but there is always room for Bach I think 

If not, there oughta be!

[Karl Henning]

Last night:

Stravinsky

Ballets, Vol. 7 (Suites)

Petrushka
Pulcinella
Firebird (1945 version)

[Traverso]

Gounod

This recording is an absolute must for anyone who loves music for wind instruments.
Cheerful,tasteful and beautifully performed by Edo de Waart and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
As for Dvořák, it is my favorite composition  from him.

Petite Symphonie in Bes

Dvořák

Serenade in D,op.44

Richard Strauss

Suite in Bes op.4

[Traverso]

If not, there oughta be!

[Karl Henning]

This marks the first time in my life that a Mahler symphony is my first listening of the day:

Mahler
Symphony № 1 in D
NY Phil
Lenny

A the risk of setting a pattern:

Mahler
Symphony № 2 in c minor « Resurrection »
Lee Venora, tenor
Jennie Tourel, mezzo
The Collegiate Chorale
NY Phil
Lenny


Although there are passages which fight on the piece's behalf, overall, I'm not crazy about the Second.Who knows? Over time, that may change.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Astounding playing from Michael Rabin in the Wieniawski VC 2.  Listening to Internet Archive's recording at https://archive.org/details/lp_paganini-concerto-no1-in-d-wieniawski-con_michael-rabin-niccol-paganini-henryk-wieni  Pondering Rabin's sad case makes me wonder if perhaps violinists might be more prone to tragedy than players of other instruments...or perhaps they are merely more in evidence as soloists...

[Traverso]

Astounding playing from Michael Rabin in the Wieniawski VC 2.  Listening to Internet Archive's recording at https://archive.org/details/lp_paganini-concerto-no1-in-d-wieniawski-con_michael-rabin-niccol-paganini-henryk-wieni  Pondering Rabin's sad case makes me wonder if perhaps violinists might be more prone to tragedy than players of other instruments...or perhaps they are merely more in evidence as soloists...

This box has  possibly your interest.

[bhodges]

After an exchange on Twitter about Schnittke, revisiting his incredible Piano Quintet. Of the many fine performances, I've heard this Naxos recording, but not synced with the score, as it is here. Seeing his actual notes on paper, filled with so many grand, even extreme gestures, is enlightening.

Musicians: Dimity Hall, Mark Lubotsky, Irina Morozova, Irina Schnittke, Julian Smiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td-cUkR1Tu8

--Bruce

[Iota]

Harnoncourt is too angular and heavy handed for my taste....

Hogwood did a great recording of the Mass in C minor - with Arleen Auger! 

Yes, I sometimes really don't like what he does, and for exactly the reasons you give. But sometimes there's a sort of tub-thumping severity and intensity to his approach that brings out something other performances don't, and that can be interesting on occasion.

My antipathy to him reached a peak after a performance of Missa Solemnis in the Barbican, London in 2012, in which the audience went wild, every critic raved, and I was completely unmoved, it seemed leaden to me. (Though admittedly sometimes I can not like a live performance, and then like a recording of it I hear later. Mood or acoustics I guess.)

Thanks for the Hogwood recommendation, I'll see if I can stream it somewhere. I also have Gardiner/Sylvia McNair which I like.

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky: Silence [Svetlanov]





This is a particularly fine and truly a wonderful, dark and exciting relatively early work [Op. 9]. It was certainly a portent of things to come on a larger scale. It is like he was honing his musical language and craft. A terrific work.

I agree Fergus. There is some interesting correspondence between NYM and his friend Prokofiev at the time when he was writing 'Silence'. Miaskovsky was quite despondent about completing the work ('...it [Silence] will eventually kill me!')

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

This box has  possibly your interest.

Indeed it does, I own no Rabin at present, thankee Traverso!  Currently unavailable in CD through Amazon; one through Discogs at $75. A curiosity and coincidence: when I searched for him on Amazon, an Amazon Pharmacy window appeared: "Your medication, delivered" it read...(Rabin was rumored to be addicted to one drug or another).  BTW, Slatkin is a huge fan of his; his father conducted him several times.

[André]

Lindberg: From the Great Forests

An evocative piece that reminded me a little of Atterberg.

One of my favourite discs of anything. Not necessarily *great* music, but such a nice feeling of total escape. 

[Traverso]

Indeed it does, I own no Rabin at present, thankee Traverso!  Currently unavailable in CD through Amazon; one through Discogs at $75. A curiosity and coincidence: when I searched for him on Amazon, an Amazon Pharmacy window appeared: "Your medication, delivered" it read...(Rabin was rumored to be addicted to one drug or another).  BTW, Slatkin is a huge fan of his; his father conducted him several times.

There is an older edition and they ask easely $400 or more for that one,if you ask me,it's absurd,only another casing.



I found this one for you,I don't know what the shipment will cost.

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/icon-michael-rabin/1000004011789418/?country=BE

[JBS]

Indeed it does, I own no Rabin at present, thankee Traverso!  Currently unavailable in CD through Amazon; one through Discogs at $75. A curiosity and coincidence: when I searched for him on Amazon, an Amazon Pharmacy window appeared: "Your medication, delivered" it read...(Rabin was rumored to be addicted to one drug or another).  BTW, Slatkin is a huge fan of his; his father conducted him several times.

You provoked my interest.  Scribendum and Testament have sets of his recordings. I went for this 4 CD Profil Hanssler set because it was under $25 and has the Creston VC2, which I'm fairly sure I've never heard.

[JBS]

TD

[vandermolen]

One of my favourite discs of anything. Not necessarily *great* music, but such a nice feeling of total escape. 

+1 I especially like the Atterberg performance:
TD
Miaskovsky 'Silence' Op.9
V much in the spirit of Rachmaninov's 'Isle of the Dead'.

[vandermolen]

TD

I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have Jeffrey.