What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

Alfredo Casella, La Giara Suite.

Lovely disc. La giara and the Serenata are favourites of mine...

[vandermolen]

Continuing on with this set:

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103, "The Year 1905"
Tatarstan National SO
Sladkovsky

What's that performance like John?

[vandermolen]

Yes, the CPO disc is excellent, but do check out that film series on Capriccio, which is offered as a box set now with a stupid cover:

It's a fabulous set - for which I have you to thank.

[Irons]

Bliss: Meditations on a Theme of John Blow.



Like Elgar's "Enigma" and RVW's "Job" one good thing after another with possibly a wider range of mood and emotion then either.

The coupling "Edinburgh" is great fun.

[vandermolen]

Bliss: Meditations on a Theme of John Blow.



Like Elgar's "Enigma" and RVW's "Job" one good thing after another with possibly a wider range of mood and emotion then either.

The coupling "Edinburgh" is great fun.

Nostalgia trip! That was a great LP Lol and I'd forgotten that it featured 'Edinburgh' (only recording I think) as well - nice cover art too.

[Harry]

Early morning listening.

Musica Nova.
Harmony of the Nations.
The musical landscape of Europe, from 1500 till 1700.

A lot of composers on this disc.
Anonymous, of course
Hieronimus Parabosco.
Giovanni Batista Grillo.
Andrea Gabrieli.
John Dowland.
Orlando Gibbons.
William Brade.
Samuel Scheidt.
Biagio Marini.
Giovanni Legrenzi.
Marc Antoine Charpentier.
Pedro de San Lorenzo.
Pedro de Araujo.
Joan Cabanilles.

Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall.
SACD recording.


A wonderful disc, as usual performed at a high level, and a recording that has amazing resolution. Savall's recordings give a lot of pleasure, and lifts the spirit. This assembly of composers is well chosen, the music seamlessly flows in each other realm without effort, as if it is a natural thing. Well known works and those that are hardly performed, so the mix is an attractive one.

[Roasted Swan]

I have to say the more I revisit Chailly's Mahler cycle, the more I love it. Of course, not one conductor is going to do the job in such vast symphonies, but Chailly does come across well here I think. One of the things I love about this cycle is its relative straight-forwardness. He just goes in there, lets the Concertgebouw or Berlin RSO (only in the 10th I believe) rip and the results are damn good. This is becoming one of my favorite Mahler cycles.

Hurwitz's recent recommendation of the Chailly cycle as his No.1 choice - specifically as a CYCLE - was pretty much exactly for the reasons you give.  I must listen again!

[Harry]

Fritz Volbach.

Es waren zwei Königskinder, Symphonic Poem.
Symphony opus 32 in B minor.

Sinfonieorchester Munster, Golo Berg.

Let me say one thing first, I like this music enormously, so no quibbles there. The sound quality in the first piece is a bit boomy, and the venue is not the best as a matter of fact. It gets a tad better in the Symphony, but it is still not as it should in this live recording. Just a shame of all the micro detail in his writing, one tends to miss a few things here and there.
Well not all engineers can be wizards I guess.

[ritter]

Hurwitz's recent recommendation of the Chailly cycle as his No.1 choice - specifically as a CYCLE - was pretty much exactly for the reasons you give.  I must listen again!

Then again, Mr. Hurwitz will usually recommend Chailly in anything (which is perfectly legitimate, of course). The same applies to Günter Wand (but the latter did not record any Mahler AFAIK  ).

I don't know any of Chailly's Mahler, so will not comment on his cycle, of course.  I've never felt any connection to Mr. Chailly and his recordings, which is a very subjective point of view, but that's how it is. What I think put me off was a documentary I watched about him conducting Mahler in Amsterdam (IIRC, its was paired on DVD with a film on Berio, which was what I got it for). Maestro Chailly appeared to me as rather cursi character (sorry for the untranslatable Spanish word, which is a mixture of kitsch, sentimental and cheap)... Very subjective, I know...

[vandermolen]

Dutilleux: Symphony No.1
New arrival - I find this composer to be of increasing interest.

[Biffo]

[Beethoven: Overtures - Fidelio, Zur Namensfeier, The Ruins of Athens - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig conducted by Kurt Masur

[Traverso]

Bach

Concerto pour Clavecin BWV 1052
Concerto pour Hautbois d'amour BWV 1055
Concerto pour Violon BWV 1042
Cinquième Concert Brandenbourgeois BWV 1050

[foxandpeng]

Wednesday update: still listening daily to at least two Shostakovich SQs with the Mandelring Quartett, and Alla Pavlova is bringing her symphonies to the party.

This afternoon will probably loop back to DSCH symphonies with Petrenko.

Hope you are having a good day!

[Harry]

Jacques Offenbach.

Musique Symphonique en Ballets d' Orphee aux Enfers (1874)

Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Berlin, Howard Griffiths.

A delightful disc, a bright meal to digest. Excellent performance and sound.

[Brahmsian]

NP:

Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
Royal Concertgebouw
Chailly

Ah yes, the Chailly testing the tomato sauce cover. "It needs a bit more salt". 

[Madiel]

Of the various things I bought earlier in the year, this is one that I've been neglecting (though heck by the standards of GMG I take an age to get through most things):



String Quartet No.2.

I remember the 'Train' movement just from when I was sampling these recordings originally!

[Traverso]

Bach

secular cantatas

" Zerreisset,zersprenget,zertrimmert die Gruft " BWV 205

"Tönet ihr Pauken ! Erschallet,Trompeten!  BWV 214

[Madiel]

Debussy (to a reasonable extent): The Fall of the House of Usher

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

JS Bach - BWV 46 'Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgendein Schmerz sei' (Gardiner)

[foxandpeng]

Ah yes, the Chailly testing the tomato sauce cover. "It needs a bit more salt". 

Plus Mahler's plainly disdainful disapproval of tomato sauce in general...