What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I agree, Jeffrey. I wouldn't place Ormandy above my preferred Sibelians, but I'm becoming more open to his performances.

Ormandy's life and career look very interesting. The violin prodigy in Hungary studied philosophy, as well as music. After moving to the States, he was a concertmaster in an orchestra playing music at a silent movie theatre.

[Traverso]

de Falla, El Amor Brujo. Cond. Igor Markevitch.

These are fine recordings

[Karl Henning]

LvB 5th Symphony - II Andante
Philharmonia Zurich - Harnoncourt

This showed up on my Apple Music suggestions and I'm glad it did. I love Harnoncourt and cherish so many of his recordings, some being his LvB cycle with Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and his 4th & 5th with Concentus Musicus Wein from 2016. This particular recording, with the Philharmonia Zurich seems to just be the second movement form LvB's 5th Symphony, there's no full album attached with the track. Harnoncourt utilizes his usual liberties with tempi, phrasing and dynamics, but the results are gorgeous and thrilling. I would love to hear the full performance.

Tangentially, this was an incidental part of my recent listening too (in much lower-fi) as it was used by Hitchcock in 1930's Murder!

[Mirror Image]

Ormandy's life and career look very interesting. The violin prodigy in Hungary studied philosophy, as well as music. After moving to the States, he was a concertmaster in an orchestra playing music at a silent movie theatre.

An interesting and busy life to be sure. But what I'm not sure of is how I feel about his interpretations. So far, I enjoyed his Sibelius 5th and 7th very much, but, as I mentioned, I'm not sure I hear much individuality in the performances aside from basking in the glorious sound from the Philadelphians.

[Que]

Do you think you could tell apart, in a blind test, Rossi from Frescobaldi?

No idea, never crossed my mind... Probably not....
But I never thought when listening to Rossi: this sounds exactly like Frescobaldi.

I'd have to revisit Rossi to get into any comparisons?

[Que]

More from Joseph Wölfl performed by Laure Colladant:

   

[SonicMan46]

The dangers of this website!    But, seriously, how is the Jamie Walton CD?  I hadn't heard of him before now.

Hi PD - the Jamie Walton recording of Britten's Cello Suites is excellent - but in reading the reviews attached, Truls Mørk seems to edge out Jamie for a 'desert island' pick, but the Fanfare reviewer loves the Walton CD; of course, the older commentators will select Rostropovich as the benchmark (third pic below), although I believe he recorded just the first two works.  This morning I listened to Mørk on Spotify and then Walton on my den stereo - I must say that the choice is difficult - may have to do a 'fuller' comparison; don't think you would go wrong w/ either cellist, although there is plenty of competition out there!  Dave

   

[SonicMan46]

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) - String Quartets - Simple Symphony with the Maggini String Quartet - finishing up my perusal of Britten (will skip the choral works I own for the moment) - Dave

 

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Italian Madrigal of  the Renaissance: Luca Marenzio Ensemble, this is a delicious LP really really so( neologism needed), this is what currently spinning just wake up, of extreme fatigue I slept  when I woke op too early at 5:30 A.M, now it 12h34 p.m and I am like wow  this is  sublime, super LP, lovely voices,  obscure madrigalists (some of them), wow, the LP is mint.

Better than sex, I'm having multiple orgasms earring this 

[Undersea]

Currently:




Schubert: Piano Sonatas #13 & 19


Received the above set a couple of days ago and working my way through it - I am very pleased with the music making thus far...

[pi2000]

Mozart PC 23 Fausto Zadra-Carlo Zecchi/Romanian Radio Orchestra
From here:https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00AW8YG8C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[MusicTurner]

Berlioz / Les Nuits dEte /Kasarova, P.Steinberg, etc. /RCA

It is not a work I have focused that much on previously, but it is becoming of more and more interest, for example as a sort of proto Mahler ...

Kasarova is good, perhaps with a slight lack of nuances in diction and a bit too sameness in the voice, but overall satisfying and beautiful.
I also have Norman/Davis, Kanawa/Barenboim and Minton/Boulez in this work, but on LPs. Have heard excerpts of Crespin, who obviously seems very fine.

[MusicTurner]

Mozart PC 23 Fausto Zadra-Carlo Zecchi/Romanian Radio Orchestra
From here:https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00AW8YG8C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Looks interesteing and like a bit of fun!

[JBS]

Settling in for the afternoon with this, last of my thrift store finds from last week

[SonicMan46]

Finishing up on the Hogwood Wolfie box of Symphonies - decided to stop at discs 14-15-16, which include half or so of the works in the No. 30s, plus Nos. 40 & 41 -   Dave

Well, I decided on a break from listening, buying, culling, etc. my British composers collection, so for the next few days, onto:

Mozart, WA - Symphonies w/ Hogwood, Schròder, and the Academy of Ancient Music - the 19-CD box recorded from 1978-1985; the pic of the 'band' is from 1989 (Source) - starting from the beginning when Wolfie was a pre-teen/teen and likely will selectively choose the discs, although nothing wrong w/ hearing the whole set -    Dave

 

[ritter]

Settling in for the afternoon with this, last of my thrift store finds from last week

I have that recording, but haven't listened to it for ages, and don't recall much (I got it out of "historical curiosity" for the work). What I do seem to remember is that one had the impression the carpenters were still giving the finishing touches to the sets during the performance, as there was really intrusive and persistent stage noise (that sounded like hammering  ).

[JBS]

I have that recording, but haven't listened to it for ages, and don't recall much (I got it out of "historical curiosity" for the work). What I do seem to remember is that one had the impression the carpenters were still giving the finishing touches to the sets during the performance, as there was really intrusive and persistent stage noise (that sounded like hammering  ).

I think it's prop swords being clattered about or something like that. But I do hear that.
Overall the sonics are not impressive: it sounds like a mono recording.

[vers la flamme]

Felix Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, op.69. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Chor

[Karl Henning]

Settling in for the afternoon with this, last of my thrift store finds from last week

Devilish Bob

[Sergeant Rock]

Enescu Symphony No. 2, Lintu conducting the Tampere Phil




Sarge