What are you listening 2 now?

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Benjamin Britten
SQs #1 & #2
Complete String Quartets
Brodsky Qt

Sweet! I've got this set as well, but I don't think I've ever played it. I already have the Emperor and Britten Quartet recordings ripped to my computer, but now you've got me curious as to how these performances are.

[T. D.]

Benjamin Britten
SQs #1 & #2
Complete String Quartets
Brodsky Qt

Interesting! I didn't know of this set. I rather like the Brodsky Qt, though many used to make fun of them for sporting designer clothing and the like.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello, tonight I'm so listening to Luca Marenzio Ensemble Italians Madrigals, It's a marvelous LP, great until the last minute the great mysterious suprise for me Is Banchieri, great musician, wonderfull colourful music Madrigals that end up funny, well sung,  Luca Marenzio some Montevedi and fews strangers to me until I discover this awesome Everest album.

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First-Listen Monday -

Bantock
Dante and Beatrice
RPO
Handley

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Interesting! I didn't know of this set. I rather like the Brodsky Qt, though many used to make fun of them for sporting designer clothing and the like.

Making fun of a group as talented as the Brodsky Quartet for wearing designer clothing is moronic.

[T. D.]

Making fun of a group as talented as the Brodsky Quartet for wearing designer clothing is moronic.

Agreed. But it definitely happened on internet forums back in the '90s. I'm going to try to hear their Britten. If not via CD, streaming or youtube.
I also just found out the the Takacs recorded SQ 1-3 on a single Hyperion disc. Though the personnel (2 of 4 chairs) is different from the ensemble of yore.

[Que]

Couperin, F: Troisième Livre de Pieces de Clavecin [Rousset]



CD 1: Suites Nos. 13, 14 & 15

Very nice! 

[Harry]

Alfonso Ferrabosco, the Younger.
Consort Music to the Viols in 4,5 & 6 Parts.#Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall.
Recorded back in 2002 & 2003.

After all those years still the standard for today's performances. I hardly think one could better these performances, I never heard them anyway. There is such a natural mood over the music, as if a couple of good friend arrived on your doorstep and invited themselves to play. Sound is very good.

PS. I invited a String Quartet at my home for tomorrow. They have been friends for more that 25 years. My wife has her Birthday and so I found it an excellent idea to do this. They will play whatever she likes to hear. They are in for the whole morning, so I am quite curious what she is going to choose.

[Traverso]

Debussy

Berceuse Héroïque
Images
Jeux
Marché écossaise

[Traverso]

Sweelinck

[Madiel]

I went looking for the 2 Pleyel piano trios that were originally published as being Haydn's, but couldn't find those ones.

So I guess I"ll just listen to the actual Haydn one from the opus. It's number 18, or Hob XV:5, or Op.40/3...

[Madiel]

Pejacevic, piano pieces op.32.

The first piece is lost, sadly.

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Love Songs op.83

His last go at reworking songs from Cypresses.

[foxandpeng]

John Foulds
Keltic Suite
BBC Concert Orchestra
Dutton

Ah, this is great.

[Traverso]

Gubaidulina

" Stimmen...Verstummen "  Symphony in twelve movements

Stufen

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Amadeo Roldan, La Rebamberamba Suite.

[Madiel]

Dvorak 1st symphony again, 1st movement.

He really has a lot of notes he wants to write. Too many, in fact. Early Dvorak tends to be TUNE TUNE TUNE TUNE! without the structure and shape and breathing room.

[Karl Henning]

Hello, tonight I'm so listening to Luca Marenzio Ensemble Italians Madrigals, It's a marvelous LP, great until the last minute the great mysterious suprise for me Is Banchieri, great musician, wonderfull colourful music Madrigals that end up funny, well sung,  Luca Marenzio some Montevedi and fews strangers to me until I discover this awesome Everest album.

Nice!

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https://www.youtube.com/v/tb0QyjvfL58

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Gubaidulina

" Stimmen...Verstummen "  Symphony in twelve movements

Stufen

Debussy

Berceuse Héroïque
Images
Jeux
Marché écossaise

Pounds the table!