What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

Inspired by recent posts.  All great music, especially like Telemann in the morning.  I think that he has a bad rap from some uninspired performances in the past, he is pretty great composer imho.

[SonicMan46]

Inspired by recent posts.  All great music, especially like Telemann in the morning.  I think that he has a bad rap from some uninspired performances in the past, he is pretty great composer imho.

+1  - David - those looks quite familiar!  Dave

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Bernstein
Symphony No. 1, "Jeremiah"
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Pappano

[SonicMan46]

Mozart, WA - Piano Concertos w/ Christian Zacharias as pianist/conduction and the Orchestra de Chamber de Lausanne, one of my two MI (Anda the other) collections of these Wolfie works, and with excellent performances and superb MDG sound - reviews attached (4 from Fanfare of individual CD releases, all quite positive; and Jed Distler's 'well, could have been better, but not bad at all').  Dave   P.S. listening to the last 4 discs this afternoon, will finish the first five tomorrow.

 

[Que]

Sweelinck

Such a great set!

[André]

This is the first of two performances of the 2nd symphony by Kondrashin. The other is from 1969 on Russian Disc. This is the actual premiere performance of the work, recorded live is superb sound (really), with very little audience noise. I think it's a better performance and recording than the Fedosseyev I listened to last week. Curiously, that was paired with the 4th symphony (with harp), where 3 movements are based on piano preludes written by the composer in 1936 as an 11 year old boy. Well, these preludes are included in the Hanssler Profil issue (this very one), thus making the two discs complementary...

[Iota]

.. especially like Telemann in the morning.  I think that he has a bad rap from some uninspired performances in the past ..

I think that's true. That CPO series which I have also dipped into thanks to mentions on this thread, has pushed my opinion of him up quite a few notches. Excellent performances.


Now playing:



Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland


This is such strange music. Quasi-alien landscapes. That may be the point. I read somewhere 'the slippage between life and death' .. perhaps. I'm not sure I really get it. Yet at least. Something there that intrigues though. Fine playing from Shibe.

[Karl Henning]

Ernst Von Dohnanyi's Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 9 (1900) conducted by Leon Botstein and the London Phil. Orch. on Telarc.

PD

A good piece, I seem to recall

[Traverso]

Such a great set!

Indeed,I like it very much 

[Mirror Image]

First-Listen Monday:

Penderecki
Symphony No. 6, "Chinesische Lieder"
Stephan Genz (baritone), Joanna Kravchenko (erhu)
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot
Wojciech Rajski



This is outstanding! I'll probably end up playing it again a bit later on.

[Traverso]

Jacobus HANDL-GALLUS 

Harmoniae morales  (20-53)

Another set wich is very dear to me,really comforting in this ugly world.

[SonicMan46]

Such a great set!  RE: Sweelinck - The Great Keyboard Works

Que + Other Sweelinck Fans - I own just 4 CDs of his works, 2 being vocal - SO, my 2 KB discs are on the first pic row below; enjoy both w/ just a few duplications - do I want and/or need more - WELL, on Amazon, there is an inexpensive Brilliant 6-CD offering and another 6-CD set on Glossa (not cheap!) - the collection in question (purple label) for a 'used' edition (Amazon USA) for $100 - seems to have 9 CDs - what is included over the 6-disc sets?  Hate to cull out my Alina & Glen recordings - any comments appreciated.  Thanks - Dave

     

     

[JBS]

I think that's true. That CPO series which I have also dipped into thanks to mentions on this thread, has pushed my opinion of him up quite a few notches. Excellent performances.


Now playing:



Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland


This is such strange music. Quasi-alien landscapes. That may be the point. I read somewhere 'the slippage between life and death' .. perhaps. I'm not sure I really get it. Yet at least. Something there that intrigues though. Fine playing from Shibe.

I remember liking Shibe's Bach CD.

Good chance I'll be ordering that Telemann set within a day or two.

[JBS]

Re Sweelinck

I have the Bocaccio and white Glossa sets. I don't have them handy to compare contents, but both were good. I have the Wilson CD, see no reason to cull him. Don't have Rotaru.

[Karl Henning]

Que + Other Sweelinck Fans - I own just 4 CDs of his works, 2 being vocal - SO, my 2 KB discs are on the first pic row below; enjoy both w/ just a few duplications - do I want and/or need more - WELL, on Amazon, there is an inexpensive Brilliant 6-CD offering and another 6-CD set on Glossa (not cheap!) - the collection in question (purple label) for a 'used' edition (Amazon USA) for $100 - seems to have 9 CDs - what is included over the 6-disc sets?  Hate to cull out my Alina & Glen recordings - any comments appreciated.  Thanks - Dave

     

     

Dave, I have the Wilson singleton as well as the purple box. I like it all and am holding onto Wilson.

[Traverso]

Que + Other Sweelinck Fans - I own just 4 CDs of his works, 2 being vocal - SO, my 2 KB discs are on the first pic row below; enjoy both w/ just a few duplications - do I want and/or need more - WELL, on Amazon, there is an inexpensive Brilliant 6-CD offering and another 6-CD set on Glossa (not cheap!) - the collection in question (purple label) for a 'used' edition (Amazon USA) for $100 - seems to have 9 CDs - what is included over the 6-disc sets?  Hate to cull out my Alina & Glen recordings - any comments appreciated.  Thanks - Dave

     

     

Nice to see these recordings together.The Glossa recordings I have in another edition in the  Dutch language.

   

 

The TM edition is oop,I think that 100 dollar is quite expensive.If you look on the Discogs site you can find much cheaper ones but shipping is an extra cost.

The Brilliant set is fine but can't compete with the Glossa recordings
Léon Berben is also fine but not my first choice.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1914125

[SonicMan46]

SWEELINCK - thanks all for the comments (so far -  ) from my post - I was mistaken about the number of discs own; below I counted as only two w/o looking but the Cantiones Sacrae contains 2 CDs & the Secular Vocal Works has 3 CDs, so I really own 7 CDs of his works - is the 6 CD Glossa box of the keyboard works (shown in my previous post) worth pursuing?  A little pricey on Amazon USA (have not check my sources across the pond yet) but just used my AMEX card and expect some bonus $ will be added to my account - thanks again.  Dave

 

[listener]

LISZT:  the 3 'big pieces' for organ
Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H, Variations on 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen',  Prelude and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad Salutarem undam'
Hans-Jürgen Kaiser, Ladegast organ at Schwerin Cathedral
in the Brilliant  100 Years of Organ Music box (1)
excellent sound, clear with thundering bass
Wm. Sterndale BENNETT: Piano Works (vol.2) Suite in B op. 24, Sonata no.1 in f op. 13
Ilona Prunyi, piano
TELEMANN: Sonata 3 in f for treble recorder and continuo    HEBERLE: Fantasia for descant recorder
BACH: Sonata in G     Frederick the Great: Sonata in Bb   KRÄHMER: Variations brillantes
Michala Petri, recorder  Hanne Petri, harpsichord   David Petri, cello

[JBS]

[DavidW]