What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Thrift shop find for $1.50.
I tend to avoid Opera d'Oro because the sound on almost all their releases hasn't been good (exception: The Merry Widow,  because it's actually EMI's studio recording with Schwarzkopf) but this one is acceptable. Orchestra and sometimes chorus are badly compressed and shrill, but the soloists were well-engineered. (So was the audience's applause for some reason.) Singers knew what they were doing here, and Karajan doesn't get in anyone's way.

The same performance was issued by Orfeo in an issue that's now OOP.

[Mirror Image]

First-Listen Tuesday

Penderecki
Seven Gates of Jerusalem, "Symphony No. 7"
Boris Carmeli, Bozena Harasimowicz-Haas, Izabella Klosinska, Wieslaw Ochman, Jadwiga Rappé, Romuald Tesarowicz, Henryk Wojnarowski
National Philharmonic Orchestra Warsaw
National Philharmonic Choir Warsaw
Kazimierz Kord



Wow...

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Schoenberg
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Margaret Price, soprano
LaSalle Quartet

[Mirror Image]

Last work of the night:

Britten
Gloriana Symphonic Suite
Robert Murray, tenor
BBC Philharmonic
Gardner

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NP:

Respighi
Vetrate Di Chiesa (Church Windows), P. 150
Philharmonia
Geoffrey Simon

Great disc! That's my favourite performance of Church Windows.

[MusicTurner]

Sumera - Chamber works /mostly Estonian soloists /antes CD

Didn't play it loud, but with an open window, the Saxophone Quartet "Lupus in Fabula / The Wolf in Fables" made a neighbor dog bark ...


These are mostly very accessible works, reminding say of Kapustin's chamber music, or even light entertainment or cinema music.
But overall nice, and there's a certain positive freshness to it.

[Mirror Image]

Great disc! That's my favourite performance of Church Windows.

Mine too, Jeffrey. I did enjoy the Neschling performance quite a bit on BIS as well. But, yeah, all of Geoffrey Simon's Respighi recordings are essential listening if you enjoy this composer's music.

[Irons]

Sauguet: Symphony No.1 'Expiatoire':

Does the owner of Forgotten Records still write a nice handwritten note thanking for purchase?

[Irons]

NP:

Pettersson
Symphony No. 9
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Alun Francis

Try as I do I can't get through to the end of this CD.

[vandermolen]

Mine too, Jeffrey. I did enjoy the Neschling performance quite a bit on BIS as well. But, yeah, all of Geoffrey Simon's Respighi recordings are essential listening if you enjoy this composer's music.

His Bloch 'Sacred Service' is also my favourite of the many recordings that I have. The idiom is not that different from Vaughan Williams's choral music.

[Traverso]

Sweelinck

The first book of Psalms was a great success, a second book followed.
The psalms in the respective books are not exactly chronologically ordered. In the second book on CD 1 we find the following Psalms.
11,12,25,27,28,33
Organ fantasies11,12 & 28
Bernard Winsemius



https://www.youtube.com/v/lBJH74EosEs

[prémont]

Does the owner of Forgotten Records still write a nice handwritten note thanking for purchase?

He always does, when I order something.

[steve ridgway]

Maderna - Grande Aulodia.

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Selim Palmgren: Piano Concerto No.2 'The River' (1912)
I'd forgotten what a warm-hearted, lyrical and approachable work this is:

[steve ridgway]

Pierre Henry - Gymkhana.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Two-Minus-One Listen Tuesday 

Wow this piece is cool. Where has it been all my life? 

Hi Brian,

I don't know that particular Gounod piece, but I do like a number of the forces involved. 

And interesting concept/title for your Tuesday listening; so does that mean that you listen to two different works one time each Tuesday?  Or just one work once?   

Thrift shop find for $1.50.
I tend to avoid Opera d'Oro because the sound on almost all their releases hasn't been good (exception: The Merry Widow,  because it's actually EMI's studio recording with Schwarzkopf) but this one is acceptable. Orchestra and sometimes chorus are badly compressed and shrill, but the soloists were well-engineered. (So was the audience's applause for some reason.) Singers knew what they were doing here, and Karajan doesn't get in anyone's way.

The same performance was issued by Orfeo in an issue that's now OOP.

I thought that that one looked familiar and so did a dig around in my Verdi boxes "et la, voilà!"    I suspect that I paid more like full price at a record store back in the day as it has a number of my favorite singers in it, but yes, the recording quality of live opera performances (particularly from "back in the day") are often quite poor--particularly with Opera d'Oro [Mostly for die-hard opera fans only.  I remember in my younger days when my eyes would glaze over when I heard/read about a special Callas recording that I needed to hear--or Leontyne Price--or Tebaldi--or Insert other names here.  ]  These days, I'm sometimes lucky to get them inexpensively at local library.  People will donate CDs, books, magazines to the library and the staff will put them in their sale corner to help raise money for the library.  For a buck (now often $2), I'm willing to take a chance.   

Interesting about that Merry Widow recording.  Wonder how on earth they were able to get ahold of that one?

PD

[foxandpeng]

Count me as a big fan of Honegger. I love his music, but I just don't listen to him as much as I should. Maybe I'll listen to a few of his works today. Those are all great pieces. By the way, since you've been kind of on a SQ kick, do check out Honegger's (wrote three in all), they are superb.

Cheers, MI. I'll put them on the list

[Madiel]

Mozart symphonies - no.42, probably followed by 9 and 12.

[SonicMan46]

Dave, unable to PM you, I tried sending email (via a link here, so I don't know your address) did you receive it?

Hi Karl - have not gotten a PM since earlier this year - went to my 'messages' and was over the limit - deleted a bunch of early ones, so try to re-send, please.  Dave

[vandermolen]

Does the owner of Forgotten Records still write a nice handwritten note thanking for purchase?

Yes he does!
Here he is:
https://interlude.hk/in-touch-with-alain-deguernel/