What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

A fine box Fergus 

I certainly enjoyed the first disc, Jan 

[Traverso]

JS Bach: Cantata Angenehmes Wiederau BWV 30a [Leonhardt/Café Zimmerman] 38





I like the style and musical language of this secular Cantata. Unrestricted by tying his music to strict Liturgical texts JSB has more freedom of expression and it shows in this work. It feels "lighter" for a start and it has a more relaxed flow to it even if it has the signature Bach sound. This is a most enjoyable presentation. All of the vocals are also excellent.

Oh...I really love this recording,it always brings me in a good mood.Did I already say that I love this recording.....? 

[Cato]

'Great Rock is Dead' is my recommendation - might be up your street Leo but all the works are good. Russian orchestra was probably cheaper than a British one.

Yes, I suspected that, as "Roasted Swan" pointed out earlier.  Still, a composer might hope for a discount from his local fellows!  But...

Thanks for the recommendation!

[Traverso]

Shostakovich


Symphony No.11
Jazz Suite No.1
Walz 2 from Jazz Suite No.2
Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

The Philadelphia Orchestra

[Irons]

All the rest of the album was recorded in the Kingsway Hall. The 1986 CD issue makes no mention of the recording venue nor does the original LP issue (with the same photo on the cover). The 2011 Warner Masters reissue was the first time I had seen the Temple Church mentioned. The venue was suggested by Bernard Herrmann who attended the recording session.

Thanks. I was not doubting the validity of the recording venue of Temple Church for the Fantasia in fact it makes perfect sense.   

[aligreto]

Rameau:  Nouvelles Suites de pièces de clavecin [1728]

[aligreto]

Oh...I really love this recording,it always brings me in a good mood.Did I already say that I love this recording.....? 

[Traverso]

I certainly enjoyed the first disc, Jan 

Is it a recent purchase?

[Mirror Image]

Yes, that's a fabulous set! 
I still with that JB had recorded Tapiola.

I wish Barbirolli had recorded The Oceanides and Night Ride & Sunrise as well. I know you love Tapiola, but I've yet to fully appreciate the work and, as you know, I'm a huge Sibelian. The only performance I've heard of it that made any of sense out of it for me was Segerstam on Ondine.

[aligreto]

Is it a recent purchase?

Yes, I acquired it recently as a download. So, this is my first time to hear it. I know that many here like it a lot.

[Biffo]

The story of the recording in the Temple Church is also told in the 2000 release in the "Great Recordings of the Century" series, for which the recordings were new remastered. It makes the recording especially meaningful to me because I visited the Temple Church on a visit to London and Cambridge with my then future wife. The Temple Church is not a huge space, although the stone construction gives it strong reverberance. Perhaps more suitable for recording a small ensemble than a space such as Winchester Cathedral.

Thanks for the info. I haven't seen the GROC reissue but careful reading of the notes for the Warner Masters issue shows it to be the 2000 remastering. It has been newly remastered in 2020 for the big Warner Barbirolli edition. I will have to give it another spin.

[Traverso]

Yes, I acquired it recently as a download. So, this is my first time to hear it. I know that many here like it a lot.

Congratulations,it is a kind of a must this box .

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Glazunov
From the Middle Ages, Op. 79
Scottish National Orchestra
Järvi

[Mirror Image]

Hindemith Piano Sonata No 3, Heidsieck.



This piece was written about the same time as the two previous cantatas and has a similar texture. A work of four brief movements, the first lyrical, followed by a fast scherzo-like movement, a movement in a moderate march-like tempo, and a brisk finale. Beautifully and convincingly performed by Heidsieck.

Two previous cantatas?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Scriabin posthumous works. Maria Lettberg.

[Mirror Image]

Does anyone here have a Halloween playlist? I'm in the midst of creating mine, but I'll just say that my playlist will feature Penderecki, Ligeti, Scelsi, Ives and Schnittke.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

NP:

Glazunov
From the Middle Ages, Op. 79
Scottish National Orchestra
Järvi

Nice!

[Mirror Image]

Nice!

Yeah, I've always loved this piece and the performance, too.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Keep in mind that the PC is really an outlier among Grieg's works, and Holberg more typical. The overwhelming majority of what he wrote was choral, song, or piano, with some incidental music and orchestrations of piano works thrown in, and one or two other suites and some chamber works to fill out the list.

TD


The remastering of this set, done last year, is quite good.

How do folks here find the orchestrations of his piano works to be.  I don't recall hearing any of them before now.

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

CD 1: Codex Las Huelgas - Music from 13th century Spain [Van Nevel]





The vocals, both solo and accompanying, are very fine and well balanced here. The higher register vocals are particularly crystal clear, which I really like. All of the vocals are very well delivered. The recording is made in a very sensitively reverberant acoustic which enhances the atmosphere. Any instrumental accompaniment is minimal and it is also very sensitive and appropriate to the vocal line. The solo instrumental music is also minimally scored and is very atmospheric.

Your description of this set is certainly tempting!

PD