What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

Bach, JS - Christmas Oratorio w/ Gardiner (first 2 discs in the 22-CD box below; oratorio recorded in 1987) and Layton w/ the Orch Age Enlightenment and singers/choir listed, recorded in 2013 - period instrument performances both sounding fine to me - remember culling out other performances in the past but not sure which ones?  Looking on Amazon there are plenty of older and newer options - any favorites?  Dave

I also like Layton's, but haven't heard Gardiner. For me in no particular order:

1. Karl Richter for his starry soloists (Janowitz, Ludwig, Wunderlich, Crass)
2. Riccardo Chailly with the Gewandhaus (I love Carolyn Sampson, but this is speedy)
3. Harnoncourt's later traversal with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir
4. Diego Fasolis and his Swiss performers

I also just gave a listen to a jazz arrangement of Bach's Christmas Oratorio from Bill Dobbins with the WDR Jazz Orchestra and the King's Singers. Not a recommendation per se... 

VS

[T. D.]

First listen. Discs 1-3 (of 5) today.

[Karl Henning]

About time:

CD 1: Holmboe

Fanfare, Op. 121 for 3 trumpets and timpani (1974)
Notturno, Op. 19 for wind quintet (1940)
Notater Op. 140 for 3 trombones and tuba (1979)
Quartetto medico, Op. 70, fl/ob/cl/pf (1956)
Concerto for Brass, Op. 157 (1984)
Egilskvad, Op. 185 for bass/baritone, 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba (1991)

[Karl Henning]

First listen. Discs 1-3 (of 5) today.

Nice!

[Klavier1]

Brilliant playing and excellent sound.

[SonicMan46]

I also like Layton's, but haven't heard Gardiner. For me in no particular order:

1. Karl Richter for his starry soloists (Janowitz, Ludwig, Wunderlich, Crass)
2. Riccardo Chailly with the Gewandhaus (speedy)
3. Harnoncourt's later traversal with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir
4. Diego Fasolis and his Swiss performers

I also just gave a listen to a jazz arrangement of Bach's Christmas Oratorio from Bill Dobbins with the WDR Jazz Orchestra and the King's Singers. Not a recommendation per se... 

VS

Thanks VS - looks like I need to give a listen to several w/ MIs - will check out Spotify - Dave

[VonStupp]

Thanks VS - looks like I need to give a listen to several w/ MIs - will check out Spotify - Dave

Sorry if you were looking for period; I tend towards MI, although in Baroque music it is not a requirement for me.

In which case, Harnoncourt and Fasolis use period ensembles, but their choirs/vocalists tend to be bigger voiced, again towards my preferences.

VS

[ritter]

Some seasonal listening: Gabriel Pierné's Les Enfants à Bethléem.



Très mignon...

[Artem]

Cool Sibelius and very Mozartian Grieg.

[T. D.]

Nice! [Myaskovsky SQ]

Rats. One of the discs arrived damaged...plastic spindles broke and CD slid around, incurring scratches so the last track doesn't play. The set'll have to go back.

[VonStupp]

Some seasonal listening: Gabriel Pierné's Les Enfants à Bethléem.



Très mignon...

I saw this posted on MusicWeb International the other day. It will have to wait until next year to give it a listen. Glædelig jul!

VS

[Karl Henning]

Rats. One of the discs arrived damaged...plastic spindles broke and CD slid around, incurring scratches so the last track doesn't play. The set'll have to go back.

Ugh! Well, nice, but delayed.

[Madiel]

Messiaen: Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant Jésus

Håkon Austbø (piano)


No other recording of the Vingt Regards ever sounds as right as this one does to me. The music feels like it just emanates from the score rather than being interpreted from it. And with  music that achieves such surpassing depths, such a quality feels at times almost like a sine qua non.

That's the recording I've got, picked it up for a couple of dollars. I really must listen to it more and get to know the music better.

[Madiel]

About time:

CD 1: Holmboe

Fanfare, Op. 121 for 3 trumpets and timpani (1974)
Notturno, Op. 19 for wind quintet (1940)
Notater Op. 140 for 3 trombones and tuba (1979)
Quartetto medico, Op. 70, fl/ob/cl/pf (1956)
Concerto for Brass, Op. 157 (1984)
Egilskvad, Op. 185 for bass/baritone, 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba (1991)

I have just that specific disc, rather than the whole box.

I bought it from one of the musicians, in Copenhagen. Good memories!

[T. D.]

Ugh! Well, nice, but delayed.

I can enjoy the discs that play over the weekend, before sending it back Monday!

[aligreto]

Ippolytov-Ivanov: Caucasion Sketches [Tjeknavorian]





This music is very atmospheric and alluring.

[Klavier1]

[Todd]

Revisiting a fave.

[foxandpeng]

About time:

CD 1: Holmboe

Fanfare, Op. 121 for 3 trumpets and timpani (1974)
Notturno, Op. 19 for wind quintet (1940)
Notater Op. 140 for 3 trombones and tuba (1979)
Quartetto medico, Op. 70, fl/ob/cl/pf (1956)
Concerto for Brass, Op. 157 (1984)
Egilskvad, Op. 185 for bass/baritone, 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba (1991)

Excellent!

[André]

Bartoli impersonating Anna Magnani? 

An eerie likelihood indeed ! Methinks the photo studio Bartoli was in knew what they were doing.

Anna Magnani, the one and only Mamma Roma: