What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

WA Mozart
Requiem (rec. 1968)

Edith Mathis - soprano, Grace Bumbry - contralto
George Shirley - tenor, Marius Rinztler - bass
New Philharmonia Orch. & Chorus -
Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos

I don't visit Mozart's Requiem too often, but this is perhaps the most harried version on modern instruments I have heard. A varied cast of Verdi-sized soloists add to the weight of this affair.

I may try another older recording later this week, just for comparison sake, since I haven't heard this work in a great while.

VS

Moving on to another Anglophile recording and then to bed with Mozart's Requiem for a while:

WA Mozart
Requiem (rec. 1977)

Ileana Cotrubas - soprano, Helen Watts - contralto
Robert Tear - tenor, John Shirley-Quirk - bass
Academy & Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner

[Todd]

Disc two.  Superb, or course.  I already know I will skip disc three.

[Karl Henning]

Cross posted from the opera thread. It's debatable if it's really an opera anyway.



Maria de Buenos Aires defies classification. It's been called an operetta and a tango-opera, but really it's neither. Maybe it doesn't matter what it is, but it certainly conjures up the atmosphere of smoke filled tango bars in downtown Buenos Aires. Narrated by the librettist Horacio Ferrer, this recording led by Gidon Kremer on the violin certainly has the whiff of authenticity

Wonderful, and (as you say) a genre-bender.

[Karl Henning]

Malipiero, Symphony No 6 (degli Archi)



A beautifully wrought piece, and I don't find I have any significant complaints about the recording this time.

Nice!

[Karl Henning]

Haydn

CD 3

I'm in!

[Karl Henning]

Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D 956. Melos Quartet, Mstislav Rostropovich

Excellent performance of one of my favorite works.

Surpassing sweet!

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven, LV - Bagatelles w/ Linda Nicholson on fortepiano and Diabelli Variations, Staier on fortepiano vs. Lewis on a modern piano; Staier adds in nearly a dozen of other composer's variations.  Attached reviews quite good on these recordings but there are so many options - probably should get the Bagatelles on a modern piano?  Dave

   

[VonStupp]

Franz Schubert
Salve Regina in F, D. 379
Psalm 23, D706
Psalm 92, D953
Hymnus an den heiligen Geist, D964

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Capella Bavariae - Wolfgang Sawallisch

I prefer Psalm 23 in its orchestral guise, one I think I heard under Abbado and the COE, although Sawallisch is fair at the piano here.

The Hymn to the Holy Ghost was the big surprise for me. Very German, but with differing sections and textures: a cappella and with winds both, and mixtures of chorus and semi-chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/v/OgIXJoj8JUI&ab_channel=WolfgangSawallisch-Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgIXJoj8JUI

[Iota]

Good morning all,

Starting a first listen to Haydn's Seasons (Jacobs):

I find that such an enjoyable set! 


Here:



Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze
Geza Anda (piano)


A great recording of an endlessly rewarding work.

[Florestan]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's DZ 01001
   

What is this DZ 01001?

[Klavier1]

His music is uncompromising, but I like it. Perhaps not a steady diet. though.

[Karl Henning]

It's explained here (and rather more wordily here).

Short version: there are three different and incompatible versions of the usual Köchel numbers, because Herr Köchel attempted to produce a chronological catalogue of Mozart's works, and chronological catalogues go 'wrong' when you can't be certain of your chronology! And the Mozart chronology is constantly undergoing revision -so the Köchels are doomed! I therefore produced a thematic catalogue, using 'Dizwell Numbers', a couple of years back. In this new catalogue, all symphonies are DZ 01, all operas DZ 05, all vocal works DZ 08 and so on. Within a thematic section, numbers are assigned sequentially using the latest available chronology, with the proviso that anything that turns up in the future gets tacked on to the end of the respective thematic section. So if a new symphony is discovered, it will be catalogued as DZ 01058 and won't knock any of the choral work numbers out of alignment, nor change any of the existing DZ 01 numbers.

Even shorter version: they're sort of Hoboken numbers applied to Mozart, but without the crazy mix of Latin and Arabic numbering with alphabetic suffixes that Mr. Hoboken decided to indulge in!

Not sure why I missed it earlier, but I'm glad to have been directed to your blog, thanks.

[André]

Nystroem: Sinfonia seria

A much better performance and recording than the BIS CD containing this symphony as well.

Love that disc ! 

[Madiel]

It's explained here (and rather more wordily here).

Short version: there are three different and incompatible versions of the usual Köchel numbers, because Herr Köchel attempted to produce a chronological catalogue of Mozart's works, and chronological catalogues go 'wrong' when you can't be certain of your chronology! And the Mozart chronology is constantly undergoing revision -so the Köchels are doomed! I therefore produced a thematic catalogue, using 'Dizwell Numbers', a couple of years back. In this new catalogue, all symphonies are DZ 01, all operas DZ 05, all vocal works DZ 08 and so on. Within a thematic section, numbers are assigned sequentially using the latest available chronology, with the proviso that anything that turns up in the future gets tacked on to the end of the respective thematic section. So if a new symphony is discovered, it will be catalogued as DZ 01058 and won't knock any of the choral work numbers out of alignment, nor change any of the existing DZ 01 numbers.

Even shorter version: they're sort of Hoboken numbers applied to Mozart, but without the crazy mix of Latin and Arabic numbering with alphabetic suffixes that Mr. Hoboken decided to indulge in!

I get why people do catalogues by genre in this form... but I really don't like them as much. Sorry!

[pi2000]

Chamber Symphonies :Enescu, Schreker, Schoenberg from this very interesting  CD

[Traverso]

I'm in!

I know,,enjoy. 

[vandermolen]

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No.1

[vandermolen]

Love that disc ! 

+1

[aligreto]

I find that such an enjoyable set! 

+1 and it is also a lavish production in the hand.

[Iota]

+1 and it is also a lavish production in the hand.

Yes indeed, it's one of the sets on my shelves that gives me real pleasure to hold in hand.