What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

How do you like Qobuz, Harry?

On first hearing quite good,  wide choice of music,  very good sound, de software a little hard to understand where's what!

[Bachtoven]

[listener]

Horowitz plays SCHUMANN
Kreisleriana, Humoreske in Bb, Fantasiestücke, Kinderszenen, Pioano Sonatya 3 (Concert sans orchestre)
Toccata in C, Arabeske in C
recordings from 1932 to 1987

[JBS]

Listening to two in a row of Beethoven's masterpieces: the Seventh and Eighth, Opp 92 and 93

[Todd]

[classicalgeek]

Hiroshi Ohguri
*Violin Concerto
Fantasy on Osaka Folk Tune
Legend for Orchestra
Rhapsody on Osaka Nursery Rhymes
*Kazuhiro Takagi, violin
Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra
Tatsuya Shimono
(on Spotify)



This sampling of Japanese composers I've been doing for the last week or so has definitely been a mixed (though largely positive) bag. I've greatly enjoyed a number of works in a wide variety of compositional styles; other works and composers have left me less impressed. But today has been a real revelation; I thoroughly enjoyed Sadao Bekku's Viola Concerto, my reservations about the last movement notwithstanding; I think it belongs on the list of great 20th-century viola concertos. And now with this disc by Hiroshi Ohguri, I was once again very impressed. There are echoes of Stravinsky and Shostakovich throughout, but Ohguri adds a strong influence of Japanese folk music to this style; the result is totally delightful. The quality of all four works is very high; they're all expertly written, superbly crafted, and richly orchestrated.

[Karl Henning]

On first hearing quite good,  wide choice of music,  very good sound, de software a little hard to understand where's what!

Thanks! I may just give it a test drive.

[Karl Henning]

Listening to two in a row of Beethoven's masterpieces: the Seventh and Eighth, Opp 92 and 93

Love 'em unalloyedly!

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Dukas
L'Apprenti sorcier
Ulster Orchestra
Tortelier



I haven't heard this work in probably 10 years or so. A lovely, atmospheric work.

[Karl Henning]

NP:

Dukas
L'Apprenti sorcier
Ulster Orchestra
Tortelier



I haven't heard this work in probably 10 years or so. A lovely, atmospheric work.

Love it!

[Harry]

Johann Ludwig Krebs.

Complete Organ Works.
CD VIII.
Organ works with Naturtrompete.

Robert Vanryne, Natur trompete.
Felix Friedrichs, plays on a Trost Organ der Schlosskirche zu Altenburg.

The Organ has a liaison with a Natural Trompet on this CD. Arguably the combination concerts are not the best Krebs composed. It sounds like popular tunes on demand. Not bad, but I think it rather a waste of time. There are solo works on this CD for organ, and in that respect things are fine.
The trost organ sounds gorgeous, the trompet less so.

[Harry]

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi.
Complete Unpublished Works for Organ and Harpsichord.
CD VI from VI.

Roberto Loreggian plays on a Antegnati organ, 1565, Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara, Mantua.


Recommended.

[Harry]

Vagn Holmboe.

The Complete Symphonies.
CD IV.
Symphony No. 6 & 7.
Aarhus SO, Owain Arwel Hughes.

[Biffo]

TD:

CD 7

Symphony № 48 in C, « Maria Theresia » Hob I:48
Symphony № 85 in B^b, « La Reine » Hob I:85

I hope you are enjoying this set. Your earlier posting alerted me to it and I put in an order to Amazon. I was initially given a delivery date of March 4 but this has now been put back to March 18. A bit annoying but I can wait.

I have the Paris Symphonies from this set but they are in a battered second hand box of cassettes I can no longer play.

[Harry]

Claude Debussy.

Orchestral Works.
CD II.

Jeux.
Gigues.
Iberia.
Rondes de Printemps.
Printemps, (Suite Symphonique)

Michael Sedrez & Fabienne Boury, Piano duet, (Suite Symphonique)

Orchestre National de ORTF, Jean Martinon.

Super performances. Martinon is a real Debussyian.

[vers la flamme]

Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem. Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Chorus

[vers la flamme]

Akira Ifukube: Sinfonia Tapkaara. Dmitry Yablonsky, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

This disc is incredible!

[Roasted Swan]

Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem. Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Chorus

I do like Muti's EMI/Philharmonia recordings.  I'm not sure I can think of a duff one in them.  For sure he was much more of a firebrand conductor back then but this suits a lot of the repertoire he recorded with them.  Apart from this blazing Verdi Requiem (one of the fastest Dies Iraes on disc I reckon!) I like:

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Back to Buxtehude/Saorgin organ works for a little while: