What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

Joining you with this same recording, as CD3 of this set:


Great stuff!

Somehow Mecier had gone completely under my radar until I came across this set. Then I noticed that a large fraction of the set is vocal music, which is not my thing, so I ended up seeking out some of the individual recordings.

[Karl Henning]

Atonal honking alert

The last CD of this set starts with Winter Songs by Brett Dean in which Dean set three poems by e e cummings in the first two there are rather too many outbursts of what can be described rather literally as atonal honking from the tenor and the instruments
The rest of the disc promises better, with works by Tuur, Vasks, and Part before finishing up with Neilsen's Wind Quintet.

Not everyone can really pull off atonal honking!

TD:

CD 22

Brahms
Sonata in f minor for two pianos, Op. 34b (after pf quintet, Op. 34)

Liszt
Concerto pathétique in e minor for two pianos, S.258

LvB
Vars & fugue in E^b, Op. 35 « Eroica »

The Brahms & Liszt avec sa femme, Tania.

[JBS]

Not everyone can really pull off atonal honking!

If you are curious, there's a performance on Youtube by an ensemble from Vermont. I haven't listened to it so I don't know if they honk with better grace.

[Daverz]

All three concertos are fine works in an accessible mid 20th-Century neo-classical style. beautifully recording by Decca for Lyrita (Ken Wilkinson is the engineer in the last 2 works).

[Karl Henning]

If you are curious, there's a performance on Youtube by an ensemble from Vermont. I haven't listened to it so I don't know if they honk with better grace.

I was thinking more of "not all composers," but note taken, thanks!

[Todd]

[Symphonic Addict]

[Symphonic Addict]

Nyman: MGV

100% optimistic music.

[JBS]

From the Barbirolli box, the Verdi Requiem with the second CD filled out by one of those couplings which seem unique to performer-centered sets: Delius's Appalachia



Honestly, I find the image of a ghostly Delius peering through the kitchen window a bit wierd.
ETA
This strikes me as an excellent performance of the Requiem, worth getting on its own if you don't have it.

[bhodges]

The thing I've liked most from James Weekes is Mala Punica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVnvJSjt-RQ&ab_channel=Exaudi-Topic

Thanks so much for this recommendation. But alas, I'm getting the dreaded "Video not available." (I'm so weary of videos that are available in Europe or elsewhere, but apparently not for U.S. consumption.)

Anyway, I'll keep it in mind and look out for it elsewhere! Thanks again. 

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

From the Barbirolli box, the Verdi Requiem with the second CD filled out by one of those couplings which seem unique to performer-centered sets: Delius's Appalachia



Honestly, I find the image of a ghostly Delius peering through the kitchen window a bit wierd.
ETA
This strikes me as an excellent performance of the Requiem, worth getting on its own if you don't have it.

You remind me that I may have been putting this off:

CD 24

Delius
Prelude & Idyll
Irmelin Prelude
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Fennimore & Gerda Intermezzo
A Village Romeo & Juliet—The Walk to the Paradise Garden

Trad. (arr. Percy Grainger)
Irish Tune from County Derry

Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore
Mock Morris
Shepherd's Hey

[TheGSMoeller]

Nyman: MGV

100% optimistic music.

Nice, Mr. Addict!! MGV is an all-timer for me, can't go long without a listen.



TD: New release...

[JBS]

You remind me that I may have been putting this off:

CD 24

Delius
Prelude & Idyll
Irmelin Prelude
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Fennimore & Gerda Intermezzo
A Village Romeo & Juliet—The Walk to the Paradise Garden

Trad. (arr. Percy Grainger)
Irish Tune from County Derry

Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore
Mock Morris
Shepherd's Hey

There, it doesn't hurt that much, does it?

Meanwhile, still from The Box, concertante works, CD 70, recordings from 1928-1932.

The box is in four segments:
CDs 1-69 are pure orchestral works
CDs 70-87 are concertante works.
The next four CDs are the choral works (Ireland's These Things Shall Be, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, then the Verdi and Delius I was listening to earlier.
CD 92 to the end is the opera and vocal recordings.
Each segment is arranged more or less chronologically, so CD 70 is from Barbirolli's early days. The orchestras here are "John Barbirolli's Chamber Orchestra" and an otherwise unnamed "String Orchestra".

Haydn Cello Concerto in D Hob VIIb:2 Guilhermina Suggia cello
BachConcerto in C for 2 Keyboards BWV 1061 Ethel Bartlett, Rae Robertson pianos
Haydn Keyboard Concerto in D Hob XVIII:11 Rondo al Ungarese only
Bach Keyboard Concerto in f minor BWV 1056 Allegro only
Saint-Saens Valse Caprice Op 76
Raff La Fileuse Op 157 no 2 orchestrated by A. Gibilaro
In the last four works, the pianist was Yvonne Arnaud.

[Que]

Music by Farnaby disc 7 of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Note to Mandryka: no virginal but two harpsichords.

[Mandryka]

Music by Farnaby disc 7 of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Note to Mandryka: no virginal but two harpsichords.

I'm really enjoying Elizabeth Farr's Peter Philips. More than Belder's.

[Harry]

Hans Leo Hassler.
Complete Organ Works.
Volume III.
Manuel Tomadin plays on a M.P.P. di P. da Montefalco Organ (1509)
Fedeli XVIII, sec, C. Pinchi, 1997-2005.
San Francesco Church in Trevi.
Pitch: A=445 Hz.
Temperament: Mesotonic 1/4 syntonic comma.


I like the organ, and Tomadin's playing is more relaxed. The recordings so far are rather hard and direct. Volume is essential to keep an ear on. One notch to many and it will slice your ears off. That fact also accounts for the pressure I feel, and a somewhat uneasy sound balance. I do not see who the engineer is, but he or she clearly opted to set the mics very close to the organs. You get great detail no doubt, but is doesn't make for easy listening. The Montefalco organ has a lot of mechanical noise to boot.
The music is of course very attractive, but I will keep on the lookout for another complete set, although my expectations are on a low fire.

[Harry]

I'm really enjoying Elizabeth Farr's Peter Philips. More than Belder's.

I also like Elizabeth Farr, but this Belder set is more than a match. In fact there is not a single disc in this box I dislike. Belder is as I wrote before a very versatile musician who has the right attitude and feel for the music, plays on fine instruments and has great recording credentials.

[Mandryka]

I also like Elizabeth Farr, but this Belder set is more than a match. In fact there is not a single disc in this box I dislike. Belder is as I wrote before a very versatile musician who has the right attitude and feel for the music, plays on fine instruments and has great recording credentials.

Farr uses a gorgeous harpsichord for the Phillips -- Zentis 1658. The sound is good too -- Rubsam did it. Also Farr is a bit transgressive, with all her ornaments, and I appreciate the fact that she breaks the rules and makes something nice to hear out of it.

[Harry]

Farr uses a gorgeous harpsichord for the Phillips -- Zentis 1658. The sound is good too -- Rubsam did it. Also Farr is a bit transgressive, with all her ornaments, and I appreciate the fact that she breaks the rules and makes something nice to hear out of it.

Agreed! It sounds fantastic on my set!

[Harry]

Claude Debussy.
Orchestral Works.
CD 4 from 4.

Fantasie pour Piano et Orchestre.
La plus que lente.
Premiere Rapsodie pour Orchestre et Clarinette.
Rapsodie pour Orchestre et Saxophone solo.
Khamma.
Danse.

Aldo Ciccolini, & Fabienne Bourge Piano.
John Leach, Cimbalon.
Guy Dangain, Clarinet.
Jean-Marie Loneix Saxophone.
Orchestre Nationasl de L'ORTF Jean Martinon.


Superb performances and ditto sound, how French this orchestra sounds.