What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) - String Quintets - just a sampling from the 4 recordings shown below - I own about 38 String Quintets (SQs), most with 2 cellos, and a small number w/ a bass or a second viola added.  From his catalog HERE, he composed 114 SQs w/ 2 cellos (G.265-378), 24 SQs (G.379-402) w/ 2 violas, and nearly 20 SQ transcriptions - as w/ the string quartets, believe that I own enough!  Dave

     

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

What a delight to start with this disc!

Nicolaus Bruhns, Complete Organ Works.
Melchior Schildt, Organ works.

Joseph Kelemen plays on the Arp-Schnitger Organ, 1692, Ludgerikirche Norden.
Pitch: ca. 5/8 tone higher than today's conventional pitch.
Modified meantone temperament 1/5 synton, comma.

Super SACD sound, and Kelemen plays the stars from heaven. I am mightily impressed I am !

Geirr Tveitt's Piano Concerto No. 4 'Aurora Borealis' 
    Bjarte Engeset, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Håvard Gimse (piano)

Nice recordings!

[Mirror Image]

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Henze
3 sinfonische Etüden
NDR Sinfonieorchester
Peter Ruzicka



Henze is definitely showing a Second Viennese School influence in this particular work --- nice!

[Karl Henning]

CD 27

Tchaikovsky

Romeo & Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Symphony № 4 in f minor, Op. 36

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Prokofiev
Cinderella, Op. 87
USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Rozhdestvensky

From this set -

[Papy Oli]

BWV 63

[bhodges]

Nagano, the orchestra and choruses go for maximum clarity and transparence. Even the soloists - women in particular - have voices that project easily but clearly. Tempi tend to be on the moderate side of things but never unduly so. The recorded sound is suitably spacious and translucent. Harps, organ and timpani for example are superbly caught and their specific location in space made perfectly clear. In this chosen interpretative perspective (rather similar to that of Haitink and the Philips engineers 35 years before them) this is a truly magnificent achievement.

I found the last 7 minutes on YouTube, and wow. The clarity and balance are terrific, and I like the more deliberate pace. There's so much going on, a more moderate tempo allows everything to "bloom" a little more naturally. Soloists and chorus are excellent, too. I can't wait to hear the whole thing.

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

--Bruce

[Linz]

Haydn Nelson Mass with Margaret Marshall, Carolyn Watkinson, Keith Lewis, Robert Holl, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden and Neville Marriner

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 0 Helgoland and Psalm 150 with Daniel Barenboim in Chicago

[Karl Henning]

CD 26

Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
M mère l'Oye (cinq pièces enfantines) avec sa femme Tania
Gaspard de la nuit

CD 28

Dvořák
Symphony № 7 in d minor, Op. 70
Symphony № 8 in G, Op. 88

[Linz]

2032 Haydn Project with Il Giardino Armonico

[ritter]

First listen to Esteban Sánchez's Fauré recital:



"Exuberant" is the word that comes to mind (with a positive connotation). Not bad, not bad at all...

[Mandryka]

So much colour in the music; so much freedom, self abandon, in the performances: this is Bach on shrooms.

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Pärt
Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi



A fabulous performance and completely appropriate for what's happening right now in the world. This work never fails to move me.

[ritter]

And now, Janine Micheau sings Milhaud (conducted by the composer) and Ravel's Shéhérazade (under Eugène Bigot).




The Milhaud material was already known to me (it's all included in the "Une vie heureuse" box on Erato), but this recording of Ravel's song cycle will be new to me.

Milhaud's Cantate nuptiale is sounding just lovely this time around! And what a great singer Micheau was, with such a clear and at the same time warm voice... Great stuff!

The reason I got this twofer, nevertheless, was for Honegger's Le Roi David conducted by the composer, but that'll have to wait for another occasion (as I'm not in the mood for "big" works tonight).

[Todd]

I'm generally not a big fan of Brendel, but I've enjoyed this recording of D959 since I first heard it, and revisiting it reinforces that feeling.

[bhodges]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (Semyon Bychkov / WDR Sinfonieorchester, recorded live in March 2007) - First time hearing this version (uploaded July 2020), and it's a winner. Revisiting before hearing the  symphony in two weeks, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWwssdM6BVY

--Bruce

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony in D minor Die Nulte Skrowaczewski with Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Silvestrov
Symphony No. 4 for brass and strings
Lahti SO
Saraste

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 1 & Te Deum Barenboim in Chicago