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Last work for the night:

Korngold
Cello Concerto in C major, Op. 37
Raphael Wallfisch, cello
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Łukasz Borowicz

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen - Poèmes Pour Mi. Checking out recordings to download from archive.org. I've found quite a variety by Messiaen and they all click with me straight away - it must be the right time for me to give him a good listen.

[Que]

Morning listening:



Harmoniae Morales: Moralia 1-28

[Operafreak]

Korngold, Bloch & Goldschmidt: Cello Concertos

Julian Steckel (cello)/ Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskin

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Last work for the night:

Korngold
Cello Concerto in C major, Op. 37
Raphael Wallfisch, cello
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Łukasz Borowicz

Great CD John!

[Que]

To whoever was telling me how late I was with the Passiontide music, I know but I did listen to Leonhardt's Saint Matthew Passion on Good Friday.

There is so much Passiontide  music, particularly from the Renaissance and Baroque! I usually make a special listening pile, but hardly make a dent in it...  Anyway, I had haven't gotten to the Johannes Passion yet, so that might go into the CD player soon. 

[Harry]

De Leidse Koorboeken.
Volume V.
CD I.

Benedictus Appenzeller, Salve Regina a5, "Cantus Firmus, Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen".
Johannes Flamingus, Regine celi a5, Ave Maria a5, Salve Regina a5.
Claudius Potoletus, De Profundis clamavi a4-Secundo pars: Sustinuit anima mea a4.
Jean Lheritier, Nisi Dominus a4, Secundo pars: Cum dederit dilectis suis, a4.
Jean Richafort, Jherusalem luge a5, Secundo pars: Deduc quasi torrentum a5.
Michael Smeekers, Inviolata integra et casta es, a4. Secundo pars: Nostra ut pura, a3-Tertia pars: O, Benigna.
Jacotin, Magnificat Septimi thoni, a4, Sicut erat in Principio, a5.
Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Ave Maria, a5.
Adriaen Willaert, Pater Noster, a4.

Egidius Kwartet & College.

Superb.

[Que]

On Spotify:

De Leidse Koorboeken.
Volume V.

Egidius Kwartet & College.

Superb.

I'm happy to see that out of the probably thousands of options, you picked this series for relistening! 

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Before work - Dora Pejacevic's Symphony:

[Harry]

Before work - Dora Pejacevic's Symphony:

I am envious...that I am!

[Harry]

I'm happy to see that out of the probably thousands of options, you picked this series for relistening! 

I played this set twice in 2017, and since then I was anxious to get back to the Leidse Koorboeken. The music makes my heart so full, especially when my wife is going through a potentially dangerous health situation. But lets not get ahead of things.

[Que]

I played this set twice in 2017, and since then I was anxious to get back to the Leidse Koorboeken. The music makes my heart so full, especially when my wife is going through a potentially dangerous health situation. But lets not get ahead of things.

The set and its music is very close to my heart as well. Beautiful presentation as well.
If I had to pick one item from my Early Music collection, it would be this.

Hope everything turns out well, Harry.

[Harry]

And now for some guilty pleasure, as one of my musical friends loves to point out, but I cannot help myself, I love this music too, even if the performances are not on par with the best out there. It makes my day a tad brighter.

Johann Strauss II.
The complete Orchestral Edition.
CD I of 52

Wooers of Favour, Waltz op. 4 (Gunstwerber)
Heart's Content, Polka op. 3 (Herzenslust)
Wings of the Phoenix, Waltz, op. 125 (Phoenix-Schwingen)
Debut Quadrille op. 2 (Debut-Quadrille)
The Ten' Polka op. 121 (Zehner-Polka)
Nodal figures, Waltz op. 251 (Klangfiguren)
Procession of Masks, French polka op. 240 (Maskenzug-Polka)
Nocturnal Quadrille op. 120 (Nocturne-Quadrille)
Enjoy your life, Waltz op. 340 (Freuet euch des Lebens
Fledermaus-Polka op. 362 (Fledermaus-Polka)
At Home, Waltz op. 361 (Bei uns z'Haus)
Violet, Mazurka on Russian themes, op. 256 (Veilchen)


Slovak State PO, Kosice, Alfred Walter

[Harry]

The set and its music is very close to my heart as well. Beautiful presentation as well.
If I had to pick one item from my Early Music collection, it would be this.

Hope everything turns out well, Harry.

Ditto Que!

I hope so too, but its not in my hands, we will see what the specialist will say after the examination, which will take some weeks.

[Tsaraslondon]

I don't listen to a great deal of chamber music, but the Schubert String Quintet really is sublime.

[Que]

[71 dB]

Nicolaus Bruhns - Cantatas and Organ Works Vol. 1 - Yale Institute of Sacret Music / Masaaki Suzuki - BIS-2271 SACD

This was a confusing disc. Really weird low-energy take on Bruhns. As a Bruhns nut I have many recordings of his works*, but this one is clearly different from the other ones. Maybe in time I will get used to this style of performing Bruhns. I was also surprised about the sonics as BIS usually has very good sound. This one sounds thin. I was asking me, where is the bass? Also, the singer's voices are annoyingly hard and raw. More bass and more soft/velvety sound is what I would like. I don't know if I warm up to this, but the first listening was quite disappointing. 

This is the first time I have a BIS ecopak in my hands. I like it! I also like the cover art. The disc is very generous offering no less than 86 minutes of music! By far the longest disc in my collection.

* For example I now have 7 recordings of the cantata "De profundis" 

[Madiel]

Bought recently out of curiosity and because it was very cheap. Turns out it's first quality early Beethoven.

Op 4 is a work based on the octet for winds in E Flat op 103 (composed in 1792 - opus numbers can be very misleading). Beethoven reworked it in 1795, using the same thematic material, but in many places considerably developed it, turning the 22 min work into one 50% longer. It's a complex, solid work from his early period.

The op 104 dates from 1817, thus its numbering is theoretically correct. Except that it is a transcription of the Trio op 1 no 3, also from 1795. In this case the music was transposed to the string instruments, with some minor adaptations. The 2 violas get most of the harmonic 'filling' normally done by the pianist.

Recorded in the warm, resonant acoustics of the Rudolfinum, Prague in 1976. A very fine disc. These works do not feature in the 50-disc Beethoven set from EMI. I had no intention of getting every scrap of music Beethoven ever wrote, and I was confident that big box would cover even obscure corners of his oeuvre. I'm glad I got this, then.

Might well add this to my collection one day... the op.4 is the more interesting work precisely because it's not simply a transcription, Beethoven developed it considerably (I already knew this from Barry Cooper's book on Beethoven).

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Schubert

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Morning listening:



Harmoniae Morales: Moralia 1-28

Good to see this recording,enjoy it  Que