What are you listening 2 now?

[Operafreak]

This is new, right? For forever there was only Plasson as an option.

Yes you are right, very good recording.

[Operafreak]

Kozeluch: Concertos and Symphony

Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Camerata Rousseau, Giovanni de Angeli (oboe)- Leonardo Muzii

[Que]

On Spotify:




http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/May/Anonimo_Venexian_RAM1905.htm

Didn't have high expectations, picked this just out of curiosity, but it is pretty good! 

[Spotted Horses]

No problem, I have just had the set reserved for me as a result of your response.  It is the Collection  referred to as Jubilee Edition 150th Anniversary of the Wiener Philharmoniker.and in mint condition.  I was already wavering and for the price of 40 euros it is a real bargain.

I hope you enjoy the recordings as much as I did. I confess I am a fan of Maazel and his idiosyncrasies.

Hurwitz in a review of what he considered to be recommended sets was rather negative with regard to Boulez.
Boulez, according to Hurwitz, viciously noted that after his inspiration dried up, he became more involved in conducting, which was a practice he previously detested.
How condescending and prickly

I have a positive impression of the Boulez Mahler set, although I would not put at the very top of my preferences. I am more attracted to Boulez' earlier recordings, mostly made for Columbia/Sony and Erato, when he could achieve an amazing transparency of texture, where you feel you are listening with x-ray ears, able to hear everything. I don't find the later DG recordings are at quite the same level.

[Traverso]

Bach

Canon Alla Ottava
Canon Alla Decima In Contrapunto Alla Terza
Canon Alla Duodecima In Contrapunto Alla Quinta
Canon Per Augmentationem In Contrariu Motu
Fuga A 3 Soggetti
Wenn Wir In Höchsten Nöthen Sein/Vor Deinen Thron Tret Ich Hiermit, Bwv 668
Passacaglia In C-Moll, BWV 582

[Traverso]

I hope you enjoy the recordings as much as I did. I confess I am a fan of Maazel and his idiosyncrasies.

I have a positive impression of the Boulez Mahler set, although I would not put at the very top of my preferences. I am more attracted to Boulez' earlier recordings, mostly made for Columbia/Sony and Erato, when he could achieve an amazing transparency of texture, where you feel you are listening with x-ray ears, able to hear everything. I don't find the later DG recordings are at quite the same level.

I can confirm this especially with the Webern and the Pli Selon Pli recording he made for CBS and of course the unbeatable Bartók opera with Troyanos. His later recordings sounds warmer but they seem less crystallized.
I also like Maazel and have his complete Bruckner recordings with the orchestra from Bavaria. His Porgy and Bess, Prokofiev and the early years box on DG.Not to forget his Cleveland Years

[aligreto]

CPE Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 10 [Spányi]






Sonata in G min. W.65/27 [H.68]
Sonata in D maj. W.62/13 [H.67]


I like the music on this CD and I like the presentation of it, for the most part. The minor issue that I have here is that Spányi is a tad reticent with regard to tempo given the indications. I think that the presentations lack a sense of vitality. I particularly like the sound of the instrument used here. It is quite mellow sounding and well rounded and balanced between the bass and the treble registers.

[aligreto]

Mahler


Symphony No.2


Christine Schäfer soprano

Michelle DeYong mezzo-soprano

Wiener Singverein


Wiener Philharmoniker





The beginning of this second symphony is immediately spot on, absent is the exaggerated sentimentality that many will judge as boring. The structure is present in all its splendor, no worn clichés but back to the source with an interpretation that at times sounds almost modest but not in its musical elaboration. Entertaining because you are taken along in a way that is more like reveling in whipped sentiments and therefore listening makes you more involved with what really matters, the music is not overly embellished but lets it speak for itself. No superfluous adjectives that can obscure the essential but make a greater appeal to a more active listening.
Because the music does not unfold like a daze, you actually hear more.

I am very pleased that you seem to be enjoying your Boulez Mahler so far, Jan. 

[Madiel]

The Queyras-Faust-Melnikov exploration, Volume 1: Britten cello suites



The music is generally new to me, not just the performance, though I think probably I heard one of the suites many years ago.

[Lisztianwagner]

Béla Bartók
String Quartet No.4

[Christo]

Lennox Berkeley
Symphony no. 1
*Symphony no. 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman Del Mar
*Nicholas Braithwaite
(on Spotify)

You're the first one I meet in this forum who seems to like them - I love them too, as I do about everything Berkeley wrote in the 1940s.

Fricker: 'The Vision of Judgment' - his masterpiece IMO which I may have never come across without the recommendation of cilgwyn, formerly of this forum:

Yes, we still miss cilgwyn - does anyone know how he's doing?

[Traverso]

I am very pleased that you seem to be enjoying your Boulez Mahler so far, Jan. 

Thank you Fergus,to complete the party I have purchased another .Mahler set. i'm more a Bruckner man but I could not resist  this  nice box for a friendly price.

[aligreto]

You're the first one I meet in this forum who seems to like them - I love them too, as I do about everything Berkeley wrote in the 1940s.
Yes, we still miss cilgwyn - does anyone know how he's doing?

Here is a quote from Kyle's post in the Missing Members thread

Regarding cilgwyn, he sent me a very kind and characteristically enthusiastic reply to my message to him at the Art-Music Forum. I interpreted his reason that he's no longer active on GMG as being the forum was encouraging him to spend too much money on CDs; he also mentioned that he had accidentally deleted his account one night when he had one too many (). So nothing too serious, I guess....I once again encouraged him to return but haven't heard back yet....

[aligreto]

Thank you Fergus,to complete the party I have purchased another .Mahler set. i'm more a Bruckner man but I could not resist  this  nice box for a friendly price.

You are becoming an unstoppable force, Jan, with your purchasing. You may become a real rival to John but perhaps you have some way to go there. 

[vandermolen]

You're the first one I meet in this forum who seems to like them - I love them too, as I do about everything Berkeley wrote in the 1940s.
Yes, we still miss cilgwyn - does anyone know how he's doing?

I like them as well!
cilgwyn's posts on the Art-Music (and Liguistics) forum. He seems fine but I've had no direct contact with him since his disappearing act.
NP
Bax Symphony No.2 (BBC SO/Goossens)
Having listened to Goossens's own two symphonies over that last two days I was reminded of Bax. Then I remembered that Goossens had recorded Bax's 2nd Symphony. I've come to the conclusion that it is the finest performance of all. There's also an amazing 1928 recording of 'Tintagel' on the CD a pioneering first recording (the 2nd Symphony, in this recording, is also available on Lyrita):

[Traverso]

You are becoming an unstoppable force, Jan, with your purchasing. You may become a real rival to John but perhaps you have some way to go there. 

No no no and again no,John is another league,he is hors catégorie 

[VonStupp]

Peter Maxwell Davies
Corpus Christi with Cat and Mouse (1993)

James MacMillan
Alleluia (2013)

Jonathan Harvey
How could the soul not take flight (1996)

John Tavener
Schuon Hymnen (2003)

Benjamin Britten
Sacred and Profane, op. 91 (1975)

SWR Vokalensemble - Marcus Creed

For this morning and continuing to Great Britain:

VS



From this set:

[Madiel]

I did listen on headphones earlier today but in a rather distracted way, and this music deserves the rich sound of speakers... it needs to fill a space.

Nørgård, Symphony No.3

[aligreto]

No no no and again no,John is another league,he is hors catégorie 

Yes, I suppose John "owns" the Purchasing Thread 

[Todd]

YES doing the two-pianist recording thing with James Jae-won Moon.