What are you listening 2 now?

[Sergeant Rock]

Great stuff Sarge! Hope you enjoy it. I think that it is a very fine CD all round.

i'm listening to the vocal works now. England, My England is giving me goosebumps 

Sarge

[j winter]

Starting my way into this box, symphonies 1 & 2...

[Harry]

Starting my way into this box, symphonies 1 & 2...

Those are in my opinion excellent performances, very high on my list of preferred interpretations. Jansons was still young, eager and full of fire. The engineering is a bit odd, but overal they are well recorded.

[Sergeant Rock]

Cheers, Sarge!

Hey, Karl.

[Linz]

Mozart Piano Concertos No. 1 in F major K.37, No. 2 in B flat major K.39, No. 3 in D major K.41 and No. 4 in G major K.41 English Chamber Orchestra Murray Perahia piano & conductor

[Linz]

Beethoven Triple Concerto Anne-Sophie Mutter YO-Yo Ma Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

[j winter]

Those are in my opinion excellent performances, very high on my list of preferred interpretations. Jansons was still young, eager and full of fire. The engineering is a bit odd, but overal they are well recorded.

Good to hear, thanks!  This was among the budget goodies that I picked up at Princeton a while back, so I'm looking forward to taking them for a spin.  Disc 1 was quite good on first hearing, IMO.

Moving on now to Franck and Saint-Saens, followed by Mendelssohn...

[Linz]

Mozart Requiem, Academy of Ancient Music Chorus & Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood, Emma Kirkby soprano, Carolyn Watkinson contralto, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson tenor, David Thomas bass, Westminster Cathedral Boys Choir

[Todd]

Karim Said's first recording is almost as good as his second.  Another splendid concept disc, Said plays a half-dozen works by a half-dozen composers, all dating in part from the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  The Berg Sonata starts things off solidly, if not necessarily as good as YES or Uchida (a tall order).  Bartok's Three Rondos on Slovak Folk Tunes, though, beguile.  While I did not A/B with standard setting Kocsis, there is an ease and charm to the playing that is impossible to resist.  Alas, the weak link follows: Janacek's Sonata.  While certainly well played, it is too smooth, not jagged, not angry, and very formal sounding.  The tiny Webern piece that follows works better, as does the concluding Op 11 from Schoenberg, showing that Said appears to just accept the Second Viennese School as being of much a given as the First Viennese School.  The penultimate work is Enescu's Second Suite, which sounds just marvelous, the gorgeous Pavane, in particular.  Hopefully Mr Said gets to record more, and soon.

[vandermolen]

James MacMillan's
Symphony No. 5

Harry Christophers, Britten Sinfonia, The
Sixteen, Mary Bevan

I'm not overly inclined to declare first listens as 'great', but I think this might be up there. Thoroughly enjoyed.

I was lucky to be invited by a musical colleague to attend the first London performance. I rate it very highly. Do you know Symphony No.4, which is my favourite work by MacMillan?

[Lisztianwagner]

Vitezslav Novák
Toman and the Wood Nymph

Libor Pesek & BBC Philharmonic

[Symphonic Addict]

Schreker: Irrelohe

Magnificent!

[bhodges]

Right now, live, the Merz Trio, with soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon in "A Concert in Celebration of James Primosch (1956-2021)"

Primosch: Two songs from Holy the Firm
Primosch: Descent/Return: Two songs from A Sibyl
Primosch: "Who do you say that I am?"
Maneval: Of Time and the Heart (World Premiere)
Brahms: Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87
Ravel: La valse (Arr.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMb1IvnyYxo

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Somehow, I'm in a Mozart humor this week:

Quartet in G, K. 387
Quartet in d minor, K. 421
The Juilliard String Quartet

[Operafreak]

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.  17-18-Murray Perahia (piano/direction)-English Chamber Orchestra

[Mookalafalas]

Somehow, I'm in a Mozart humor this week:

Quartet in G, K. 387
Quartet in d minor, K. 421
The Juilliard String Quartet

  That's a good humor to be in

[vandermolen]

Vitezslav Novák
Toman and the Wood Nymph

Libor Pesek & BBC Philharmonic

Nice CD although my favourite, by far, is De Profundis.
RIP Libor Pesek

[Harry]

J.S. Bach.
Complete Cantatas.
Volume 31.
BWV.91/101/121/133.
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ.
Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott.
Christum wir sollen loben schon.
Ich Freue mich in dir.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.

Superb.

[Harry]

Organ Works of the Northern German Baroque.
Volume XIV.
Jakob Praetorius & Jakob Kortkamp.
Complete Organ Works.
CD I.
Friedhelm Flamme. Organ.
Instrument: Kroger/Hus organ, Laurentius Church, Langwarden.
Pitch: 1/2 above normal.
Temperament: Modified meantone.


Second rerun to solidify my opinion about the interpretations by Flamme. I have to decide which ones I keep, and those that have to be culled. I realize that I have to be tolerant and in some cases accept the somewhat uneven approach and bad choices of instruments.

[Tsaraslondon]

What we are offered here is a recontrsuction a reconstruction of Solemn Vespers for the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, such as Vivaldi might have performed at the convent churtch of San Lorenzo or the Chiesa della Salute in Venice.

Very fine performances.