What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

What's the McCabe Haydn set like?

[Spotted Horses]

I like it very much. The analogue sound is far from perfect, of course, but I think it's better than Buchbinder's set (I suffer a bit with the sound of his piano), also from the 70's. I think McCabe captures Haydn's wit quite well.

Thanks for your comments!

[Karl Henning]

Selections from Triad's Spring 2022 concert:

Kevin Scott: In manus tuas
https://www.youtube.com/v/sKg_VZB79LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKg_VZB79LY

Bernie Zelitch: They Paint Her in a Corner
https://www.youtube.com/v/Is-eGHF8m1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is-eGHF8m1M

Avi Pfeffer: And Leah's Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/v/gfB5XMKsY54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfB5XMKsY54

(* typo *)

[Linz]

Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Op.43, Romance in C for String orchestra op. 42 Neeme Järvi

[Karl Henning]

Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Op.43, Romance in C for String orchestra op. 42 Neeme Järvi

What's the WARNING about?

[Harry]

What's the WARNING about?

The last month I posted many BIS CD' s with this warning. Many were of the beginning of the CD era. The warning was, don' t play this on cheap speakers, you might blow them up, because of the so called stagering Dynamics. A lot of bull of cause but a good hype to get the sales of the CD up.

[Harry]

From memory, it's a warning that the marketing department has been busy!
IE, they claim their recording technology is so wonderful, you need to take especial care of your ears.

Edited to add: And... Ninja'd by Harry!

That too
The second line made me laugh, thank you for that, Howard!

[Karl Henning]

The last month I posted many BIS CD' s with this warning. Many were of the beginning of the CD era. The warning was, don' t play this on cheap speakers, you might blow them up, because of the so called stagering Dynamics. A lot of bull of cause but a good hype to get the sales of the CD up.

Hah!

[Spotted Horses]

What's the WARNING about?

As I remember it from the early days, the warning wasn't entirely useless. In the LP era you could turn up your volume and judge how loud it was by the surface noise, before the music started. CDs had the confusing property of having basically noise before the music starts, so you could easily turn it up too high.

[Linz]

Maximillian Steinberg Violin Concerto, Op.37 Symphony No. 4 "Turksib" Op. 24. Sergey Levtin violin, Martin Yates conductor

[Mandryka]

Kagel Quartet 1 - is it one of the greatest 20th century quartets? That's what someone's been trying to tell me.

[Lisztianwagner]

Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor

Pianist: Jan Lisiecki

[Traverso]

Selections from Triad's Spring 2022 concert:

Kevin Scott: In manus tuus
https://www.youtube.com/v/sKg_VZB79LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKg_VZB79LY

Bernie Zelitch: They Paint Her in a Corner
https://www.youtube.com/v/Is-eGHF8m1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is-eGHF8m1M

Avi Pfeffer: And Leah's Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/v/gfB5XMKsY54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfB5XMKsY54

Hi Karl,if i'm not mistaking,they sing "In  Manus Tuas"     (Motet for Good Friday)

[Karl Henning]

Hi Karl,if i'm not mistaking,they sing "In  Manus Tuas"     (Motet for Good Friday)

You're right, of course. My typo!

[Lisztianwagner]

Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor

Pianist: Jan Lisiecki

Incredibly enchanting performance by Lisiecki in the Piano Concerto No. 1, so now:

Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor

[Linz]

Thomas Tallis Music for the Divine Office 1 Alistair Dixon and Chapelle du Roi

[Lisztianwagner]

The recent posts about Holmboe have reminded me of this fine work:

Vagn Holmboe
Symphony No. 8

[Todd]

Revisiting Wand's last (I believe) Bruckner 9 for the first time in a long time.  My memory was that it was a top-notch version.  My memory was correct.  Not the most intense, though it definitely does not lack in that area, Wand and the engineers lavish attention on details, with the dissonant wind playing in the final Adagio most striking.  The overall flow of the performance masks the length entirely.  It just feels right.

[VonStupp]

George Dyson
Agincourt
St. Paul's Voyage to Melita

Neil Mackie, tenor
Jane Watts, organ / Osian Ellis, harp
Bournemouth SO & Chorus - Vernon Handley (rec. 2002)

For tonight:
VS

[VonStupp]

You need this as a, kind of, supplement to the boxed set if you don't already have it. I especially like 'Dies Natalis':

I do have that one indeed (Vol. 5 was the only one I bought from the original Delos Hanson series when it came out), and we are on the exact same same wavelength regarding Dies Natalis' excellence. I plan to revisit it shortly. It is too bad not everything was ported over to Naxos when they reissued this series.

It took me forever to discover that the Lutheran hymn tune Hanson set the Dies Natalis variations to was Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern by Philipp Nicolai; it drove me nuts for such a long time since I strongly recognized it, but just couldn't place it.

A Master's Thesis on Hanson's Dies Natalis:
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=theses_dissertations

VS