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[Symphonic Addict]

Kabalevsky: Symphony No. 1

[JBS]

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Méditations Sur Le Mystère De La Sainte Trinité

[Que]

I probably shouldn't buy any discs any more, but occasionally I still do. And as it happens to fully grasp the concept behind this 2CD issue (with combined playing time and price of a single disc) you need the booklet with pictures of the landscapes in presentday Belgium and northern France, or the book by Van Nevel from 2018 in which he illustrates his theory that these physical landscapes influenced the mental landscapes of the composers who grew up and lived in it and by consequence their musical landscapes.

Breathtakingly beautiful performances of music by Johannes Symonis Hasprois, Antoine Busnois, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Antoine de Févin, Jean Mouton, Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin, Jean l'Héritier, Josquin Baston, Pierre de Manchicourt and Nicolas Gombert. Van Nevel is now in his late 70s but hasn't lost his magical touch. I wish he would a complete  Busnois recording or all the Desprez masses, but all his recent recordings are multiple composers recitals, often taken from concerts.. ..

[Maestro267]

Bliss: Morning Heroes
Westbrook (orator)
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool PO/Groves

[Que]

Toccate e Partite - Libro Primo, Francesco Cera, harpsichord and organ. 2nd disc.

[Harry]

JOHANNES OCKEGHEM (c. 1420-1497)
COMPLETE SONGS, VOLUME 1.
Recorded September, 2018, Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Blue Heron.
Megan Chartrand, Kim Leeds, Sophie Michaux, Martin Near, Margot Rood discantus, Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Stefan Reed, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, tenor & contratenor, Paul Guttry, David McFerrin bassus, Laura Jeppesen, Vielle, Scott Metcalfe Director, harp & vielle.

Every bit as good as Volume II.

[vandermolen]

What was the Glazunov work?

PD

Of the Kalevala - Kalevalasta - Ur Kalevla (Finnish Sketches)

[Mandryka]

I probably shouldn't buy any discs any more, but occasionally I still do. And as it happens to fully grasp the concept behind this 2CD issue (with combined playing time and price of a single disc) you need the booklet with pictures of the landscapes in presentday Belgium and northern France, or the book by Van Nevel from 2018 in which he illustrates his theory that these physical landscapes influenced the mental landscapes of the composers who grew up and lived in it and by consequence their musical landscapes.

Breathtakingly beautiful performances of music by Johannes Symonis Hasprois, Antoine Busnois, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Antoine de Févin, Jean Mouton, Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin, Jean l'Héritier, Josquin Baston, Pierre de Manchicourt and Nicolas Gombert. Van Nevel is now in his late 70s but hasn't lost his magical touch. I wish he would a complete  Busnois recording or all the Desprez masses, but all his recent recordings are multiple composers recitals, often taken from concerts.. ..

The thing you miss is the photographic projections. In concert the whole thing was an impressive show - polished music making, for me over-polished (as always with van Nevel), but nevertheless stunningly beautiful. Quite instructive to hear too because the pieces were arranged chronologically, so you got a real feel for how musical fashions changed

[Iota]

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

As good as any I've heard. In combination with the unique bewitchment powers of the Prelude,  Denève's conducting takes us to a sensory stratosphere. Wondrous.

[Que]

The thing you miss is the photographic projections. In concert the whole thing was an impressive show - polished music making, for me over-polished (as always with van Nevel), but nevertheless stunningly beautiful. Quite instructive to hear too because the pieces were arranged chronologically, so you got a real feel for how musical fashions changed

A pity I missed the show, that must have quite the event!

[Harry]

Orgel Landschaft Ritten.
Peter Waldner plays on the following Organs:
Kirche Rupert Mayr, Oberbozen, The Church of Kommende, Lengmoos by Franz Reinisch, The Church Sankt Verena, in Rotwand, Lengstein, Church of Sankt Antonius, Klebenstein, by Peter Überbacher, Church of Sankt Peter, Wangen by Franz Reinisch.
Composers: Hans Leo Hassler, Johann Pachelbel, Georg Böhm, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Speth, Johann Caspar Kerll, Franz Xaver Murschhauser, Robert Führer, Johannes Brahms.
Recorded:2004.

I almost have no words, that beautiful it is. What a joy to listen to it.

[Mandryka]

A pity I missed the show, that must have quite the event!

It was packed, in Sint-pauluskerk in Antwerp, a massive, impressive, pure white old church. Singers in the middle and audience all around. Same night as Cappella Pratensis Obrecht Missa Maria Zart, which was in a St Andrieskerk. You had to almost run to get from one venue to the other, which added to the festival feeling. The van Nevel was the event where I realised how much Renaissance polyphony is about beauty of sound -- I kind of couldn't believe how beautiful the sound was!

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Variations for Orchestra

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Florestan]

It was packed, in Sint-pauluskerk in Antwerp, a massive, impressive, pure white old church. Singers in the middle and audience all around. Same night as Cappella Pratensis Obrecht Missa Maria Zart, which was in a St Andrieskerk. You had to almost run to get from one venue to the other, which added to the festival feeling. The van Nevel was the event where I realised how much Renaissance polyphony is about beauty of sound -- I kind of couldn't believe how beautiful the sound was!

I suspect the church acoustics played no small part in that. I know from personal experience that a mass may sound nothing special in one's own room or headphones but the same mass in a church is something else altogether. Context is everything, in music as in everything else.

And yes, I agree: Renaissance music is among the most beautiful things ever created by man.

[Que]

Celebrating the revival of the LvB Missa Solemnis thread!

[VonStupp]

Robert Russell Bennett
Old American Dances
Down to the Sea in Ships
Four Preludes
Symphonic Songs
Autobiography
RNCM Wind Orchestra
Clark Rundell & Mark Heron

Bennett's brand of Americana reminds me of Don Gillis.
VS


Electric Park, Kansas City MO

[Harry]

Frank Bridge.
See back cover for details.
The Nash Ensemble.
Recorded in Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, 2012.

To my ears this ensemble were on the top of their game, and still are. I consider this recording as one of the best on the market. SOTA sound too.

[Cato]

I believe this work has been mentioned already, Au Jardin de Marguerite.

I caught part of it today on the radio!

[pjme]

Indeed, a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,29166.msg1559672.html#msg1559672

It is a large  one hour symphonic poem with chorus and solo voices . lyrics by the composer , after Goethe.