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[Traverso]

Arcadelt

 

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Major, 1888 Third Version - Ed. Benjamin Korstvedt, Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst

[André]

Symphonies 1-7, Tapiola. Comments in the Snowshoed sibelius thread.

[San Antone]

Pierre Boulez once said the Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex was like a Greek temple made of plastic.

Just another comment by Pierre Boulez which I find ridiculous.  But it is appropriate for Boulez commenting on Oedipus Rex to attack one of his his musical fathers.

[AnotherSpin]

Sonata No. 23. Impressive, especially in the third part.

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

I enjoyed these via Qobuz, so I decided to buy the discs. It was maddening to discover that most, if not all, were issued as SACDs individually, but the box set is RBCD. (Oehms did the same with Korstick's Beethoven Sonatas and Simone Young's Bruckner Symphonies,) Oh well, 5 CDs for $27 on Amazon is a great deal, and the sound is absolutely superb--hard to imagine that the SACDs are appreciably better. Minnaar plays a straight strung piano made by Chris Maene, which provides the clarity of older instruments with the power of a modern piano.

[Karl Henning]

[foxandpeng]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 3, 'The First of May'
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Alto

Ah, this is great!

[Linz]

Alessandro Scarlatti Cantatas

[Keemun]

Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Mitsuko Uchida)

[Madiel]

Beethoven: Septet

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Rucke Di Guck

[steve ridgway]

Debussy: Danses, Sacrée Et Profane

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis: Nuits (Jourdain, 2011)

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium!

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Pranam II

[AnotherSpin]

Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 "Appassionata". Brendel is definitely does not belong to those performers who lack the ability to distinguish between passion and hysteria, who comically exaggerate dynamic effects and pound the keys with all their might.

[steve ridgway]

R. Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder

[Harry]

Vox Dilecti Mei.
The Voice of My Beloved.
The Earliest Settings of the Song of Solomon (10th –15th century).

Epithalamia prosa, Canterbury, 11th/12th
Salve nobilis V. Odor tuus 2-part responsory, Sankt Lambrecht, 14th
Tota pulchra/Tenor motet, Bavaria, 14th
Epithalamia Estampie
Regensburg Drama Regensburg,
Dilectus meus /Veni sponsa salvatoris troped antiphon, Preetz, 16th
Estampie.
Meliora sunt antiphon, Silesia, 15th c. & Iceland, 17th
Osculetur me antiphon, Tegernsee, 15th
Tota pulchra/Anima mea/Tenor motet, Revesby Abbey, 13th/14th
Epithalamium Clairvaux, ca. 1300
Hildegard of Bingen (?) – Sicut malum antiphon, Trier, 12th
Fulcite me floribus motet, Bavaria, 14th

Bruno of Segni – Quis est hic song, Italy, 11/12th
Vox dilecti antiphon, Tegernsee, 15th
Anima mea/Descendi in hortum/ALMA motet, France, 13th
In lectulo meo antiphon, Tegernsee, 15th
Venit dilectus meus antiphon, England, 13th c. & 14th

Ensemble Peregrina, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett.
Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett – Voice & Direction
Lorenza Donadini – Voice
Hanna Järveläinen – Voice
Grace Newcombe – Voice & Gothic bray harp
Sabine Lutzenberger – voice
Matthieu Romanens – Voice
Baptiste Romain – Vieilles
Recorded in Binningen BL / Switzerland, March 2022.

This is very well done, as for this kind of music, the performance is perfect. There is virtual no issue in the chain of production. Voices clear as a bell, instrumentalist that project an image that sounds authentic, and a very remarkable SOTA recording (Tacet Tube)