What are you listening 2 now?

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NP:

Koechlin
Le Portrait de Daisy Hamilton, Op. 140 (Excerpts Arr. R. Orledge for Clarinet & Piano)
Mako Okamoto (piano), Dirk Altmann (clarinet)

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Some Bach before dinner:

Gott, Man Lobet Dich In Der Stille, BWV 120
Ingeborg Danz, Deborah York et. al.
Collegium Vocale Gent, La Chapelle Royale
Herreweghe

[VonStupp]

WA Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191
Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622

Alfred Prinz, clarinet
Gerhard Turetschek, oboe
Dietmar Zeman, bassoon
Vienna PO - Karl Böhm

I assume our resident GMG clarinetists @Mapman & @Karl Henning have more than a passing fancy with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. My guess is it is standard fare for the instrument.

This recording is one of my favorites of it; Böhm paces the middle movement magically. The rest isn't too bad either, with a rather fine Oboe Concerto as well.
VS

[Karl Henning]

WA Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191
Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622

Alfred Prinz, clarinet
Gerhard Turetschek, oboe
Dietmar Zeman, bassoon
Vienna PO - Karl Böhm

I assume our resident GMG clarinetists @Mapman & @Karl Henning have more than a passing fancy with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. My guess is it is standard fare for the instrument.

This recording is one of my favorites of it; Böhm paces the middle movement magically. The rest isn't too bad either, with a rather fine Oboe Concerto as well.
VS

For me, the later-rraditional adaptation for A clarinet is so familiar, I've never really cottoned to the basset clarinet restoration. 

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NP:

Adams
The Wound-Dresser
Georg Nigl, baritone
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko

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For me, one of the masterpieces in Adams' oeuvre. The way Adams sat this Whitman poem is hauntingly beautiful. A fantastic performance, too.

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NP:

Berlioz
Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5
Robert Murray (tenor)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Chetham's School of Music Brass Ensemble
Paul McCreesh

[Mapman]

WA Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191
Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622

Alfred Prinz, clarinet
Gerhard Turetschek, oboe
Dietmar Zeman, bassoon
Vienna PO - Karl Böhm

I assume our resident GMG clarinetists Mapman & Karl Henning have more than a passing fancy with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. My guess is it is standard fare for the instrument.

This recording is one of my favorites of it; Böhm paces the middle movement magically. The rest isn't too bad either, with a rather fine Oboe Concerto as well.
VS

Yes, I started to learn it in middle school since I liked it so much! I recall having that recording on cassette, and that I wasn't that impressed by it. Maybe I should listen again! (I actually was just comparing the opening of the slow movement in a bunch of recordings. I still think Robert Marcellus with Szell/Cleveland is one of the best recordings.)

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Mahler: Symphony #4
Solti: Concertgebouw

The first three movements were excellent. It's interesting how the horns sound different than in more modern recordings. Unfortunately, I didn't think the soprano soloist was the most suited to this work.

[Mapman]

Yes, I started to learn it in middle school since I liked it so much! I recall having that recording on cassette, and that I wasn't that impressed by it. Maybe I should listen again!

I just listened to the 2nd movement (Prinz/Böhm) on YouTube. It's quite a bit better than my memory. Maybe the tape was poor quality? Or maybe I was just too harsh on him for playing the trills differently than I prefer.

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From one musical devastation to another...

NP:

Beethoven
String Quartet No. 15 In A Minor, Op. 132, "Heiliger Dankgesang"
ABQ

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If Beethoven's late SQs were the only music I owned in my collection, I would die a happy man.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: Symphony In Three Movements

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Last work for the night:

Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E♭ major, Op. 55, "Eroica"
Staatskapelle Dresden
Blomstedt

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[JBS]

CD 5 and 6 Revolutionary Drawing Room performing the six quartets from Opus 58.

[brewski]

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Finale (The Cleveland Orchestra / Christoph von Dohnányi). One of those recordings that makes me want to move to Cleveland.

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Okay, one more work for the night:

Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A, Op. 47, "Kreutzer"
Corey Cerovsek, Paavali Jumppanen

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Alright...I have time for one more work:

Respighi
La Sensitiva
Damiana Pinti (mezzo-soprano)
Orchesta Sinfonica del Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Marzio Conti

[Que]

The new Hulegas recording by Austrian composer Blasius Am(m)on. Well, new... it's from last November... 
I think Van Nevel discovered an interesting composer.

Huelgas Ensemble present the big discovery of 2024: music by Blasius Amon. The Austrian composer (c. 1560-1590) began his musical career as a choirboy at the court chapel of Archduke Ferdinand II in Innsbruck, where he learned his trade from the Flemish Kapellmeister Alexander Utendal. His next mentor was Andrea Gabrieli, one of the masters of the Venetian School. Upon returning to Vienna, Amon joined the franciscan order. All these paths in life came together in his appointment as singing master at the franciscan monastery of Heiligenkreuz around 1585.

Amon hardly reached the age of 30, but during that short life, he distinguished himself internationally with an impressive volume of high-quality music that was in great demand on the music market. It was no surprise, then, that five collections consisting entirely of his own compositions were published in just ten years! Phalesius published the anthology Florilegium sacrarum in Antwerp in 1609, which also contains work by Amon. It is dominated by two styles: the Franco-Flemish technique of imitation and Venetian polychoral styl (pepredominance of warm harmonic chords, 'modern' tonality instead of church modes). Amon was a virtuoso master of the former, and the first German-speaking composer to employ the latter. 'Astonishingly original,' was Paul Van Nevel's impression. He has created an anthology with his Huelgas Ensemble that includes a seven-part Missa quatuor vocum pro defunctis and a selection of motets from the collection Sacrae cantiones (Vienna, 1590).

[Harry]

Salve Susato.
Music Composed or Printed by Tielman Susato.
Tielman Susato (c.1510/15—after 1570), Mille regretz fera mon povre cueur; Mon Amy; Les miens aussi; Si de present peine j'endure; Pere eternel; Sanctus & Agnus Dei aus "Missa In illo tempore. Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505—c.1557), Je suis ayme; Mort m'a prive.  Nicolas Gombert (c.1495—c.1560), Triste depart. Josquin des Prez (c.1445/50—1521); Nymphes des bois; Mille regretz, Jean Lecocq (fl .1514), Le bergier et la bergiere. Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c.1510 -c.1555/56), Een venus schoon; Si par trop boire. Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510—1564), Ave stella matutina.  Orlando di Lasso (1532—1594); Perch'io veggio, Madonna mia, pietà.

Ensemble Utopia.
Recorded 6–8 July 2022 at Sint-Paulus Church, Antwerp, Belgium.
Cover: Print punches 'Grande Musique', Hendrik van den Keere (Ghent 1577).

The third CD I play from this ensemble that makes me humble to hear such excellence. I have heard a multitude of vocal music from this period, but this certainly belongs to my top 5 interpreters of the Renaissance era. I can produce a lot of true hyperbole but I will refrain from it, for the best way to know is to hear. I know a thing or two about choir singing, and what is required from the singers to get a pure polyphony, an harmonious entity of 5 voices that can sing in one voice, a closing together of mind and body. One body in fact. The recording made in Antwerp is superb. Recommended.

[Harry]

The new Hulegas recording by Austrian composer Blasius Am(m)on. Well, new... it's from last November... 
I think Van Nevel discovered an interesting composer.

Huelgas Ensemble present the big discovery of 2024: music by Blasius Amon. The Austrian composer (c. 1560-1590) began his musical career as a choirboy at the court chapel of Archduke Ferdinand II in Innsbruck, where he learned his trade from the Flemish Kapellmeister Alexander Utendal. His next mentor was Andrea Gabrieli, one of the masters of the Venetian School. Upon returning to Vienna, Amon joined the franciscan order. All these paths in life came together in his appointment as singing master at the franciscan monastery of Heiligenkreuz around 1585.

Amon hardly reached the age of 30, but during that short life, he distinguished himself internationally with an impressive volume of high-quality music that was in great demand on the music market. It was no surprise, then, that five collections consisting entirely of his own compositions were published in just ten years! Phalesius published the anthology Florilegium sacrarum in Antwerp in 1609, which also contains work by Amon. It is dominated by two styles: the Franco-Flemish technique of imitation and Venetian polychoral styl (pepredominance of warm harmonic chords, 'modern' tonality instead of church modes). Amon was a virtuoso master of the former, and the first German-speaking composer to employ the latter. 'Astonishingly original,' was Paul Van Nevel's impression. He has created an anthology with his Huelgas Ensemble that includes a seven-part Missa quatuor vocum pro defunctis and a selection of motets from the collection Sacrae cantiones (Vienna, 1590).

Bookmarked. Never heard of this composer, thanks for finding it.

[Que]

Bookmarked. Never heard of this composer, thanks for finding it.

One caveat: the recording clocks only 46 minutes...   If Blasius published so much music in his short life, there was surely enough to last over an hour. Probably a live recording of a concert?

[Que]

Cute, inspired music. But technically not very demanding since it was written for amateurs.
Excellent performances.