What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49
String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op.83
Pacifica Quartet Vol. 2 CD 1

[Traverso]

The Leonhardt download sounds very good,burning was a problem wich I solved by converting the files,yes we Dutch are smart.

[Karl Henning]

[AnotherSpin]

Matthias Weckmann: Das Orgelwerk (CD 1)

Hans Davidsson

[AnotherSpin]

The Leonhardt download sounds very good,burning was a problem wich I solved by converting the files,yes we Dutch are smart.

Not only smart, but also capable of empathy — something that, unfortunately, has been lost in some other parts of the formerly free world.

[Wanderer]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major-"Romantic", 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm

[André]

Rolling on with the same set on account of having a fat cat asleep on my chest.

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 12, The Year 1917
Rudolf Barshai
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Brilliant Classics

Coincidentally I pulled the Barshai set from the shelves last month. I'm not a huge fan of 1,2,3 and 12, therefore I only have them from that Barshai set. That 12th symphony is often trashed as bombastic and thematically weak, but I quite enjoyed hearing it again.

[Symphonic Addict]

Donizetti: String Quartets 4-6

These performances are much more to my taste. They don't sound pale as performed on period instruments.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum

[Symphonic Addict]

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass

A desert-island work for me. I remember the very first time I listened to this unique mass more than 10 years ago. I couldn't believe my ears, a new world of sonorities, rhythms, melodies, had open before me. This is a most satisfactory performance to boot.

[Linz]

Fryderyk Chopin Piano pieces and Piano Concerto No. 2
Orchestre de Paris, Khatia Buniatishvili

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Glass Symphony No. 3

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Glass Symphony No. 4, "Heroes"

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu - Vocalism Ai (Love)

A decent piece of tape manipulation from 1956 before Takemitsu moved on to other things.

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Dox-orkh (Pesko, 1992)

I quite enjoyed this strange orchestral music .

[AnotherSpin]

I hear some members here often calling not to mix music with "politics" or something along those lines — as if music is listened to by disembodied idiots who've never looked out the window, have no idea what's going on in the world, and don't understand a thing about what moves people or why.

Anyway — I'm saying this because last night was quiet. I only heard a single distant explosion in my sleep. This morning, everything feels still. The music of Heinrich Schütz — quiet and translucent — fits it perfectly.

[Que]

A new Vincente Lusitano recording:



This Portuguese Renaissance composer of mixed Portuguese/African heritage impressed me before through a recording of his motets by the Marian Consort (Linn Records). Both recordings present a selection from Lusitano's only surviving music collection: the Liber primus epigramatum, issued in Rome in 1551.There are clear Franco-Flemish influences in his musical style. Anyway, fascinating and warmly recommended! Arte Minima's performances feature instruments (recorders) while Marian Consort is a cappella but with a big(ger) choir. I did not an A_B comparison to establish the amount of overlap.

https://musicwebinternational.com/2025/05/lusitano-liber-primus-epigramatum-pan-classics/


https://www.marianconsort.co.uk/lusitano-motets

Anyway — I'm saying this because last night was quiet. I only heard a single distant explosion in my sleep. This morning, everything feels still. The music of Heinrich Schütz — quiet and translucent — fits it perfectly.

That's a wonderful recording of really great music!

[Que]

I quite like the Portuguese ensemble Arte Minima (I predict more excellent recordings), so moved on to this:



The Ensemble Arte Minima takes us on a musical journey to Coimbra, the former capital of the Portuguese kingdom: the Augustinian monk and canon Francisco de Santa Maria worked at the three musical centres of the city in the 16th century - the Santa Cruz monastery, the cathedral and the university. The ensemble Arte Minima, consisting of a four-part recorder consort and four vocalists, is committed to bringing back to life the lost musical treasures of the Portuguese Renaissance. This CD presents the Missa "O beata Maria" by this hitherto completely forgotten composer. Francisco de Santa Maria used the motet of the same name by Pedro Guerrero as a model for his mass, which opens the programme. The Ensemble Arte Minima intersperses instrumental works by Antonio Carreira and Pedro de Escobar.

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/PanClassics_PC10452_Hyperion_CDA68393.html

PS Definitely worth a listen, also because of the beautiful performances. Which elevate music of good, even if not outstanding, quality.

[AnotherSpin]

Disc 3 from this set, a courtesy of a kind person from this forum