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/

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!