What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

I am playing around in a box with the Complete Piano music by Brahms, old recordings released in a DGG box, with Ugorski Kempf and Barenboim, e.o. While looking on Qobuz I could not find the box by Idil Biret, a good but dated performance which I have in my CD collection, so I wondering is there a newer complete set? Am I looking in the wrong way to find a complete set of Brahms piano works? Some help would be appreciated.

[Que]

Italian liturgical music from the early 17th century, mostly by an anonymous composer only known as "Carlo G." A bit of Caccini thrown in for good measure.

Lovely music, but it is the Antegnati organ and the superb performances by the ensemble Profeti Della Quinta, aided by Plamena Nikitassova (violin) and Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (organ) that make this recording.

[Harry]

Italian liturgical music from the early 17th century, mostly by an anonymous composer only known as "Carlo G." A bit of Caccini thrown in for good measure.

Lovely music, but it is the Antegnati organ and the superb performances by the ensemble Profeti Della Quinta, aided by Plamena Nikitassova (violin) and Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (organ) that make this recording.

Bookmarked. Thanks!

[ultralinear]

NP: John Luther Adams Become Ocean

Gorgeous work

Agreed.  I'll be hearing it performed live later this year (Dalia Stasevska conducting the BBCSO).

[Que]

Harpsichord after Johannes Daniel Dulcken, Antwerp, 1745.

I have a serious itch to get this series on disc, also because Spotify seems to have a random incomplete selection from this cycle. But there are no good options... Getting the 12 volumes separately would be a long project, and probably not cheap. Would also take a LOT of shelf space. Trying to get the box set isn't much better: way more difficult AND costly because it is rarer than hen's teeth and it consist of three "fat" space consuming jewel cases...

Perhaps a miracle will happen and Naïve will release a reissue before it is too late...?
Where is Divine Intervention when you need it? 

https://www.marcellosorcekeller.com/serious-pieces-and-less-so/antonio-soler-and-the-unanswered-question/

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.9  CD 6

[Iota]

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No.31, Op.110
Claudio Arrau (piano)

Arrau takes his time smelling the roses and the coffee in the first movement but to illuminative effect, as with great clarity he unearths a captivating tale from the fertile sonata form terrain, and tells it persuasively and affectingly.  The horses are spared again in the second movement, but it feels comfortable and all of a piece with a convincing overall aim. In the third movement the sense of Beethoven entering a new world where nobody has ever been, is thrillingly tangible, and ecstatic revelation seems to radiate from every bar. A superb, deeply rewarding performance.

[Harry]

The Carlo G Manuscript.
Virtuoso liturgical music from the early 17th century.
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem.
Recorded: at the Chiesa dei Santi Eusebio e Vittore, Peglio (CO), Italy, 2016.
Antegnati organ early 17th century.



About 15 years ago, a previously unknown document, the Carlo G manuscript, was sold at a Viennese flea market for €60. Thanks to the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the ensemble Profeti della Quinta, led by the organist Elam Rotem, we can now hear a large selection of works from this manuscript. If that is not a sublime story and find, I don't know what is. Cheaply bought, priceless in musical worth. I agree with @Que, that it is quite beautiful, well recorded, and sublimely performed. Even the countertenor is quite acceptable and Perrine Devillers, a fine Soprano. In fact the whole ensemble is first rate. The Antegnati organ sounds like a dream.

[Traverso]

Vivaldi

6 Concerti Op.6

[VonStupp]

Hugo Alfvén
Choral Music
Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

The last of Alfvén for a while, methinks.
VS

[Que]

PS What I learn from this is that Tartini's orchestral writing was not more than adequate, and basically a simplified copy of examples by Vivaldi.
The good stuff is in the parts for the solo violin. I've read that Sviridov found a copy of added ornaments and cadenzas by Pisendel, so that's good.

[JBS]

I am playing around in a box with the Complete Piano music by Brahms, old recordings released in a DGG box, with Ugorski Kempf and Barenboim, e.o. While looking on Qobuz I could not find the box by Idil Biret, a good but dated performance which I have in my CD collection, so I wondering is there a newer complete set? Am I looking in the wrong way to find a complete set of Brahms piano works? Some help would be appreciated.

Barry Douglas on Chandos.

For streaming purposes, there's also Julius Katchen on what is now Decca, Gerhard Oppitz on what is now Sony, and Martin Jones on Nimbus.

[AnotherSpin]

[Que]

I am playing around in a box with the Complete Piano music by Brahms, old recordings released in a DGG box, with Ugorski Kempf and Barenboim, e.o. While looking on Qobuz I could not find the box by Idil Biret, a good but dated performance which I have in my CD collection, so I wondering is there a newer complete set? Am I looking in the wrong way to find a complete set of Brahms piano works? Some help would be appreciated.

Barry Douglas on Chandos.

For streaming purposes, there's also Julius Katchen on what is now Decca, Gerhard Oppitz on what is now Sony, and Martin Jones on Nimbus.

Still something I have to figure out myself. On my musical to-do list! 

I've read some very positive reviews of Jonathan Plowright's cycle on BIS.

And what about Geoffroy Couteau's set on La Dolce Volta?

[Harry]

Still something I have to figure out myself. On my musical to-do list! 

I've read some very positive reviews of Jonathan Plowright's cycle on BIS.

And what about Geoffroy Couteau's set on La Dolce Volta?

But is it on Qobuz?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Carlos Seixas.

[Wanderer]

[Wanderer]

I am playing around in a box with the Complete Piano music by Brahms, old recordings released in a DGG box, with Ugorski Kempf and Barenboim, e.o. While looking on Qobuz I could not find the box by Idil Biret, a good but dated performance which I have in my CD collection, so I wondering is there a newer complete set? Am I looking in the wrong way to find a complete set of Brahms piano works? Some help would be appreciated.

Barry Douglas on Chandos.

You beat me to it. Seconded! 

Still something I have to figure out myself. On my musical to-do list! 

I've read some very positive reviews of Jonathan Plowright's cycle on BIS.

Plowright's Brahms is also very good/excellent, but I remember finding Douglas to generally be rather more attuned/engaging and alert to the music and oftentimes reaching for the profound in Brahms that somehow eludes Plowright. I did a side-by-side listening comparison a couple of years ago in several works (main emphasis on the Third Sonata and the Ballades) and I found Douglas leading by a small margin. You can stream and compare! 

[Karl Henning]

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

A fantastic Shostakovich SQ cycle. I should revisit it!