What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Could you drop me some names?    The search engine of the forum is s%$t these days...

I will try, hold on....

[Mandryka]

I'm pretty sure it is not available streaming anywhere... Emergo Classics was a Dutch label that ceased activity in 2001. And I don't know what happened with the rights on the back catalogue, but you might?

PS If I had the facility to rip the disc, I would happy to send you the file... But I'm not quite there yet..

PM me if you want me to rip it for you @Harry

[Harry]

Could you drop me some names?    The search engine of the forum is s%$t these days...

Obviously I have to browse my collection, so that takes time, but...I can recommend the box with holds 11 CD' (no worries you can stream it) CD 3 "L'Orgue Classique Francais 1650-1800, Olivier Vernet playing.
I recommended the box quite vehemently in the past on GMG, but no one gave an inkling of interest. To my ears this box is an enrichment of anyone's collection. And I still hold to that opinion.
I will browse one of these days through my collection to find some more, those I could not find in the streaming service.

[AnotherSpin]

[Harry]

PM me if you want me to rip it for you @Harry

That's really a friendly gesture my friend, but you know what, I found it in my collection, without me knowing I had it. And I never played it, so I will in the coming days.

[Harry]

Sweet Desire.
Prothimia suavissima sive sonatarum selectissimarum (1672).
24 Sonatas by Schmelzer, Bertali, Pohle & Anonymous composers.
See back cover for details.
Chatham Baroque.
Christopher Verrette, Tracy Mortimore, Dominic Teresi, Greg Ingles, Webb Wiggins.
Recorded: 2007. Venue unknown.


This disc is a fascinating compilation of sonatas for small ensemble Instrumentation from the middle of the 17th century. The 24 works by both popular and lesser-known composers are extraordinary in their design. For example, there are often strictly fugal sections alternating with passages formed from tonal innovations of the Italian movement.  Chatham Baroque impresses with their technique and artful interpretation, which frankly I did not expect, but there you have it, even an old sinner like me can still stand being corrected. This ensemble are attuned with each other, and have great balance in ensemble playing. Great attention to phrasing and detail, careful with vibrato and legato, and commanding a warm and commanding tone. A flowing Portamento is also part and parcel of the Chatham's, expertly applied. In other words they do not set one foot wrong or curling their toes.   Close but very well recorded. I am going to check out their other recordings, becoming quite curious after the rest.

[Toni Bernet]

Just heard!

Johann Sebastian Bach: Duet 'Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten' (We hurry with weak but diligent steps), from the cantata 'Jesu, der du meine Seele' (Jesus, you who are my soul) BWV 78.

A sparkling gem from Johann Sebastian Bach's rich cantata oeuvre!

For more information, see
https://www.discoveringsacredmusic.ch/18th-century/j-s-bach

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) - Guitar Quintets - two sets: 1) Zoltan Tokos and the Danubuis SQ (3 discs); and 2) Jacob Lindberg and the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble - Lindberg plays a six-course guitar by Juan Pages, Cadiz 1810. Luigi wrote (or transcribed) 9 Guitar Quintets - Lindberg and his group do the first six on 2 discs; Tokos and his team do 9 works including the 8 extant guitar works.  Dave

Guitar Quintets
The movements of the guitar quintets are wholly transcribed by the composer from earlier quintets (usually string or piano quintets). (Source)

G 445: Guitar Quintet No. 1 in D minor
G 446: Guitar Quintet No. 2 in E major
G 447: Guitar Quintet No. 3 in B-flat major
G 448: Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major ("Fandango")
G 449: Guitar Quintet No. 5 in D major
G 450: Guitar Quintet No. 6 in G major
G 451: Guitar Quintet No. 7 in E minor
G 452: Guitar Quintet No. 8 in F major (lost)
G 453: Guitar Quintet No. 9 in C major ("La Ritirata di Madrid")

   

[Harry]

Renaissance Fantasias.
See back cover for details.
Anthony Rooley, Lute. See list of instruments he used on back cover.
Recorded:  1982 (Most likely) or 1988, I saw the text where but could not decipher it.


Quite an oldie, but one I always treasured, despite the fact that is is very drily recorded, although clear as a bell. It's like Rooley is sitting in front of you, in a private session. The variety of Lutes he is using is impressive. What's more...beautiful sound, a varied anthology with lute pieces of the  renaissance, played on seven different instruments which Rooley, plays clearly and unpretentious, and that does him great honour.

[Iota]

Messiaen: Cinq rechants
Chœurs de l'ORTF, Josette Pudleitner (contralto), Marcel Couraud (cond.)

Hat-tip to @steve ridgway who posted this earlier. A very striking work which I've never heard before, and it sounds unlike anything I've heard from Messiaen. There are typically esoteric rhythms throughout, Hindu-influenced (so I read) but it remains that this feels for me a unique piece for Messiaen (though there are many gaps in my OM acquaintance). I like it very much. The third rechant, 'Ma robe d'amour mon amour', lingers in the mind particularly, sounding almost like surreal barbershop music interspersed at times with melodies of leaping  intervals. Messiaen seems to me another composer incapable of writing a dud.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F, Op. 54

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Berg String Quartet, Op. 3

[ritter]

Franco Margola's Piano Quintets No. 1 and No. 2, plus a selection of short pieces for solo piano. Performed by pianist Claudia Vanzini and the the other members of the Quintetto Margola.

[JBS]

A mix of juvenilia, short incomplete works, three orchestral passages excised from The Nose before its premiere, plus Anti-Formalist Rayok (whose text is more interesting than its music) arranged for chamber orchestra, and a setting of a Yevtushenko poem (Yelabuga Nail) for bass and piano which was only half finished, and was not so much completed as it was co-composed by Alexander Raskatov.

[ritter]

And now, music for violin and piano by Felice Lattuada: Romanza senza parole, Sonata in D major, and Sonata in E minor. Pirro Gjikondi (vln), Eugenia Canale (pf).

[Traverso]

Rodrigo

More than fifty years I bought this LP.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) - Keyboard Works - own the 4 collections below - the PDF attachment lists nearly all of Luigi's music for keyboard (including transcriptions) - note these are all on fortepianos:

Ensemble Clavier - 4-disc Brilliant box - include all 12 Op. 56/57 quintets (G. 407-418); half of these works on 2 discs also performed by Patrick Cohen & Quatuor Mosaiques.

Op. V KB Sonatas (G. 25-30) (violin/cello transcriptions) w/ Franco Angeleri & Enrico Gatti; same set, Laura Vlvini doing the G. 143-48 'Piano Trios' on period instruments.

Op. 26 (G. 195-200) String Quartet arrangements for fortepiano (Arthur Schoonderwoerd et al). So for those wanting some Boccherini fortepiano chamber works, plenty available!      Dave

 

 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Orchestral Works.

[Iota]

What a lovely cantate is "Gott ist unsere zuversicht"

Bach: Cantata BWV 197 'Gott ist unsre Zuversicht'
Hana Blažiková, Damien Guillon, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki

Thanks for sowing the seed of this idea a couple of days ago @Traverso, I don't think it's too much to say the BWV 197 cantata occasioned a sense of bliss here tonight. Lovely indeed!

[vandermolen]

NP: Hovhaness Symphony No. 6, Op. 173, 'Celestial Gate'

One of my favourite Hovhaness CDs - great cover as well!