What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Just arrived:



PS It's rather odd that such a splendid Trecento recording almost all traces vanished as soon as it went out of print..
The 2011 recording is not listed on the Carpe Diem website, I cannot find any online reviews (!), it is not on Spotify and no listing on Discogs...
It is however listed on Amazon and is on offer at PrestoMusic as a download.

[Harry]

Just arrived:



PS It's rather odd that such a splendid Trecento recording almost all traces vanished as soon as it went out of print..
The 2011 recording is not listed on the Carpe Diem website, I cannot find any online reviews (!), it is not on Spotify and no listing on Discogs...
It is however listed on Amazon and is on offer at PrestoMusic as a download.

Is is also to to be found on Qobuz.....

[Que]

Is is also to to be found on Qobuz.....

Excellent. In that case: recommended listening!

And perhaps I should consider an update to Qobuz?

[AnotherSpin]

Excellent. In that case: recommended listening!

And perhaps I should consider an update to Qobuz?

Qobuz offers a long trial period with no obligations. You can create an account, listen for free, and cancel the subscription if you don't like it.

[Que]

Some doubts are creeping in on Coudurier... The organ used is quite massive and the approach feels sometimes like a steady play through, without much of an overall concept or plan. And the plainchant is pretty lame...

I picked up some pointers here and there and will keep looking. The name Mairie-Claire Alain keeps popping up.
And I should revisit Olivier Vernet recordings, of course.

[prémont]

Some doubts are creeping in on Coudurier... The organ used is quite massive and the approach feels sometimes like a steady play through, without much of an overall concept or plan. And the plainchant is pretty lame...

I picked up some pointers here and there and will keep looking. The name Mairie-Claire Alain keeps popping up.
And I should revisit Olivier Vernet recordings, of course.

Marie-Claire Alain made three complete recordings of Grigny's Livre d'orgue for Erato. The first of these (on the Isnard organ, Sarlat and without plain-song) is in my opinion by far the best.

I don't warm much to Vernet's recording (or Bouvard's for thet matter) but you may think otherwise.

Have you tried Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen, Olivier Houette, Nicolas Bucher, David Ponsford or John Grew?

[Harry]

Excellent. In that case: recommended listening!

And perhaps I should consider an update to Qobuz?

Must correct myself dear Que, I miss one word in my message.....NOT on Qobuz

[Que]

Marie-Claire Alain made three complete recordings of Grigny's Livre d'orgue for Erato. The first of these (on the Isnard organ, Sarlat and without plain-song) is in my opinion by far the best.

I don't warm much to Vernet's recording (or Bouvard's for thet matter) but you may think otherwise.

Have you tried Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen, Olivier Houette, Nicolas Bucher, David Ponsford or John Grew?

Thnx for all the suggestions! 

[Traverso]

Inner Song

[prémont]

Thnx for all the suggestions! 

You are welcome.    The ones I have mentioned are the ones I enjoy the most of the fifteen sets I own.

[DavidW]

Started the morning with some wonderful Vivaldi, well played. Only thing is that the recording has zero dynamic range, and I needed to turn down the volume.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Weinberg Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Kovařovic, Bořkovec, Kaprálová: Czech Piano Concertos.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Original Version. Ed. Robert Haas
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchesster Leipzig, Herbert Kegel

[Traverso]

Fernando Sor

[Linz]

George Frideric Handel Amadigi di Gaula Act II (Continuation) Act III
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Fernando Sor

Nice guitarist!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Francesco Moccia, Bach Lute works (guitar).

[VonStupp]

FJ Haydn
Symphony 70 in D Major
Symphony 71 in B-flat Major
Symphony 72 in D Major
Austro-Hungarian HO - Ádám Fischer

VS

[Mister Sharpe]

Some more of my thrifty treasures and making a Bernard Herrmann afternoon of them.  But is it classical music?  This thread seems hardly the place for that discussion, but for the moment I will say that I see most film scores as a sub-genre of classical music, fully aware not everyone will agree. And that's fine, divergence of opinion doesn't bother me (at least in this case! ).  Lending some support to my view is composer and conductor Matthew Aucoin, who, in the May issue of the Atlantic, attempts to tackle the eternal question "What is Classical Music?" and concludes "At its core, classical music isn't 'classical.' It is written music. I mean music that comes into being through the act of composition." It's a very interesting, even compelling thesis (I'm uncertain myself whether I fully agree with it), and it's certainly more complex than I'm painting it. A wag on Reddit says, "Classical music is whatever they'll play during the day on NPR."  By that measure alone, Bernard Herrmann film scores are classical!