What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Another Morales recording, from the same ensemble as posted yesterday with the Missa Mille Regretz:



https://www.ficta.cat/en/cd/420-ave-maris-stella-cd-cristobal-de-morales.html

Another winner!

[Que]

The quality of Baroque performances these days is just insanely good - and we got used to it!  

[Harry]

The quality of Baroque performances these days is just insanely good - and we got used to it!  

Ahhh you finally played this CD. I was over the moon with this interpretation and sound.

[Todd]

[Linz]

Josef Suk Symphony No. 2 "Asrael" 
Legend of the Dead Victors, Commemoration for Great Orchestra, Op. 35B
National Orchestra of Belgium; Walter Weller

[Madiel]

Vivaldi: Gloria (the more famous RV 589 one, with Ostra picta introduction)



Alessandrini launches from the introduction into the main work with incredible vigour. It's fast, but not too fast, and of course suits the text and music rather well. The "et in terra pax" movement has a gorgeous flow. it's set to be a very uplifting performance if he keeps this up for the next 20+ minutes.

[Traverso]

Magda Tagliaferro

CD 2

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Bayerisches Staatssorchester, Kent Nagano

[Mister Sharpe]

Heard Daniel Lesur's Suite médiévale for flute, harp, violin, viola, & cello last evening on the Beeb - a premiere for me and an exhilerating one. Using medieval intervals, Lesur crafted a work (1945) that hangs delicately suspended between old and new, seemingly timeless. I love it!

[Irons]

So good, but why oh why only six?!

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

[SonicMan46]

Dvorak, Antonin - Piano Chamber Music on the 4 discs below (in slim cardboard packages) w/ the Busch Trio + others - bargains from BRO (probably my last order there?) - these have been boxed up.  Dave

[Spotted Horses]

I'm up to Bacewicz String Quartet No 4, listened to both the Silesian Quartet and Lutoslawski Quartet recordings.





I find it strange that this seems to be the most recorded Bacewicz Quartet, but I don't find it to be the most accessible. It's on the thorny side, which is not a detriment in my view. The central slow movement was perhaps the most brilliant.

I didn't find a big interpretive difference between the two recordings. I find myself marginally preferring the Lutoslawski, but maybe that is just because I listened to it second and already had a roadmap of the music in my head.

[Florestan]

Dvorak, Antonin - Piano Chamber Music on the 4 discs below (in slim cardboard packages) w/ the Busch Trio + others - bargains from BRO (probably my last order there?) - these have been boxed up.  Dave

Great performances in superb sonics.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich First Piano Sonata

[Todd]

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[Spotted Horses]

A bit of a digression for Hindemith music featuring clarinet.

The Clarinet Sonata and Clarinet Quintet, both featuring John Bruce Yeh



Both works resonate with me, but I have come to find Yeh's playing a somewhat stiff, lacking in flexibility.  I listened to the Quintet in another recording featuring Raphael Severe and the Prazak Quartet, and found it distinctly more enjoyable,



I'll be seeking alternates to the Yeh recordings in the other works, the clarinet sonata and the clarinet quartet. For the Sonata there is a recording by the superstar clarinetist, Sabine Meyer.

[JBS]

[JBS]

A bit of a digression for Hindemith music featuring clarinet.

The Clarinet Sonata and Clarinet Quintet, both featuring John Bruce Yeh



Both works resonate with me, but I have come to find Yeh's playing a somewhat stiff, lacking in flexibility.  I listened to the Quintet in another recording featuring Raphael Severe and the Prazak Quartet, and found it distinctly more enjoyable,



I'll be seeking alternates to the Yeh recordings in the other works, the clarinet sonata and the clarinet quartet. For the Sonata there is a recording by the superstar clarinetist, Sabine Meyer.

The Sonata is included in the Hindemith recording from LeSage and Les Vents Francais. IIRC you have that.