What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546



I actually have the string orchestra version of this thanks to the Sandor Vegh series, but decided to try the string quartet version. I simply didn't know about this work at all before this year, and I rather like it.

[AnotherSpin]

On the risk of becoming obsessed by Morales' Missa Mille Regretz, another run of this:



This is a small, mixed-gender ensemble.

https://www.ficta.cat/ca/cd/499-mille-regretz-cd-cristobal-de-morales.html

You're not the only one

By the way, I tried listening to the Hilliard Ensemble version the other day, but it somehow didn't work for me.

[AnotherSpin]

Johannes Ciconia : Opera omnia (L'Œuvre intégrale)

Diabolus in Musica, La Morra

[Que]

You're not the only one

By the way, I tried listening to the Hilliard Ensemble version the other day, but it somehow didn't work for me.

For an all male performance I prefer the Concert de les Arts anyway. I found that performance very engaging and ordered it on disk yesterday. (Dirt cheap...)

[Traverso]

Inner Song

[prémont]

For an all male performance I prefer the Concert de les Arts anyway. I found that performance very engaging and ordered it on disk yesterday. (Dirt cheap...)

From where?

[Christo]

Had forgotten how good it is:

[DavidW]

I started the day with one of the greatest symphonies ever written: Sibelius' 2nd symphony.

[Que]

From where?

Momox aka Medimops had it, but offered the same item on various European Amazons - (even) cheaper.
I picked the cheapest option on Amazon.de.


Thread duty... another disk I picked up cheap used at a bookstore on my way to the concert In Utrecht last night:

[Madiel]

Momox aka Medimops had it, but offered the same item on various European Amazons - (even) cheaper.
I picked the cheapest option on Amazon.de.

I've recently discovered Momox/Medimops (yes, there's some Vivaldi heading my way), and it seemed to me that the cheaper price on the Amazon sites was consistently offset by a higher shipping cost. Your mileage may vary, literally, depending on where things are being posted to.

[Madiel]

Mozart: Violin Sonata no.36 in F



The liner notes discuss at length the problematic history of this music, and how what we have might not match Mozart's intentions.

Though the more I think about it... it's decidedly odd that this violin sonata got turned into piano music and the second-last piano sonata got turned into violin music. This gives no indication as to which market was more lucrative.

[prémont]

Momox aka Medimops had it, but offered the same item on various European Amazons - (even) cheaper.
I picked the cheapest option on Amazon.de.

You were lucky. Now it's 75 Euro + postage.

[SonicMan46]

Kozeluch, Leopold (1747-1818) - Keyboard Sonatas on fortepiano(s) performed by Jenny Kim and by Kemp English; about 50 works occupying 12 discs in each set, and both recorded between 2013-2018; Kim's has been boxed (shown below) and English still single jewel boxes (so a LOT of space - I got them into 3 four-disc double jewel boxes including the thick booklets).

Kozeluch seemed to be one of the most popular keyboardist in Vienna in his time and these two performers have greatly helped to jump start his 'return' - been listening for a few days to each and was planning to cull one out but I must say both are excellent - reviews attached for those interested.  BTW, the Kemp's are expensive at regular price on that label, but probably acquire them at a third of their listed price (using BRO, JPC sales, Discogs, and eBay).  Dave

Leopold Koželuch was a Czech composer. He was born in Velvary and moved to Prague then to Vienna in 1778, where he was based for the remainder of his career. In Vienna he achieved renown as a composer, pianist and teacher, and from 1792 until his death in 1818 he held royal appointments as Kammer Kapellmeister (music director) and Hofmusik Compositor (composer), as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's successor. Koželuch's compositional output included sonatas and concertos for keyboard, the instrument in which he specialised, as well as chamber music, choral music and opera. (Source)

 

 

[Que]

Kozeluch, Leopold (1747-1818) - Keyboard Sonatas on fortepiano(s) performed by Jenny Kim and by Kemp English; about 50 works occupying 12 discs in each set, and both recorded between 2013-2018; Kim's has been boxed (shown below) and English still single jewel boxes (so a LOT of space - I got them into 3 four-disc double jewel boxes including the thick booklets).

Kozeluch seemed to be one of the most popular keyboardist in Vienna in his time and these two performers have greatly helped to jump start his 'return' - been listening for a few days to each and was planning to cull one out but I must say both are excellent - reviews attached for those interested.

Coincidentallly listening to piano(forte) music from the same era! 



This is on a Viennese Schantz ca. 1790.

[71 dB]

Salvatore Di Vittorio - Sinfonias 3 & 4 and other orchestral works
Chamber Orchestra of New York
Salvatore Di Vittorio
Naxos 8.579033

[hopefullytrusting]

A little more piano can't hurt, can it? Today, Mia Pecnik:

Beethoven's Bagatelles (Op. 126): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupJsPnNMos
Liszt's Various: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv0x7Q-O3oM
Pejacevic's Piano Concerto in G minor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrg2A_2zqE
Ravel's La Valse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1CJv_9eUNc

[hopefullytrusting]

Neos is a kick ass label for new rep.  I really didn't need a new pianist to explore.  Sigh.

Finally, took a look at this label - holy snikes!

I want all of it!

Currently, "testing" these two albums out:

[Mister Sharpe]

I don't usually go in for anthology discs such as this, but Varviso is such an interesting conductor (Clemens Kraus was his teacher), so subject to varying reviews, and recorded so little, that I literally had no choice in the matter. Recorded in Dec., '83.  Varviso died, age 82, in 2006, in his sleep, reportedly "after a day spent poring over the scores for his next performances."

[AnotherSpin]

Gesualdo: Madrigali

Exaudi Vocal Ensemble

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Last Concerto
Clarinet Concerto, KV.622
La Clemenza di Tito, KV.621
Eric Hoeprich, Clarinet, Joyce DiDonato, mezzosoprano
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Bruggen