What are you listening 2 now?

[Wanderer]

[Florestan]

[vandermolen]

American Landmarks
Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Copland: Clarinet Concerto
Harris: Symphony No.3
A very nice programme of American music
Seemed appropriate in view of the visit of a well-known American to this country 

[Que]

This morning a return to a favourite series of early English polyphony (5 volumes):

   

[Que]

It has been a long time since I listened to that set! 

[AnotherSpin]

This morning a return to a favourite series of early English polyphony (5 volumes):

   

A little more, and the favorites list in my Qobuz will burst... Thanks for the recommendations - past, present, and future

[Harry]

A little more, and the favorites list in my Qobuz will burst... Thanks for the recommendations - past, present, and future

Ughhh you should see mine, It gives me a massive depression.

[Harry]

This morning a return to a favourite series of early English polyphony (5 volumes):

 

I have them in my to listen queue, and that's a long Queue.

[Harry]

Roland de Lassus. (Mons, ca.1531 – Munich, 1594)
The musical glory of Bavaria: The Time of favor. Volume II. Biographie musicale.
Singer Pur.

The second volume in this series, and a interpretation after my heart. Singer Pur is since long a favourite ensemble with me, and I have many recordings of them. This combination of singers is ideal for Lassus, for their diction is precise, tempi just right, and expression at a maximum. SOTA recording too.

[Que]

A random dip in my own list on Spotify: 



I quite like it - for a spontaneous run. Johan van Veen has some issues with the choice of instruments in certain pieces, but likes that the recording features pieces performed on a dulcian:

https://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Arcana_A118.html

[Mister Sharpe]

Last night I listened to the Beeb and caught Croatian composer/teacher/musicologist Franjo Lučić's Missa Jubilaris conducted by Mladen Tarbuk (Ivan Goran Kovacic Academic Chorus). To describe it as heaven on earth is to put it mildly. I don't see this recording available anywhere but there are some movements on YouTube in no better than just acceptable sound and Shazam has all of it.

[AnotherSpin]

Ughhh you should see mine, It gives me a massive depression.

Unfortunately, Qobuz doesn't show how many albums I've favorited. Some of them I set aside to listen to even before the war, and I still haven't gotten to them. From time to time, I go through the list and tidy it up, removing albums I probably never will listen to.

[Madiel]

Haydn: the very petite Sonata no.3 in F.

Followed by the more substantial Arietta with 12 variations, with a theme taken from one of the op.9 string quartets. The number of non-sonata works gradually increases with the later discs in this series.



And that's the end of disc 10. Only one to go.

[AnotherSpin]

Roland de Lassus. (Mons, ca.1531 – Munich, 1594)
The musical glory of Bavaria: The Time of favor. Volume II. Biographie musicale.
Singer Pur.

The second volume in this series, and a interpretation after my heart. Singer Pur is since long a favourite ensemble with me, and I have many recordings of them. This combination of singers is ideal for Lassus, for their diction is precise, tempi just right, and expression at a maximum. SOTA recording too.

Harry, that's not fair. I was just listening to Lassus's cycle after @Que recommendation, and now you're writing about them so engagingly that I'll have to listen to them all over again.

I'll complain to the moderators and ask them to set some kind of limit on recommendations... 

[Harry]

A random dip in my own list on Spotify: 



I quite like it - for a spontaneous run. Johan van Veen has some issues with the choice of instruments in certain pieces, but likes that the recording features pieces performed on a dulcian:

https://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Arcana_A118.html

I quite like this recording.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi: Concerto for strings in F (RV 136), followed by the next 4 arias on this album.



The programming continues to maximise the contrast in moods between arias. The last of this particular group is "Tu dormi in tante pene", a 10-minute sad lullaby from Tito Manlio with (in this variant) an extremely prominent solo violin weaving in and out of the vocal part. It's lovely.

[Christo]

[Harry]

Henri Vieuxtemps
Works for Viola & Piano.
Sonatas for viola and piano op. 36 & op. 60; La Nuit; Etude; Capriccio op. posth.; Souvenir d'Amerique.
Timothy Ridout (viola), Ke Ma (piano)

Works I do not encounter that often, even though I am quite fond of this composer, especially his wonderful violin concertos. The present CD has the works for Viola on offer, and they are as attractive as all the other compositions I've heard of him. Charming, and warm romantic evocations of a composer, that speaks through an emotional level that keeps astounding me. Both performers were wholly unknown to me, but despite of that, they deliver good interpretations, and let the music flow in a very natural way. The recording is good, but maybe a bit too much reverb when the playing gets louder.That is a minor quibble mind. But the artwork is crap, that's a major quibble mind!

[Harry]

That is a fine recording, and reminds me to visit it again!

[AnotherSpin]

Auryn Quartet's Haydn Cycle on Tacet is nothing short of a landmark achievement in chamber music recording.