What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Honestly, to me anything by Galligioni is almost self recommending, so this was an easy pick op Spotify.

PS Stylistically this music is very much in the Giovanni Benedetto Platti/ Antonio Vivaldi range

Thanks for mentioning this  , it had escaped my attention. Julian Wolfs also made a Froberger recording which I shall purchase in the same breath.

You're welcome.    My only regret is that I missed his live performance of the Goldbergs in September at the Utrecht Festival... 

[Traverso]

Dufay

CD 2

 Ma Belle dame souveraine, on of the most beautuful pieces I ever heard.

Ma belle dame souverainne
Faites cesser ma grief dolour
Que j'endure pour vostre amour
Nuit et jour, dont j'ay tres grant painne

Ou autrement, soiés certainne
Je finneray dedens brief jour
Ma belle dame souverainne
Faites cesser ma grief dolour

Il n'i a jour en la sepmainne
Que je ne soye en grant tristour;
Sе me veulliés par vo doulcour
Secourir, dе volonté plaine

Ma belle dame souverainne
Faites cesser ma grief dolour
Que j'endure pour vostre amour
Nuit et jour, dont j'ay tres grant painne


My beautiful sovereign lady,
End my grievous sorrow
That I endure for your love
Night and day, for which I suffer greatly

Or else, be certain
I shall die within a short day
My beautiful sovereign lady,
End my grievous sorrow

There is not a day in the week
That I am not in great sorrow;
If you will, through your sorrow,
To help me, with full will

My beautiful sovereign lady,
End my grievous sorrow
That I endure for your love
Night and day, for which I suffer greatly


 



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[prémont]

When I read that I thought it would be hard to find, but no

https://open.spotify.com/album/6c6LIjae0ghRuJoHW8FnEZ

Both this and the Froberger CD may be acquired as lossless download from Presto.

[Madiel]

Because it's an insomnia night...

Tubin

Suite on Estonian Dances (which is on the BIS album with the Double Bass Concerto and Violin Concerto No.2)
Prelude Solennel (which is on the BIS album with Violin Concerto No.1)

[Harry]

Alessandro Scarlatti.
Sonate a quattro (senza Cembalo)
and Trabacci: Durezze e ligature, Gesualdo: Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa, F. Scarlatti: Sonata in A minor, D. Scarlatti: Sonata K. 87.
Les Recreations.
Recorded at Basse-Bodeux (Belgium), église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, 2020.

Everything in this performance works excellently and  you senze that all has been realized with great musical care. Even the fugues are rightly approached very eloquently, very rhetorically, so that I was  amazed at how melodious and also tense fugues can be. I have heard this quite some times, and still am mightily impressed by what I hear. I rate this recording very highly. I feel confident enough to recommend this release. The recording is excellent.

[hopefullytrusting]

Another brand new day, another brand new composer: Frederick Corder

I selected him because his profile looked like it came from one of my favorite videogames: Arcanum



Not much of his work is recorded, but David Lloyd-Jones and the English Northern Philharmonia released a disc of overtures and included one of his: Prospero - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZaITUkcZVI

Gary Oldman in Leon, The Professional had it right - overtures really do get the juices flowing. There always seems to be much more brass in them, or at least that ones that I listen to, which automatically makes me like the more than pretty much any of the other genres - aka things that include violins. This overture in particular not only has wonderful brass, but lovely winds, and a harp! The music is sumptuous - in fact, it reminds me of when Max scrunches up her face in Mission Impossible when she says that anonymity is like a warm blanket - I could sleep forever in that scrunch. This is music that I want wrapped around me. Plus, it is music that I can dance to. It is just right music, not too light, not too heavy - just right - the sweet spot. Fantastic use of the timpani, cymbals, the whole percussion in fact - pretty sure I heard something with a wind chime effect. This is my kind of music, and I love the length, and the ending really blows it out, but, of course, ends on the bloody tonic! The sole negative.

High, high recommendation.

[JBS]

Before

Now

CD 1, meaning the three symphonic poems that are not part of Ma Vlast and Szell's transcription for orchestra of the String Quartet 1 "From My Life".

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079

Gustav Leonhardt, Barthold Kuijken, Sigiswald Kuijken, Marie Leonhardt, Wieland Kuijken, Robert Kohnen

[Todd]

D958.

[ritter]

Georges Pludermacher plays Debussy: the first books of the Préludes and the Études, respectively.



Pas mal, pas mal du tout!

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas
Wiener Philharmoniker, Volkmar Andreae

[Todd]

D959.

[Karl Henning]

Yes, a great work! Very exciting. First CD I ever owned. I bought it before I owned a CD player!

You know, I had forgotten. Yes, I bought a couple of Zappa CDs before I had bought a machine to play them on. And that well predated the Amazon next-day delivery era.

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata in D major, BWV 912
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat major, BWV 998
Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
Toccata in G major, BWV 916
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 (Transcribe for two harpsichords)
Concerto for Keyboard and orchestra No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Scott Ross
Huguette Grémy-Chauliac 2nd Harpsichord
Ensemble Moaïques, Chrstopher Coin

[Symphonic Addict]

Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto

There are pieces of music that somehow fit your personality more than others. I think this is one case in point, this concerto resonates with me so much, and the same goes to Nielsen's style in general.

From the recordings I've heard of this concerto, this is the reference for me.

[Symphonic Addict]

Cras: Piano Quintet

Unbearably beautiful. The very definition of ravishing. The movements 3 and 4, particularly, left me in sheer awe, more so because of the inclusion of exotic touches. How can a piece of music be so gorgeous?! I confess I teared up a bit at the ending. Just wow.

[Symphonic Addict]

Dvorak: String Sextet in A major

Another fine example of utmost beauty. I can forgive Dvorak for repeating the main theme of the 1st movement so frequently. It's so idyllic and it ends up stuck in your mind. The 4th movement, a theme with variations, exhibits the mastery of the composer in that regard, and that coda is so exciting, something he excelled in effortlessly. Another composer who comes to mind in that respect is Raff. The endings of his Piano Quartets and String Octet, for instance, are magnificent.

[hopefullytrusting]

Another first, Frederic Cowen conducting two of his works: Gavotte (Yellow Jasmine) and Valse (Viscaria):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YztERkoEgfM

The recording is from 1916, so it is very much an historical document, but it sounds so clean, and Cowen, unsurprisingly, is a fantastic conductor of his own material, lol. I love all the plucked strings - that is how you write for strings - better heard than played, lol. Obviously, these are both dances, and they are both very danceable. Light and airy, but not agreeable - they both have humor and it almost feels like a sense of sarcasm, but I might be reading too much into that.

One of the YouTube comments really stuck out to me, as I had not really thought about it before, but there is a whole world of music trapped on these records that will be or already is lost. I mean it is pure happenstance that this recording was saved and posted to YouTube, and done with care for the digitalization process. Even on the top end, the sound is good - there is no flatness and no sharpness. It is amazing that a recording of this age is in still in such a solid state, but think of all the music that is lost or will be lost - it's tragic.

High recommendation - I cannot imagine anyone not liking this music.

[JBS]

CD 2
Double String Quartets No 3 in e minor and No 4 in g minor Opp. 87 and 136

These Double String Quartets are not Octets--8 players performing as one group--but rather 2 groups of 4 each, playing in alteration, union, or competition according to the flow of the music.

[steve ridgway]

Boulez - Livre Pour Cordes

(Internet was down yesterday so could listen to music player but not post anything).