What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

[Roasted Swan]

Excellent Harry! You might like the tone poem Kinder Scout aa well.

Excellent Harry! You might like the tone poem Kinder Scout aa well.

Don't forget "The Hills" as well!

[Harry]

Piano Quintets by:
Percy Godfrey (1859–1945) Piano Quintet, Op.16. Ivor Hodgson (b.1959). Richard Walthew (1872–1951) "Phantasy" Quintet. John McCabe (1939–2015) Sam Variations.
I Musicanti.
Recorded at the St George's Headstone, Pinner View, Harrow, London, 2024.

The two quintets by Percy Godfrey (1899-1945) and Richard Walthew (1872-1951) are set in a post-Romantic idiom reminiscent of the music of Rachmaninoff, while the quintets by John McCabe (1939-2015) and Ivor Hodgson (b. 1959) have a great rhythmic vitality and modern harmonies, yet are completely accessible. The music is beautiful and well performed. Godfrey and Walthew were completely unknown to me and in general forgotten, although Percy Godfrey's Piano quintet was awarded first prize in 1899 in a Chamber Music competition. Walthew his composition seems to be his most famous piece of chamber music. Whatever, this a fine disc, with music not often recorded. Works for me. The sound is a bit rough and intonation is not always on pitch, and there is a lot of fiddling during recording, for every movement sounds different, in small degrees, but still, Somm does better most of the time.

[Papy Oli]

Bach

One of the very first works/volume that converted me to the beauty of the cantatas.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Holmboe Symphonies Nos 4 and 5.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony in D Minor, 1869 Ed. Leopold Nowak
Overture, for orchestra in G minor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

[prémont]

Taner de Gala.
Music for the Vihuela.
Juan Carlos Rivera, Vihuela. Vihuela by Francisco Hervás, Granada, 1990.
Recorded at Antigua Iglesia de San Miguel, Cuenca, Spain, 2000.
The cover is of Anna of Austria made by Alonso de Sanchez.

Let me use the occasion to recommend this excellent recording with the same musician:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7993226--suites-bwv-1007-1008-1009-rivera-juan-carlos

[Harry]

Let me use the occasion to recommend this excellent recording with the same musician:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7993226--suites-bwv-1007-1008-1009-rivera-juan-carlos

Thank you Poul for this recommendation. I already had most of his recordings bookmarked, but not the Bach suites, have no idea why not.

[Linz]

Karajan in Moscow vol.3, CD 2
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op.40
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

[Brian]

Payare's Berlioz prioritizes transparency and at times a balletic grace (like the very slow waltz). The quiet playing is very quiet, like Vanska in Minnesota. It is altogether too sober, the kind of performance that people describe as "musicianly" or "polished" rather than the opium-fueled fever dream I prefer. The sound must be turned up but then it is excellent. Although the church bells are a little high-pitched for me, they are the real deal: carillons newly purchased by the OSM from a Dutch foundry.

[Nostromo]

Symphonies No.36 and 39 this morning.I snapped up 6 of these superb SACDs when Berkshire Record Outlet was having a clearance sale.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergui. Celibidache

[Roasted Swan]

A couple of what might be termed "lighter" discs......

I was struck by just what a fine orchestrator John Lanchbery is in his La fille mal garde.  Suprisingly few versions of this sparkling and entertaining score.  Here it bubbles along joyfully in the experienced hands of ballet-expert Barry Wordsworth and the reliably fine RLPO.  Get your clogs on!!



good early digital recorded by Brian Culverhouse.

Then a real mix and match of brass band music.  Some will hate this kind of thing but I love it not least for the sheer technical brilliance of the playing of the Williams-Farey Engineering Band.  Well recorded in the Ballroom at the Blackpool Tower!



and yes they do play a band version of the Strauss Festmusik der Stadt Wien!

[vandermolen]

Don't forget "The Hills" as well!

Yes, The Hills has some great moments!

[Kalevala]

Correct! I have it, as a physical CD no less, so thank you for the pointer in the right direction. Much appreciated Jeffrey.
Still since I have no CD player anymore I have to stream it, which is no punishment with the Bricasti M 5.

No CD player anymore?   

K

[Harry]

No CD player anymore? 

K

No, the streamer simply sounds better

[Kalevala]

No, the streamer simply sounds better

What are you going to do about CDs that aren't part of your streaming service?

K

[Harry]

What are you going to do about CDs that aren't part of your streaming service?

K

I am in the process of building a website, connected to my company and will sell them

[Kalevala]

I am in the process of building a website, connected to my company and will sell them

I was referring to music that isn't (at least currently) available as part of your streaming service (or did you rip all of them to a hard drive?).

K

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto  No 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Brandenburg Concrto No 2 in F major, BWV 1047
Brandenburg Con No 3 in G major, BWV 1048
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood