What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Purcell

 This is one of those musical highlights that takes me back to my youth, to my first recording of this work, by David Munrow and James Bowman.
Come ye sons of art, colorful, graceful, and uplifting music.

[Madiel]

Stravinsky: Orpheus



It's been rather a long time since I last listened to this beautifully restrained score.

[Harry]

Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Huw Watkins (piano)

In advance of their Stravinsky/Prokofiev etc new release becoming available, I thought I'd give this Debussy a whirl, and it's really very good indeed. The way they follow the almost childlike freedom of Debussy's score though all its kaleidoscopically changing moods and energies, feels so natural and attuned. Entrancing throughout.

Agreed!

[Todd]

Some Bach.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 7

  Kantate BWV 130 "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" / Johann Ludwig Krebs: Choralvorspiel "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" / Anonymus (ca. 1600): Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir
  Sonntag nach Trinitatis (1.10.1724) - Kantate BWV 114 "Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost"; Fantasia sopra il Chorale "Wo Gott der Herr nicht bey uns hält" BWV 1128 / Anonymus (Choralsammlung 17. Jahrhundert): Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost
  Sonntag nach Trinitatis (8.10.1724) - Kantate BWV 96 "Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn"; Orgelchoral BWV Anh. 55 "Herr Christ der einig Gottes Sohn" / Anonymus (spätes 16. Jahrhundert): Herr Christ der einig Gottes Sohn

[Brian]

First-ever listen to the Reicha Grande Symphonie de Salon.

[Papy Oli]

Franck Martin - Etudes for string orch (Ansermet, Orch Suisse Romande)
(from the Decca Sound box)

Franz Schubert - Symphony No.8 (Cluytens, Paris Conservatoire Orch)
(From one of the Cluytens boxes)

[Papy Oli]

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)

I knew that surname was peculiarly familiar. Her brother is the quiz question editor for BBC's Only Connect quiz show presented by Victoria Coren-Mitchell (she has at times mentioned him jokingly in her end of quiz skit). he took part in the first series as a candidate in 2008, reached the final then. Wrote questions for the show since 2014 and editor since 2017.

 

[Papy Oli]

N. Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade Op.35

(still Cluytens)

[PaulR]

Brahms: Symphony #4

[Todd]

Brahms Op 34.

[SonicMan46]

Mozart, WA - Keyboard Sonatas w/ Kristian Bezuidenhout on a variety of reproduction fortepianos (originals dating from 1795-1805); on 9 CDs, so much more that just the 'sonatas - see attachment for more discussion, if interested.  Dave

[DavidW]

Love this new Bach release:

[PaulR]

Tchaikovosky: Symphony #6 'Pathetique'

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bosmans chamber music.

[Iota]

I knew that surname was peculiarly familiar. Her brother is the quiz question editor for BBC's Only Connect quiz show presented by Victoria Coren-Mitchell (she has at times mentioned him jokingly in her end of quiz skit). he took part in the first series as a candidate in 2008, reached the final then. Wrote questions for the show since 2014 and editor since 2017.

 

Haha, not a connection I'd anticipated! But a lot of her family seem to get out and about in the public eye .. sister Freya Waley-Cohen is a composer, dad manages St. Martin's Theatre in London and her grandfather was Lord Mayor of London sometime in the 60's .. and in those kind of circles I imagine there are a few more where they came from ...

[ritter]

A varied programme with the Concertgebouw Orchestra (recordings from 1993 and 1994): Bartók's Piano Voncerto No. 3 (with Martha Argerich and Claus Peter Flor), Dallapiccola's Liriche Greche (soprano Lucy Shelton and Reinbert de Leeuw), and Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies (ladies of the Netherlands Radio Choir and Charles Dutoit).

CD7 of this set:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

John Williams, trumpet concerto.

[Linz]

Manuel de Falla El amor brujo
Enrique Granados Goyescas, H. 65
Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
Miroirs, M. 43: IV. Alborada del gracioso, M. 43c

[JBS]

Haha, not a connection I'd anticipated! But a lot of her family seem to get out and about in the public eye .. sister Freya Waley-Cohen is a composer, dad manages St. Martin's Theatre in London and her grandfather was Lord Mayor of London sometime in the 60's .. and in those kind of circles I imagine there are a few more where they came from ...

For some reason the Wikipedia articles on the family don't mention Tamsin...Sam Waley-Cohen is the amateur jockey who won the 2022 Grand National.  Arthur Waley the translator was a cousin of her great grandfather.