What are you listening 2 now?

[71 dB]

Yesterday and today:

Locatelli - Concerti Grossi, Op. 1
Capella Istropolitana
Jaroslav Kreček
Naxos 8.553445 & 8.553446

[Que]

From my Spotify list, I believe Harry inspired me to put it there. 

Beautiful recording, and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the music..

[Florestan]

Mozart's music has the uncanny ability to cure melancholy without getting rid of it. (The only other composer whose music has the same effect on me is Schubert.)

[Harry]

From my Spotify list, I believe Harry inspired me to put it there. 

Beautiful recording, and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the music..

Yep that's a good one, very much so!

[Wanderer]

Quite the yawn on the cover! 

Right? And as if there's any dearth of Venetian paintings to choose from for the series. 

[Wanderer]

[Madiel]

Right? And as if there's any dearth of Venetian paintings to choose from for the series.

As if there aren't over 70 volumes of the series now for you to know that they aren't using paintings. Having a reaction to Volume 44 is a decade to late for that aesthetic conversation. Even if that reaction had been when it was released MORE than a decade ago.

Using cover art of paintings that might even have been old in Vivaldi's time is, I think, aesthetically so far from what they want to do with the series musically. How is that artwork going to fit with albums called "New Discoveries", highlighting stuff that hasn't been heard for a couple hundred years?

[Florestan]

Guys, please, don't go there! I didn't mean my innocuous joke to be the start of a kerfuffle.   

[Madiel]

Guys, please, don't go there! I didn't mean my innocuous joke to be the start of a kerfuffle.   

There's a difference between commenting on artwork and trying to change it.

But given that you're the third person to comment on that particular album, it clearly does its job of attracting attention. I probably won't have reason to post it again in this thread for a couple of years, after which we can have another round.

[Madiel]

Sibelius: incidental music for Belshazzar's Feast



I'm listening to the larger scores in this theatre music series, partly because for a lot of them I can't remember much detail from however many years ago I last listened to them. Belshazzar's Feast is definitely a lot more colourful than either Kuolema or King Christian II, so more suited to casual listening.

[Wanderer]

Guys, please, don't go there! I didn't mean my innocuous joke to be the start of a kerfuffle.   

Don't apologize. It was clearly understood as a well-meaning joke and I saw the perfect opportunity to expand and - best part - insert the exquisite La Bella by Palma Vecchio. 

Not to mention that criticism of an album cover, humorous or not, is no reason for a meltdown. Some people are just that quarrelsome.

[Traverso]

Killer album!

It was an unknown recording for me but I was pleasantly surprised.

[Papy Oli]

Schütz - Carus Edition Vol.16 - Schwanengesang (Op. 13, SWV 482-494)

[Christo]

Lots of snow over the Low Countries this morning....!
Several years ago Braga Santos was regularly discussed on GMG.  Here is a reminder.

As an honorary member, you should know that the Braga Santos Experts Club still meets regularly in secret locations around the North Sea.

[Madiel]

Some people are just that quarrelsome.

LOL. That narrative in your head is still playing I see.

Some people are so hyperbolic they use words like "meltdown" when I write a couple of sentences. Do you have nothing better to do than deliberately aim for a reaction from me and then congratulate yourself for getting even a small one?

No, don't answer. Done here.

[Madiel]

Poulenc: Metamorphoses



The second song is stunningly beautiful, even by Poulenc's standards.

[AnotherSpin]

Don't apologize. It was clearly understood as a well-meaning joke and I saw the perfect opportunity to expand and - best part - insert the exquisite La Bella by Palma Vecchio. 

Not to mention that criticism of an album cover, humorous or not, is no reason for a meltdown. Some people are just that quarrelsome.

Quite.

To my eye, the cover is utterly tasteless. If it stirs up any associations at all, they lean more towards adult video content than anything remotely baroque.

[Madiel]

Heterosexuals are weird sometimes.

Poulenc: Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon

[Harry]

Sonatas and Dances from the 17th century Italy and Slovakia.
By, Corelli,  Giulio Caccini, Maurizio Cazzati, Farina, Giovanni Paolo Foscarini, Giovanni Battista Granata, Johann Caspar Horn,  Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz, and improvisations on the Folia Bass.

Teatro Lirico.
Stephen Stubbs (Baroque guitar), Milos Valent (violin & viola), Erin Headley (viola da gamba & lirone).
Recorded: 2004, at the Propstei, St. Gerold.

An open fire, hot tea or mulled wine and a cozy sofa, if you're looking for the right music for this scenario of a perfectly cozy winter evening, this would be the recording to listen to.
The fact that the transitions between the Teatro Lirico's own improvisations and the presentation of fixed musical texts are seamless, testifies to a completely successful approach to the old dances. It will not be to everyone's liking, but it worked for me. The choice of composers and compositions is a mix of known and unknown material, and that makes it extra attractive, plus ECM's excellent sound, and an ensemble who feel their way in the music, that it almost becomes a religious experience.

[prémont]

To my eye, the cover is utterly tasteless. If it stirs up any associations at all, they lean more towards adult video content than anything remotely baroque.

Oh, yes. At least she is sufficiently covered. We often see bad CD covers with girls who need a better cover.