What are you listening 2 now?

[prémont]

Do you mean Suite 4 here?

https://www.paolopandolfo.com/portfolio/a-solo/

I supposed this was taken from his complete set, and this is why I ignored it.

The older recording I think of (of suite no.5) was a filler for Pandolfo's first recording of the harpsichord/viola da gamba sonatas (with Alessandrini on HM France released 1995, recorded 1993).

https://www.discogs.com/master/838924-JS-Bach-Paolo-Pandolfo-Rinaldo-Alessandrini-Sonaten-F%C3%BCr-Viola-Da-Gamba-Cembalo-Sonates-BWV-1027-29-

The recording you refer to of suite no. 4 was released by Glossa 1998. The complete set was released by Glossa 2001. The producer of suite no. 4 and the complete set is identical.

[Todd]

[Mandryka]

I supposed this was taken from his complete set, and this is why I ignored it.

The older recording I think of (of suite no.5) was a filler for Pandolfo's first recording of the harpsichord/viola da gamba sonatas (with Alessandrini on HM France released 1995, recorded 1993).

https://www.discogs.com/master/838924-JS-Bach-Paolo-Pandolfo-Rinaldo-Alessandrini-Sonaten-F%C3%BCr-Viola-Da-Gamba-Cembalo-Sonates-BWV-1027-29-

The recording you refer to of suite no. 4 was released by Glossa 1998. The complete set was released by Glossa 2001. The producer of suite no. 4 and the complete set is identical.

They're not the same. Look at the timings

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/viola-da-gamba-recital-pandolfo-paolo-ortiz-d-corkine-w-hume-t-sumarte-r-machy-s-marais-m-bach-js-paolo-pandolfo/mfmq7ax24w2dc

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/bach-js-cello-suites-nos-1-6-paolo-pandolfo/lktqjnq4h1xra

[prémont]

They're not the same. Look at the timings

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/viola-da-gamba-recital-pandolfo-paolo-ortiz-d-corkine-w-hume-t-sumarte-r-machy-s-marais-m-bach-js-paolo-pandolfo/mfmq7ax24w2dc

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/bach-js-cello-suites-nos-1-6-paolo-pandolfo/lktqjnq4h1xra

Then I'm going to purchase it.

[AnotherSpin]

[Mandryka]

Then I'm going to purchase it.

It's may not be your sort of music, but I've been really enjoying this today, since we started this discussion. I guess I must be ready for it, the time is right for Ferrabosco!

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/alfonso-ferrabosco-ii-complete-music-for-solo-lyra-viol-paolo-pandolfo/tfcx5f1shr2ja

[Linz]

Richard Strauss  4 Letzte Lieder
Gesänge älterer deutscher Dichter, Op. 43
8 Lieder, Op. 4
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Berlin Symphony Orchestra, George Szell

[brewski]

Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (Bang on a Can All-Stars & Friends, recorded in 2024 at the Long Play Festival in Brooklyn). As the years go by, this might be my favorite Reich of all. Lots of good ones around, hadn't heard this version until today.

[Spotted Horses]

Finally, a selection from this release which fully convinces me, and which I would compare with my favorite works of Bacewicz. The Symphony No 1. Written during the war period, it is neoclassical in its scale, but expressionistic in its style. At times I found it to evoke Sibelius, Bartok.

[Linz]

Antonín Dvorák String Quartets Nos. 14. & 12
Prazak Quartet

[Bachthoven]

[Philo]

In my opinion, Apparition de l'église éternelle is the GOAT organ work.

I'll be honest, up to this point, this has been the only music I've listened to today, lol. It is so good, definitely fighting for my favorite classical piece of all time, but, now, time for a shift.

[Karl Henning]

For the 15th year in a row, the first thing I listened to to mark the new year was Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia. It has such a feeling of newness and fresh beginnings to me, like new fallen snow. A blank slate onto which I can project my hopes and fears for the year.

Nice ritual! TD: H/T @Mandryka  and @Papy Oli ...
Quatuor Diotima playing Boulez' Livre pour quatuor. Oh, I like this a very great deal. Oli, I suspect this will not be super helpful but ... firstly, one needs practically to disregard the entire string quartet tradition. Secondly, while my expectation is that the composer has micromanaged the musical materials to a degree frankly beyond my own interest, the effect is a wild freedom. I love it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jose Antonio Escobar.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak
Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Chibás

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting Chick Corea's pf cto no. 1

[brewski]

For the 15th year in a row, the first thing I listened to to mark the new year was Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia. It has such a feeling of newness and fresh beginnings to me, like new fallen snow. A blank slate onto which I can project my hopes and fears for the year.

That is quite a lovely tradition! Even if the Previn recording didn't satisfy, there's still...the piece itself.

I'm not sure what I would choose for a similar ritual, but thanks for planting the idea.

[Papy Oli]

Nice ritual! TD: H/T @Mandryka  and @Papy Oli ...
Quatuor Diotima playing Boulez' Livre pour quatuor. Oh, I like this a very great deal. Oli, I suspect this will not be super helpful but ... firstly, one needs practically to disregard the entire string quartet tradition. Secondly, while my expectation is that the composer has micromanaged the musical materials to a degree frankly beyond my own interest, the effect is a wild freedom. I love it.

Good stuff.

I managed to go through Notations, Eclats and the first Sur Incises today.I am chipping away at it 

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting Chick Corea's pf cto no. 1

Finding this entirely charming. It helps not to regard it as "a piano concerto," but simply as Chick Corea.

[André]

All of the above album



The symphony only.

Despite its early date (1956) the sound of the SOMM disc is wonderfully precise and impactful. Boult's take on the first movement is electrifying. By contrast, Haitink brings out the massiveness of its architecture and the fullness of the orchestration. I like both, but the Boult sounds more 'modern'.

The overtures, violin concerto, cello concerto and two overtures benefit from great conducting, playing and engineering - EMI sound at its best.