What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Feldman - Coptic Light

Gielen - Baden-Baden SWR SO

[Harry]

Choreographie.
Music for Louis XIV's Dancing Masters.
Music composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully preserved in the first baroque dance-book: Raoul Auger Feuillet's Chorégraphie (Paris, 1700).
Préludes by Jean-Henry d'Anglebert, Overtures & Dances By Lully & Campra in solo settings by d'Anglebert.
Andrew Lawrence-King, on a Baroque Triple Harp made by Chris Barlow 2004, after a 17th century Italian models.
Recorded: 2004 at St Andrew Church, Toddington, UK.

Art and music must unite in such a way, that notes seem like an echo of feet. And so it is!  King plays on a beautiful instrument, and may not invite you to dance or tap with your feet, nevertheless it gives a good feel for what was going on at the court. As a Bavarian princes wrote, "the court just danced and partied". And I readily belief it.
Superb recording.

[ritter]

Finally received this long OOP CD of orchestral music by Florent Schmitt from the late 1920s and the 1930s. The main interest here is that the orchestral diptych In memoriam appears in full (i.e. with the first movement, Cippus feralis, preceding the Scherzo sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré).



Schmitt firmly maintains his position among my top 10  favourite composers. 

[Papy Oli]

One of this month's Naxos Free Downloads:

Wolf-Ferrari - Wind Concertinos

[Harry]

Louis Couperin.
Tete a Tete.
Harpsichord suites in C minor, D minor, G minor, A minor (arranged for violon & viola da gamba).
and works by Nicolas Metru, Fantasy, Jean Lacquemant, Pieces de Viol, Jean Lacquemant Dubuisson.
Duo Coloquintes. Alice Julien-Laferrière, violon, Mathilde Vialle, Gamba.
Recorded 2018, Bretagne.

Duo Coloquintes took an interest in Louis Couperin (1626-1661) and recorded five suites from manuscripts for keyboard instruments, transcribed for bass viol. With this production,  they have imagined what the repertoire of Louis Couperin and those who surrounded him probably looked like when he was not playing the harpsichord. There are dances, organ pieces and some fantasies. The pieces in this program are taken from the manuscript by Parville Bauyn and Guy Oldham. A few works for solo violin by Dubuisson and a fantasy by Nicolas Métru round off this program.
I quite like these arranged works, it is tastefully done, and certainly performed with style and elegance. Never heard of this ensemble and it took some effort to find info about them. This CD is hard to find, and largely ignored, which in this case is not right. The Gamba player is an accomplished musician, and has a beautiful tone, as has the violin player. There is harmony and balance between them.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Symphony No. 4 in B major, Op. 60
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Debussy - Arranged for Ten-Stringed Guitar. Anders Miolin.

[DavidW]

It was time for Romantic indulgence. Pettersson's 10th (recording needs white hot intensity but doesn't deliver it, I prefer Segerstam), a great, great recording of the Mahler 9th, and finally some lovely Chopin:

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony in D Minor, 1869 Ed. Leopold Nowak
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti

[cilgwyn]

 

Hello everyone! Felt like some action packed opera today! Hope I'm allowed to post here. If I post this in the WOAYLT thread I'll probably get told Callas or Sutherland (or both!) are the best in this opera and I'm afraid I'm not a fan of either! I've always been a fan of Moffo though. I even quite like most of her post vocal crisis recordings. Even her Thais!!   Moffo crooning like Bing Crosby is fine by me!   As to Sills. I can't say she's one of my favourite singers,but I like her Baby Doe (The Douglas Moore opera) and I definitely prefer her to Sutherland and I like this recording for the cast & the production values........and anyway,it's got some great thunder clap sound effects,which,basically,does it for me! I just love loud thunder claps in opera recordings! Oh,and musn't forget the glass harmonica,must I?!

[Bachthoven]

I enjoyed these two excellent new releases this morning.

[Todd]

The Enescu.  The only other version I recall hearing is from Gidon Kremer and friends.  It's been a while since I listened to it, but I don't remember liking it as much as this take.

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ch'io mi scordi di te?... Non temer, amato bene, K. 505, Alfred Brendel
Alma grande e nobil core, K. 578
Nehmt meinen Dank, K. 383
Richard Strauss 4 Lieder, Op. 27  Edith Peinmann
5 Lieder, Op. 41
3 Lieder, Op. 88
4 Lieder, Op. 36
5 Lieder, Op. 48
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell

[Linz]

French Music for String Orchestra
Charles Koechlin Sur les flots lointains, Op. 130
Guillaume Lekeu Adagio pour cordes
Arthur Honegger Hymne pour dixtuor à cordes
Jacques Castérède Symphonie No. 1 pour orchestre à cordes
Camille Saint-Saëns Sarabande in E Major, Op. 93
Arthur Honegger Symphonie No. 2 pour cordes avec trompette ad libitum
Ciconia Consort, Dick van Gasteren

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Karl Böhm

[Papy Oli]

Boulez - Notations
David Fray (piano)

Late night replay 

[Philo]

Either tonight or tomorrow, this is next:

Paul Dukas Cantates, choeurs et musique symphonique

What a recording! I normally find French to be a language which repulses me, but Dukas really knows what he is doing. Of course, he is a master orchestrator, which is why I picked his disc up at the same time I got the Rimsky, who knows - one day I may even get something by Berlioz - I used to have Les Troyens, but no clue where that went, lol, and I recall liking that, and I've heard his mass, which I found overrated, but that was only because I went it with very high expectations, and it didn't come close to being earth shattering.

Dukas, on the other hand, if all French was like this, I'd definitely be more apt for its return to the world stage, but I know most French just sounds like trash, so I really do appreciate Dukas's quality over quantity approach, as that is the best way, in my opinion, to get the most out of an ugly language like French.

Either tonight or tomorrow, more Rimsky:

[JBS]

Either tonight or tomorrow, more Rimsky:

I rather liked that Borusan CD

TD



Performed on original instruments, but truthfully I don't hear any difference from unoriginal instruments.

[Karl Henning]

I love both of these groups, but frankly did not have high expectations for this disk. Quartets are great because of a "less is more" clarity of voices. There is no way two great quartets playing together will be twice as good...  BUT, 20 minutes in, this is pretty damned awesome. For once, it's a pleasure to be proven wrong.

Both Octets are dynamite!

[Mapman]

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Fischer-Dieskau; Kempe: Berlin