What are you listening 2 now?

[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

[Madiel]

Vivaldi violin concertos

Concerto in B flat, RV 380
Concerto in C, RV 186



RV 380 didn't enthuse me that much, I think partly because the 1st movement is "Andante molto"... which kind of ends up being neither here nor there. Biondi's cadenzas are more noticeable and intrusive this time. I did quite like the final movement though.

RV 186 is a brighter, punchier work that I took to more readily. No cadenzas this time.

[AnotherSpin]

Couperin: Magnificat / Lecons De Tenebres

Robin Blaze and Daniel Taylor

[Madiel]

More Vivaldi, that was hot off the presses when it was recorded in 2008...

"Se lento ancora il fulmine", from the opera Argippo
Concerto for 2 violins and cello in G minor, RV 578a (with a different final movement from the published RV 578)
Recorder sonata in G, RV 806



Good performances. And it's actually quite nice to have an album where there's a variety of different genres.

[AnotherSpin]

[Que]

For my morning listening a recording that I hadn't listened to for a long time... 
On it Van Nevel explores the connection between Monteverdi, featuring a mass in pure Renaissance style, and pioneering, stylistically progressive pieces by Franco-Flemish Renaissance composers. Sounds fussy, but the performances are beautiful and the mix works well...



Monteverdi was a pioneer of the musical style we now call Baroque, but the Mass on this record is in classic Renaissance style and the music might have been written in the 1500s rather than the 1600s. In between the five parts of Monteverdi's Mass, four madrigals have been placed by composers of an earlier generation, who shifted borders at their time and sound chromatic, sometimes enharmonic, or are dramatically charged. They were written before Monteverdi's Mass, but in a more progressive style. Thus, the album gives a surprising insight into the styles of this period and provides an impressive new view onto Monteverdi's monumental "Messa in illo tempore".

[ritter]

Robert Craft conducts Schoenberg. Chamber Symphony No. 2, Die glückliche Hand, and the Wind Quintet.

[71 dB]

J.S.Bach - Concertos BWV 1053, 1056, 1060* & 1061*
Robert Veyron-Lacroix & Anne-Marie Beckensteiner*, harpsichord
Orchestre de chambre Jean-françois Paillard
Jean-françois Paillard

[Wanderer]

[Traverso]

Boulez

Pierre Boulez: Livre pour quatuor, version 1962



Quatuor Parisii

[Mookalafalas]

Both Octets are dynamite!

Yeah, I played this 3 times (once was by accident, but after I started it I couldn't turn it off).
TD:

  Yeol Eum Son is spearheading this, even though the heart of this disk is a string quartet. Excellent, so far. Apparently, all the artists are Korean. I don't have any notes, so I don't even know the name of the quartet, but aim to find out.

[San Antone]

Latest and last installment of the Cuarteto Casals traversal of the Shostakovich string quartets.  IMO, very good and welcome addition to a crowded field.

[Traverso]

Mozart

Le Nozze Di Figaro

I don't listen to operas much, but I remember very well that I used to get a lot of cheerful pleasure from listening to Mozart operas in particular.

I have several performances, Karajan (Decca) Giulini and Marriner. Today the performance with Solti

[Que]

Symphony no. 6

[ritter]

A rare appearance of Max Reger chez ritter.

Clarinet Quintet in A, op. 146 (Sabine Meyer et al.), String Sextet in F, op. 116, Liebestraum (version for string quintet).

CD 3 of this set:

[pjme]

Some early Martinu -  flamboyantly nationalistic , but grandly eloquent and majestic. 

I cherish the Supraphon recording (ca 1985) with Belolahvek and Kusnjer.

[ritter]

The Lajtha String Quartet performs Ildebrando Pizzetti's two SQs (in A major —from 1906– and in D —from 1932/33–).

[Florestan]

Symphony no. 6

Que listening to Sibelius... the end is near, folks!