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[Coopmv]

Good morning to all!

Back to this marvelous set with a great sample of the riches of Early Music. Now CD7 with the 12-voice Missa "Et ecce terrae motus" by Antoine Brumel (c.1460 - c.1520), a French member of the Franco-Flemish School of the Renaissance.

 

Q

This is an excellent set.  I managed to finish listening to it for the first time a few weeks ago ...

[Tom 1960]

Disc 4 - Symphonies 13 - 16

[DavidRoss]

First listen from this new boxset - planning to listen to an Opera or 2 every Sunday for the next few months :
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Caballe, Domingo, Etc.)

Seems like a great way to familiarize yourself with lots of stunningly beautiful melodic music.

Thread duty: Bach, English Suites, Andras Schiff

(Some folks listen to Beethoven's 9th Symphony every Sunday; our Sunday morning tradition is to go for baroque!)

[Que]

Zlenka: Missa Vaotiva on Zig-Zag. Bracing and festive stuff.

Yes, that's a nice one!

Listening:



Q

[mahler10th]

Hello folks.
Today...

BEETHOVEN
3RD
BLOMSTEDT
STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN

Only just starting...

[Wanderer]

[Coopmv]

Yes, that's a nice one!

Listening:



Q

How is Renee Jacobs as a conductor?  I just have "too many" LP sets featuring him as an Alto (?) and have never cared much for his singing.

[The new erato]

How is Renee Jacobs as a conductor?  I just have "too many" LP sets featuring him as an Alto (?) and have never cared much for his singing.

Two different things entirely. Like judging Glen Gould as a pianist by his humming.

Obviously not everybody loves everything he conducts, but the critical majority obviously loves it, and I don't complain from the many recordings I own either.

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening to the Korngold VC




Sarge

[Antoine Marchand]

Il Giardino Armonico at home.

[DavidRoss]

Last night I listened to Gardiner's recording of Haydn's Creation.  Soon thereafter I submitted a purchase order for René Jacobs's new recording of the work.

Today, after breakfast with Bach, I put on the old Colin Davis set of Haydn's "London" symphonies, which I'm digging at this moment more than ever before.  Perhaps at this stage of life I'm finally ready to give Papa Haydn the attention he deserves.  Guess I'd better hustle over to the "Haydn's Hovel" thread (or is that "Haydn's Hideaway?") and research members recommendations for great works and recordings!

[DavidRoss]

Listening to the Korngold VC

Love Korngold's VC, thanks to a stirring performance by one of the many great young violinists whose existence another member disputes, Renaud Capuçon.  Subsequently purchased recordings by Perlman, Shaham, and Mutter--all conducted by Previn!  Shaham is tops for me, but Mutter's heart-on-sleeve rendition is pretty darned satisfying as well!

[Scarpia]

Guess I'd better hustle over to the "Haydn's Hovel" thread (or is that "Haydn's Hideaway?") and research members recommendations for great works and recordings!

The ongoing symphony cycle by Thomas Fey, and Heidelberger Sinfoniker, is striking for its vitality and incisiveness.

[Que]

How is Renee Jacobs as a conductor?  I just have "too many" LP sets featuring him as an Alto (?) and have never cared much for his singing.

As a singer I found him, on account of his voice, horrible!
But as an HIP/PI opera conductor he has risen to true greatness. His Händel, his Mozart, all outstanding.

Q

[Antoine Marchand]

As a singer I found him, on account of his voice, horrible!

Q

Many people disliked his voice, indeed; but I like one or two of his performances, for example his Scarlatti's St. John Passion  (probably a work a bit monotonous for some people).   

[Bogey]

Today's listening, a tribute to James Horner, in honor of his Academy Award nomination:

         

[SonicMan46]

Langgaard, Rued - Symphonies - well discs #6 & #7 ending the listening experience of this excellent box!  As stated before, this composer is a 'roller coaster' ride - unpredictable, quite varied & often thrilling (just as one example - his first Symphony last 1 hour, but his 11th one is 6 minutes!) - 

Kraus & Crusell - Flute Works - just for a 'quieter' interlude between the 2 discs above - 

 

[Sergeant Rock]

Love Korngold's VC, thanks to a stirring performance by one of the many great young violinists whose existence another member disputes, Renaud Capuçon.  Subsequently purchased recordings by Perlman, Shaham, and Mutter--all conducted by Previn!  Shaham is tops for me, but Mutter's heart-on-sleeve rendition is pretty darned satisfying as well!

Previn was born to conduct Korngold. I have Mutter and Perlman (LP) and should get the Shaham which everyone recommends. Heifetz is a must-own too. But this recently puchased Schmid/Ozawa/Vienna performance has become my favorite. Wanderer says in the older Korngold thread, "The Vienna version manages to gloriously illustrate the bittersweet Korngoldian harmonies and atmosphere in an electrifying performance." Each movement is a bit slower than the Mutter, the fiddling slightly self-effacing (compared to her) but moving nonetheless while Ozawa brings out the nostalgic qualities of the music perhaps better than anyone. The orchestra's climactic outburst in the Finale is sensational, those Vienna horns very prominent, giving me goosebumps   And I love the recording's natural balance between soloist and ocrchesta. I don't like the applause after the first movment even though it is well-deserved.

Sarge

[DavidRoss]

The ongoing symphony cycle by Thomas Fey, and Heidelberger Sinfoniker, is striking for its vitality and incisiveness.

Thanks.  I have one or two of these issues and shall dig them out for further listening later today--along, perhaps, with Kuijken's "Paris" symphonies. 

[Tom 1960]

Alexander Borodin - Symphonies 1 - 3
National Philharmonic Orchestra - Louis Tjeknavorian conducts