What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Sacred music of the Bach family
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Motets-Chorales.
Rostocker Motettenchor & Instrumental soloists from "Capella Fidicinia Leipzig", Hartwig Eschenburg

Well sung, and well recorded, these to me unknown musicians performed with a lucidity and easy flow. They convince by there gently handling of the notes.

[Brian]

Brian - thanks for the recommendation above - will put on my non-classical wish list (or is this classical music?) -    Dave

For those who might be interested in this music and in addition to some other Statman discs, I can recommend the other two that I own:

 

And I shall add these to my wish lists! 

[mn dave]

[karlhenning]

Wm Schuman
Symphony No. 8
NY Phil
Lenny

[ChamberNut]

Franck

String Quartet in D major

Fitzwilliam Quartet
Decca

[pjme]

that's heavy stuff Karl!  I really need to take it out again. But Bernstein knew how to handle it.

Peter

[The new erato]

Vol 3 of the Gardiner/Bach cantata traversal. Disc 1 with BWV 24, 185, 177. Kozena, Stutzmann, Agnew and Teste handles the soloing quite satisfactory. A stunning lineup really. Some fine playing by what seems like an oboe de caccia as well.

My favorte cantata BWV 21 is yet to be released in this series.

[karlhenning]

that's heavy stuff Karl!  I really need to take it out again. But Bernstein knew how to handle it.

I like this a lot, Peter!

[mn dave]

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto #5 - Cliburn/Reiner

[karlhenning]

Nicolas Flagello
Theme, Variations and Fugue, Opus 20
Slovak Radio Symphony
David Amos

[karlhenning]

Hindemith
Das Marienleben, Opus 27
Nos. 11-15
Roxalana Roslek
Glenn St Gould

[bhodges]

Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète (Chailly/Concertgebouw) - Haven't heard this in awhile, but prompted to do so by a friend who is seeing it choreographed soon and borrowed the CD.  This is a gorgeous performance, and sounds great in the slightly reverberant Concertgebouw acoustic.

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Hindemith
Das Marienleben, Opus 27
Nos. 1-10
Roxalana Roslek
Glenn St Gould

[Brian]

Loving the avatar, Dave!

[Bruckner is God]

Joseph Haydn - String Quartet op.74 no. 1. Lindsay Quartet. Exquisite music that gives great listening pleasure.

[Lilas Pastia]

I'm not sure why it took me this long to listen to this disc of some of Kodaly's orchestral music conducted by Ferenc Fricsay, but I'm definitely glad I did.  This is easily the best disc of music by Kodaly I've heard, and his Hary Janos suite makes the other couple I've heard sound amateurish.  A superb disc.

Seconded. Fricsay's Hary Janos is one of those recordings that make all others seem irrelevant.

[Lilas Pastia]

Schubert's 9th symphony in Youtube snippets. Karl Böhm conducts. Complete, but broken down into 6 clips . WP, from 1973, Böhm's best period. Excellent and obviously different from the BP or SD recordings - mainly on account of the playing. Listen to the wind accents on the ländler rythms at 3:09 and 3:18 in II, or the beginning of the Trio. Only in Vienna...

Böhm was one of those extremely rare conductors who could turn in an utterly idiomatic performance with totally different premises (the orchestra's tradition and corporate personality). I'll try to locate a disc. I understand it's available only on DVD for the moment. I can't believe such a gem is unobtainable on CD  .

[mn dave]

Loving the avatar, Dave!

I better keep it then. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Schumann's piano concerto.

Can't say enough about Schumann's success, here. What a piece! Vigorous, dreamy, obtuse, and oozing color. IOW, romantic to the core.

Moravec/Neumann (and the CPO) play the work as if it were an old and dear friend - navigating with ease Schumann's peculiar - yet golden - language.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I better keep it then. 

I think you're stuck with it, Dave. I mean, who gets rid of a God avatar?