What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[hautbois]

Now playing this vintage CD from my Albinoni collection ...

HH...hmmm...

If you really like the Albinoni concertos, look out for Alfredo Bernardini's recording, to die for.

Howard

[Valentino]

Once you're in, it's hard to get out, eh? 

You said it!
When I'm not posting, consider me in.

[hautbois]

WOW.

What a symphony.

Howard

[Valentino]

Yeah. I love that one. I have Cleveland/Dohnányi on Decca.

Just about to start Die Walküre (Solti) from the top. Have some painting to do, and skall put the volume control to 0.5dB below clipping level.

[Henk]

Partita no. 4

[Henk]

Bach - Brandenburg Concertos

[Coopmv]

Partita no. 4

What is the difference between your set and my set besides all the non-bach CD's?

[jlaurson]

Haydn, String Quartets op.33 Auryn Quartet - Tacet

Some terrific touches. Spunky final movement of no.1, gorgeous second mvt. of no.3...

[Coopmv]

WOW.

What a symphony.

Howard

Is this a recent release?

[Henk]

What is the difference between your set and my set besides all the non-bach CD's?

What set do you have? I think my set consists of early recordings.

[Coopmv]

What set do you have? I think my set consists of early recordings.

The set I showed, that Glenn Gould's 80-CD set.   

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which arrived from MDT last weekend ...

[Henk]

Dig this more then earlier.

[Coopmv]

HH...hmmm...

If you really like the Albinoni concertos, look out for Alfredo Bernardini's recording, to die for.

Howard

I have a pretty decent collection of Albinoni's works, though I am always on the lookout for good CD's I might have missed ...   

[DavidRoss]

WOW.  What a symphony.

Yes.  Gets more play around here than any of his others.

Is Harnoncourt pissed off because he can't find the little boy?  (Hide-and-seek is tough at his age.) 

[Coopmv]

Yes.  Gets more play around here than any of his others.

Is Harnoncourt pissed off because he can't find the little boy?  (Hide-and-seek is tough at his age.) 

Robert King?   

[SonicMan46]

Rosetti, Antonio - Symphonies - 2 CD set started last night, finishing off this holiday morning (for us in the USA) - if interested in this 'classical age' composer, check out Gurn's thread; much discussion there - 

Britten, Benjamin - Music for Oboe & Piano w/ Sarah Francis, Michael Dussek, & the Delme Quartet; part of my 10 or so CD Helios order from BRO recently - just getting through the pile; just a wide variety of combinations of instruments & styles of music, all interesting - track listing & brief comments HERE - 

 

[DavidRoss]

Robert King?   

Ouch!  That's not the referent I had in mind, but rather the similar Harnoncourt album cover with a boy hiding on the opposite side of the tree.

[Henk]

disc 2

[Drasko]

And if I may add a question: what is it? 

Well, I ain't sure, but looks like CD.

I considered this just on the strength of its reviews.  What's it like?

It's Latin-American vocal baroque music, villancicos mostly, I find it quite enjoyable if you don't expect them to sound like Bach cantata. Most interesting part of the disc is the first complete recording of Hanacpachap cussicuinin which is the oldest printed polyphony in Americas (1631). It's a hymn devoted to Virgin Mary in some 20 verses, four part voice writing entirely written in Quechua. Skidmore decided to split it in three parts (15 minutes in total) and intersperse it with about dozen villancicos by Juan de Araujo, probably the finest Latin-American composer of the era. Araujo's villancicos are quite sufficiently varied in themes, moods, voice distributions and orchestral writing to avoid monotony.
As for performance, Ex Cathedra is British choir singing Latin-American music and I do find them less vibrant (but maybe better disciplined) than local groups that can be heard on K617, but they do sound convincing on their own terms. Recorded sound is churchy.