What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

"Papa"
Symphony № 102 in B^b, « Miracle » (H.I/102)
NY Phil
Lenny

G'day, Karl!

Coincidentally, I just put this in the player, fresh from the mail.

Haydn
Arie per un'amante
Nuria Rial, Margot Oitzinger
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg
[asin]B001NW8DCG[/asin]

[HIPster]

Coincidentally, I just put this in the player, fresh from the mail.

Haydn
Arie per un'amante
Nuria Rial, Margot Oitzinger
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg
[asin]B001NW8DCG[/asin]

Looks very nice, North Star - enjoy. 

Thread duty:

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CD 2

Staying in Bach's sound world. 

[North Star]

Looks very nice, North Star - enjoy. 

Thread duty:

CD 2

Staying in Bach's sound world. 

Cheers, HIPster. Everything certainly sounds great so far, orchestra singers, and the music.

[cilgwyn]

The Complete 1912 Pathe recording of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in amazingly listenable and enjoyable transfers by Ward Marston. This is about as authentic and close to the creative forge as it gets. Superb performances.

[Karl Henning]

G'day, Karl!

Coincidentally, I just put this in the player, fresh from the mail.

Haydn
Arie per un'amante
Nuria Rial, Margot Oitzinger
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg
[asin]B001NW8DCG[/asin]

Looks mighty fine, Karlo!

Thread Duty:

"Papa"
Symphony № 73 in D, « La chasse » (H.I/73)
AAM
Hogwood

[asin]B009LNI0T0[/asin]

[North Star]

Looks very nice, North Star - enjoy. 

Looks mighty fine, Karlo!

It sounds even better. 

[Florestan]

[Todd]

Disc 2.

[Que]

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Q

[Karl Henning]

Again, and why not?

"Papa"
Symphony № 96 in D, the old « Miracle » (H.I/96)
AAM
Hogwood

[asin]B009LNI0T0[/asin]

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #Bull & #Byrd:http://amzn.to/2lh8jrl  w/@AlinaRotaru on @Sonolummusic
... http://ift.tt/2m7FCwy

[Mirror Image]

Continuing on in a Polish vein:

Now playing Three Olden Style Pieces. A string orchestral work that would make a wonderful coupling in a concert program.

[HIPster]

Works for solo lute ~

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[aligreto]

Continuing on in a Polish vein:



Listening to Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs". The Upshaw/Zinman recording used to be my favorite, but I have to say I'm much more impressed with this one from Kilanowicz/Wit. Absolutely ravishing.

What a very nice coincidence 

Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 [Altinoglu]....





This is such a wonderful work. I absolutely agree on the Kilanowicz/Wit version. I think that it really gets to the essence of the work. I have always preferred it over the Upshaw/Zinman.
The Altinoglu version is a very fine performance indeed. It is laden with powerful emotion both vocally and instrumentally yet nothing is overdone. Ingrid Perruche sings hauntingly. She sounds a little heavier vocally than Kilanowicz but that in itself brings something different to the performance.

[Todd]

Disc one from the Oistrakh-Oborin set.  Op 12.  Old-fashioned, restrained chamber music playing.  The tempi are slow, the playing relaxed, rich, and romantic, but not overdone or syrupy.  The 1962 sound is soft, muffled (the piano especially), with occasional distortion, and has that annoying hard-left, hard-right stereo approach used for some recordings of the time.  Not my cup of tea.

[eljr]

Philip Glass Sampler
The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler

Release Date
April 13, 2010
Duration
01:07:35
Genre
Avant-GardeClassicalStage & Screen
Styles
Film ScoreAvant-Garde MusicChamber MusicConcertoKeyboardMinimalismModern CompositionMovie ThemesOperaSoundtracks

[Karl Henning]

Copland
Short Symphony (1933)
Bournemouth Symphony
Alsop

[asin]B001FENYDU[/asin]

[aligreto]

Elaine Agnew: Strings A-stray - A very interesting sound world with wonderful harmonies and interesting rhythmic structures.

[kishnevi]

I never knew there was a piano version of "In a monastery garden".  How is it compared to the orchestral version?
  And how is Ketelbey's piano music in general?

[aligreto]

Locatelli: Concerti grossi Op. 1 Nos. 3 & 4