What are you listening to now?

[pjme]

Johann Christoph Bach: Meine Freundin, du bist schön, a wedding cantata in which JS himself may have participated.

The 1984 performance on Capricio grabs me everytime I listen . The soloists (no famous names: Gisela Burkhardt, Elisabeth Wilke, Ekkehard Wagner, Hermann Christian Polster) and the Capella Fidicina Leipzig / Hans Grüss sound natural and intimate, the solo violin (Eberhard Palm) has a special role and leads one right into heaven in the final movement : Esset meine Lieben und trinket meine Freunde).
Splendid.

P.

[Maestro267]

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor
BBC Philharmonic/Downes

[Harry]

Ravel/Immerseel. CD 4.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/03/ravel-maurice-1875-1937-orchestral.html?spref=tw

[North Star]

Fresh from the mail
Vivaldi
L'estro armonico, Op. 3
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
[asin]B01N9O2KGM[/asin]

[Madiel]

Faure melodies again. Picking from opuses 43, 46, 51... possibly also 58, 61, 76, 83 and 85!

The dominant poet for much of this period being Paul Verlaine. The classic Clair de Lune was actually Faure's first Verlaine setting.

[Harry]

Frank Bridge/Hickox. CD 3.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/03/frank-bridge-orchestral-works.html?spref=tw

[Todd]

Disc four.  Late Liszt on the organ.  The disc is devoted mostly to the organ version of Christmas Tree early on, and an organ mass to end the disc.  Christmas Tree as a piano work doesn't do much for me, but the organ work is a bit better, with the higher registers adding some needed color.  I doubt it becomes frequently played.  The brief organ mass is more serious in mien and a bit austere, but is good.  The various other odd and ends included are all nice, with one exception, the transcription of Angelus!, which comes off extremely well.  I rather wish Liszt had transcribed all of year three.

[Karl Henning]

Игорь Фëдорович gives us the bird:

http://www.youtube.com/v/QlCzpkpQ3qs

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Der Wein and Lyric Suite from this recording I was revisiting from last night. Glorious stuff for sure.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Melodien. Awesome work.

[Todd]

Disc 8.

[Karl Henning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/2cFwu196A_w

[TheGSMoeller]

Going through all 5 of Prokofiev's PCs, although not in order since this set goes from No.1 to 4, 5, than back to 2 and 3. Now listening to No. 5

[Karl Henning]

Hoy, Greg!

[TheGSMoeller]

Hoy, Greg!

I hope this Wednesday is treating you kindly, my friend. 

[Spineur]

Zoltan Kodaly, Psalmus Hungaricus
Ivan Kertesz

[Mirror Image]

Zoltan Kodaly, Psalmus Hungaricus
Ivan Kertesz

I haven't heard that work in ages. How do you find it?

[aligreto]

Haydn: Symphony No. 102 [Goodman]....

[aligreto]

Dropped off one of my amplifiers at a local shop for a repair and look what I found in their free bin. Casals is freakin' brilliant!

Wonderful. I am envious   

[Spineur]

I haven't heard that work in ages. How do you find it?

It is a piece for a tenor, a large choir and a big orchestra.  It has therefore large proportions.  For those who like Beethoven 9th or Mahler 8th (symphonie des mille), they will fit right at ease.  It was commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Buda and Pest and created in 1923 with Bartok dances suite.