What are you listening to now?

[king ubu]

Went back to that evil place (aka paradise) that distributes alpha, aeon, Hyperion, MDG, Ricercar etc. etc., and got a replacement of this that is now spinning:



Glad to have a good copy, it's an excellent disc!

Last night, gave a first listen to this:



And before that, a first listen to this:



And obviously, going to that place mentioned above is dangerous indeed ... bought the missing nine (of a total twelve) volumes of Rampe's Mozart series on MDG, the two alpha discs of Missae breves by Bach (Pygmalion), the foogly Pan Classics release of Biber's Rosary sonatas and some more - ouch!

[Harry]

Nielsen/Bostock. CD 6.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/03/nielsen-carl-orchestral-works-violin.html?spref=tw

[Autumn Leaves]

Today's listening:



Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite #3
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 (Pathetique)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony #2 (Antar)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3

Various warhorses from the box pictured above.

[aligreto]

Gerald Barry: Of Queens' Gardens [Houlihan]....

[Maestro267]

Messiaen: Couleurs de la cité céleste
Loriod (piano)/Groupe instrumental a Percussion de Strasbourg/Orchestre du Domaine Musical/Boulez

Le Banquet Céleste
Apparition de léglise éternelle
Alain (organ)

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 29. Great concerto and performance.

[king ubu]

Bought as a gift for tomorrow ... giving it a spin before wrapping it up - sounds pretty nice indeed!

[Autumn Leaves]

Now playing:



Symphony #24 (To The Memory Of Vladimir Derzhanovsky)
Symphony #27

Listening to these beauties again..

[aligreto]

James Wilson: Concertino [Pearce]....





This is an intriguing and interesting work where the musical content is varied and interesting as are the orchestral colours and textures.

[listener]

a pair of choral cds that had been misplaced and are too good to be shelved without hearing again
TALLIS:  Spem in alium  etc.    the classic Gimell recording with the Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips cond.
and music from the Sistine Chapel: PALESTRINA (4 items) ALLEGRI Miserere à 9 MORALES and J. DESPREZ
Taverner Consort      Andrew Parrott cond.

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 4 до минор, соч. 43 [ Symphony № 4 in c minor, Opus 43 ] (1935-36)
The Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan
Caetani

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[Que]

Carissimi Oratorios
Roland Wilson - Musica Fiata

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Wonderful recording!

Voices are on-point, but special mention must go to soprano Monica Mauch.

Informative and interesting Gio review: follow the rabbit down the hole amazon link.   

Noted, thank you! 

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[Que]

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[Mandryka]

Tetraktys, Matteo de Perugia, Puisque la mort. I think this is more successful that van Nevel's shot at the same motet - the instruments help and Stephanie True's voice is sensual.

[Spineur]

Isbé, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville. First lyric work in 5 acts, in the pastorale heroique style.  (1743).  The other lyric work of Mondonville Titon et l'aurore recorded by Minkowski and the musiciens du Louvre uses this musical form.  Zais of Rameau is also a pastorale heroique.

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With this work, one has both feets in the baroque period.  The italian influence is quite perceptible in the orchestral interlude.  The barytone Thomas Dolié has a beautiful aria "Amour dieu seducteur, dieu redoutable" at the beginning of act 2 and a duo with Isbé at the end of the same act.  The last (fifth) act contains the most beautiful music of this work.  In particular the final duo between Isbé and Corridon with choir "Je n'aimerai que nous, je le jure encore" is absolutely sublime and ends the opera in the greatest softness.  All the soprano and mezzo role are done by women and not counter-tenors.

Although a contemporary of Rameau, I find him stylistically quite different.  In spite of the (very) light nature of the libretto, the music is often quite dramatic.  Marches with thunder, I found myself stunned by the instruments.

And of course, one is miles away from J-C Bach Amadis de Gaule (1778) I listened a couple of days ago.  The evolution of classical music between 1750 and 1825, is a testimony how revolutionnary this period was.

This is a recent release by G. Vashegyi and his hungarian baroque ensemble (Orfeo) and the excellent Purcell choir.  Despite the east european origin, it is faithful, the french diction is good.  The cover is ugly as hell, but the booklet is in 3 languages and the french texts have also an english translation.

[Zeus]

Hah!  I've cracked the code, solved the riddle, and all that tosh.

Now listening to this:


I've had my sights on this for months, but I am handicapped by the fact that I am a professional-grade cheapskate.  Anyway, I found this on Naxos Music Library, after finding a way to subscribe to NML cheaply. Anyone who wants a subscription to NML should consider supporting IMSLP instead. I'll say no more on that subject.

So now I'm listening to SQ #1 and planning to work my way through the set.  This at least will tide me over until I find a way to buy the discs for a good price (e.g. $20 or so).

[The new erato]

Absolutely beautiful disc!

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[André]

It's not often that the hurwitzer and I agree 100% on a recording's worthiness. But this is one such case:

http://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-11486/?search=1



Not to be confused with his elder brother Christoph (also a distinguished conductor), Andreas Spering turns in a grand, boisterous, joyful account of Haydn's masterpiece. The three soloists are excellent. As a trio they are on a very high level indeed. Superb orchestral execution (PI) and recording.

I own 10 recordings of The Creation and this is one of my top picks. One of the very few Naxos issues of a major work that trumps the majors hands down.

[André]

Okay, this is not the real art cover. But I couldn't resist at the prospect of the Musica acuatica.



This is my second recording in as many weeks of the Royal Fireworks Music, a piece that has so far escaped my grubby hands because it is so little known  .

What attracted me to this is the prospect of hearing the Chamber Orchestra of the Concertgebouworkest (the orchestra's principals and other regular players from this incredible ensemble. Curiously, they were recorded in the Waalsekerk, Amsterdam.



Curiously, there seem to be as many Waalsekerk in the Netherlands as there are Notre-Dame churches in France.  . Just about every major city seems to have one.

[Todd]