What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/Y_6LvnlZlTM

[Madiel]

I haven't dabbled in Stravinsky for some weeks. Dabbling in works from c.1944-47 via streaming.

1. Scherzo a la Russe (Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati SO) - I say, this is rather delightful.
2. Hommage a Nadia Boulanger - 30 seconds long, for 2 voices
3. Elegy for solo viola (Miles Hoffman) - quite interesting

4. Symphony in 3 movements (Solti, Chicago SO) - distinct flavours of The Rite of Spring but with a neoclassical tang.

[Wakefield]

Somewhere in between, I guess....  But I realise that is not very helpful.
It is always hard to compare individual styles. Crugnola's style is very Italian, I think....
Crisp, articulate playing, but relaxed and definitely aims for dance related rhythms. Cardin is a bit quicker, even more articulated and digs deeper into the strings. Barto's sound is closer, but he is more focused on the longer lines in the music.

I hope any of it makes sense... A quick sample listening will be more revealing. 
What attracted me to set was that I liked Crugnola's sound and there is a lot of rare repertoire included.

Q

I don't have this set, but Alberto Crugnola is today probably my favorite Bach lutenist.

IMO, it's hard to get a better combination of attention for details, deepness and "organic*" playing. 

*I mean "characterized by the systematic arrangement of parts; organized; systematic"; but also "alive."

[Mookalafalas]

this picture is ridiculously inaccurate--the pianist is Viktoria Postnikova, playing Rach PCs 1 and 4. Amazon shows this as the disk, however.

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From the big Soviet box from "Yedang." Recording is from 1990.  No complaints at any level.

[Madiel]

Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire

[asin]B0091Q82IG[/asin]

Possibly doing a little to dent my view that vocal Schoenberg is not for me. The chamber accompaniment is appealing. It's a little bit 'bits-and-pieces' for my tastes on a first listen, but that could be because I have almost no clue about the words.

[Mirror Image]

What's Memorial Day for, anyway? What are you remembering?

Far too many websites and apps I deal with seem to assume the entire internet is American. I know when you're having a holiday because so many things reference it. I've just got no idea what the holiday is for.

Memorial Day is a day for Americans who have had loved ones slain in war or on active duty to honor them and 'memorialize' them.

[Mahlerian]

Berg: Der Wein
Anne Sofie von Otter, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Abbado
[asin]B0000B09Z4[/asin]

Gorgeous piece and performance, although the "jazz" section sounds like jazz from someone who's never heard jazz...

[prémont]

Johann Pachelbel. Complete organ works, Volume I CD 4, Michael Belotti plays on a Bossard organ (1721) in once monastery church of St. Urban, kanton Luzern. (2009)

But so far volume I is a bit of a disappointment in artistic and recording issues. Which is a pity, for there are not many recordings of Pachelbel's organ music. Recommended with caution then.

Yes, remember that I wanted to listen to it again before I decided whether I would recommend it to you or not.

[Madiel]

Memorial Day is a day for Americans who have had loved ones slain in war or on active duty to honor them and 'memorialize' them.

Ah, okay. Thank you.

*mentally files Memorial Day with Anzac Day*

[Harry]

Yes, remember that I wanted to listen to it again before I decided whether I would recommend it to you or not.

Yes I remember that I was impatient, and wanted to hear the set. My bad I could not wait. Volume 2 is much better though.
Next time I will  show restraint until you have listen to it.

[Mahlerian]

Mozart: Variations in F on "Ein Weib ist das herrlischste Ding" K613
Ingrid Haebler
[asin]B0000501PH[/asin]

[Baron Scarpia]

Ah, okay. Thank you.

*mentally files Memorial Day with Anzac Day*

Reminds me of the ad Amazon was running about Alexa supposedly loosing her voice.

Disheveled looking, millennial type young man in his messy apartment ask Alexa,

"Can you find a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich?"

Celebrity chef answers for Alexa

"God, you're a grown man and can't make a grilled cheese sandwich? Really? The recipe is in the name!"

[Traverso]

Brahms

Trio in B , OP.8
Trio in C minor, Op. 110



There is a concert this evening in my hometown,I'm not there,see link.

https://www.theaterstilburg.nl/evenementen/30222/menahem-pressler-vs-concert-kamermuziek-souvenir

[Karl Henning]

Reminds me of the ad Amazon was running about Alexa supposedly loosing her voice.

Disheveled looking, millennial type young man in his messy apartment ask Alexa,

"Can you find a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich?"

Celebrity chef answers for Alexa

"God, you're a grown man and can't make a grilled cheese sandwich? Really? The recipe is in the name!"

Who's Alexa?

[Karl Henning]

Who's Alexa?

(j/k)

[Karl Henning]

4. Symphony in 3 movements (Solti, Chicago SO) - distinct flavours of The Rite of Spring but with a neoclassical tang.

It was this amalgam which fascinated me in the Symphony from the start;  so much which feels like adaptation from Le sacre, yet a powerful work with its own character.

[Malx]

A little earlier a new addition - J S Bach Violin Concertos & Gubaidulina "In tempus praesens".
The two J S Bach concertos are nice enough with Mutter directing the Trondheim Soloists from the violin. But I bought the disc mainly for the Gubaidulina concerto " In tempus praesens" which is dedicated by the composer to Mutter - she plays it on the disc with the LSO conducted by Gergiev.
A substantial work that will take a few listens to get to know, but first impressions are favourable.

Now - the second disc of Suites for Clavecin composed by Antoine Forqueray played on the harpsichord by Blandine Rannou.

[Zeus]

Skoryk: Concerti & Orchestral Works
Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, Hobart Earle
Naxos

[asin] B00LFPND80[/asin]
First listen.  So far, I'm very impressed.

[NikF]

Auric: Les Facheux; La Pastorale - Poppen/Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

[Baron Scarpia]

A little earlier a new addition - J S Bach Violin Concertos & Gubaidulina "In tempus praesens".
The two J S Bach concertos are nice enough with Mutter directing the Trondheim Soloists from the violin. But I bought the disc mainly for the Gubaidulina concerto " In tempus praesens" which is dedicated by the composer to Mutter - she plays it on the disc with the LSO conducted by Gergiev.
A substantial work that will take a few listens to get to know, but first impressions are favourable.

I like that recording of the Bach Concerti. But no recording has recaptured the love I had for the Grumiaux recording on Philips (stereo) that I had on vinyl. Maybe my imagination has embellished it.

The Gubaidulina piece eluded me, haven't returned to it.