What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Morning listening:



Q

I'm waiting for this one  ,I have the feeling that it is close to the Richafort requiem,is that right?

[ritter]

Don't know the other works, but the Bassoon Concerto is great fun! A very imaginative work.

Indeed it is. But the whole CD is quite attractive: the Ritual Dances are one of the composer's most ambitious works, and the Liturgical Suite (for children's chorus and ensemble) is charming. IMHO, this CD 4 is the highlight of the whole Erato set.

[Maestro267]

Jones: Symphony No. 9
BBC Welsh SO/Thomson

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Kun Woo Paik (piano)/Polish NRSO/Wit

[Traverso]

Daniel Bacheler

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Continuing the Holmboe symphonies with No.9.

[Daverz]

JS Bach, Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV1052

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Was led to this by a Hurwitz video on a Leonhardt disc with BWV1052 and CPE Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, Wq. 23:

https://www.youtube.com/v/nmeRjVHWiMY&t=303s

The only other disc with this combo on harpsichord is Rondeau's (you also get BWV1056, a JC Bach concerto, and some WF Bach bits).  Be warned this is a 1-to-a-part chamber approach, but I think it works well.  Rondeau also sounds like he had a lot of espresso before recording BWV1052, his playing is quite exhilarating.

[Madiel]

Act 2. Quite enjoyed Act 1 the other day.

[Papy Oli]

Never listened to anything conducted by Dohnanyi, so here goes with Dvorak's Sixth :

[vers la flamme]

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30. Martha Argerich, Riccardo Chailly, Berlin RSO

Killer performance. I can feel a Russian romantic/piano kick coming on. I've also been enjoying some Tchaikovsky lately, who has never really been a favorite of mine.

[Madiel]

Mozart, op.3

(Violin* sonatas numbers 5 to 10, K10-15)



*Not truly violin sonatas as we think of them, as they can be played by either violin or flute and have a cello part.

This recording certainly gets off to a very appealing start. Was this ever on CD, or only LP and download/streaming?

EDIT: This really is excellent.

[Harry]

New arrival, first listen.

Pirro Capacelli Albergati.
Corona Dei Pregi di Maria, Cantate a solo voci, opus 13, Bologna 1717-Antifono e Motetti di Tomas Luis da Victoria.

Ensemble La Flora

This is the first Tactus recording from the 22 CD'S I bought, that is not up to scratch. The music by Albergati is fine, no quibbles there, but the primary soprano Alida  Oliva is a nightmare, with a voice that will serve as a amateur, but as a professional she fails. The ensemble as such is adequate, but not really worth to play again. Recording is also sub par.

[Papy Oli]

That is bizarre. I found the same thing on Deezer - Adagio available, other tracks of the album not. Why on earth would an album be only partially available like that?

EDIT: I've emailed Dutton to ask them. Because it makes zero sense.

Madiel,
Did you ever get a response from Dutton on the above please by any chance ?  I have come across another of their CD's with the reverse case. 1st track (a single track Violin Cto, lasting 20 min) only available as a sample, all other 16 tracks available in full. Very peculiar.

[Papy Oli]

Bruckner 3 / Dohnanyi

[Harry]

First and last listen. New Arrival.

Camillo Cortellini.

The Masses-Complete Edition. (3 CD's)


12 different choirs all doing one mass, and frankly several things are going wrong here apart from uninspiring performances of fine music. All the choirs have intonation problems, several singers are of a questionable quality, interrupting the flow by a semitone off key or even more. Choir balance is amateurish at times, choir discipline is inadequate, due to the indifferent singing and a choir director who doesn't seem to hear all these faults, or really don't care. The recordings are at best mediocre, so a dud, but thats okay, I can live with that.

[Karl Henning]

Whatever the case, it's an accessible and colorful work to my ears!

It's a beauty!

[Mirror Image]

I like that Crystal series of Hovhannes recordings, often featuring London based orchestras. My favourites are the discs featuring the 'Odysseus' and 'Celestial Gate' symphonies and Symphony 11 'All Men are Brothers' but I like the St Vartan Symphony and other issues as well.

Very nice, Jeffrey. I love all of those works. Yes, the Crystal Records recordings are top-notch and essential, IMHO, to any Hovhaness collection. I've got almost all of them.

[Karl Henning]

A second helping of the Ninth for Gurnsday, this time from this set

The MTT Op. 125 I have is with the SFSO, but I'll bet yours is nice, too.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

[Mirror Image]

It's a beauty!

+1

[Karl Henning]

Dvořák
First & Second String Quartets