What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Elizabethan Christmas Anthems

[Papy Oli]

Schütz - Musikalische Exequien

[Harry]

CD I.

[Mandryka]

The King's Musick

A favorite disc of mine ,"pastime with good company"

I like Nigel Rogers very much. I've started to listen to this for the first time

[Mirror Image]

Continuing from late last night:

Mahler
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major
Vesko Eshkenazy (violin), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass), Jane Eaglen (soprano), Peter Mattei (baritone), Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Ben Heppner (tenor), Sara Fulgoni (mezzo-soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Jongenskoor Van Het Sacramentskoor, Breda, Jongens en meisjes van het Kathedrale Koor St.Bavo, Haarlem
Chailly

[Papy Oli]

Schütz - Musikalische Exequien
Herreweghe this time.

[kyjo]

Britten: Suite for Solo Cello No. 1, Op. 72

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)


Lean music that sounds at times like shoots clinging to life in a barren soil. Even the march seems like a half-forgotten memory of a march, with only the briefest of aspirations to vigour, and even this more anguished than march-like. But the threads of thought and feeling carry weight, and the possibility of heartbreak never seems too far away. The final Moto Perpetuo is the liveliest of the bunch, but feels more like it's trying to unsuccessfully shake off its chains than revelling in the joy of movement.

Queyras conjures up some evocative moments, not least in the Bordone.

Such an imaginative, characterful piece! I'm currently learning it and it's quite technically difficult to say the least!

[kyjo]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento in E-flat major, K563. Leopold String Trio

Really sounds great at the moment. This was a random record store find from earlier in the week. Glad I picked it up.

One of Mozart's crowning masterpieces IMO. A seriously substantial work that's like an intimate conversation between three very much equal partners.

[Karl Henning]

Such an imaginative, characterful piece! I'm currently learning it and it's quite technically difficult to say the least!

Great stuff!

[kyjo]

Felix Mendelssohn
String Symphony 12 in g minor
String Symphony 13 in c minor

Gewandhaus - Kurt Masur

Whereas Mendelssohn's SS #11 was a major step forward in symphonic development, #12 (three movements) and #13 (one movement) are a bit disappointing. They take a strong step backwards into the Baroque, with fugal passages and contrapuntalism galore. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it was unexpected as an overarching progression of these works.

That said, his application of counterpoint bears heavy chromaticisms, and Mendelssohn's abilities to weave highly-chromatic harmonic components into those older forms is quite impressive.  I guess in that respect, this is the move forward for Mendelssohn's voice.

Still, I prefer the gently-lapping middle movement of #12, another slow, Germanic, religioso feel, which breaks up all of Mendelssohn's minor-keyed busyness.

You're encouraging me to revisit these works. Mendelssohn's early works are far more than just mere juvenilia - they're astonishingly precocious!

[vandermolen]

Khachaturian: Symphony No.2 VPO/Composer.
A classic performance:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alfredo Casella: La Giara.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Symphony No.7

[Harry]

CD II.

[Bachtoven]

Great playing and sound. I'm looking forward to Daniil Trifonov's recording on DG that comes out next month. Of special interest is his completion of the final unfinished fugue.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Symphony No.7

The last Karajan symphony cycle  is not  one that I will cherish so this 7th now with Isserstedt which offers me more musical satisfaction.

[bhodges]

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances (Andrés Orozco-Estrada / Frankfurt Radio Symphony, live recording 7 February 2014) - Excellent. My go-to performance is with Ashkenazy and the Concertgebouw, but that doesn't mean that other conductors and ensembles can't rise to the challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aejZf3Y75JM

--Bruce

[mahler10th]

I love everything by Kurt Atterberg, even if some of it is a wee bit samey...

[Traverso]

Froberger

Vol.6

The sound of this CD is closer than Vol.5

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
Leningrad PO
Mravinsky



A sizzling performance.