What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

The second of two recordings of Palestrina's (parody) masses on themes by Jacquet de Mantua (Jachet de Mantoue) aka Jacques Colebault:

[Que]

Matthaeus Pipelare

Oh yes, such an amazing recording & composer! 

I also enjoyed this set:

[Traverso]

Bach

[Traverso]

Oh yes, such an amazing recording & composer! 

I also enjoyed this set:

I just purchased this one 

[Mandryka]

[Que]

I just purchased this one 

That's a nice one! 

[Traverso]

That's a nice one! 

I aware of your admiration for Le Jeune,the other recording ( Sony) is on my wishlist.

I think  that the DHM recording is OOP,one seller (Bol.com) ask's 75 euro for it,it is not the one I bought.

[Que]

Christiane Wuyts plays a harpsichord by Henri Hemsch, 1754, and one by Jacques Goermans, 1774.

Originally issued in 1988 on the Belgium label Autographe.

[Operafreak]

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No  45 in F sharp minor Farewell - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

[aligreto]

Jommelli: Beatus Vir [Prandi]


https://www.youtube.com/v/E1xtqg_5x6Y

[Madiel]

Act 2. Definitely a bit better with a libretto. Still not entirely compelling, though. Still not remotely what you would expect from the composer.

[Que]

Disc 12 - "The London Scene"
Tom Beghin plays an English Grand Piano,  Longman, Clementi & Co, London, 1798.

[VonStupp]

Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra, op. 30

Boston SO - William Steinberg

VS

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D major - London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult (EMI, 1970)

[aligreto]

JSB: St. John Passion [Cleobury]- Part I 





Somewhat premature listening if one goes by the Liturgical calendar but it has been a long time since I have heard this work and I wanted to refresh my aural memory.

[Iota]

Ha, we seem to be in similar territory, VS! (#65486) 




Strauss: Don Juan
LSO, Abbado


History is littered with sons rebelling against fathers, and nothing more creative than a bit of a blow-up sometimes I guess, but I doubt many quite produce the supernovae-like outcomes of Don Juan. What a prodigious achievement for a twenty-four-year-old! As well as a rather glaring snub for his influential father's reactionary musical tastes.

I also listened to the Kempe/Staatskapelle Dresden recording which is very good, rich and detailed, though I still prefer Abbado who captures the raw and lust-crazed rapture of the opening's main theme onwards rather better I think. With Strauss having an affair with a married woman at the time, and Don Juan unequivocally rejecting his father's request to reform his lustful ways in Lenau's play on which the tone poem is based ..
("That magic circle, immeasurably wide, of beautiful femininity with their multiple attractions, I want to traverse in a storm of pleasure, and die of a kiss upon the lips of the last woman.)"
..  Abbado's approach does seem to tap more naturally into the unbound spirit of the young man's piece.

 

[Operafreak]

[VonStupp]

Ha, we seem to be in similar territory, VS! (#65486) 




Strauss: Don Juan
LSO, Abbado

Wonderful! I don't know Abbado as a Straussian, but I love the time he spent with London and Chicago.

VS

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 13 & 14 Op. 27 Nos. 1 & 2 [Brautigam]