What are you listening 2 now?

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

BWV10

[Operafreak]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel & Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonatas-Sebastiano Mesaglio (piano)

[Tsaraslondon]

Both performances taken from the 1994 Proms and both very fine, though the audience is a bit bronchial. The disc originally came free with BBC Music Magazine.

[Roasted Swan]

Love the Concerto in F, Karl!

As a side note, I once received a lovely e-mail from John McLaughlin Williams (the conductor in your video) thanking me for an Amazon review when his John Alden Carpenter Naxos recording came out. We had a lovely discourse around that time. From that exchange, and some other online comments I have seen from him since, he seems a fine gentleman and thoughtful musician.

VS

John McLaughlin Williams is a VERY fine violinist too!  Aside from the American music he has recorded (as conductor) to great effect he is a keen proponent of British music as well.  There is a YouTube video (audio only but with some interesting images/photos along the way) of him playing the Bax violin concerto which is as technically fine and musically insightful as any.  Top-notch musician all round!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdtjzTuSYM

[jlopes]

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Parsifal, act 2^

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Biffo]

Vasks: Musica dolorosa for string orchestra
Silvestrov: Elegy for string orchestra
Janacek: Taras Bulba, Rhapsody for orchestra
Sibelius: Finlandia

Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Kirill Petrenko

A concert given on 29 April 2022 - streamed from the Digital Concert Hall

[Karl Henning]

John McLaughlin Williams is a VERY fine violinist too!  Aside from the American music he has recorded (as conductor) to great effect he is a keen proponent of British music as well.  There is a YouTube video (audio only but with some interesting images/photos along the way) of him playing the Bax violin concerto which is as technically fine and musically insightful as any.  Top-notch musician all round!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdtjzTuSYM

I didn't realize he played the Bax! Thanks.

[VonStupp]

A White Christmas With Grimethorpe

Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Major Peter Parkes

VS

[Roasted Swan]

I didn't realize he played the Bax! Thanks.

Genuinely one of the finest available versions!

[Harry]

Tesori di Napoli.
Per la Nascita del Verbo.
Teatro religioso nella Napoli barocca, 1650-1700.
Christmas Cantata,
Cristofaro Caresana.
La Caccia del Toro/La Tarantella/La Pastorale.
La Vittoria dell'Infante.

Orazio Giaccio.
Pastorale sulla Ciaccona.

Bernardo Storace.
Passagagli con Partite pastorali.

Cappella della Pieta de'Turchini, Antonio Florio.

After many years of lying dormant in my collection, it still gives me thrills and goosebumps. La Tarantella is pretty awesome.
Passionate performances, there is no holding back with the singers, they deliver sensual and emotional charged interpretations.
Good but resonant sound, being recorded in a church.

[Traverso]

Bach


Magnificat

[Todd]

K137 from:

[Harry]

Die Singphoniker, and Guests,
Singphonic Christmas.
Christmas Songs from Europe.

Sweet songs with some quirky intonations and modernisms, but the voices are superb.
A Christmas CD that appeals to many, and me also.

[Harry]

Weihnachten in Dom zu Halle.
Kammerchor Cantamus Halle.
Mannerchor Bouquet Vocalis Halle, Dorothea Kohler.

Also an golden oldie in my collection of Christmas Music, cannot remember that I played this recently. Always a surprise if it still does the trick.

[Traverso]

[Todd]

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The Emmanuel Music recording is good enough to be purchased solo, though the $0.00 download price tag was more appealing yet.  The performances are quite excellent.  Apparently, Emmanuel Music has performed all of Bach's cantatas twice, though not everything was recorded and/or released.  Maybe one day a set will be made available.  Fingers crossed.  (I signed up for the Emmanuel Music newsletter I can't remember how many years ago when I learned that they worked with Russell Sherman, and have been hoping for an archive release, so far to no avail.)

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.
Christmas Cantatas.
Saget der Tochter Zion.
Saget den Verzagten Herzen.
Auf Zion! Und lass in geheiligten Hallen.
Kundlich Gros ist das gottselige Geheimnis.

Dorothee Mields, Britta Schwarz, Wilfried Jochens, Dirk Schmidt.
Telemann Kammerorchester Michaelstein, & Magdeburger Kammerchor, Ludger Remy.

A really excellent CD. Telemann at his best! Fine performances and pristine sound.

[Lisztianwagner]

Igor Stravinsky
Canticum Sacrum

[Mandryka]

Just at the level of "art of modern piano playing" - tone, touch, balance - this is the most impressive Scarlatti CD I can remember hearing. This is one I think @Todd should hear.