What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

It is an excellent cycle, as you will remember, and definitely worth the investment.

Of the three cycles I have (Hickocks and Gamba/Chandos and Handley/Sony (Conifer) are the other two*) this Penney/Naxos cycle seems the best to me.

*are there any others?

TD
Just finished a very good Sixth

[Karl Henning]

"Wolferl"
Cto in C, K. 467
Monique Hass, pf
Hans Rosbaud
Baden-Baden Southwest Radio Orchestra

[JBS]

After Mahler--Rodrigo!

With Domingo as conductor in the concertos and tenor in the songs for voice and guitar (two pieces are for guitar alone).

CD 9 of the Warner Barrueco set

[Bachtoven]

[Operafreak]

 Blow: Venus and Adonis

Amanda Forsythe (Venus), Tyler Duncan (Adonis), Mireille Lebel (Cupid), Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Jason McStoots, Zachary Wilder (tenors), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone)

Boston Early Music Festival, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I like this pianist.

[Operafreak]

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24

Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Vinson Cole (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) & Jaco Huijpen (bass)

The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & The Netherlands Radio Choir, Bernard Haitink

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Live at Liszt Utrecht 2022 - Yukine Kuroki.

[Mookalafalas]

  Wowie-zowie. 3 minutes in and my hair is practically standing up.

Disk 5 of:



  I actually have the big Menuhin box--with the cellophane still on it. Life is good, and we are fortunate

[Roasted Swan]

Of the three cycles I have (Hickocks and Gamba/Chandos and Handley/Sony (Conifer) are the other two*) this Penney/Naxos cycle seems the best to me.

*are there any others?

TD
Just finished a very good Sixth

The 3 Arnold symphony cycles are the only ones there are complete.  But the performances certainly worth seeking out are the Arnold conducts Arnold.  He did 1,2 & 5 on EMI/Warner, 3 on Everest and 4 on Lyrita.  There is also a BBC broadcast of his No.7 which you can find on YouTube.  His No.5 is probably still the best performance of all of that one.  No.4 is controversially slow but a must-hear for fans of his music.

PS:  I like Neumann's Mahler very much

[Harry]

Orlando di Lasso.
Lagrime di San Pietro.
Part I-III.
CD 12.
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel.

Gorgeous, well really!

[vandermolen]

The cover art is nice too. I imagine Edvard Munch.

Definitely Munch.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Continuing an exciting listening to Ancerl's Gold Series.

#16

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Op.64

[Papy Oli]

The 3 Arnold symphony cycles are the only ones there are complete.  But the performances certainly worth seeking out are the Arnold conducts Arnold.  He did 1,2 & 5 on EMI/Warner, 3 on Everest and 4 on Lyrita.  There is also a BBC broadcast of his No.7 which you can find on YouTube.  His No.5 is probably still the best performance of all of that one.  No.4 is controversially slow but a must-hear for fans of his music.

Thank you for that, RS. I only have his Fourth on Lyrita. I'll have a look at his others.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Definitely Munch.

Are you sure this is not Katsushika Hokusai? 

[Operafreak]

 


Max Richter: Vivaldi Recomposed

Daniel Hope (violin)/Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, André de Ridder

[Harry]

Arrived yesterday from JPC.

British Music for Strings, Volume II.
Christopher Wilson.
Suite for String Orchestra.

Granville Bantock.
Serenade for String Orchestra in the "Far West".
Scenes from the Scottish Highlands-Suite for Strings.

Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim, Douglass Bostock.

A delight, like the first volume was. Wilson writes in a accessible way, pleasing to the ear. In my presents state that soothes. Bantock rarely disappoints, which means that his music has a bit more flesh on the bones, and that's good too. Good sound and excellent performance. Later more if I have a bit more strength in my body.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 4-6 [Belder]





All of the performances in this set are light and airy with good pace and clarity and are well performed. The performances are all suitably brisk and energetic. The brass soloists in Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 are particularly fine. No. 3 is buoyant and very well driven; quite powerful really.  No. 4 takes one's breath away at times; those recorders sound just marvellous and the whole work has great presence. No. 5 is well paced and balanced; the harpsichord cadenza in the opening movement is terrifically and sometimes fiendishly played. No. 6 has great transparency in the lines. It also has great presence. The sound is also very good if just a little thin and dry but that is a minor quibble in what is a terrifically exciting set.

[aligreto]

Whenever that set is mentioned I kick myself. I had it, and sold it off. Now it can only be had for a king's ransom.

It will be of no consolation to you but many of us have been in a similar position with some recording or another over the years.

[Harry]

Composer : Gustav Holst
Recording : Sāvitri (Hickox - 1983)
Performers : Richard Hickox, The City of London Sinfonia, Felicity Palmer (Sāvitri), Philip Langridge (Satyavan), Stephen Varcoe (Death), The Richard Hickox Singers

I cannot say I am a great fan of Felicity Palmer's particular tone or vocal wobble.

In this I quite agree with you!