What are you listening 2 now?

[j winter]

Switching from Beethoven to Mozart PCs with Kempff... I think I'm going to listen to this box straight through today, as it's only 5 discs...

[Lisztianwagner]

Alfredo Casella
Symphony No.1

Gianandrea Noseda & BBC Philharmonic

[DavidW]

I liked the 10th, but the highlight for me was the Requiem.  Something about the ethereal sound of the organ and the choral sections grabbed me.  This might be my focus for the next week or two.


Everything on this album just blew me away!  The playing is dynamite.  This is a keeper!  I'll have to listen to Faust on A Soldier's Tale.  These might be purchases.  Funny enough this represents a period performance.

[Que]

This, on the other hand, is bliss. Perfect music and performance to soothe a terrible flu (sore throat, heavy cough, running nose and watery eyes, no fever --- don't know whether it's Covid and I don't even want to find out, probably not since I can smell and taste).

Hope you get well soon! 

[Florestan]

Hope you get well soon! 

Thanks, Que.

[Brian]

Going to spend this week streaming and auditioning a whole bunch of obscure Naxos releases to see if I should download them for $3 each in that ongoing download sale at the Chandos download shop.

Today's playlist:

Greek Wind Quintets - there was some really attractive and folksy music here, along with a couple more serious pieces. Not a purchase for me but would advise streaming it.
Dorman - very shallow low-level recording with a lot of glare. I didn't have the patience to give the music a chance based on the poor recording quality.
Boccherini - amiable but uninteresting; the quintets are better
Czech horn concertos - not A-tier or even B-tier quality composing here, as the orchestral parts and melodies are often quite simple. But the soloists, two brothers who were both in the 80s Czech Philharmonic, have a great, authentically Czech sound.
Sainz de la Maza - totally delightful. I'm more familiar with Eduardo, not Regino, but they're both fun composers. Franz Halasz is always reliable.
Gliere - up next. I used to listen to this CD every once in a while in college, 15 years ago. No idea if I'll still like it 

[Karl Henning]

I liked the 10th, but the highlight for me was the Requiem.  Something about the ethereal sound of the organ and the choral sections grabbed me.  This might be my focus for the next week or two.

I don't believe I've listened to the Requiem since the time that I first bought the disc, so I'm in!

[vandermolen]

I don't believe I've listened to the Requiem since the time that I first bought the disc, so I'm in!

Can't remember the Requiem but I love Symphony No.10

[Karl Henning]

This, on the other hand, is bliss. Perfect music and performance to soothe a terrible flu (sore throat, heavy cough, running nose and watery eyes, no fever --- don't know whether it's Covid and I don't even want to find out, probably not since I can smell and taste).

Mend quickly! Do test for Covid, the reduction of smell and taste is but one possible symptom.

[vandermolen]

Bantock: Russian Scenes

[Florestan]

Mend quickly!

Thanks. Karl.

Do test for Covid, the reduction of smell and taste is but one possible symptom.

I already had Covid two times (possibly three). Last time I had it (exactly one year ago) I had the same symptoms as now plus fever, abundant perspiration and fatigue. At all times I mended with usual flu treatment. The test would have statistical relevance only.

[Spotted Horses]

Thanks. Karl.

I already had Covid two times (possibly three). Last time I had it (exactly one year ago) I had the same symptoms as now plus fever, abundant perspiration and fatigue. At all times I mended with usual flu treatment. The test would have statistical relevance only.

It would be statistical on the condition that you behave just as you would if you knew you had Covid-19 (isolating so as not to transmit whatever you have to others). FWIW, I have not had a confirmed case of Covid-19. I have had a few mild colds. On one occasion I gave myself a Covid-19 test because at the same time another family member was sick with a more severe upper respiratory infection but the test was negative.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks. Karl.

I already had Covid two times (possibly three). Last time I had it (exactly one year ago) I had the same symptoms as now plus fever, abundant perspiration and fatigue. At all times I mended with usual flu treatment. The test would have statistical relevance only.

Very good.

[vandermolen]

Hope you get well soon! 

Also from me.

[foxandpeng]

Also from me.

And from me!

[Karl Henning]

I liked the 10th, but the highlight for me was the Requiem.  Something about the ethereal sound of the organ and the choral sections grabbed me.  This might be my focus for the next week or two.

Magnificent piece!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Staying with Dame Janet, I've started on this selection of some of her recordings for Philips and Decca. This is by no means as exhaustive as the Warner set and there are quite a few plums notable by their absence. Personally, I'd have thought it a good idea to reissue all her 1970s Philips recitals complete, but Universal obviously thought differently.

Disc 1 gives us her 1978 disc of what many of us would know as arie antiche in its entirity. They have been tastefully arranged by Simon Preston and Dame Janet is accompanied by The Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Neville Marriner at the helm, and with Celia Nicklin on oboe, Graham Sheen on Bassoon, James Tyler on lute and Nicholas Kraemer on harpsichord. Lovely performances in all, and the music is more varied than you might expect. The disc is rounded of with a couple of excerpts from one of her greatest stage successes at Glyndebourne , when she played the dual role of Diana and Jove disguised as Diana in Raymond Leppard's realisation of Cavalli's La Calisto. I've never got round to hearing the whole set, but these two excerpts certainly make me want to.

That's a lovely set!

PD

[Symphonic Addict]

Sculthorpe: String Quartets 6-9

Very depressing and unfocussed, not too much interesting to be honest, except for the 9th SQ which has more direction.




Myaskovsky: Symphonies 22 and 23

Two of my favorites, particularly the No. 23 in A minor with its wistful melodies and delightful folk flavour.

[Mandryka]

They're playing this programme in a concert here next month, I shall be there. Good sound from Chandos.

[vandermolen]

Glazunov: Symphony No.1