What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Nicolai Miaskovsky
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 18
Svetlanov
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia

This is delightful, to be honest. Folk melodies and whirling peasants abound! There's no doubt that NYM writes masterfully for strings, and that is becoming increasingly apparent to me as he moves into this purple patch of quality writing. Wind instruments, brass... all the good stuff.

[Tsaraslondon]

A couple of years ago I had a bit of a Barbara Bonney phase, having acquired two really lovely song recitals, both of which were recorded more than ten years after any of the items on this compilation. In that time she definitely grew as an artist, and, though the voice is still lovely and beautifully produced here, the disc comes across as being rather insipid; lovely but unmemorable. This is another disc I probably won't miss.

[Florestan]

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Another first listen : Tabakov's 2nd symphony

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Monday!

[Harry]

William Byrd.
Clarifica Me.
Organ Music.

Leon Berben plays on th the Historical Organ At Oosthuizen (C.1521)
Recorded in May 2007 in the Grote Kerk, Oosthuizen, The Netherlands.

DISPOSITION
Bourdon 16
Prestant 8
Octaaf 4 (doubled from a' onwards)
Quint 3
Woudfluit 2
Mixtuur II – III
Sexquialter Diskant II
Compass: F, G, A – g'', a''
Mean-tone temperament, a' = 465 Hz.

During the 2002-3 restoration, the pipe-work was
carefully re-examined and restored with great care. The
note markings on the pipes bear the handwriting of
organ-makers that suggests the assembly was the work of
Pieter Backer, active around 1670. He seems to have
used and combined parts of other organs, perhaps those
previously in the churches of Monnickendam, Hoorn
and Medemblik.

Frankly I never heard many of the recorded works on this disc played on the Organ, but it works, maybe not in all the works, but as a whole its revealing and well argued. The Organ is a beautiful instrument, pure and well tuned. The Pitch: a'= 465 Hz, so it will be a bit strenuous on the ears, albeit not in such a way that it bothers me much, but it can bite in a few pieces on this disc. Berben makes a feast out of it, by playing Byrd's music almost lovingly on this Renaissance organ.

[Papy Oli]

Hohvaness - symphony No.1 "Exile"

[DavidW]

Hohvaness - symphony No.1 "Exile"

I should give that a listen, it has been a long time since I've listened to Hovhaness.

[Papy Oli]

I should give that a listen, it has been a long time since I've listened to Hovhaness.

A first listen for me, as recommended by @foxandpeng / Danny. Intriguing 1st mvt so far.

[DavidW]

Dvorak's 6th and 7th.  The sixth is one of the greatest symphonies ever written, and Suitner delivers an exceptional performance with so much attention to detail which I don't know is pure Suitner or excellent audio engineering.  Highly recommended!

Birtwistle-- first listen to this composer.  He delivers on Pettersson-esque melancholy, but is more interesting and complex.  Great music here.  I will continue to explore his music.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Henri Rabaud - Marouf Savetier Du Caire.
Orchestre Philharmonique Des Pays De Loire/Pierre Dervaux.

[Harry]

Dvorak's 6th and 7th.  The sixth is one of the greatest symphonies ever written, and ch Suitner delivers an exceptional performance with so much attention to detail which don't know is pure Suitner or excellent audio engineering. Highly recommended!

Th attention to detail is definitively Suitner. The recording is good, but could be better. In the recently acquired Chandos recordings with Jarvi at the helm you get much more detail, and the audio quality is much better. But this set is expensive, en the Brilliant recordings are a steal.

[DavidW]

Okay Harry I'll check out those Jarvi recordings.  I think he is surprisingly overlooked a lot.  He produces a ton of great recordings.

[Karl Henning]

Not a maiden listen, but I doubt I've listened more than twice before:

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
Symphony № 19 in E^b for wind orchestra, Op. 46 (1939)
Stockholm Concert Band
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

[foxandpeng]

Not a maiden listen, but I doubt I've listened more than twice before:

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
Symphony № 19 in E^b for wind orchestra, Op. 46 (1939)
Stockholm Concert Band
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

I'm really enjoying this!

[Todd]

Disc 19, a beefy 80-minute collection of 1951 recordings of Scarlatti, Schubert, and Schumann.  The five Scarlatti sonatas sound nice enough, but Gieseking sounds restrained.  The Schubert Moments Musicaux sound direct and unaffected, like his other Schubert.  Carnaval is all glib Florestan and not much Eusebius, but when played with the elan and crazy dexterity displayed in places, it doesn't matter.  Kinderszenen sounds simple and direct.  Another peach of a disc.

[Mandryka]

Giovanni Battista Fasolo.
Annuale opera Ottava, Venezia 1645.

Luca Scandali, organ.
(Luca di Bernardino da Cortona, 1547, Chiesa di San Domenico, Cortona)

Ensemble Bella Gerit.

Good recording of well made music. There are so many Italian organ masses on record now, all seem well made music to me, it would be nice to understand more about the genre,

[Harry]

Good recording of well made music. There are so many Italian organ masses on record now, all seem well made music to me, it would be nice to understand more about the genre,

That was my impression too. Have a vivid memory about this recording. I bought it at a sale that would be quickly terminated so I had to act quickly, and ordered pure on the basis of the composer. I lucky find!

[Papy Oli]

Finishing Hovhaness - symphony No.50 "Mount St Helen".



Me thinks I 'll have to pay a visit to the Hovhaness thread

[Harry]

Maurizio Cazzati & Sebastian Anton Scherer.
Messa Concertata a 5.
From Bologna to Beromünster.
Francesco Saverio Pedrini, Voces Suaves.

Organ in Beromünster.
Built in 1692 by Christoph Albrecht, with multiple modifications in the first half of the 18th century.
Restoration in 1981-84 by Orgelbau Goll AG, Luzern.
a = 417,5 Hz at 18° C.
Recorded in St. Michael Stiftkirche Beromünster (Switzerland), 6 -11 April 2015.
Playing time = 62 minutes.

ENSEMBLE VOCES SUAVES
MIRJAM WERNLI Soprano (MW)
LIA ANDRES, Soprano (LA)
GABRIEL JUBLIN, Alto (GJ)
STEFAN KAHLE, Alto (SK)
RAPHAEL HÖHN, Tenor (RH)
DAN DUNKELBLUM, Tenor (DD)
DAVIDE BENETTI, Bass (DB)
TOBIAS WICKY, Bass (TW)
PLAMENA NIKITASSOVA Violino I
YELIZAVETA KOZLOVA Violino II
LOLA FERNANDEZ Alto Viola
DANIEL ROSIN Violoncello
PASQUALE MASSARO Violone
GIULIA GENINI Fagotto
MIGUEL RINCON Tiorba
ADRIEN PIÈCE Organo
ON HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS
FRANCESCO SAVERIO PEDRINI Direttore.

Another successful recording by Voces Suaves. I am becoming quickly a great admirer of this ensemble. Maurizio Cazzati & Sebastian Anton Scherer, wrote great music, and Voces Suaves get the most out of it. What I admire most in the consistency of the singers and instrumentalists. This somewhat older recording clearly shows that even in those days they delivered an acquired sound, which is not a given, but comes with the quality and devotion to the music, Voces suaves clearly have that in abundance.
Very much recommended.

 "The singers go about their work simply and naturally; their youthful voices are sufficiently individualized to make the structures transparent, but at the same time they find their way very nicely into the ensemble sound. In this way they succeed in bringing out Cazzati's modernity very vividly. As a result, finally, the importance of this excavation becomes clear in every movement." (Fono Forum, July 2016)