What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Morning listening. Onwards in my lute music traversal with another recording by Andrea Damiani - on archlute and Baroque guitar - with 17th century music from the Italian Marche region.



I hope this is all available streaming, because it will probably be impossible to still find this on disc...

PS: To be honest, the music here is pretty unremarkable. Damiani's recording with Renaissance music is much more worthwhile....

[Harry]

Heinrich Schütz.
CD I & II from V.
Symphoniae Sacre I. (Part I-X) & (Part XI-XX)
Opus Ecclesiasticum Secundum, opus 6, 1629-SWV 257-276.
Cappella Augustana. Matteo Messori.
TT= 90 minutes.


When I bought this set in 2005, I was astonished about the beauty of the music and especially the performances. And I still am. To this day it is for me at least, the best performances of Schütz his vocal music. Messori assembled a group of singers together, that has, to this day  no match, either in singing or instrumental contributions. So much care has gone in the recordings, that I am still in awe of what I hear. Beautiful voices, fine organs, and much more. It was recorded in 24 bit-96 kHz by Michael Seberich and it sounds pristine. The Venue is, "Chiesa Arcipretale di S. Giacomo", Polcenigo, (Pordenone) July 2003. Brilliant has built itself a monument with these performances.

[Mandryka]

This could be a good one for @Dry Brett Kavanaugh to try - refined and expressive Bartok and Debussy. Symphonic piano playing - rich and sonorous and colourful. She's good at silences.


https://jy-song.com/

https://www.juilliard.edu/music/faculty/song-j-y

[Que]

More Italian Baroque!

[Harry]

Robert Schumann.
Complete Piano works.
Volume 5 of 19.
Schumann und seine Töchter.

Kindersonate op. 118 Nr. 1; Wiegenliedchen op. 124 Nr. 6; Klaviersonaten op. 118 Nr. 2 & 3; Klavierbüchlein für Marie
Ein Gang durch die Musikgeschichte (Originalwerke & Bearbeitungen Schumanns von Bach, Händel, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber & Schubert)
Originalstücke zum "Album für die Jugend", die nicht in den Erstdruck aufgenommen wurden (Für ganz Kleine C-Dur; Puppenschlafliedchen C-Dur;
Auf der Gondel C-Dur; Lagune in Venedig h-moll; Präludium A-Dur; Fughette A-Dur; Klavierstück C-Dur; Linke Hand, soll sich auch zeigen C-Dur; Kleiner Walzer e-moll; Gukkuk im Versteck F-Dur; Haschemann D-Dur; Wilder Reiter a-moll).

Recorded in 2012, Menuhin Hall, Yehudi Menuhin School, Stoke d' Abernon, Cobham, Surrey.
TT= 71:06.

What I said earlier in the precious four volumes, exemplary! This is how I want to hear Schumann. Open, poetical, clear sighted, no additional frills, no undue sentiment, only the notes and their meaning. It makes my heart rejoice. Pristine sound.

[Lisztianwagner]

William Alwyn
Symphony No.5

Richard Hickox & London Symphony Orchestra

[Madiel]

Chopin: piano concerto in E minor



Based on my record-keeping, good for a listen every six-and-a-half years or so.

It's okay, but really when so much other Chopin is a hell of a lot more than "okay", the 2 piano concertos are things I only reach for because I'm doing some kind of survey. If I want piano and orchestra Chopin I'd rather go for op.13 or op.14. I don't actually remember how I feel about op.22 so that will be next.

[ritter]

Enrique Fernández Arbós is mainly remembered today for his orchestration of five numbers from Albéniz's Iberia (and in Spain, for having led the Madrid Symphony Orchestra for thirty years), but he also composed original music:



Listening to CD1. Very provincial late romantic music, with picture-postcard Spanishness (lots of castanets and that kind of stuff). Of historical interest to local music lovers, probably not even that for the wider public.

[Papy Oli]

Peteris Vasks - Viola Concerto

[Que]

It has been a while! And I doubt if I ever completed more than one full run..

[Traverso]

Bach

[Traverso]

It has been a while! And I doubt if I ever completed more than one full run..

Oh come on, three a day and you're done in a week.

[ritter]

Milhaud's Symphony No. 5 and No. 6, from Alun Francis' complete traversal on CPO, with the Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra.

[Traverso]

Just to be clear, are you referring to the 70's recordings or the 60's recordings?

To avoid all misunderstanding 

[ritter]

Oh come on, three a day and you're done in a week.

Much as we may love Haydn, three discs of his baryton trios a day for a full week are a sure recipe to send anyone to the insane asylum... 

[Spotted Horses]

To avoid all misunderstanding 

Perfect. I've never hear that one.

This is my favorite Alain set:

[Traverso]

Perfect. I've never hear that one.

This is my favorite Alain set:

So there is the miscommunication, the second set is certainly better recorded.

[Roasted Swan]

Much as we may love Haydn, three discs of his baryton trios a day for a full week are a sure recipe to send anyone to the insane asylum... 

Spare a thought for the people who recorded them!!

[Traverso]

Spare a thought for the people who recorded them!!

 You seem like a compassionate person 

[Cato]

In recent days:

A radio broadcast concert from 2010: Mahler: Symphony #7 with Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.


Lera Auerbach: Violin Concerto #3

I first became acquainted with Auerbach's music some years ago or so through these 2 works: