What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

François Dieupart (1676-1751):
Suittes de Clavessin.

Six Suittes de Clavessin, Amsterdam, 1701. Dedicated to Elizabeth, Countess of Sandwich.

Bob van Asperen, Harpsichord, by Michael Johnson, Fontmell Magna, England 1979, in Franco-Flemish style after Johannes Goermans/PascalTaskin, Paris, 1764 in the collection of Edinburgh University.
Recording: 2020, Gut Holthausen,Westphalia.

Indeed @Que & @Mandryka, it is very good indeed, a great disc, well played by van Asperen. The Harpsichord is captured realistically.

[Traverso]

What a coincidence, its next on my playing list for today.

Your souls must be intertwined in some way.

[Karl Henning]

Celebrating Canada Day with:
BWV 84 « Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke »
BWV 85 « Ich bin ein guter Hirt »

[vandermolen]

Now onto the rather endearing 'Old King Cole':

[vers la flamme]

Igor Stravinsky: Orpheus. Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra

Per Atriod's recommendation to me recently. So far so good.

[Spotted Horses]

Ballets Russes opening night for their 2nd season in 1910...

Schumann (orch. by a phalanx of Russians): Carnaval
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade



My guess is they were in this order, partly because of length and partly because it was Scheherazade that was a huge hit in Paris.

It was a big production with highly colourful sets and costumes. The exhibition here had quite a few costumes from these two ballets and some of the Scheherazade ones made it to the website: https://digital.nga.gov.au/archive/exhibition/balletsrusses/default.cfm%3fmnuid=3&galid=5.html

I was very struck by how well the orchestrated Carnaval comes across as ballet music. Actually it's better to my ears than the orchestrated Chopin for Les Sylphides. And no complaints about the 1959 recording used here. Scheherazade is less traditional dance and more full of exotic colour.

I have this Scheherazade from the Bolshoi theater, I wonder if it is a re-creation of the Ballet Russes production.

[Traverso]

Celebrating Canada Day with:
BWV 84 « Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke »
BWV 85 « Ich bin ein guter Hirt »

Good day Karl,enjoy the Bach cantatas.....

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Igor Stravinsky: Orpheus. Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra

Per Atriod's recommendation to me recently. So far so good.

He looks so young there!  Out of curiosity, when was this recorded?

PD

[vers la flamme]

He looks so young there!  Out of curiosity, when was this recorded?

PD

1993, so he'd have been 34 or 35. Very young, and even then about a decade into his conducting career. A precocious guy! P.S. Yesterday was his 65th birthday, so happy belated to the maestro.

[Harry]

Miracles of the Notre Dame.
The Harp Consort, Lawrence-King.
Recorded in 2002.
CD is OOP.


"Miracles de Notre Dame" is a subtle compilation of poems in praise of the Blessed Mother penned by Abbot Gautier de Coincy (1177-1236), clothed in a contemporary sonic garb of popular songs and dances. In this way, the priesthood of the time attempted to integrate the new, "devilish" music, with its unsettling rhythms and revolutionary new polyphony, into the sphere of religious statements perceived as eternal".

[vers la flamme]

Morton Feldman: For John Cage. Marc Sabat, Stephen Clarke

Many people think highly of this late Feldman duo. I don't think I've heard it before. So far so good.

[Karl Henning]

Good day Karl,enjoy the Bach cantatas.....

A lovely day to you, as well!

[Todd]

Hot dog!

[DavidW]

Audiophiles will revel in the transparency and detail.  But I prefer the more emotionally weighty performances of the past.  I also don't think that hyperfixating on individual instruments is the right way to record a symphony.  I prefer the instruments to blend like you would hear in a concert hall.  Isles of the Dead was a pretty decent performance btw.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Audiophiles will revel in the transparency and detail.  But I prefer the more emotionally weighty performances of the past.  I also don't think that hyperfixating on individual instruments is the right way to record a symphony.  I prefer the instruments to blend like you would hear in a concert hall.  Isles of the Dead was a pretty decent performance btw.

Remember the wonderful sound which one well-placed microphone could get--even in a symphonic work?

PD

[Spotted Horses]

I've made it to the third and forth quartets of Beethoven, Takacs quartet recording.



I continue to be amazed at how much I have been enjoying revisiting these works. The forth quartet in c-minor strikes me as a homage to Mozart, with it's "slow" movement unfolding as sotto voce counterpoint, the dark minor-key menuetto, and the taut outer movements. Takacs continues to impress and I'm enjoying the balanced sound from my new Shure SRH840 headphones. (Maybe if I get a financial windfall I will treat myself to Shure SRH1540s.)

[JBS]

I'm too lazy to read the liner notes, so I don't know if there's a reason that the Fourth comes first and the Third is second on this CD.

[Karl Henning]

Myaskovsky
Symphony № 11 in b^b minor, Op. 34 (1932)

[Linz]

Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95
Paul Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis
Sinfonieorchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
4 Lieder Op.2
6 Lieder Op.3
2 Lieder Op.14

Ellen Faull (soprano), Helen Vanni (mezzo-soprano), Donald Gramm (bass baritone)
Glenn Gould (piano)