What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012).
Orchestral Works, Volume 1.
Celebration (1991) for Orchestra.
Concerto for Marimba and Chamber Orchestra (1987 –88).
Symphony No. 3 (1987) for Orchestra, To Edward Downes.
Summer Music (1982), for Flute and Piano, Arranged 1984 for Small Orchestra by the Composer.
Sinfonietta (1984) for Orchestra.

Colin Currie, Marimba.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson.
Recording venue, City Halls, Glasgow, 2017.

Second rerun, and I notice that my admiration for this composer is increasing. The sound world he creates, taps on all buttons. A worthwhile addition. SOTA sound and performance.

[Papy Oli]

LVB

SQ op.18/5

 by Quartetto Italiano

[ritter]

Some Schoenberg from Robert Craft's pioneering first series on Columbia:



The Serenade , op 24, with bass Donald Gramm and the Columbia Chamber Ensemble, and the Quintet, op. 26, with the Westwood Wind Quintet.

CD 34 of the big Robert Craft box:

[vers la flamme]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. Murray Perahia

Love this performance.

[Papy Oli]

Bartok

String quartet no.2

Takacs quartet.

That second mvt was gripping, loved it.

[Traverso]

He opposed the terrorist policies of Robespierre and Saint-Just and incurred the wrath of the latter, who falsely accused him of treason. One of the many thousand victims of fanaticism and blind hatred.

We live in a world still governed more by emotion than reason. You know the story of Danton? On the way to the scaffold, the cart with Danton on it drove through the street where Robespierre was standing at the window. Danton shouted upstairs, "your time will also come" and so it happened.

[Traverso]

Bach

Back to Rübsam.....

[Harry]

Melanie (Mel) Bonis. (1858-1937)
Chamber Music.
Piano Quartet No.1 & 2.
Soir, Matin, opus 76.
Mozart Piano Quartet.
Recorded, 2006, at the Fürstliche Reitbahn, Bad Arolsen, Germany.

An absolute pleasure to listen to Melanie Bonis music. This CD gives an idea of the impressive level of her work, three works, whose outstanding quality refutes all the silly clichés about the supposed weaknesses of female composers. Above all this music is harmonically very advanced, imaginative and masterly in their craftsmanship. I have said this over and over again, sample it, and I am sure you will be convinced that she was one of the most important composers in her time, and indispensable for the completion of your musical library. Sound is excellent as is the performance.

[Papy Oli]

Concluding:

Handel - keyboard suites #13 to #16
(Richter, Gavrilov)

Great maiden listen to this set of suites!

[pjme]

On the radio: Stéphane Denève / Dutch Radio PhO / Broadcasting chorus / Benjamin Goodson / soprano Sarah Brady. Live, from Amsterdam.Excellent!
Poulencs two faces:
Litanies à la Vierge Noire
Stabat Mater
Les biches (with chorus)

[Florestan]

We live in a world still governed more by emotion than reason. You know the story of Danton? On the way to the scaffold, the cart with Danton on it drove through the street where Robespierre was standing at the window. Danton shouted upstairs, "your time will also come" and so it happened.

They were furiously at each other's throats believing they were founding paradise on earth. All they did was paving the way for Napoleon's crowning himself emperor. I don't remember right now otomh who said that the only  valuable legacy of the French Revolution was the metric system. 

[Florestan]

Clara Schumann - Piano Trio in G minor

Three completely uninteresting and profoundly boring works.

[Papy Oli]

Handel- Italian cantata "Armida Abbandonata"

(La Risonanza)

[DavidW]

Handel- Italian cantata "Armida Abbandonata"

(La Risonanza)

Do you know this recording?  It's pretty neat:

[Papy Oli]

Do you know this recording?  It's pretty neat:

I don't David. I'll bookmark it.

Before buying the Risonanza set, I only knew some of those cantatas via a Piau/Lesne twofer.

Not tried a lot of Kirkby but whatever I had has been more miss than hit for me as well, we'll see 

[JBS]

CD 10 from

[JBS]

I don't David. I'll bookmark it.

Before buying the Risonanza set, I only knew some of those cantatas via a Piau/Lesne twofer.

Not tried a lot of Kirkby but whatever I had has been more miss than hit for me as well, we'll see 

Don't know about actual availability, but the CD for the October 2023 (the one with Sean Shibe on the cover) has a nice performance of the cantata La Lucrezia by Megan Moore with the English Concert under Harry Bicket (along with some Handel opera excerpts and the RFWM).

[Harry]

Memoria Sefardi.
Ya Soi Desposado / Oy Comanos Y Bebamos (Cancionero Musical De Palacio
El Rey Que Muncha Madruga (Smyrna)   
Abenamar (Morocco) / La Rosa Enflorence (Spain)   
Hija Mía Mi Querida (Rhodes)   
La Cantiga De La Ley (Rhodes)   
Puncha Puncha (Alexandria / Istanbul)   
Aman Minoush (Istanbul)   
El Rey De Francia (Smyrna)   
Avrid Migalanica (Cassaba)   
El Regateode Las (Rhodes)   
La Vida Es Un Passahe (Morocco)
Las Compras Del Rabiner (Morocco)   
Si Abra
El Cervel Mi Fa Nocte Idie
Jançu Janto

Matthew Jennejohn (mute cornett, cornetto, recorders), Isabelle Marchand (fiddle), Guy Ross (ud, harp), Ziya Tabassian (percussion).
Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian.
Recorded: 2001, Église Saint-Augustin, Mirabel.

A wonderful journey, mystic and deeply spiritual. Fine performance and sound.

[Steinway D]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. Murray Perahia

Love this performance.

That is one of my favorites, too, and now so is this new one by Vikingur Ólafsson. (Although it's a very different interpretation.)

[Steinway D]

This is a very good collection of works by Biber, Purcell, Locatelli, and arrangements of plain chant by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras.