What are you listening 2 now?

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BACH, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750)
Complete Organ works.
Volume I.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565.
Pastorale (Pastorella) in F major, BWV 590.
Partite diverse sopra il Corale 'O Gott, du frommer Gott', BWV 767.
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 535.
Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her', BWV 769.
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548.

Masaaki Suzuki playing the Schnitger/ Hinz organ in the Martinikerk (Martin's Church), Groningen.
Pitch: a'= 465 Hz. Tuning: after Hinz, Variant of Neidhardt.
Recording: July 2014 at the Martinikerk, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Absolutely superb!

What could be more beautiful than being alone in an empty church with an organist friend and listening to the many beautiful organ works by Bach, a peaceful place full of joy, while outside a soft engine roar of real life can be heard...I can't withdraw from these memories,they are dear to me.
This church is no longer in use and, if I am correctly informed, the organ has gone to Poland. It is now in use as a doctor's office, physiotherapy, pharmacy and the like.
The last time I was there in its original form was seven years ago. My mother died at the age of 91 and the church was for this occasion opened again for the funeral.
The enormous sound box that a church with good acoustics can be and the gradual disappearance of the sound is always a delight.
 

[Traverso]

Well, I didn't like ALL of your Mozart posts: #100312, for instance, does not bear my liking --- and it does not bear it for the same reason that your Berg post doesn't: I missed them. I could have given the Berg post a like for the coupling, for instance.   

I even think I have that CD somewhere. As for the Berg concerto, I once heard it live in concert and (moderately) liked it. On a more general note, it's my experience that music which is not my usual cup of tea sounds better if I listen to it in the concert hall. 

Yes, because there you have to sit still and keep your mouth shut

[Madiel]

I can absolutely tell you one piece of music where hearing it in the concert hall was an improvement: Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Because in the concert hall I heard it as a sextet, and it was incredible. I now have a CD recording of it as a sextet, and that's also incredible. The orchestral version I originally owned (Karajan) still leaves me cold.

[Florestan]

Yes, because there you have to sit still and keep your mouth shut

That's how I listen to music in my home, too. No, it's rather because in the concert hall there are extra-musical elements which can contribute to my enjoyment; for instance, the movements of Yuja Wang's legs greatly helped me to make sense of the rhythmic patterns of Bartok's 2nd PC.   

[Traverso]

That's how I listen to music in my home, too. No, it's rather because in the concert hall there are extra-musical elements which can contribute to my enjoyment; for instance, the movements of Yuja Wang's legs greatly helped me to make sense of the rhythmic patterns of Bartok's 2nd PC. 

Well Andrei don't get slippery when it comes to Yuja's legs  , it may have some kind of effect, although I wonder if it's more a regurgitation of primal instincts,that can be a kind of rhythmic too.
Let's be careful before we offend anyone.

[AnotherSpin]

Iki - Toyohiko Satoh

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Iki - Toyohiko Satoh

Ennemond Gaultier Charles Mouton Francois Dufault Johannes Fresneau

[Florestan]

Well Andrei don't get slippery when it comes to Yuja's legs  , it may have some kind of effect, although I wonder if it's more a regurgitation of primal instincts,that can be a kind of rhythmic too.
Let's be careful before we offend anyone.

People are so easily offended nowadays. A casual remark which in the past nobody would have taken seriously, let alone made a fuss about it, could end one's public or professional career. Some call it progress and/or justice. What I call it I will keep to myself.   

[Scion7]

String Quintet No.6 in Eb, K.614
MOZART - The Nash Ensemble
Allegro di molto-Andante-Menuetto. Trio: Allegretto-Finale: Allegro
1791

[Karl Henning]

[Traverso]

People are so easily offended nowadays. A casual remark which in the past nobody would have taken seriously, let alone made a fuss about it, could end one's public or professional career. Some call it progress and/or justice. What I call it I will keep to myself. 

Right,It is very questionable whether all those people who stand up against injustice and abuse in all its varieties have any self-knowledge. Let's leave it at that.

[AnotherSpin]

Ennemond Gaultier Charles Mouton Francois Dufault Johannes Fresneau

Yes

[Florestan]

Right,It is very questionable whether all those people who stand up against injustice and abuse in all its varieties have any self-knowledge. Let's leave it at that.

Gladly.

[Karl Henning]

I can absolutely tell you one piece of music where hearing it in the concert hall was an improvement: Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Because in the concert hall I heard it as a sextet, and it was incredible. I now have a CD recording of it as a sextet, and that's also incredible. The orchestral version I originally owned (Karajan) still leaves me cold.

If you wish, you might try the Academy of St Martin in the Fields:

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Boult conducts:
Arnold Bax.
Northern Ballad No.1 (1927).
Mediterranean (1920 -1922).
Symphonic Poem, The Garden of Fand (1913-1916).
Symphonic Poem, Tintagel (1917-19).
Symphonic Poem, November Woods (1917).

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult.
Recorded in 1968 & 1972.

There is nothing to say really, its that good!

Great CD!

[Harry]

CIPRIANO DE RORE (1515/16 - 1565.)
Il Quinto Libro di Madrigali, pub. posth. 1568.
Mentre, lumi maggior.
Da le belle contrade d'oriente.
Se com'il biondo crin de la mia Filli.
Vaghi pensieri.
Alma Susanna.
Qualhor rivolgo/Ma pur in te sperar.
Non è, lasso, martire.
Amor, che t'ho fatt'io.
Fera gentil/Perchè si stretto è 'l nodo.
O santo fior felice.
O voi che sotto l'amorose insegne/Si dirà poi ciascun.
Alma real, se come fida stella.
Convien ch'ovunque sia.
Da l'estrem'orizonte.

THE CONSORT OF MUSICKE.
Emma Kirkby, Soprano, Evelyn Tubb, Soprano,  Mary Nichols, Alto,  Andrew King. Tenor,  Paul Angew, Tenor,  Alan Ewing, Bass.
ANTHONY ROOLEY, Director.
Recording Forde Abbey, Dorset (UK), 20-22 March 1991.

Very satisfying, splendid performances and sound. For me these recordings are still treasures. Every one of those series.

[Madiel]

If you wish, you might try the Academy of St Martin in the Fields:

I see no real reason to mess with the magnificent sextet, frankly.

[Karl Henning]

I see no real reason to mess with the magnificent sextet, frankly.

It's undeniably brilliant.

[Karl Henning]

TD: two days late for Liszt's birthday

[Steinway D]

Op.106 and 101 (her ordering) from this SACD set. Although probably not my first choice for these works, she presents many interesting interpretive choices. If nothing else, the audio quality is excellent.