What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

MARIN MARAIS (1656 –1728).

Suite à deux violes en sol majeur.
Premier Livre de pièces a une et a deux violes, 1686 (basse continue, 1689),
Les Voix Humaines, Second Livre de pièces de violes, 1701
(Transcription pour archiluth de Thomas Dunford).
Suite à deux violes en ré mineur.
Premier Livre de pièces a une et a deux violes, 1686 (basse continue, 1689).

Jonathan Dunford, basse de viole.
Sylvia Abramowicz, basse de viole.
Thomas Dunford, archiluth.
Recorded: 2014, en l'église Saint-Remy de Franc-Waret (Belgique).

A fine close for this day. It has been primarily dreary weather, and most of the time dark and rainy. This music cheers me up! Excellent performances and sound.

[Spotted Horses]

Some selections from Martinu's solo piano music series from Koukl, volume 1

Three series of miniatures, Finetre su la jardin, 3 esquisses, 5 esquisses de dances.



I think the dance-inspired piano pieces of Martinu are the most effective.

[Traverso]

English Harpsichord Music





part of this box

[vers la flamme]

Iki - Toyohiko Satoh

Excellent idea; I just put this on from the beginning.

[DavidW]

[Iota]

Haydn: Piano Trio No. 26 in F-Sharp Minor, Hob.XV:26

Haydn just can't seem to do any wrong. Immaculate performances from the Florestan Trio.

[Daverz]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 - Kondrashin/Moscow Symphony, from the 2006 Melodiya Kondrashin Shostakovich box.

There is some serious tape deterioration here and there, though not enough to deter enjoyment.  However, it does put it in the "historical recording, some indulgence is necessary" category for me.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 - Kondrashin/Moscow Symphony, from the 2006 Melodiya Kondrashin Shostakovich box.

There is some serious tape deterioration here and there, though not enough to deter enjoyment.  However, it does put it in the "historical recording, some indulgence is necessary" category for me.

Fully agreed.

TD:

[Linz]

Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Indes Galantes, Ballet Suite and Dardanus Suite, Collegium Aureum

[AnotherSpin]

[classicalgeek]

Dvorak
Symphony no. 9
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
(on CD)

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra

Michael Gielen & SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

[Karl Henning]

Arnold Schönberg
Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra

Michael Gielen & SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

Love this!

[Karl Henning]

Dvorak
Symphony no. 9
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
(on CD)

when I was in high school, I played in the Community Band and it was in that milieu that I grew acquainted with the finale of this symphony in band transcription.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies, 97, 98 and 99 George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra

[ritter]

Returning to Falla's El retablo, but now in the recording included in the Warner box (CD 6)¹:



I hadn't listened to Charles Dutoit's recording of the work, made in Berne in 1971, and featuring soprano Ana Higueras-Aragón, tenor Tomás Cabrera, bass Manuel Pérez Bermúdez and harpsichordist Robert Veyron-Lacroix. Perhaps this reading sounds a bit more heroic and "romantic" than what one is used to, but it is excellent IMHO, with very good sound.

¹ The set also includes Eduardo Toldrá's pioneering 1954 Paris recording, which I knew from a previous incarnation and is excellent as well.

[vers la flamme]

Joseph Marx: Romantisches Klavierkonzert in E major. Marc-André Hamelin, Osmo Vänskä, BBC Symphony Orchestra

Very beautiful work, actually. Makes me want to hear more from this composer.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

MARIN MARAIS (1656-1728).
Cinquième Livre de Pièces de Viole (1725).
CD I.
François Joubert-Caillet: Bass viol.
L'ACHÉRON.
Marie-Suzanne De Loye: Bass viol.
Andreas Linos: Bass viol.
Miguel Henry: Theorbo, Théorbe de pièces, Guitar.
André Heinrich: Theorbo.
Philippe Grisvard, Harpsichord.
Recording: église Notre-Dame de Centeilles, May 2021, October 2021.

The success of this series repeats itself in the last installment, "Pieces de Violes", composed in 1725. I must say that I am quite attached to these interpretations, which are recorded in excellent sound. As to the performances it can hardly be bettered. By the by, there is quite a famous piece in this set, that made me grin from ear to ear, called ". Le Tableau de l'Opération de la Taille" (Representation of a Gallbladder operation, CD II)  complete with a spoken program.    

Huh?!  "Why?!" comes to mind....

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

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.
 

That's sad to hear.   

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 - Kondrashin/Moscow Symphony, from the 2006 Melodiya Kondrashin Shostakovich box.

There is some serious tape deterioration here and there, though not enough to deter enjoyment.  However, it does put it in the "historical recording, some indulgence is necessary" category for me.

Sorry to hear that; I've been kicking myself that I didn't buy those recordings and have been wanting to hear them.

PD