What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Morning listening:



More Adriaen Willaert by Dionysos Now!: Missa Ippolito and various motets. With just over 48 mins playing time, this would be shorthanded as a physical recording.

Bookmarked 1-4 volumes of this Dionysos Now ensemble, and will investigate what the hubbub is about. You seem to like it a lot!

[Que]

Bookmarked 1-4 volumes of this Dionysos Now ensemble, and will investigate what the hubbub is about. You seem to like it a lot!

Yes, I do like it a lot...

https://www.eprclassic.eu/Team/Dionysos-Now!

https://www.dionysosnow.com/

The ensemble's leader and founder used to sing in Capilla Flamenca and is co-founder of the ensemble Cinquecento, to give you an idea.

[Harry]

Nicola Matteis.  (c.1644-1649 - before 1695).
Ayres for the Violin - "Most Ravishing Things".
Theatrum Affectuum.

Recording 2014, Große Kirche, Leer, Germany.

I am normally not a great fan of the Recorder, but for this SACD I make an exception, for it is well done. The recorder does not sound sharp or piercing to the ears, but is well embedded in the BC.
Nicola Matteis wrote  varied music with influences from Italy, France and England for the musical life of London, which was shaped by the bourgeoisie. Mostly short pieces, the "Books of Ayres" is a sparkling, multifaceted cosmos, virtuosic, or at times coarse or elegant, intellectual or grounded.

[Mandryka]

Glenn Gould said that Gibbons's keyboard music is very different from his contemporaries (like Byrd) because it's more less virtuoso showy offy.

So I'm listening to Egarr's very recording to hear whether this is plausible. I know Egarr's Byrd well enough to remember.

Gould could be right actually, hard to say. Not surprisingly!

[Harry]

Benjamin Britten (1913 –1976)
Works for Orchestra.

Symphonic Suite from 'Gloriana', Op. 53a.
Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68.
Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes', Op. 33a.

Paul Watkins Cello.
BBC Philharmonic Edward Gardner.
Recording venue, Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester 2010.

Absolute top notch performances. Technical precision and refined sound (SOTA). It is near perfection! Utmost colorful sensitivity, which within a short time, creates a multitude of moods and atmospheres, and making a big impression.

[Mookalafalas]

Shostakovich 7th, Live, Rozhdestvensky
  From this short-lived but magnificent set

[Florestan]

this week I've been perusing Carl Dahlhaus' Nineteenth Century Music

Here's another excerpt from this very interesting book.




Taking sides with Leipzig against Paris a full century and a half after the fact - what a delightful and exact description of  the Germanic musical chauvinism discussed earlier.

[Que]

Notturni for the King of Naples (II)

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier - Suite
Intermezzo - Symphonic Interlude

André Previn & Wiener Philharmoniker

[vandermolen]

Bliss: Morning Heroes (Groves/Westbrook/RLPO/Chorus and Orch.)
This first recording remains the best:

[Mandryka]

Here's another excerpt from this very interesting book.




Taking sides with Leipzig against Paris a full century and a half after the fact - what a delightful and exact description of  the Germanic musical chauvinism discussed earlier.

At some time I'll look at what people said about them in literature -- the Dambreuse salon in Flaubert, the Verduin salon in Proust, there must be something in Balzac which I can't remember.

A friend of mine used to run a weekly salon in London -- all sorts of good things happened (I remember a performance of some Bach cello suites, and a reading of Dante's Comedy.) It got boring after a while though, you were kind of expected to turn up every week . . . .

[Que]

[Roasted Swan]

Bliss: Morning Heroes (Groves/Westbrook/RLPO/Chorus and Orch.)
This first recording remains the best:

Yup!

[Harry]

BACH, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750).
Complete Organ Works.
Volume II.
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541.
Chorale prelude 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier', BWV 730.
Concerto in D minor, BWV 596, after Antonio Vivaldi (RV 565).
Chorale partita on 'Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig' or 'O Jesu, du edle Gabe', BWV 768.
Concerto in C major, BWV 594, after Antonio Vivaldi (RV 208).
Chorale prelude 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier', BWV 731.
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547.

Masaaki Suzuki playing the Marc Garnier organ of the Shoin Chapel, Kobe, Japan.
Tuning: modified meantone temperament.
Organ maintenance and tuning: Matthieu Garnier.
Registrants: Keiko Nakata & Yuki Adachi.
January 2016 at Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan.

It is clear for me, the style of playing I can identify with, totally! This is how I personally want to hear my Bach. I moderately like Beekman and van Dijk, but it is not the Bach I want to have or hear. Forced to choose,  between those two Beekman would win the battle hands down. In the meantime I enjoy this fantastic disc in SOTA sound.

[Que]

One of my all time favorite Haydn recordings!

Same here!

I'm returning to this recording so soon for trio no.44 (Hob. XV:28), which is a masterpiece.

[vers la flamme]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Solo Violin No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004. Arthur Grumiaux

Nothing but Bach the past week or so.

[Leo K.]

Rameau and Alkan
Bruce Liu
2023 • Dolby Atmos • Hi-Res Lossless

This is some very good Rameau on piano from Bruce Liu, the Canadian pianist, and the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition winner.

This album opens and closes with masterpieces by Rameau. Liu's style is marked by his deft and nimble fingerwork, effortlessly imparts the essential clarity that these compositions demand, making this album an exquisite listen.

The Alkan is wonderful too.

[Florestan]

In memoriam



My favorite Tchaikovsky symphony: No. 5

[Harry]

Giuseppe Maria Cambini. (1746-1825)

Sinfonia in E minor and in F major.
Sinfonia concertante No,12 for two Violins and Orchestra in C minor.
Sinfonia concertante No.5 for Oboe & Bassoon and Orchestra in B flat major.

Academia Montis Regalis, Luigi Mangiocavallo.
Paola Cantamessa, Violin.
Giovanni della Vecchia, Violin.
Maria de Martini, Oboe.
Barbara Ferrara, Bassoon.
Recorded in 1998 at the Istituto di Musica Antica Stanislao Cordero di Pamparato, Mondovi, Italy.


A wonderful oldie, which can hold its trousers up against the competition that hardly exist. Cambini is a composer gruefully underrated, and neglected to the very bone. Not fair, not wise, not acceptable. And although this disc is OOP for years, or by some silly prices to be had, I say, if you can get it, get it! A good performance and dito sound.

[Mandryka]

This is quite a different vibe from Marie Nishiyama, in Trabaci.