What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

I've decided to be the only psychopath in perhaps all of North America to listen to Pettersson on Christmas Eve!  The sixth symphony, one of the greats.  My recent relistening to Lindberg recordings has shown me that I was dead wrong before.  Lindberg's drive and transparency are really great.  I will be buying the Pettersson edition.

I see nothing pathological about listening to Pettersson on Christmas Eve. I might join you if I had the time.

[Que]

Morning listening:



Happy holidays to all! 

[Que]

Next up:



One of my favourite Christmas recordings, and a highlight in the Huelgas discography.

[pjme]

It is cold, wet, awfully grey and drab outside. Time for a tasty Spanish Christmas salad.

In Caracas it is even more spicy.

[ritter]

It is cold, wet, awfully grey and drab outside. Time for a tasty Spanish Christmas salad!

In Caracas it is even more spicy!

Nice!

I ordered this set some days ago:



Isabel Palacios (under whose conducting I sang as a chorister as a teenager in Caracas) sings in the Pickett set Traverso was listening to recently, and conducts her Camerata Renacentista de Caracas in the video you've watched and the set I bought. She's really good in this IMHO.

!Feliz Navidad, Peter!

[Que]

[pjme]

!Feliz Navidad, Peter!

Joyeux Noël, Rafael.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Missa Solemnis

[Linz]

Vaughan Williams Christmas Music

[DavidW]

More Bach Kuijken, wanted to listen to my favorite cantata bwv 82.  It is not Christmas, but it is Bach!

[Mandryka]

Really successful - serious, intense and austere, "deeply felt",  a Renaissance vibe. Top tier.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

[Todd]

An excellent choice.  I think I shall follow suit.

[JBS]

Handel 1750

[Traverso]

Palestrina

 

[Spotted Horses]

I decided to listen to Bacewicz Violin Concerto No 1. I accidentally started No 7, which turned out to be something of a revelation. When I originally listened, when this was a new release, I thought No 7 was "too weird." Now I find it very engaging. Then I put on No 1. It was weirder than I remember, also wonderful.



Interesting that the conductor on this release, Borowicz, is the same one conducting the new cpo series of Bacewicz Orchestral Music.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Earlier today, enjoyed listening to Vaughan Williams' Hodie (with Baker and Lewis)--gorgeous!  Later on, Britten's A Ceremony of Carols (also enjoyed...will have to double check who that was with).

PD

[andolink]

Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Rückert-Lieder
Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki

[vandermolen]

Me too, the Norwegian symphony I appreciate most of all, I think.

Even more than Klaus Egge's Symphony No.1?

[DavidW]

Bax's 4th symphony Handley


Beethoven's Septet, very Mozartean no wonder @Florestan likes it!  Even though it had been several years, I still remembered it once it started playing.