What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

No BIS recordings anymore on Qobuz, it makes me sick, and really angry.    

What??    Has this anything to do with the recent takeover?

[Roasted Swan]

No BIS recordings anymore on Qobuz, it makes me sick, and really angry.    

Go From My Window.
English Renaissance Ballad Tunes For The Lute By John Dowland & Contemporaries.
Nigel North, Lute.
See back cover for details.

Recorded at National Centre for Early Music, York, UK 2001.

A balm, this music, to calm my shattered nerves. Linn made a fine recording, and Nigel North assures quality.

to the bolded text - so it begins..........

[Harry]

What??    Has this anything to do with the recent takeover?

Yes Que, Apple monopolized it for themselves. What will happens next, no one knows. It is unsure that there will be new recordings from BIS, for I heard they will dismantle the whole organization von Bahr has sold to Apple. Or they will sell it to a bigger company, for lets be honest what is a American streaming service doing with a label like BIS. The listeners to their streaming services are not interested in the specialized music BIS offers.

[Florestan]

[Mandryka]

It's a recording from 2005, I don't have it and I think it will probably be hard to find.

https://www.amazon.it/Frescobaldi-Secondo-Toccate-Marco-Vitale/dp/B009FOL132

It's a 19th century organ (Serrapetrona  Italy) so I'll pass until it's available as a stream. Nice organ though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWGJIolwYo&ab_channel=LuigiManfredi

[Florestan]

Been listening live to the latest monumental gaffes of the speakers of the Romanian classical music radio station.

That was Dame Joan Sutherland singing an aria from I Capuleti e I Montecchi by Gaetano Donizetti.

followed ten minutes later by

This year, the Czech Republic will celebrate 120 years since the birth of Antonin Dvorak.

I kid you not. Had I compiled all the blunders I've heard from them in a few years it would have resulted in a rather thick booklet. 

[Ian]

I'm giving Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No.4 another chance. I have to say I didn't like it at all the first time I heard it. I'm going through the Naxos box in order.

[vandermolen]

Lennox Berkeley: Symphony No.1 (1940)
One of the most underrated British symphonies:

[Traverso]

It's a 19th century organ (Serrapetrona  Italy) so I'll pass until it's available as a stream. Nice organ though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWGJIolwYo&ab_channel=LuigiManfredi

As Harry mentioned,It's on Qobuz.

[Traverso]

Bach

2008 

[DaveF]

Been listening live to the latest monumental gaffes of the speakers of the Romanian classical music radio station.

We have BBC Radio 3 to do the same job for us - I was reminded this morning, while listening to Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, of a broadcast a number of years ago when this piece was introduced, complete with descriptions of its wartime composition and violence of expression, followed by a performance - of the Symphony in C.  I imagined innocent listeners trying to connect this elegant neoclassical number with images of destruction and suffering.

[Florestan]

We have BBC Radio 3 to do the same job for us - I was reminded this morning, while listening to Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, of a broadcast a number of years ago when this piece was introduced, complete with descriptions of its wartime composition and violence of expression, followed by a performance - of the Symphony in C.  I imagined innocent listeners trying to connect this elegant neoclassical number with images of destruction and suffering.

 

Did you know that Turandot was composed by Verdi? This has been repeated three times by a guy conducting an interview with a tenor no less! After at long at last the latter corrected him, the speaker was still incredulous that it was actually by Puccini. I couldn't believe my ears. 

[Maestro267]

He looks like he's about to bunt a baseball.

[Todd]

[Harry]

Lennox Berkeley: Symphony No.1 (1940)
One of the most underrated British symphonies:

True that!

[DavidW]

Not to rub salt in the wound but I find Suzuki's playing very musical and have this on repeat:

[Mandryka]

As Harry mentioned,It's on Qobuz.

I can't see it there - can you give me a link? All I get for Marco Vitale is this

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/interpreter/marco-vitale/49794

[Harry]

Not to rub salt in the wound but I find Suzuki's playing very musical and have this on repeat:

That hurts      

[steve ridgway]

Mussorgsky: A Night On Bald Mountain

[foxandpeng]

No BIS recordings anymore on Qobuz, it makes me sick, and really angry.    

Go From My Window.
English Renaissance Ballad Tunes For The Lute By John Dowland & Contemporaries.
Nigel North, Lute.
See back cover for details.

Recorded at National Centre for Early Music, York, UK 2001.

A balm, this music, to calm my shattered nerves. Linn made a fine recording, and Nigel North assures quality.

Disturbing. Still present on Spotify at the moment.