What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Fiori Musicali: Messa della Madonna, excerpts from Secondo Libro di Toccate. Francesco Cera plays the organ mass on a modern reconstruction in the style of Antegnati by Daniele Maria Giani.

I found this disc rather to my liking, and played it already several times.

[Que]

 

Again: ugly cover of the streaming issue to the left, the cover of original disc to the right. 

Fortunately the playing is really nice!

[Madiel]

Tomorrow night I'll be listening to 3 piano concertos, at the Casa da Música in Porto.

It's the final of an international piano competition.

[Selig]

Italian Renaissance, lute and soprano voice

Nadia Caristi I know from Testolin's recordings, an immediately recognizable voice.

[Traverso]

Guillaume de Machaut

[Traverso]

Max Reger


There have always been Reger admirers, including Schoenberg and Hindemith

CD 4

[VonStupp]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Concerto in C Major, op. 34
Rondo Brillant in A Major, op. 56
Rondo Brillant in B-flat Major, op. 98

Howard Shelley, piano
London Mozart Players

What a great series this has been to explore Hummel, with one more to go. Each of the eight or so PC's are major works, and I suspect the piano sonatas would be as well. The pairings have been hit and miss, but these ones are strong. What a surprise to hear col legno from Hummel!

What would it take to hear one of these in concert? The right performer, at the right place, at the right time I suspect.
VS

[Karl Henning]

I started listening to my Mitropolous bargain yesterday.

Tell of the bargain!

[Karl Henning]

Guillaume de Machaut

Bought that as a singleton way back, in the days when Naxos was still a super-bargain label.

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Bought that as a singleton way back, in the days when Naxos was still a super-bargain label.

I bought the box for 20 € JPC  30 CD's  It still is for sale for this price.

[Karl Henning]

I bought the box for 20 € JPC  30 CD's  It still is for sale for this price.

Good deal!

[Cato]

Was listening to something on the radio and it turned out to be unexpectedly gripping. I had to wait for it to finish to know the name of the piece. It's the work that accompanies this symphony on this recording:



This epic overture is actually a tone poem from his opera Oresteia. Taneyev's most inspired orchestral work I reckon.

The Oresteia is a masterpiece, which should be better known!  Let me recommend the Second Symphony and the cantata At the Reading of a Psalm, the latter a very dramatic and powerful experience!


Today I had a fever, and the only prescription was MORE TRIANGLE !!!      

[Spotted Horses]

Arthur Honegger
Concerto da camera for Flute, Cor Anglais & String Orchestra

Bohuslav Martinů
Oboe Concerto

Heinz Holliger (oboe), Aurèle Nicolet (flute)
Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Since I was listening to Honegger I decided to try the Concerto da Camera this disc. It did not work for me. Invariably, when I listen to Marriner/ASMF I am put off by a lack of urgency in the music making. To placid and technically immaculate.

I switched to a recording by Turovsky, which I found more satisfactory although the piece did not have the Honegger magic for me. But following with the Prelude, Arioso and Fughetta, the magic was back.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Scriabin piano works - Valery Kastelsky.

[DavidW]

btw this is a sign that Apple Music is the first service that gives me good recommendations.

[DavidW]

Today I had a fever, and the only prescription was MORE TRIANGLE !!!   

[Lisztianwagner]

Hildegard von Bingen
Celestial Harmonies - Responsories and Antiphons

Jaremy Summerly & Oxford Camerata

[Bachtoven]

This is my favorite non-keyboard version. Great playing and sound.

[Karl Henning]

btw this is a sign that Apple Music is the first service that gives me good recommendations.

I should give the Grand Pianola Music a fresh spin.