What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Mahler/Schnittke: Piano Quartet In A Minor/Piano Quartet (after Mahler)

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Trois Mélodies

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Chukrum

[Symphonic Addict]

Dvorak: Symphony No. 5

Outstanding interpretation.

[Bachtoven]

Superb all around.

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu: Vocalism A.I

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis: Charisma (Bornstein, 1998)

[steve ridgway]

Ravel: Une Barque Sur L'Océan

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu: Dreamtime

[steve ridgway]

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

[Que]

Picked this from the shelves. The 2nd disc has the Missa beati omnes by Nicolas Gombert, also included in the set by Beauty Farm (Fra Bernardo), and the anonymous Missa Sancta Maria.

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Etcetera_KTC1410.html

[DaveF]

Now streaming on Apple Music:

I'd be interested in your opinion.  If it's the same no.41 that's included in the big Lumières box, it belongs for me on the new "Worst recordings" thread.

[foxandpeng]

Fair enough. There are composers who resonate better with our tastes than others. In my case, Eshpai is anything but elusive. His music speaks straight to my being.

Haha. My bad! I didn't mean that I find him hard to connect with 🙂. Forgive my lack of clarity!

I meant that I wish I could actually find more of his music to listen to! 😁

[Mandryka]

Now streaming on Apple Music:



Mozart: Symphony Nos. 38, 41
Freiburger Barockorchester & René Jacobs

Have not done a Symphony Saturday for a minute, so here we go.

I'd be interested in your opinion.  If it's the same no.41 that's included in the big Lumières box, it belongs for me on the new "Worst recordings" thread.

Possibly of interest

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.classical.recordings/c/2mCLnh4QOz4/m/UHenvuvSN8UJ

[Que]

[Traverso]

I have another integral set of Reger's organ music, by Rosalind Haas (MDG). 14 discs averaging 75 mins. Thats' 1050 minutes. A 16-disc set by various organists on Naxos exceeds 1140 minutes ('Over 19 hours of music', claims the back cover). The Marini set is made up of 17 discs for a total of some 1500 minutes. I wonder what the difference in timings amounts to in terms of the works performed. It can't be speeds: that would mean Marini is 50% faster than Haas. All these sets claim to be the 'complete organ works of Reger' plus his arrangements of organ works by Bach. I didn't check what works are included (a monk's labour since there is no consistency in the way the works are arranged on the cds).

In any case, how do you like it, Jan ? I absolutely loved the Haas set. Great music.. His piano music is of the same quality.

This large box with the organ works of Reger contains all first introductions for me. Only a few chorales were known to me. Marini is an excellent organist and never made me long for another performer. The chosen organs are excellent and the recordings are first class. For me it is a magnificent introduction to these organ works.
If you are hungry for an alternative recording I can heartily recommend this one.

[Que]

[Mandryka]

They're a very mixed bag - I only really get interested from the Wurtemberg Sonatas. Do you have access to qobuz?If so, you can get the booklet, which I bet collectively form the best set of essays on Emanuel Bach in English.

[Traverso]

Bach

Vom Himmel hoch komm ich her BWV 769

[Que]

They're a very mixed bag - I only really get interested from the Wurtemberg Sonatas.

Do you mean from the entire solo output? I think there is a little bit more of interest. At least the Prussian Sonatas and the Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber

Do you have access to qobuz?If so, you can get the booklet, which I bet collectively form the best set of essays on Emanuel Bach in English.

Unfortunately not. But it is clear that given CPE's fondness of the clavichord,  Spanyi decided to champion the instrument and give it a prominent role. I like and appreciate the clavichord and think it is very interesting to hear all this music performed on it. But... I am definitely more of a harpsichord man... It depends on the music really... the short decay can make some music sound rather out of breath. Belder uses in his fine sets on Brilliant a mix of clavichord, harpsichord and fortepiano.