What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Bohuslav Martinů Sinfonietta La Jolla, Toccata, Concerto Grosso, Prague Chamber Orchestra & Prague Chamber Orchestra; Prague Chamber Orchestra, Josef Hála & Petr Jirikovsky, piano, Ondřej Kukal

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The booklet says:

Cover: Chateau de Fontainebleau Interior by Gaspard Walter (Dreamstime.com)

Thank you!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bokyung Byun: Live at the Rosette.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Original Version. Ed. Robert Haas,  Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski

[VonStupp]

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto 1 in B-flat minor
     Love Derwinger, piano
     Malmö SO - Paavo Järvi
Piano Concerto 2 in D minor
     Cristina Ortiz, piano (2)
     Gothenburg SO - Neeme Järvi

Love the dialog between piano and orchestra in PC2.
VS

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach

BWV 134, « Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß »
BWV 135, « Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder »

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring



A cleaned up but still delightfully primitive recording from 1929 I found somewhere on archive.org . It's like a magical window to the distant past .

Who are the forces?

[Karl Henning]

Bohuslav Martinů Sinfonietta La Jolla, Toccata, Concerto Grosso, Prague Chamber Orchestra & Prague Chamber Orchestra; Prague Chamber Orchestra, Josef Hála & Petr Jirikovsky, piano, Ondřej Kukal

Love that disc!

[Symphonic Addict]

What is the most spectacular recording of anything by Rouse and why this CD?

[André]

Isang Yun: String Quartet 5

A great disc and an excellent introduction to Yun's art !

[André]

Unexpectedly liked it.

Gilbert's set of the Nielsen symphonies is easily my first choice. Mahler 7, his quirkiest work, must be right down his alley.

[André]

Who are the forces?

Stravinsky conducts the Straram Concerts orchestra.

Check this article: interesting stuff, interesting character, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Straram

[Bachtoven]

After listening to that again, I far prefer this one--much more dramatic. (And there are any number of recordings of Brahms' late solo works that I prefer.)

[Symphonic Addict]

Mozart: String Quartets 19 and 20

[JBS]

Stravinsky conducts the Straram Concerts orchestra.

Check this article: interesting stuff, interesting character, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Straram

It's among the "Historical Recordings" in this set


TD

[JBS]

Both of us have the 1st and 7th in high regard.

My ranking would be something like this:

2, 7, 1, 3, 6, 5, 4 and 8.

Having listened to the Second and Fourth earlier today, I'd rank them
7
3
2,5,4
1
8

Six isn't in this set, so I will listen to it via YouTube in the next day or so.

[SimonNZ]

64,65,66

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky conducts the Straram Concerts orchestra.

Check this article: interesting stuff, interesting character, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Straram

Here's the recording. I don't know if the album art I used was a release of this particular transfer.

STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du Printemps (1929)

Walther Straram Concerts Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky, conductor

COLUMBIA 78rpm Set 129
67703-D - 67707-D (LX1027 - LX1038)
Recorded in 1929

I. Adoration of the Earth
II. The Sacrifice
Digital transfer by F. Reeder

https://archive.org/details/STRAVINSKYLeSacreDuPrintemps1929-NEWTRANSFER/01I.AdorationOfTheEarth.mp3

[Harry]

Leçons de Ténèbres.
Marin Marais, Michel Richard Delalande, Robert de Visée, François Couperin.

Isabelle Desrochers, (Soprano), Mauricio Buraglia, (Theorbo),  Nima Ben David, Viole da Gamba, Pierre Trocellier, (Organ)
See back cover for details.
Recorded: February 1996,  T. Varga Auditorium, Sion, Switzerland.

Beautiful, gentle introvert sacred music played with great grace and style by an intimate band of musicians. Could only fail to appeal to the most cold-hearted. A Soprano without unnatural vibrato, that's quite a feat, and sadly from the past, alas. For me this voice is a touch of heaven.  Satisfying, stimulating and somehow unpretentiously genuine music making . There are other versions available of most of the material here. But this can safely be recommended.
Well recorded and performed. What a treat.
 

[steve ridgway]

Crumb: Unto The Hills



I feel these folk songs with eerie, exotic percussion and amplified piano could have been a big hit if marketed outside the classical pigeonhole. The approach reminds me somewhat of Nico albums. Maybe a bit will get used on TV one day.