What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

I'm fine with it either way .

Indeed!

TD:

"Papa"

Symphony № 42 in D
Tafelmusik
Bruno Weil

[Christo]

Olivier Latry Sortie Improvisation at the end of Notre Dame's first Mass in 5 years: just hearing it now, what amazingly powerful playing! Vive la France!

[Madiel]

Well, isn't that just wonderful?

It's not nearly as wonderful as listening to great music.

Goodnight.

[Traverso]

Olivier Latry Sortie Improvisation at the end of Notre Dame's first Mass in 5 years: just hearing it now, what amazingly powerful playing! Vive la France!

I watched the broadcast and noticed that the organ playing was not received with enthusiasm by everyone. I personally do not have much difficulty with that, but it was very clear that the majority of people were more surprised,to put it mildly, than moved by the music.

[Cato]

Olivier Latry Sortie Improvisation at the end of Notre Dame's first Mass in 5 years: just hearing it now, what amazingly powerful playing! Vive la France!

I watched the broadcast and noticed that the organ playing was not received with enthusiasm by everyone. I personally do not have much difficulty with that, but it was very clear that the majority of people were more surprised,to put it mildly, than moved by the music.

No doubt. Musical illiteracy is even worse than written literacy. 

A difficult choice to be sure!

Many thanks for the links and the comments!

For various reasons, I have returned to C.P.E. Bach and Mozart this morning:

I have listened to a piano version of the Concerto in D minor H. 427 by C.P.E. Bach, but feel that the keyboard writing is not as suited for the piano as it is for the harpsichord: I cannot yet find a clavichord version, if one exists.

Mozart: Piano Sonata #11 in A Major K. 331

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

[JBS]

Bach hier auch.

[Que]

These ouvertures have me wavering on the brink - do I really want to crack open the door of Telemann's compositional legacy? People have got lost in that enormous mausoleum.

Good! There is some really excellent stuff to be found there. Telemann was versatile and prolific. But the good news is that there a few here that could point you to the real gems without getting lost. 

[Traverso]

Purcell

CD 5

[Spotted Horses]

I am going through Hindemith's solo sonatas chronologically, rather than by instrument. I'm just finishing the Op 25 sonatas, with Op 25, No 4 for Viola and Piano. This is a re-listen to Kashkashian and Levin.



A wonderfully vivid work, beautifully performed here. (The Imai recording on BIS is also very good.)

Then another re-listen in my Bacewicz exploration, the Piano Concerto with Kociuban.



Again a wonderful work, more conventional, less quirky than my favorite Bacewicz, but the sonorities and harmonies in the central andante are gorgeous.

[Christo]

I watched the broadcast and noticed that the organ playing was not received with enthusiasm by everyone. I personally do not have much difficulty with that, but it was very clear that the majority of people were more surprised,to put it mildly, than moved by the music.

No doubt. Music illiteracy is even worse than writing illiteracy.

[Iota]

Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde

Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)
Otto Klemperer & Philharmonia Orchestra

One of the few recordings of any piece where (for me) that version alone is enough and has never been surpassed (pace Janet Baker/Haitink!)

Prompted by your high praise of the Klemperer/Ludwig DLVDE in @Lisztianwagner's post, I streamed it and was pretty knocked out by it. A great discovery, thanks for mentioning!

[Linz]

Bruckner Mass no. 3 in F Minor, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: the Korngold

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn The London Symphonies, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Roger Norrington

[AnotherSpin]

Scherchen's Lugano cycle. The 3rd, 6th, 7th, and 9th symphonies within the last 24 hours. These are no museum pieces. Recorded live just a few months before the maestro's death, they feel like a final, desperate attempt to reach out to a lethargic humanity. The conductor's primal moans and cries send shivers down your spine. No, this isn't a disciplined 21st-century orchestra but rather a gang that has broken free of control and forgotten all notions of discipline. An incredible frenzy, strangely and unexpectedly imbued with an irresistible, magnetic allure.

[Que]

A perfect time to revisit this recording by Henry's Eight of motets for Advent and Christmas, with Jacques Arcadelt's Christmas mass "Noe, Noe" as the jewel in the crown.

[Que]

Another Renaissance Christmas recording. Mixed in with the solemn music for church are some secular songs for at the dinner table. I'm really enjoying the quality of the performances and Dominique Visse is vocally present but on good behaviour.

PS Any clues on the marvellous painting on the cover?

[Que]

PS Any clues on the marvellous painting on the cover?

Google's reverse image search came to the rescue. It is " Madonna surrounded by seraphim and cherubim". It was (the right) part of the "Diptych of Melun" by Jean Foucquet c.1454, court painter of Charles VII. You can admire it at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. The left panel is in Berlin....

[Madiel]

Mozart: Missa solemnis in C, K.337



It's a little startling to be told this is Mozart's last complete mass. Yes, the fragmentary works to come are going to be pretty special (or so I'm told), but I'm only at 337 in the catalogue and this is it?

I guess that's partly because he won't be in Salzburg much longer.

Good thing it's got a certain grandeur about it.