What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

Indeed! What kind of meaningless cr*p is that? Too masculine for what? Perhaps the reviewer was a regular at Mr. Cholmondley-Warner dinner parties. 

According to the liner notes, no less than George Bernard Shaw and the Archbishop of Canterbury expressed their feelings on the matter. Queen Victoria gave a thumbs up though.
VS

[Madiel]

Mozart K.287 again, still Vegh. Only this time with earphones at work and using Idagio stream.

Yes, I'm well aware I could always have done this without purchasing the CD. But it's MY music now.

[ChamberNut]

Mozart K.287 again, still Vegh. Only this time with earphones at work and using Idagio stream.

Yes, I'm well aware I could always have done this without purchasing the CD. But it's MY music now.

I'll be starting my Idagio trial soon.

[JBS]

[Madiel]

I'll be starting my Idagio trial soon.

By no means do I think it's perfect, but I almost always find it easy to work around the imperfections. Having a system that understands you might want to listen to either a "work" or an "album", and which smoothly facilitates both, makes all the difference.

[Daverz]

Wow ! 😳 Anyone ever said some Mozart or Schubert works were too feminine ?
Go Ethel Smyth, go !

I think it's a dig at her being a suffragette and a lesbian.

[brewski]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 (Haitink / Concertgebouw). As much as I love so many of the others — 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 — sometimes this one is my favorite.

[hopefullytrusting]

I'm not a convert of the Google AI as it led me to three composers I likely would have never come across otherwise:

Ljubica Maric, Egon Wellesz, and Stamatis Spanoudakis.

Currently enjoying: Maric's Piano Concerto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PjcDYuF5ww

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Gimpel.

[Spotted Horses]

I'm not a convert of the Google AI as it led me to three composers I likely would have never come across otherwise:

Ljubica Maric, Egon Wellesz, and Stamatis Spanoudakis.

Currently enjoying: Maric's Piano Concerto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PjcDYuF5ww

You certainly would have come across Wellesz if you were paying attention here.

[hopefullytrusting]

You certainly would have come across Wellesz if you were paying attention here.

Maybe, but I doubt as efficiently as I just did now.

[Mapman]

Haydn, Symphony #99!
Fischer

I haven't been listening to enough Haydn recently. This was wonderful! There were moments in every movement that made me smile. (The flute, oboes, bassoon quartet near the beginning of the second movement is one such moment!)

[hopefullytrusting]

Maybe, but I doubt as efficiently as I just did now.

And it wouldn't have led me to a YouTube channel wholly dedicated to Serbian Composers, like Marko Tajčević, whose Preludes for Piano, I am currently listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4losapsz1A

[Que]

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/haywardp/hist424/seminars/CUL_Ff.1.17(1).htm

[Harry]

Hommages.
French Music for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord.
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da Gamba, made by Antoine Despont, Paris 1617.
Glen Wilson, Harpsichord, made by Henk van Schevikhoven, after Ruckers/Hemsch, Helsinki 1990.
Recorded in March, 2010 at the Oud Katholieke Kerk, Delft, The Netherlands.
Cover: Armchair, France c. 1675.

This is a performance full of worship, sublimity and sadness. Do not expect fireworks, but sublimation to the excellence of the music.Long lines, melancholy melodies, and tempi that urge to contemplation. Well recorded. I think that Mieneke van der Velden needs some tuition how to play the Gamba, for there are many impurities in the bowing. Does sound really strange. I would say there are better performances, but as a starter before the coffee it will do.

[Roasted Swan]

I've found a blindingly intense version of Shostakovich's 4th!!

Good shout out for these versions - they are tremendous!!

[Mandryka]

Something that stood out to me on first listen was the song Amour m'a le cuer mis en tel martire

It's good to hear it a capella. My favourite performance of that song is the more sensual tenor and instruments one from David Munrow in The Art of Courtly Love, Martyn Hill singing. Presumably the a capella approach led Christopher Page to take it so briskly.

By the way, the Foccroulle Muffat is now on Spotify and to me it sounds restrained and reserved, as is often the case with Foccroulle  - which makes it interesting and maybe even special, I conjure the spirit of the Great Squid @bioluminescentsquid and the Great Dane @prémont

Here's the booklet,  he effectively says that the interpretation is guided by the instrument

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/91/000197819.pdf

(There's a gorgeous sonata for violin and organ in the middle!)

[Madiel]

Dvorak: The Wild Dove



I keep meaning to read Erben's poems. In translation, of course...

[Harry]

New Release

Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
APPARATUS MUSICO-ORGANISTICUS.
Bernard Foccroulle, plays on the Grandes Orgues 1710, Facteurs: Robert Clicquot et Julien Tribuot (1711), Louis-Alexandre Clicquot (1736), François-Henri Clicquot (1762).
Reconstruction: Jean-Loup Boisseau et Bertrand Cattiaux (1995).
Pitch: 415 HZ.
Temperament: softened meantone, according to Corrette, with three pure thirds.
Marie Rouquié, Violon.
Recorded: 2023 à la Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles.

First listen and not disappointed, but I have to listen a few more times before it completely sinks in. The Organ sounds fantastic, and Foccroulle is certainly a match to this instrument. SOTA sound. Muffat organ music is recorded abundantly and often in very good interpretations. I am bound to say Foccroulle"s recordings fits in that category. More later...

Well I played this CD a second time, and must conclude that it is indeed very good. The last notes of the Toccata septima set my enthusiasm on fire. Recommended! A Muffat fan cannot do without this recording.

[Harry]

It's good to hear it a capella. My favourite performance of that song is the more sensual tenor and instruments one from David Munrow in The Art of Courtly Love, Martyn Hill singing. Presumably the a capella approach led Christopher Page to take it so briskly.

By the way, the Foccroulle Muffat is now on Spotify and to me it sounds restrained and reserved, as is often the case with Foccroulle  - which makes it interesting and maybe even special, I conjure the spirit of the Great Squid @bioluminescentsquid and the Great Dane @prémont

Here's the booklet,  he effectively says that the interpretation is guided by the instrument

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/91/000197819.pdf

(There's a gorgeous sonata for violin and organ in the middle!)

Correct.