What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

I suppose the inclusion of the plain original psalms are directed to those who don't know the psalms beforehand. So if one knows the psalms the originals are superfluous.

Who still knows all these psalms  nowadays? I love Gregorian chant and I find it an enrichment to hear them before the Sweelinck. It's a matter of opinion.

[Que]

I have a different opinion about this

I suppose the inclusion of the plain original psalms are directed to those who don't know the psalms beforehand. So if one knows the psalms the originals are superfluous.

Luckily the inclusion of both versions offers a choice for the listener!
The 1st two times I went through the set, I played through all psalms in both versions... It's just that Sweelinck's settings are (obviously?) musically more interesting and I found cutting down the listening time by half to focus on those quite helpful.

But to each his own.

[Traverso]

Bach

Sonatas 1-2 & 3

 

[pianococo90]

Marc Monnet
Close for string quartet

[Harry]

Frederic Chopin.
The Complete Waltzes.
Alice Sara Ott, Piano.
Recorded: Berlin, Teldex Studio, 8/2009

If you listen to her immensely elegant, highly sensitive musical and in parts  mysterious performance for just a short time,  all the old clichés dissolve into nothing: One feels,  the incredible lyrical power and depth of feeling of these miniatures , stylistic sovereignty and natural grace, with an almost girlishly capricious charm, she breaks the shell  of the noncommittally beautiful and frivolous, in order to shine deep and to feel her way into the heart of the unfaithful, into the infinitely sensitive, desolate soul of Chopin

I could not have said it better as this. She has magical hands, and creates a whole new aspect of Chopin's Waltzes. Never a showoff, her art comes easily and unforced, and her nimble fingers makes it easy to follow and enjoy the melodies Chopin wrote. They enter straight into your heart, it captures and envelops you, there is no escaping. I have my alliance with Nikita Magaloff, and Adam Harasiewicz, but Ott comes in as prominently as them. Superb recorded. Awesome!

[Traverso]

Avant Before Bach

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Mahler 1
Inbal
Frankfurt RSO

[Karl Henning]

It has been too long since I listened to the Symphony #5 of Tchaikovsky.

The first time I heard it was in the early 1960's: I had found the RCA monaural Boston Symphony recording with Serge Koussevitzky conducting.

It might have been this one from the mid-1940's, re-issued as a high fidelity 33 1/3 record in the 1950's.

The e minor may well be my favorite of the six!

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Handel
Sonata in D major for violin and continuo, HWV371, Op. 1 No. 13
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Variations Daniel Barenboim CD 6

[Harry]

NP:

Handel
Sonata in D major for violin and continuo, HWV371, Op. 1 No. 13
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

Really a fine recording, you could not have made a better choice, tis top gear!

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Really a fine recording, you could not have made a better choice, tis top gear!

Thanks, Harry. I actually bought this recording more than a decade ago. I think I got so cheap, which is why I bought it, but, yes, the performances (or what I've heard thus far) have been excellent.

Just for my own amusement, I did some side-by-side comparisons with several other recordings of these works and Manze/Egarr came out ahead each time.

[Traverso]

Honegger

Le Roi David

[SonicMan46]

Byrd, William - Three Masses, Great Service, et al w/ Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars - new arrival - had a half dozen Byrd vocal recordings but not the masses.  Dave

 

[Harry]

Arnold Bax.
Symphony in F, (1907)
Orchestrated by Martin Yates, (2013)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates.
Recorded: 2013 at the RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow.

Must say that I am hugely impressed, it really sounds like Bax, even though its orchestrated by Yates. He did a wonderful job, making the score available. I really like it, better this as nothing is my stance. Don't stone me for taking this position please   Well recorded and performed.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Walton
Violin Sonata
Marianne Thorsen, Ian Brown

[Linz]

Franz Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, S. 124, Piano Concerto No. 2  in A Major, S. 125, & Totentanz,  Krystian Zimerman; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa   

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Bach
Geist und Seele Wird Verwirret, BWV 35
Andreas Scholl
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

[Traverso]

Bach

[Iota]

I'm sure @ChamberNut has passed this way recently on his enthusiastic trek through the big Naxos Early Music box. And this cd from it is majorly pleasing too, mainly songs (accompanied beautifully on gittern and vielle) with some very attractive instrumental interludes interspersed. The songs and performances really draw you in, two singers, both very good, with the male singer in particular having a command of atmosphere that's hard to tear yourself away from. Excellent and inspiring music-making.