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Que

#124700
February 25, 2025, 04:43:18 AM
Quote from: Harry on February 25, 2025, 12:57:46 AMAlexander Agricola. 1446-1506
Masses.
Missa Malheur me bat a4.
Missa In myne zyn a4.
Beauty Farm.
2 CD'S.
See for details back cover.
Recording: Mauerbach Charterhouse Refectory, 2024.

The music is absolutely fabulous, this I have to admit. The recording is direct and rather forward, it makes the voices a bit raw, but it is all detailed and has depth. For me the counters are coming dangerously close to a point of which I say, enough is enough. Still a great addition to the repertoire.

There does seem to have been some peronel changes. And one of the counters sounds less "comfortable"...

Taking another dip into this set (3 discs in physical form):

prémont

#124701
February 25, 2025, 04:47:04 AM
Quote from: Que on February 25, 2025, 04:43:18 AMThere does seem to have been some peronel changes [Beauty Farm]. And one of the counters sounds less "comfortable"...

Indeed, it's the exception when they don't sound somewhat uncomfortable. Well, I hope to receive it from JPC within a week.
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Traverso

#124702
February 25, 2025, 04:50:25 AM

Quote from: Lisztianwagner on February 25, 2025, 03:55:17 AMWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in B-flat major, K.361

David Atherton & London Sinfonietta



Just purchased this box.. :)

Traverso

#124703
February 25, 2025, 04:59:08 AM
Bach





hopefullytrusting

#124704
February 25, 2025, 05:31:49 AM
Backhaus/Bohm/VPO playing Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA9yT07fP70

Backhaus is one of those rare pianists who got better as he got older. :)

vandermolen

#124705
February 25, 2025, 05:32:38 AM
Ruth Gipps: Coronation Procession (1953)
A much more interesting work than you might imagine. These Chandos Ruth Gipps releases have been terrific in their warmth and underlying humanity (Harry will agree!  ;D )
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

ritter

#124706
February 25, 2025, 05:33:04 AM
Quote from: Traverso on February 25, 2025, 04:50:25 AMJust purchased this box.. :)

I too have just bought!  :)
 « Et n'oubliez pas que le trombone est à Voltaire ce que l'optimisme est à la percussion. » 

DavidW

#124707
February 25, 2025, 05:34:16 AM
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on February 24, 2025, 07:48:23 PMMore Barber:

I also listened to Barber, but it was the violin concerto on this new release:

Der lächelnde Schatten

#124708
February 25, 2025, 05:41:43 AM
NP:

Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 29
Anna Malikova, piano
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Thomas Sanderling

From this 2-CD set -



This Malikova set of the Saint-Saëns PCs is still my favorite, but the newer cycle on BIS with Alexander Kantorow is also superb in all respects. Also, the Kantorow cycle is more 'complete' as it contains more than just the PCs and has some other various works for piano/orchestra included.

Harry

#124709
February 25, 2025, 05:51:32 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann.
Violin Concertos.
Volume IV.
See all details on the back cover.
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Elizabeth Wallfisch.


The music offers an incredibly lively performance, brilliant in the solos, agile in the tutti and in the articulation, and imbued with a dancing spirit, which hits exactly the nerve of this galant music. Sound and performance is amazing.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Harry

#124710
February 25, 2025, 05:54:32 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on February 25, 2025, 05:32:38 AMRuth Gipps: Coronation Procession (1953)
A much more interesting work than you might imagine. These Chandos Ruth Gipps releases have been terrific in their warmth and underlying humanity (Harry will agree!  ;D )


1000% agree.  In eager anticipation awaiting the new release which will soon be released!
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Der lächelnde Schatten

#124711
February 25, 2025, 06:06:01 AM
NP:

Bach
Ich Bin Vergnügt Mit Meinem Glücke, BWV 84
Dorothee Mields
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

Der lächelnde Schatten

#124712
February 25, 2025, 06:22:55 AM
More Bach:

Komm, Du Süße Todesstunde, BWV 161
Matthew White, Hans Jörg Mammel
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe



This will be the last work, which completes this 3-CD set of Famous Cantatas, Vol. 1, then moving onto Famous Cantatas, Vol. 2.

Traverso

#124713
February 25, 2025, 06:23:58 AM
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)

CD 2






Christo

#124714
February 25, 2025, 06:30:09 AM
Quote from: Traverso on February 25, 2025, 06:23:58 AMHendrik Andriessen (1892-1981) CD 2

Own this box too, and heard the impressive 1929 Passacaglia, live, two months ago. But am most impressed by his work for orchestra, esp. the five symphonies (No. 5 a Sinfonia Concertante, his best IMHO). :)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Christo

#124715
February 25, 2025, 06:32:31 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on February 25, 2025, 05:32:38 AMRuth Gipps: Coronation Procession (1953)
A much more interesting work than you might imagine. These Chandos Ruth Gipps releases have been terrific in their warmth and underlying humanity (Harry will agree!  ;D )
Me too! (raising my finger)  :D
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Brian

#124716
February 25, 2025, 06:37:57 AM


I have really liked some of Rouvali's Sibelius (1), and really disliked others (2, 3). Time to see where this one will fall!

Traverso

#124717
February 25, 2025, 06:43:10 AM
Quote from: Christo on February 25, 2025, 06:30:09 AMOwn this box too, and heard the impressive 1929 Passacaglia, live, two months ago. But am most impressed by his work for orchestra, esp. the five symphonies (No. 5 a Sinfonia Concertante, his best IMHO). :)


 
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into his symphonic work. I think the CPO recordings are the best choice.

Der lächelnde Schatten

#124718
February 25, 2025, 06:47:31 AM
NP:

Bach
Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten, BWV 207
Carolyn Sampson, Ingeborg Danz et. al.
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

Florestan

#124719
February 25, 2025, 06:53:15 AM
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "
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