What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Giovanni Kapsberger.
Libro Terzo D'Intavolatura di Chitarrone.
Diego Cantalupi, Claudio Nuzzo.

This is a fine close of my listening afternoon, a glass of Quadruple La Trappe beer in hand, Sun going down, autumn smell in the air, and perfect performances of Kapsberger's music. Serene and calm, balanced and expressive tones from this mighty instrument. Inkblack surroundings, the music floats in mid air. SOTA recording.

[Christo]

Review here: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/respighi-orchestral-works-3

[Todd]

it is full of sodium, and it makes you feel bloated.

The same can be written about some of Scriabin's orchestral music.  I rather like this description; it can be used when covering other composers' music.  I may just outright steal it.

[Brian]

Giovanni Kapsberger.
Libro Terzo D'Intavolatura di Chitarrone.
Diego Cantalupi, Claudio Nuzzo.

This is a fine close of my listening afternoon, a glass of Quadruple La Trappe beer in hand, Sun going down, autumn smell in the air, and perfect performances of Kapsberger's music. Serene and calm, balanced and expressive tones from this mighty instrument. Inkblack surroundings, the music floats in mid air. SOTA recording.

A great beer, too!

[Traverso]

Dowland

Come again!
Sweet love doth now invite
Thy graces that refrain
To do me due delight,
To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die,
With thee again in sweetest sympathy.

Come again!
That I may cease to mourn
Through thy unkind disdain;
For now left and forlorn
I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die
In deadly pain and endless misery.

All the day
The sun that lends me shine
By frowns do cause me pine
And feeds me with delay;
Her smiles, my springs that makes my joys to grow,
Her frowns the Winters of my woe.

All the night
My sleeps are full of dreams,
My eyes are full of streams.
My heart takes no delight
To see the fruits and joys that some do find
And mark the storms are me assign'd.

Out alas,
My faith is ever true,
Yet will she never rue
Nor yield me any grace;
Her eyes of fire, her heart of flint is made,
Whom tears nor truth may once invade.

Gentle Love,
Draw forth thy wounding dart,
Thou canst not pierce her heart;
For I, that do approve
By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts
Did tempt while she for triumph laughs.[2]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Houston Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach

[JBS]

Matinee with Mozart

[vandermolen]

Agreed, and welcome back my friend!

Thank you 

[Todd]

On the radio.  So good, I just may have to buy it.

[Spotted Horses]

I thought I was taking a brief detour from my Bacewicz string quartet traversal (Hindemith sonatas, then wind ensemble music) but it has turned into more than a month.

Bacewicz, String Quartet No 5, Silesian Quartet



A work in four movements, sometimes acerbic, sometimes sensuous, always interesting.

[AnotherSpin]

Giovanni Kapsberger.
Libro Terzo D'Intavolatura di Chitarrone.
Diego Cantalupi, Claudio Nuzzo.

This is a fine close of my listening afternoon, a glass of Quadruple La Trappe beer in hand, Sun going down, autumn smell in the air, and perfect performances of Kapsberger's music. Serene and calm, balanced and expressive tones from this mighty instrument. Inkblack surroundings, the music floats in mid air. SOTA recording.

Bookmarked, thank you!

[AnotherSpin]

From light to greater light, the journey continues without end.

[ritter]

Cross-posted from the Opera thread:

[Linz]

Claude Debussy La Boîte à joujoux
La plus que lente
Children's Corner
Martyre de saint Sebastien
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

[hopefullytrusting]

Probably, my last classical of the day: Owen Zhou playing Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB3rz0HcOe4

Now those chords are unsettling - it just takes a little bit of shift, not an extreme one, to introduce disquietude into the recording - it sounds uncanny, which I suppose might be the diametric of sublime - everything sounds just a bit off, which means your foundation never become solid and you are therefore instable and unstable. It is the kind of sound you feel in the pit of your stomach as it flips and flops. Even those flutters are off, everything is just one move away from where it is supposed to be.

It is like when you enter a room, and you know something is askew but you cannot place it - it drives one to madness, and your search moves from obsession to pathology - it transforms into deja vu. You can't shake it. Forever in the twilight zone - like you're living in a painting of Egon Schiele.

Pianist is top, piano is top, recording is top - all tops when it comes to the things unrelated to Scriabin, and, harmonically, this piece surpasses the 6th for its experimentation. I've heard a lot of music, but this sonata contains sounds that I've not heard  before. Additionally, the rhythms deployed throughout are all odd, as if just a bit was added to every note, not enough to be suspicious, but enough to be felt at a subconscious or unconscious level.

I compare it to my editing practice. I can feel when a space has been added or something has been misaligned on a page, even before my eyes see it - my body knows - it is a visceral feeling, and this is a visceral sonata. I feel it in my bones. They feel funny. This is a sonata in search of a home, and I love how it ends - lingering dissonance silence.

Highest recommendation.

[springrite]

Matinee with Mozart

I was just listening to this one...

Now: Bruckner 6 (Wand)

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

[Daverz]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 - Robert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr

I like the accompaniment, but the very pingy fortepiano grates after a while.

[JBS]

This is the one he supposedly wrote for Mesmer when he was 12, meaning he was older than at least 2 of the singers. (The boy singing Colas sounds as if he's still getting used to his post-puberty voice.)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Marcel Tournier - Images. Kateřina Englichová.