What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

I was referring to music that isn't (at least currently) available as part of your streaming service (or did you rip all of them to a hard drive?).

K

Those CD's stay in my collection, I have a SACD/DVD by Panasonic in my listening room, not high Res, but good enough to listen to those CD'S, I hope that answers your questions

[Todd]

Debussy Nocturnes.

[Linz]

Malcolm Arnold The Return of Odysseus, Op. 119
Darius Milhaud Suite française, Op. 248, version for orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region
City of Glaagow Chorus, The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Graham Taylor[/b]

[San Antone]

Bach : Mass in B Minor
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (2014)

[cilgwyn]

Kaiserliche Operette: Leon Jessel:Schwarzwaldmädel,Paul Abraham: Die Blume von Hawaii,Fred Raymond:Maske in Blau  Highlights with Erika Koth,Heinz Hoppe,Sari Barabas among others



A cd of highlights from operettas culled from 1960's Lp recordings. The cd begins with some cheerful escapism from a man who later ended up being arrested,tortured and killed by the gestapo! Leon Jessel (1871-1942). Best remembered for his very cheerful and tuneful operetta,Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl) the music of which is lovely,but always brings to mind images of butt slapping and lederhosen. Not that there's anything wrong with that of course! It sounds fun and might even help keep me from freezing to death in this very cold room!!

I don't think there has ever been a recording of the jazz operettas of Paul Abraham (1892-1960) which has ever successfully captured their appeal and idiom. The highlights here are performed with some gusto however and are among the better ones I've heard of this composer,whose operettas are currently enjoying a revival in German speaking countries.

The cd ends with highlights from Maske in Blau by Fred Raymond (1900-1954). Another operetta currently enjoying an,apparently,big revival in Germany. An escapist romance that ends up in Argentina,popular in Nazi Germany and a favourite of some of their political leaders;although they didn't enjoy the escapism so much later!! A tuneful score predictably filled with latin american dance influences and rhythms. Not exactly deep or subtle,but it's fun and tuneful. I like the score myself. There are extended highlights on an old eurodisc cd (from an lp) and better still,a complete recording from an old 1950s German radio broadcast (with dialogue & in very good mono sound) was released on the Membran label some years ago (also Cantus-Classics). The Amsterdam Operetta Research Center moan about the authenticity of the orchestrations,but it could be worse,there aren't exactly many options and the singing on the old 1950s broadcast is good and  performed with similar gusto (albeit a step lower) to the Abraham pieces on the Kaiserliche cd.
 
Or you could always try and catch a staged performance (I don't have a passport though!   )

http://operetta-research-center.org/maske-blau-baden-uli-scherbel-tap-dancing-hero/

I can see queues forming here!

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1877 Linz version with revisions - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Radiosymphonieorchester Wien, Dennis Russell Davies

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ibert.

[ritter]

Prompted by recent posts by @Spotted Horses , revisiting Honegger's chamber music.

CD2 of this set:



Works and performed on the back cover of the original release as a single CD:


Liking this very much. And I really miss the Timpani label...

[Nostromo]

She's a phenomenal pianist. Sony's sound is rich and detailed, too. (It helps to put the image link in the URL window!)

[Kalevala]

Those CD's stay in my collection, I have a SACD/DVD by Panasonic in my listening room, not high Res, but good enough to listen to those CD'S, I hope that answers your questions

Yes, thanks. 

K

[SimonNZ]

[SonicMan46]

Vivaldi - Bassoon Concerti, V. 1-4 w/ Sergio Azzolini on Baroque bassoon; own 2 regular CDs + 2 volumes as MP3 DLs - just noticed on Amazon that a Vo. 5 has been released - Antonio composed nearly 40 of these works (see attachment) - might have to add this new one?  Dave

 

[JBS]

Second listen. Solid recommendation.

These are HIP/PI performances.

[Que]

Vivaldi - Bassoon Concerti, V. 1-4 w/ Sergio Azzolini on Baroque bassoon; own 2 regular CDs + 2 volumes as MP3 DLs - just noticed on Amazon that a Vo. 5 has been released - Antonio composed nearly 40 of these works (see attachment) - might have to add this new one?  Dave

Naturally! 

[steve ridgway]

Kagel - Zwei Akte for harp and saxophone

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Amazon review by "Gio"

[AnotherSpin]

Morning listening:

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Amazon review by "Gio"

Not in Qobuz, unfortunately...

[Harry]

Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, volume 1.
Hugh Aston (c 1485-1558)
Robert Jones (fl 1520-35)
John Mason (c 1480-1548)
Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe.
Recorded 2009 at the Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

I love the music, and the performance, and should have loved the sound, but I have my reservations about that. The Church has a good acoustic, because I heard perfect recordings coming out of it. What in my ears goes wrong is the reverb, far too much, noticeable when the choir goes in overdrive, the voices get raspy and loud, and a strange tendency to put extra volume at new sentences pushing the first word of the text line out staccato wise, and the echo spoils the rest. It's a pity for I think it gets unlistenable for me. Balance is gone, intimacy too.

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Cello Suites BWV 1007-1009 arranged for Chitarrone.
Juan Carlos Rivera (Chitarrone)
Recorded in 1999.

A recommendation from @prémont and confirmed it is spot on.The recording is very good, SOTA quality, and the performance to my ears flawless. Tempi, & expression are excellent, and a Chitarrone that has a beautiful tone, and well tuned also. Rivera is quite a artist and magic worker on this instrument. The Cello suites are expertly arranged.

[Harry]

Not in Qobuz, unfortunately...

Alas THAT happens quite often.