What are you listening 2 now?

[71 dB]

DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE (c.1637-1707)
Suonate à doi, Violine & Viola da gamba con Cembalo.
(Sonate À Doi, Violine & Viola Da Gamba • Opus 1 & 2)
Opera prima - Hambourg [1694] Opera secunda- Hambourg 1696.
Les Timbres. (Two CD'S)
Yoko Kawakubo, violin,  Myriam Rignol, Gamba,  Julien Wolfs, Harpsichord.
Harpsichord made by Jean-Luc Wolfs-Dachy in Lathuy (Belgium) in 2009, copy of Johannes Ruckers (1624)
Recording in April & September 2017 at Bolland (Belgium).
Front cover,  Melchior de Hondecoeter, DasVogelkonzert, 1670

These sonatas surprise with their freedom,  unusual progressions, hidden ornaments, ingenious colorations. Stylus phantasticus in full colours and both opus numbers no less. A  playground for  multitudes of emotions, both sensitive and jubilant. Les Timbres do themselves proud with this finely chiseled and refined performance, elegant and supremely balanced. There are a lot of superb details to be found in this pristine recording. Two hours of listening feels like a present when the music comes so unforced and flowing into one's listening den.

Yes, this is awesome Northern German middle-baroque music. 

[VonStupp]

Camille Saint-Saëns
Urbs Roma, R. 163
Symphony 3 in C minor, op. 78

Thierry Escaich, organ
Liège RPO - Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Kantorow and the BIS engineers try to capture the pipe organ as part of the orchestra rather than as soloist. I have enough recordings of Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony to appreciate such an approach.
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[ritter]

Karl Böhm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, and Schubert's No. 5 (D. 485) and No. 8, "Unfinished" (D. 759). These are the 1950s recordings for Decca.

[Linz]

Louis Théodore Gouvy Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 9
Symphony No. 2 in F major, Op. 12
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Jacques Mercier

[Belle]

Yes, this is awesome Northern German middle-baroque music. 

An extraordinary musical period where there is so much music to enjoy and love!!  Thanks for posting this.

[71 dB]

An extraordinary musical period where there is so much music to enjoy and love!! Thanks for posting this.

Thank Harry. I just responded to his post. 

[Belle]

Thank Harry. I just responded to his post. 

Sorry, I didn't notice.

[71 dB]

Sorry, I didn't notice.

So I figured. No need to apologise. 

[Bachthoven]

[Cato]

How does he compare to e.g. Michael Ponti or Maria Lettberg ?


Recently...

Nicolai Tcherepnin: Narcissus and Echo

Simply said: a masterpiece!


...and...


Charles Ives: Symphony #1

It has been too long since I have listened to this!

[Bachthoven]

How does he compare to e.g. Michael Ponti or Maria Lettberg ?

I no longer own the Ponti, but I don't recall enjoying very much. It's on par with Letterber, based on the last time I listened to her set. I might actually prefer his.

[Belle]

Absolute gold, both of them!!

[Spotted Horses]

I listened to Mozart's Duo for violin and viola yesterday, recorded by Grumiaux et al. A wonderful piece, and graceful performance. Today I listened to the piece by the Kuijken Trio. This performance is a miracle. It is a bit hard to find, Apple Music did not have it, I had to spring for a lossless download unheard, but I assume a priori that any performance by Kuijken is work hearing.

[Que]

Good to see that the Kuijken dynasty is still going strong! 


My morning listening is a set with a selection recorded at a festival in the Burgundian village of Talant:



Common denominator here is unknown repertoire. The result is a mix of polyphonic pieces, mostly Franco-Flemish, but also Italian, Spanish and Polish. Some quite interesting, some not.

[Papy Oli]

Pierre Boulez - Eclat

[Papy Oli]

Pierre Boulez - Eclat

[Papy Oli]

Mendelssohn - octet

Belcea/Ebène

[Madiel]

Beethoven's Septet again, and this time I've avoiding relaxing on the lounge lest I become too relaxed to hear all the music.



The aim is to be relaxed enough to sleep well, just AFTER it finishes.

[Selig]

Catching up on 2025 releases.

[Papy Oli]

Pierre Boulez - Sur Incises, Moment I