What are you listening 3 now?

[Harry]

Going through this box again, it ain't a punishment! Well crafted and articulate. Brimful with pointy details. One of the better sets with Mozart's symphonies. The sound is uniformly good to excellent. As interpretations Pinnock never lets one down and demonstrates how Mozart transformed the hitherto rather entertaining symphony into a new, and essentially the most important, genre of instrumental music. In late Baroque style, Pinnock conducts his orchestra from the harpsichord, driving it to emotional outbursts with extreme dynamic shifts and dramatically shows that there is no black hole yawning between Baroque and Classical music, but rather highly exciting music awaits. The rhythmic and agogic subtleties of the score are savored without sacrificing lively articulation and a well-rounded sound. It doesn't get any better than this. Nope not really.

[Traverso]

CD 5

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan

[Linz]

Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in D minor, op.47
National Symphony Orchestra; Mstislav Rostropovich

[Wanderer]

[AnotherSpin]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas
Staatskapelle Dresden; Christian Thielemann

[ritter]

The ASKO Endemble, led by David Porcelijn, performs Luca Francesconi (Plot in the Fiction), Luciano Berio (Tempi concertati), Bruno Maderna (Serenata 2) and Franco Donatoni (Cloches).

[Daverz]

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Villa Lobos

Over 77 minutes of Villa-Lobos beautifully played and recorded.

[Lisztianwagner]

Ottorino Respighi
Impressioni Brasiliane
Vetrate di Chiesa

Francesco La Vecchia & Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies CD 20
Symphony No.67 in F major
Symphony No.68 in B flat major
Symphony No.69 in C major "Laudon"
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Symphony, Adam Fischer

[Bachthoven]

This is an excellent new release.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi concerti for 2 violins, RV 509 in C minor and RV 517 in G minor.



Given how challenging (or expensive) it was to get this volume, I'm really glad it's turning out to be a particularly good one.

I wonder when "Concerti per due violini e archi II" is going to emerge. It does seem as if in recent times Naive has been looking back and identifying sub-series that need reviving.

[JBS]

Warhol Dervishes would make a good band name.

I've never heard of the composer. (For a second I misread it as the name of a certain football player.) What's the music like?

[JBS]

TD

[Mapman]

Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)
Gilbert Kalish, James Freeman, Raymond DesRoches, Richard Fitz

Possibly my favorite work by Crumb. I was fortunate to see Freeman and Kalish perform this piece (with different percussionists) in 2015, in the same hall this work was premiered in. (And I got to meet George Crumb after the performance!) https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/crumb85-celebration-strikes-several-high-notes

[Symphonic Addict]

This is a hell of a recording. I really hope Naxos will record his two piano trios at some point.

[Mapman]

Villa-Lobos: Choros #10
MTT: New World

A great performance, with great cover art.

[Que]

This new release caught my attention, even though I'm not particularly a fan of Gregorian chant...other forms of chant are more interesting IMO

 

Performances are good and (importantly) well recorded.

About this release:
Newly recorded at the Basilica in Assisi, the birthplace of the Franciscan order, a comprehensive set of the 'Rhymed Offices' chanted by religious communities to bear witness to the miracles and virtues of St Francis and of St Antony of Padua. During the Middle Ages, the Church established the custom of chanting original poetic texts during the Hours of the Office (in particular, Vespers, Matins and Lauds). Their purpose was to construct a story which linked biblical texts, such as psalms and canticles, to the deeds and virtues of the Saints of the Church.

Those Offices dedicated to St Francis of Assisi and to St Antony of Padua are attributed to Brother Julian, a musician-poet monk born in the Rhineland town of Speyer between 1175 and 1180. Most of his life was spent in Paris; he took formal Franciscan orders around 1225, and died in 1250.
Saint Francis had died in October 1226. A biography was soon produced, by Tommaso of Celano, and Julian seems to have based his Offices on this text; they were widely sung in monasteries and convents across Europe from 1235 onwards. Meanwhile, the Offices dedicated to St Antony, who died in 1231 and was canonized the following year, seem to be entirely Julian's work, both text and music. Julian writes in flowing Latin iambic pentameter verse, and composes in a style increasingly detached from the formulas of Gregorian chant proper, inflected by the contemporary emergence of polyphony, exemplified by the music of Pérotin in works such as Sederunt principes.

[Que]

Had my fill of Gregorian chant...   Moving on:




I have a soft spot for Early and Baroque music from Portugal and Spain. Quite some unfamiliar repertoire here.
Unfortunately it seems volume 2 never came to be.