What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Conor71]

I've decided on my playlist for today and will hear (in no particular order) the Varese, all of the Glass Discs and a couple of Discs from the Villa-Lobos set (currently playing Disc 2) - seeyou all tomorrow, happy listening! 

[Coopmv]

My playlist for the next few days probably will not include any new CD's.  As it is, I probably still have some 400-500 unplayed CD's and two orders from MDT and Preseto Classical have yet to arrive.  There are so many great CD's in my existing collection I have not listened to in ages and it is time to get re-acquainted ...     

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD from my Handel collection, great choral works conducted by Simon Preston with the Academy of Ancient Music ...

[Brian]

This is becoming my preferred Concerto for Orchestra.

[Mirror Image]

Yes! Excellent choices!

[Mirror Image]

This is becoming my preferred Concerto for Orchestra.

It's a good one, Brian. No doubt. I'm still partial to Dohnanyi/Cleveland though. Have you heard this one?

[Brian]

It's a good one, Brian. No doubt. I'm still partial to Dohnanyi/Cleveland though. Have you heard this one?

Oooh, I haven't heard them in Lutoslawski, but it sounds like a very good combination. I know, in addition to this one, the thrilling Saraste/LPO, Paavo Jarvi, and the two very good Antoni Wit recordings.

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD from my Handel collection, great choral works conducted by Simon Preston with the Academy of Ancient Music ...

The double sopranos, Judith Nelson and Emma Kirkby sang so admirably and harmoniously in a duet in "- The people will tell of their wisdom" - it is out-of-the-world good ...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Brahms, third piano quartet, Op.60.

[listener]

Brahms and Handel also!
BRAHMS  Liebeslieder op. 52   TCHAIKOVSKY  4 duets from op. 46
ROSSINI  songs and duets from Les soirées musicales
Heather Harper, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley  SMsTBar
Claudio Arrau, Benjamin Britten, piano
HANDEL  Dixit Dominus, Nisi Dominus, Salve Regina
Arleen Auger, sop. and others, Choir of Westminster Cathedral & Orchestra (orig. instr.)
Simon Preston, cond.
sung and played with near-Evangelical enthusiam, a recommended relief from minor-key Requiems.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Brahms and Handel also!
BRAHMS  Liebeslieder op. 52   

+1 for the Liebeslieder!

[Gold Knight]

On Spotify:

Carl Nielsen--Symphony No.3, Op.27 {"Sinfonia espansiva"} and Symphony No.5, Op.50, both works featuring the New York Philharmonic led by Leonard Bernstein.

[Mirror Image]

Oooh, I haven't heard them in Lutoslawski, but it sounds like a very good combination. I know, in addition to this one, the thrilling Saraste/LPO, Paavo Jarvi, and the two very good Antoni Wit recordings.

I own all of these recordings you mentioned, Brian. I need to re-listen to the Saraste as I believe I own on one of those Warner Apex budge reissues. Yeah, you'll like the Dohnanyi I think. Great performance.

[The new erato]

Not exctly ground shaking stuff, but nice enough. The Glazunov quintet is a fine work, and interesting textures in the Arensky quartet (two celli). Second listen.

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[The new erato]

First listen to this disc, and to Hahn. Simply outstanding singing, and very fine, though not extremely original, songs. Lovers of French Melodies (there must be some of you on this board???) ought to lap this disc up.

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[Que]

2nd half of this disc, proved a terrific organ disc the 1st time around.

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Weckmann shows himself in his organ works to be a in the Sweelinck-Scheidemann lineage.

Connoisseurs will recognise the famous Scherer organ  in Tangermünde, used because Weckmann had a Scherer organ at his disposal in Hamburg.

Q

[The new erato]

Fine chamber music:

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From a recently issued 10 CD Sony box that I cannot locate at amazon.co.uk (bought mine from amazon.fr).

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Good day to ya all, keep Christmas in your heart all year around!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Christmas cheer. Star of the Magi.
From my collection, bought in 1999. A favourite disc for me. Excellent singing, and a fine way to enter the Feast.

Suzie Le Blanc, mhhhhh....such a wonderful Soprano!
Daniel Taylor, counter Tenor doesn't deserve her!
Les Voix Humaines.

[val]

MUSSORGSKY, BORODIN -   Opera Arias and Songs              / Boris Christoff    (1949/1952)

To me, Christoff was the greatest bass after Chaliapine and Reizen. His Boris, his Galitsi and Kontchak (in Prince Igor) remain absolute models. A very beautiful voice, deep, a sense of tragic greatness, give to this interpretation a presence and authenticity that no other bass achieved after him (not even Ghiaurov, Siepi or Petrov). This recordings show him at the best of his art.
Another mention to the great quality of the direction of Issai Dobrowen in many excerpts.