What are you listening to now?

[stingo]

Russian Romance
Gideon Whitehead, guitar

I am pleased to report that the first Kickstarter project I helped fund has successfully been completed. Mr. Whitehead is a fine classical guitarist and his kickstarted CD of Russian guitar music has a welcome place in my collection.

[Wakefield]

First listen:

Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets Vol. 1
Belcea Quartet

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Disc 2:
Quartet in G Major, Opus 18 No. 2
Quartet in C Major, Opus 59 No. 3

[Johnll]

Messiaen: Harawi (Tony Arnold, soprano / Jacob Greenberg, piano) - Fabulous new recording by two members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Also includes Cantéyodjayâ (1948) for solo piano. Intense, poetic, like falling into a whirlpool.

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--Bruce

Yes! I consider myself a Messiaen fan but this is the first time I have heard this and it is outstanding. Messiaen strikes me as a man who was at peace with himself and others and shines through his music.

[listener]

SOLER:  8 Sonatas
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
MENDELSSOHN`: Organ Music
Passacaille,  Andante and Variations  3 Fugues  Andante in D   Allegrol
all without opus munbers
Wolfgang Rübsam, organ  (Metzler, Jesuitenkirche, Luzern
Gunter BIALAS: Im Anfang   for 3 Echostimmen, 6-part mixed chorus, with 7 organ meditations
NCRV Vocaal Ensemble, Hilvershum  Marinus Voorberg, cond.
Albert de Klerk, organ

[Que]

A re-run of this recent acquisition:



Pictured on the cover is the actual chord shaped manuscript with lute music played at the court of the Dukes of Urbino, in Northern Italy.

You can read the booklet HERE.

Q

[Que]

Another run of this, great stuff...

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Q

[FrankMaine]

Takemitsu.  It's my first encounter with his work, and after listening to it for a few days, I am a big fan....

[HIPster]

Lassus ~ Ashewell ~ Palestrina

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Listening to the Palestrina at the moment.  The whole thing is excellent (another score for Van Nevel, Que!), but the Ashewell is incredible and lives up to the hype.

[SonicMan46]

Paganini - Violin Concertos & Strauss - Poems w/ performers on the cover art -

 

[Karl Henning]

Karl, where did you download them from?

I recently downloaded The Baroque Box from Amazon and found that the composers were not properly credited. There are some pieces that I don't know who composed them.

Oh, those Big Boxes can be outright hopeless, that way!

I downloaded from Amazon. As is often the case, most of the tagging text for a given file is superfluous, or padding, or both, and any information (tempo indication of the movement, e.g.) which would be specific to that mp3 file doesn't make the cut.

[Todd]

From the big box.  Bylsma's Bach Cello Suites.  Superbly played, of course, but I cannot say he displaces Fournier for me.  That's probably not possible, in any event.

[North Star]

Schoenberg
Pierrot
Craft
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[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg
Pierrot
Craft
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Love that one, Karlo . . . as it played out, I gathered all those in via the original Koch releases.

[Sergeant Rock]

George Lloyd Symphony #5 B flat, the composer conducting




Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

Dusapin: Galim (Requies plena oblectationnes), concerto for flute & string orchestra
Juliette Hurel (Flute)
Pascal Rophé - Montpellier National Orchestra

[Karl Henning]

Martinů
Toccata e due canzoni, H.311 (1946, New York)
Prague Chamber Orchestra

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[Lisztianwagner]

On spotify:

Pyotr Il'ych Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty

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[listener]

Started the afternoon with MENDELSSOHN:  Symphony 4 "Italian"  and 3 Motets for Women's Voices, op. 39
WOLF: Italian Serenade       TCHAIKOWSKY: Capriccio Italien
SCHUMANN: Romances op. 89 and 91
Budapest Zoltan Kodaly Girls' Choir     Ilona Andor, cond
Orch. Disc: Pittsburgh Symphony Orch.,    Steinberg, cond.
I'll look at the CD collection, the Mendelssohn is pretty good but I would not listen to the Tchaikowsky again
WALTON: Viola Concerto      HINDEMITH: Der Schwandendreher
Paul Doktor, viola     London Philharmonic Orch.      Edward Downes, cond.

[kishnevi]

The Jos and Jaap show.
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Much better than the Jos and Midori show that was released last (?) year on ZigZag.

In fact,  a very good cycle overall, even compared to MI cycles, and the fact that it's PI merely improves the value.
(Although at the moment it still doesn't take over the top spot from my current favorite, Faust/Melnikov.)

[Todd]