What are you listening to now?

[The new erato]

Last night I finished listening to this box, playing discs 27 & 28 (when I received the box I played the last four discs first, wanting to hear first the symphonies that I were most familiar with):

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[The new erato]

Now quartets 10 & 12 from this set:

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[mrgreg]

Song of Songs - Stile Antico

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[Que]

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[Pim]

Disc 17 Clara Haskil and Arthur Grumiaux playing Mozart's sonatas for piano and violin, in B flat major, K454 and in A major, K526. The Andantes are divine.

[Mandryka]

Rübsam (Naxos) 669-674

In 670 he (rightly IMO) finds a way to express dark things, and that gives him the problem of how to do the same with the second Christe, 673. His solution is a stroke of genius, he basically gives each voice its own rubato, so that everything is so out of sync that excruciating disorienting effects pervade the music. Who would have thought that such a thing would have been possible? But it is. Confirmation that Rübsam's an amazing musician.

Another astonishing thing he does is use a wobbly vibrato effect in 673. It was a shock, the first time I heard it. But when you get over the surprise, you see it's effect is really poignant and actually appropriately ethereal for God the Father.



Jens Christensen plays 672-674.

672 (The Father) is noble and firm, like God's law, stately like a king's music, but the registrations give it a spiritual, heavenly feel. 673 (The Son) is a gentle celebration of something - His birth, His rising, who knows? But Christensen chooses the celebration route with this one. 674 (The Holy Spirit) is weighty and yet urgent, like the wind. Irresistible and slightly scary. I enjoyed these more than his first set of Kyrie chorales, but I'm not sure why - must revisit sometime.

[The new erato]

Thank you for your detailed comments Mandryka, makes me want to revisit Bach on organ!

[Sergeant Rock]

Karl Henning Angular Whimsies Op.100a


Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Scriabin 3 Etudes op.65 and 12 Etudes op.8 played by Maria Lettberg




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning Angular Whimsies Op.100a


Sarge

Thanks for braving a listen!

[TheGSMoeller]

Karl Henning Angular Whimsies Op.100a


Sarge

+1 Same here, a whimsically imaginative piece. 
Another "Well Done" headed Mr. Henning's way.

[wintersway]

Bo Holten: Wisdom and Folly and Other Choral Works

[TheGSMoeller]

Sea Pictures. Classic...

[madaboutmahler]

Good afternoon, all!

First listen to:
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Absolutely love it, fantastic, uplifting music.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Good afternoon, all!

First listen to:
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Absolutely love it, fantastic, uplifting music.

I found it rather drab . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947 version), Chailly conducting the Concertgebouw




Sarge

[The new erato]

Gluck's Der Betrogene Kadi from this box:

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Fine music, wonderful singing (Berry, Rothenberger, Gedda, Donath et al, so that goes without saying), but the lack of even a synopsis is a big minus though.

[Karl Henning]

“Papa”
Symphony № 49 in f minor, « La passione » (H.I/49)
AAM
Hogwood

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[Karl Henning]

More!

“Papa”
Symphony № 43 in E^b, « Mercury » (H.I/43)
AAM
Hogwood

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[North Star]

Elgar
The Music Makers, Op. 69: Ode by Arthur O'Slhaughnessy for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra
Sospiri Op. 70, for harp, organ and strings,
Sir Andrew Davis & BBC SO
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