What are you listening to now?

[Mandryka]

Antoine Forqueray: Pièces de viole avec la basse continuë (Paris, 1747)
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba
Guido Balestracci, viola da gamba
Rolf Lislevand, theorbo & Baroque guitar
Eduardo Egüez, theorbo & Baroque guitar
Guido Morini, harpsichord

Really lively and imaginative performances there I think, it's as if the music shimmers and dances in a fleeting, fly-by-night way, like glimmers of light reflecting on water.

[Que]

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Ravishing!  Hat tip Florestan. 

Q

[mc ukrneal]

Last night, I listened to a cross-section of pieces from the Byrd box of complete Keyboard music.
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I have to say that this is one of the best purchases I ever made. The music is great and the performances are consistently outstanding to phenomenal. The constant use of different instruments keeps me from getting tired from the sound of any one instrument and was a brilliant idea. The box itself is well done, with a listing of each disc on the sleeve (includes the instrument being used). But even more amazing is the booklet, which includes commentary/discussion of every piece and is quite helpful.

In sum, a purchase that far exceeded my expectations (which were already pretty high). 

[Madiel]

Well, it's late Sunday evening, and so far this weekend I've listened to Holmboe's opuses 12a, 36, 38, 44, 129 and 136...

[Papy Oli]

Gulda/Beethoven - Op.10/3, Op.13, Op.14/1-2.

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[andolink]

Really lively and imaginative performances there I think, it's as if the music shimmers and dances in a fleeting, fly-by-night way, like glimmers of light reflecting on water.

Perfect description of these discs Mandryka!  It's among the very best French Baroque chamber music recordings in my entire collection.

[andolink]

Edmund Rubbra: Symphonies-- No. 3, Op. 49 & No. 4, Op. 53
Philharmonia Orchestra/Norman Del Mar

Edmund Rubbra: Symphonies-- No. 5, Op. 63 & No. 10, Op. 145
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Richard Hickox

Alexander Goehr: Colossos or Panic, Op. 55 (1991-92)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oliver Knussen

[Mirror Image]

I see the Saraste is OOP these days
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I had forgotten about this recording. I wonder how the performance is? Has anyone here heard it?

[Todd]

The second disc of Op 17.  Quite nice.  Next disc I get to start in on meaty Haydn.

[Papy Oli]

Gulda/Beethoven - Op.10/3, Op.13, Op.14/1-2.

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More with Op.22, Op.26, Op27/1-2

[Que]

Three sonatas op. 54 & sonata op. 27:



A super cool set.

Preliminary conclusion: Woelfl, who was a competitor of Beethoven, is the "missing link" between Mozart and...Schubert!

Q

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Talk of Igor made me want to hear this anew :

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BTW, the S of P made it into NPR's Top 100 American musical works of the 20th Century - a list that's dominated, of course, by pop and jazz, most of which I'd agree with, but, sadly, classical works are not well-represented.  The usual suspects are there : Samuel, Ferde, Aaron and George.  If memory serves there was an NPR administrator who lobbied strong and hard for the Stravinsky work. 

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html#S

[Mirror Image]

Talk of Igor made me want to hear this anew :

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BTW, the S of P made it into NPR's Top 100 American musical works of the 20th Century - a list that's dominated, of course, by pop and jazz, most of which I'd agree with, but, sadly, classical works are not well-represented.  The usual suspects are there : Samuel, Ferde, Aaron and George.  If memory serves there was an NPR administrator who lobbied strong and hard for the Stravinsky work. 

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html#S

Certainly a great disc as are all of the Stravinsky Conducts... recordings.

[Mookalafalas]

Sunday night here in Taiwan...

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[NJ Joe]

On my morning walk today, Pohjola's Daughter, En Saga, and King Christian II from this:




I've listened to nothing but Sibelius and RVW for a week straight, the lone exception being Bach's Brandenburgs one afternoon. 

[Que]

Sunday night here in Taiwan...

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Cute disc.

It seems rather too much outside of the mainstream to be included in one of your boxes, or is that the case all the same?

Q

[Mookalafalas]

Cute disc.

It seems rather too much outside of the mainstream to be included in one of your boxes, or is that the case all the same?

Q

No, I stumbled onto it on-line.   It's charming.  The longer I listen to it the more I like it.  Fresh, light and playful.  It's been a long day and this just what I needed before I turn in for the night...

[HIPster]

Starting off the day with a recent acquisition ~
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When Leopold of Anhalt-Cothen died in 1728, his former Kapellmeister had not forgotten the five brilliant years he had spent in the prince's service. He wrote a cantata dedicated to his memory based on the music of two major works of the mid 1720s - the Trauer-Ode and the St. Matthew Passion. Although the score to the Kothener Trauermusik is lost, the wordbook and other sources of information have now made it possible to create a performing edition. In his first recording for harmonia mundi, Raphael Pichon leads the ensemble Pygmalion in a rediscovery of this little-known work.

As with their Bach recordings on the Alpha label, this is is a wonderful recording by the group Pygmalion.   

[NJ Joe]

Right now:

Symphony No. 5 from this:

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[Mirror Image]

On my morning walk today, Pohjola's Daughter, En Saga, and King Christian II from this:




I've listened to nothing but Sibelius and RVW for a week straight, the lone exception being Bach's Brandenburgs one afternoon.

Pounds the table! Great stuff. Love Berglund's Sibelius.

On a related note:



Listening to Aladdin Suite. Fantastic!