What are you listening to now?

[NikF]

Schumann: Piano Quartet Op.47 - Gould/Juilliard Quartet.

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[Mandryka]

Kenneth Weiss plays Well Tempered Clavier 2. It's full of small scale ideas about voicing and rhythm. And in terms of high level conception it's fast and unemotional.

[Todd]

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Cello Concerto played by Du Pré....

[The new erato]

I just love it when an artist cares more about music than about makeup and styling.

[Karl Henning]

I just love it when an artist cares more about music than about makeup and styling.

Don't we all?

[(poco) Sforzando]

What an awesome movement that is. As a side note, I remember when going through all the Bach cantatas that Brahms seems to have been inspired by one of them (perhaps 22, or 27 - I'd have to check) when writing this piece.

Don't know the Blomstedt version and would be interested in hearing a report. He's a very sound, reliable conductor in all I've heard from him. But I've always thought of Klemperer as the accepted gold standard in this work.

Ah, yes. Listen to the opening movement of Bach's Cantata 27, and tell me if you don't hear an ancestor to this chorus from the Brahms Requiem.

[jochanaan]

Michael Daugherty: UFO (concerto for percussion and orchestra).  Evelyn Glennie, Colorado Symphony, Marin Alsop.

[Todd]

[(poco) Sforzando]

Just two Haydn sonatas on one CD? What's the total playing time?

[Todd]

Just two Haydn sonatas on one CD? What's the total playing time?

52'.  The slow movements are super slow: 13' for 46, 12' for 19. 

[Mirror Image]

A lot of standard fare being listened to lately (not that there's anything wrong with that) so it's time for me to shake things up a bit.

Now:



Listening to Les Cathédrales. Gorgeous work.

[Mookalafalas]

Someone was raving about this set here at GMG, and I decided to get them. Then I found out I already had them in the super cheapy Sony complete LvB box.  And then I forgot all about them.
  Finally actually playing them, and they are stellar.  The playing, the sound. It's like they are in the room.  Worth the price of the box on their own (and actually, everything in that box is really good--I've really fallen for Zinman's symph cycle as well).

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EDIT: turns out I am NOT listening to this set, but an earlier cycle by the same musicians. 

[NikF]

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra - Solti/CSO.

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[Mandryka]

52'.  The slow movements are super slow: 13' for 46, 12' for 19.

For reasons I can't explain rationally, the 19 means a lot to me.

[listener]

d'INDY: Symphony nº 3 <de bello Gallico>> op. 70    Souvenirs op. 62   Saugefleurie op. 21 a legend for orchestra, the Ondine-like story of a fairy condemned to die for loving a mortal.  Quite pleasant and straightforward, the other two pieces have a Reger-like tinge to them and remind me of the style of classic French cooking which involves sauces of an intensity, depth and complexity to disguise whatever lurks beneath them.
Strasbourg Philharmonic,  Theodor Guschlbauer cond.

[Que]

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[Que]

New acquisition. A very remarkable composer.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/03/vaet-jacobus-c1529-1567-volume-i.html?spref=tw

Happy to see you like Jacobus Vaet as well as the Dufay Ensemble, Harry!
I think you're right a out the similarities with the Singer Pur.
How many volumes (out of 4)  of the series where you able to get?

I can also recommend the Vaet disc by the ensemble Cinquecento (Hyperion). Since there is no doubling of music with the series by tbe Dufay Ensemble, it is perfectly complimentary.

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[Harry]

Happy to see you like Jacobus Vaet as well as the Dufay Ensemble, Harry!
I think you're right a out the similarities with the Singer Pur.
How many volumes (out of 4)  of the series where you able to get?

I can also recommend the Vaet disc by the ensemble Cinquecento (Hyperion). Since there is no doubling of music with the series by tbe Dufay Ensemble, it is perfectly complimentary.

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Q

I got two volumes out of that sale. Only two of them in the sale in fact! The Hyperion disc I have in my collection, but totally forgot about it

[Que]

Next up:

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After ordering it, doubts crept in when reading up on it...
The disadvantages of impulse decisions during sales at jpc... Sometimes you end up wasting money instead of banking in on a discount...
Still: no guts, no glory!

So far the Handel is a bit of an energetic but slap-dash, sloppy performance....
The Caldara is reportedly better, but according to some surpassed by Fasolis on Naxos.
We'll see... Should do my home work again, next time... 

Update: the performance of the Caldara is indeed much better.... but rather "solid", lacking a bit of Italian(ate) panache.

Q