What are you listening 2 now?

[NumberSix]

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 16
Wilhelm Kempff

[NumberSix]

Holst: Egdon Heath
Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

[foxandpeng]

Gerald Finzi
Cello Concerto
Howard Griffiths
Northern Sinfonia
Naxos

Today has felt like a lighter day, musically, although that may just be my perspective. Enjoyable, nonetheless, and undoubtedly, in this case, more complex than British pastoralia.

[Bachtoven]

Disc 2: No.2 and 5.

[Madiel]

Sibelius as well.

Ten pieces, op.24
Bagatelles, "op.34" (they're much later pieces than that)
Ten pieces, op.58

[Madiel]

Probably the first ever Holmboe recording.

[Harry]

Johann Pezel (1639-1694).

Opus Musicum Sonatarum Praestantissimarum Senis Instrumentis Instructum. (Musical Works of Splendid Sonatas for Ancient Instruments)
"The Alphabet Sonatas"

ACRONYM.
Recorded in Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, August 23-25, 2012.

Sporadically I heard bits and bobs, of his music, but never two entire CD's of this unknown composer. And it is not a disappointment at all. Well crafted music, with enough of a story to tell. The music meanders through a multitude of melodies and harmonies. Pezel constructed a very solid basis on which he build his art, and considering the time he lived in quite interesting for me. As the music, the performance is also solid and a bit strict, but that fits the music perfectly. Sound is excellent.
Well worth my time.
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, did the booklet notes, and rather interesting it is, well written and informative.

[Que]

Nice, very nice.  I didn't even know of this recording - but the wonders of streaming.... 

[Harry]

Nice, very nice.  I didn't even know of this recording - but the wonders of streaming.... 

All the recordings Gothic Voices made are on Qobuz, and I certainly selected them all to be listened too, although I must admit that my listening list is long, very long......

[Roasted Swan]

Disc 2: No.2 and 5.

I like this cycle a lot.  But I have the impression that it has been rather sidelined not just by Vanska II but also more recent Paavo Jarvi/Klaus Mäkelä plus several others.  But there is a straight-forward unvarnished directness to Kamu's approach that for me chimes with the essence of Sibelius......

[Harry]

I like this cycle a lot.  But I have the impression that it has been rather sidelined not just by Vanska II but also more recent Paavo Jarvi/Klaus Mäkelä plus several others.  But there is a straight-forward unvarnished directness to Kamu's approach that for me chimes with the essence of Sibelius......

That was also my conclusion after listening to the whole cycle.

[Harry]

Ottorino Respighi.
Orchestral works.
See back cover for details.
Recorded: October 2002 at Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester.

Pure joy, exquisitely and exuberantly played, a kaleidoscope of colors, plus a beautiful palette of timbres that dazzle ones ears. A demonstration recording and a superb performance, this is a full broadside hit at the right place. Noseda is a very good conductor.

[Que]

All the recordings Gothic Voices made are on Qobuz, and I certainly selected them all to be listened too, although I must admit that my listening list is long, very long......

This is a nice one. I do like their Early Anglo-French and English Renaissance stuff. I'm less convinced by them in Franco-Flemish repertoire.

Thread duty:

[foxandpeng]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 4
Klaus Makela
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

[Mandryka]

Nice, very nice.  I didn't even know of this recording - but the wonders of streaming.... 

When they were with Christopher Page and Emma Kirkby and Margaret Philpot and Rogers Covey-Crump they were impeccable.


I once heard a story that the MD of Hyperion got into a cab and the radio was playing Sequentia's Hildegard recording, and the taxi driver was loving it. He immediately asked Chris Page to record some Hildegard for them and a legend was born.  They made an absolute killing from their Hildegard CD, it was like Top of the Pops.

[Traverso]

Bach

Cantatas

[ritter]

First listen to Elliot Carter's early (1942) Symphony No. 1 (Kenneth Schermerhorn conducts the Nashville Symphony Orchestra).



Really liking this. It's striking how, even before he developed his unique, mature style (in the late 40s or early 50s, with works like the Cello Sonata and SQ No. 1), Carter already was producing music of extraordinary inventiveness and quality.

[Todd]

[Mandryka]

Whenever I come across the name Jayne Mansfield I always think of this -- enjoy

[Todd]

A big old chunk of mazurkas.  More to follow.