What are you listening to now?

[San Antone]

Marcel Pérès does Templar chanting, which makes me think of the last act of Parsifal when the knights start to get a bit shirty because Amfortas won't show them the grail. It is all fabulous this CD, especially the long antiphonal Salve Regina.

This is the kind of repertoire where I think Peres's group succeeds. 

[Keep Going]

Looks good.

Thread duty:

Same recording, Webern String Trio

Cool!

I'll go back and survey the Schoenberg and Webern later on ... right now, the pull of Schnittke is too great. 

[cilgwyn]

Arrived today! Symphony No 4 at the moment. I haven't heard some of the music on this cd. Judith,for example.

[anothername]

Leonard Bernstein conducting : Beethoven- Fidelio

[Ghost Sonata]

A day of Sergei today, beginning with :  (have always loved the piano reduction of R&J, had a friend who played it, more or less, actually more and quite exaggeratedly. We would laugh ourselves silly - good times!)

[aligreto]

Der fliegende Hollander: Overture

[Harry]

I started today again with the Haydn Symphonies  box, done by Hogwood.

CD 1

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/12/haydn-joseph-1732-1809-symphonies-cd-1.html?spref=tw

[HIPster]

Morning listening ~

[asin]B01IAC0OKK[/asin]

[Mirror Image]

Listening to Estampes from this recording:

[anothername]

André Previn conducting: Tchaikovsky- Sleeping Beauty .

[San Antone]

John Cage : Thirteen
Barton Workshop

[cilgwyn]

I'm standing up. It's God save the Queen (Variations). Actually,I was anyway!! There's no chair here!!
This came today. It was cheap! So I added it to the Schuman First Edition cd. Might as well get both!

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to the 15th and reaching the very end of this astonishing cycle. I've got only one recording of miscellaneous orchestral works to go.

[NJ Joe]

On my morning power walk I listened to Beethoven 4 & 5, Leibowitz/RPO.

Now:

[Mandryka]

This is the kind of repertoire where I think Peres's group succeeds.

Well I'm even more keen on his Machaut.

[Mandryka]

While I really like Peres/Ensemble Organum in the Machaut Mass, the one by Musica Nova is probably my favorite:

[asin]B003ZWPAYQ[/asin]

Kandell certainly stands up to repeated listening, I find what he does very beautiful and I think his tempos add to the expressiveness of the music, whatever his HIP reasons may be for choosing them.

Re the ladies' voices, though I'm not convinced by those (Premont maybe? ) who say the women mess up to the polyphony because, inevitably, the ear is attracted to the high singers more. Maybe, maybe not. It's not obvious to me.

The real reservation I have with it harks back to an idea in Pérès's writings on the mass - that Kandell makes it sound too close to Renaissance music, it isn't alien enough. But even there I'm not sure.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Listening to Estampes from this recording:

I, too, am in the Můůd! 

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Listening to Estampes from this recording:

I, too, am in the Můůd! 

#morninglistening to underrated #Martinů on @supraphonCZ w/@EssenPhil in his one act opera... http://ift.tt/2gZ2CPd

[aligreto]

Concerto RV 780 for Harpsichord, Strings and Continuo

[San Antone]

John Cage : Eight