What CD's do you hope to play this Eastertide ??

[Black Swan]

Hmm,

So far have listened to:

1. The New Kings Consort/Carolyn Sampson recording of Couperin Trois Lecons de Tenebres.
2. The new Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic Rite of Spring
3. The Paul Nicholson Handle the Eight Harpsichord Suites.
I may give Parsifal a go but not sure.

J

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

2. The new Rattle/Berlin Symphony Rite of Spring

[Roehre]

As far as work commitments allow:

Martin: Pilate
Liszt: Via Crucis
Ostrcil: Calvary variations
Ibert: Golgotha
Gubaidulina: 7 Last Words
Szymanowski: Stabat mater
some other Stabat Mater settings (Kuula, Kasparov, Liszt, Palestrina perhaps)
Rubbra: Tenebrae 2nd nocturn
di lasso: Lamentationes/ secundi diei
Maxwell Davies: Tenebrae
Wagner: karfreitagszauber (Parsifal)


Tomorrow:
a Stabat mater setting
JSBach: Cantata BWV4 Christ lag in Todesbanden
Rubbra: Tenebrae 3rd nocturn
di lasso: Lamentationes/ tertii diei

Sunday:
Rimsky K: Russian Easter Overture
JSBach: Easter Oratorium BWV249
Ruppe: Paasch-oratorium
Karlowicz: Symphony op.7
Foerster: Symphony no.4

[hmvman]

I've got the bumper EMI 14 CD Great Cathedral Organs, delivered earlier this week, to catch up on.

That's a wonderful treasure chest of a set! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have since I got mine last year.

I'd been hoping to listen to Britten's 'cello symphony and 'cello suites but as Europadisc couldn't manage to supply the CDs in over a week I'll have to wait for that pleasure

I think St Matthew Passion will feature in my weekend listening at some stage and some Britten (if not the 'cello works).

Wishing you all a very happy Easter and an enjoyable weekend whatever you listen to.

[Wensleydale Blue]

My new copy of Maria Joao Pires playing Schubert D845 and D960 on DG, after hearing it on BaL last weekend. Arrived yesterday and looking forward to comparing it with my Uchida (Boxed set of CDs) and Brendal (on Vinyl) versions.

[Julien Sorel]

My new copy of Maria Joao Pires playing Schubert D845 and D960 on DG, after hearing it on BaL last weekend. Arrived yesterday and looking forward to comparing it with my Uchida (Boxed set of CDs) and Brendal (on Vinyl) versions.

It's a very fine CD, IMO (Brendel's omission of the 1st movement exposition repeat and that extraordinary linking passage in D960 rules him out for me. I'm sure he'd be distraught to learn ). Pires is a special artist .

[BBMmk2]

I have already played Muti's recordingof Haydn's Seven last Words. i love the usual, eg the Allegri miserre, which i played The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, which i find the best one of all. their recording called Inner Peace, I find most satisying. Elgar's DoG, yes! And Barbirolli's recording.

I have been playing a lot of sacred music recently to. Stile Antico's cd for Holy Week, is quite a varied programme, RVW's Mass in G and Poulenc's Mass in G minor. pappano's Verdi Requiem.

Beethoven's Missa Solemnis(Klemperer).

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

This morning, Bach's St Matthew Passion (Harnoncourt circa 2000) and Haydn's Seven Last Words on the Cross (Quatuor Mosaïques).

This afternoon/ evening, decidedly non-Easter fare:

Piotr Beczała's new Verdi album
Nabucco in preparation for tomorrow's new production at Covent Garden

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Today I played the 1913 (sic) and 1927 recordings of excerpts from Parsifal, conducted by Hertz, Muck and Wagner (jnr) - astonishing sound quality (the Hertz are a couple of months short of their 100th birthday) and remarkable how similar Muck's tempi and the sounds he gets from the orchestral timbres is to those of Knappertsbusch twenty-five years later. (Also rather shocking to realize that we are twice as long away from Kna as Kna was from Muck!)

This afternoon I played Koopman's realization of the St Mark Passion: the best thing Koopman's done, I think.


Over the weekend, I intend hearing the St Matthew Passion that Andrew Parrott directed last week, Stravinsky's Threni (conducted by the composer) and, on Sunday, Schutz's Resurrection Story (Cappella Augustana) - and Bach's Easter Oratorio (Parrott again, with Leonhardt on Monday).

[jayne lee wilson]

Schumann Symphonies and overtures with Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS CD and 24/44.1 Flacs). Wonderful, radical, need no more praise from me after all those reviews!

Schumann Symphonies in the Mahler re-orchestrations with Bergen PO/Aldo Ceccato( rec. 1987, BIS CD and lossless).
This latter has found me making system adjustments to allow for an occasionally fierce treble, but having stumbled on them accidentally browsing on eclassical I was utterly charmed by their freshness, alertness and warmth. Big, full and warm in that dramatically-present Grieg Hall acoustic. Very rewarding after a little perseverance! (Recommended, but with caution...)

To my surprise the lossless downloads of the Ceccato are quite a bit cleaner and clearer than the CDs, though no remastering is acknowledged. But with various CD setups the discs had a greater scale and fullness. Two distinct views of the same recording, fascinating!

[pastoralguy]

A couple of good reviews and a splendid retro cover steered me to Joshua Bell's Beethoven Symphonies 4 and 7. Slightly surprised I bought

Happy Easter one and all.

Happy Easter to you too!

Please lend me your opinion on this disc - I'm waiting for mine to arrive!

[pastoralguy]

Hmm,

So far have listened to:

1.
2. The new Rattle/Berlin Symphony Rite of Spring.

J

Is it out yet?! I thought it was an April release. What do you think of it?

[Black Swan]

Yes, it is available from iTunes. I found it by accident. It is a very good recording. The fillers Symphonie of Winds and Apollon Musagete are also very fine.
Not unhappy with it at all.

[Richard Tarleton]

Listened to so far: the Hilliards' Gesualdo Tenebrae recorded at Douai Abbey. Amazing sound world, pin-you-to-your-seat sound quality.

Like others I'm waiting for the postman today to get stuck into some Kempe/Dresden Strauss, since Amazon were giving it away (some lucky so and so will get my LP of Don Q via the Oxfam shop). JEG on the telly tonight.

Rats - nothing from Amazon. Plan B....

[Beef Oven]

The Twighlights Of The Gods - The Ring Of The Nibelung. English National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Reginald Goodall et al.

A warm up for a Parsifal later on today!