What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[pastoralguy]

a telling example of the benefits which BluRay, even in 2-channel form, can bring to what originally on LP didn’t sound all that wonderful.

I bought the Fournier Bach Suites on SACD but, alas, they are still in their plastic wrapping! I REALLY must try them out!

[pastoralguy]

Recomposed by Max Richter. Vivaldi. The Four Seasons.

I usually avoid these 'Recomposed' CDs like the plague but I came across this in a charity shop this afternoon. It's very listenable. Having played the original version well over a 100 times I really lost interest in the work but this is awakening my desire to hear the real version again.

If only someone had recorded it...

[Bryn]

Cardew: Treatise (Justin Saragoza). A solo performance on piano. A world apart, however, from Cardew's Volo Solo, itself a realisation of a section from Treatise.

[frankbridge]

Taverner/Tye/Sheppard

Western Wind Masses

The Tallis Scholars

directed by Peter Phillips

Gimell CDGIM 027

I'm something of a Scholars nut, having most of their output on CD and LP...(except when they went briefly to Phillips. Oh dear, a bad mistake, but I get confused Mr Garrison...)

[BBMmk2]

Taverner/Tye/Sheppard

Western Wind Masses

The Tallis Scholars

directed by Peter Phillips

Gimell CDGIM 027

I'm something of a Scholars nut, having most of their output on CD and LP...(except when they went briefly to Phillips. Oh dear, a bad mistake, but I get confused Mr Garrison...)

Oh I rather like this one!

Handel. Pinnock
Complete Orchestral Recordings
CD1
The Water Music Suites.
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock.

[Stanfordian]

‘Handel Arias’ – Magdalena Kožená
Arias from Alcina, Hercules, Agrippina, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Joshua, Ariodante, Theodora, Amadigi di Gaula, Orlando, Ariodante, Rinaldo
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon
Recorded 2006, Gustav Mahler Saal, Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel, Toblach
Archiv Produktion

Telemann
Frankfurt Sonatas No’s 1–6
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin), Annekatrin Beller (cello),
Torsten Johann (harpsichord / positive organ), Thomas C. Boysen (theorbo)
Recorded 2018 Ensemblehaus, Freiburg
Aparté - stunning new album

[Joseph K]

Ferneyhough - 5th String Quartet

edit: superb work. Glad I picked up this 3-disk set while it was still available!

[Bryn]

John White: "Piano Sonatas Volume II (Later Sonatas)" played by Jonathan Powell (Blüthner piano) - 96/24 downloads. Officially released today.

I have loved these little gems since first hearing most of them at either the composer's 70th birthday celebrations at Wilson's Music Hall or various recitals at Schott Music and other London venues. Here they sparkle even more than in those earlier encounters. Due to the late hour, I can only listen at a rather low volume level but the recording appears to have captured the bloom of the piano very well. It was also well worth having paid the extra £2 to get 96/24 but I think the law of diminishing returns mitigates against forking out a further £2 to get the 192/24 option.

[LMcD]

Just finished listening to/watching a work new to me - the Piano Quintet by Carl Frühling in a performance by Stephen Hough and the Castalian Quartet at the Wigmore Hall on Tuesday. Not a life-changing experience or musical revelation, but a pleasant enough piece. The slow movement is very graceful and the last movement put me very much in mind of Dvorak.

[Stanfordian]

Finzi
‘Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice and other choral works’
God is gone up, Op. 27/2 ; Magnificat, Op. 36; My lovely one, Op. 27/1; Welcome sweet and sacred feast, Op. 27/3; Thou didst delight mine eyes, Op. 32; Let us now praise famous men, Op. 35; Seven unaccompanied part-songs, Op. 17; Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26
Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge / Christopher Robinson (director)
Christopher Whitton (organ)
Recorded 2001 in St. John’s College Chapel, Cambridge
Naxos
A classic recording from the Naxos English Choral Music Series

Stanford
String Quartets No’s 1, 2 & 6
Dante Quartet
Recorded 2019 St Nicholas Parish Church, Thames Ditton, Surrey
Somm - new album

[BBMmk2]

Hiya Stan. That a Finzi is a great cd!

Handel.Pinnock
Complete Orchestral Recordings
CD 2
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Concerto a due cori, HWV 333 & 334
Oboe Concerti, HWV301, 302a & 287
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock

[Joseph K]

Richard Barrett - world-line, which arrived this morning.

https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/huddersfield-contemporary-records/world-line

[jayne lee wilson]

Maderna Violin Concerto.
Myriam Dal Don/Milano G.Verdi SO/Gorli. Stradivarius CD.

Nielsen Violin Concerto.
Znaider/NYPO/Gilbert. Da Capo SACD/CD.

Favourite concertos in very contrasted sound - Maderna thrillingly immediate and vivid, Nielsen very spacious, set back, atmospheric.... but with a remarkably imaginative solo contribution...

[Bryn]

Astraea (Miles Anderson, Sofia Gubaidulina, Viktor Suslin, Vyacheslav Artyomov).



I had not been aware that Sofia Gubaidulina, Viktor Suslin, Vyacheslav Artyomov performed as this trio of improvising composers (+ trombonist Miles Anderson).

Thanks to Métier for releasing this.

[Richard Barrett]

Ouch! My eyes!!!

What do you think of it, Bryn? I guess I will give it a listen.