What are you listening to?

[fergus]

His recordings are well known, but not by me!

I will get you over some time for a listen after I have completed the set if you are interested.

[fergus]

Really beautiful record - apt for the day too.

Nice combination there Mark; two for the price of one! I am glad that you liked it too!

[Diapason]

His recordings are well known, but not by me!

I will get you over some time for a listen after I have completed the set if you are interested.

That would be most excellent. I'd have one or two discs to bring along myself...

[Seán]

Fergus, I have to be very careful with Renaissance music... if I start listening to it in large doses at any one time, then I start travelling down an emotional path which gets ever longer and deeper. If I don't exercise a degree of self discipline, then I can get lost down it for some time, to the neglect of later repertoire...

... and if I may say, Victoria's music is arguably the most enticing of all...

Nicely put my friend but as you well know we are in a minority here....but that has never bothered me.

Victoria? Pardon my ignorance but I have never heard mention of Victoria before today.

[Jared]

^^ start with his Requiem... then kick yourself for not having listened to it before now... ;-)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Victoria-Requie ... 216&sr=1-3

I'd possibly recommended that you started here, although there are now a raft of very high quality performances, which exploded onto the scene during his anniversary year, in 2011.

[Jose Echenique]

Tomás Luis de Victoria [1549-1611] is considered in Spain the musical equivalent of San Juan de la Cruz or Teresa de Avila in poetry, that is, a mystic. He studied in Rome, probably with Palestrina and later was the chapel composer of Philipp II´s sister.
His Requiem [1605] is certainly his masterpiece, but all his music is glorious, including the Responsorios de Tinieblas.

[Seán]

On this morning's CD Review Andrew and Rob Cowan discussed a series of new releases from the archive of Japanese Radio, I was very impressed with most of these recordings.

Rob Cowan on new releases from the archive of Japanese Radio, King International NHK

Brahms: Complete Symphonies
Symphonies Nos.1-4 (complete); Tragic Overture, Op.81
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2028-30 (3CD)

BEETHOVEN: Piano concerto no.5 in E flat major, Op.73 “Emperor”*
BACH: Prelude in B minor, (after BWV.855a, arr. Siloti)*
BRAHMS: Piano concerto no.2 in B flat major, Op.83**
Emil Gilels*, Bruno Leonardo Gelber** (piano), NKH Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2022-23 (2CD)

DVORAK: Slavonic Dances nos.1-8, Op.46 nos 1-8; Slavonic Dances nos.9-16, Op.72 nos.1-8
SMETANA: Ma Vlast
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Vaclav Neumann (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2037-38 (2CD)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67; Symphony no.7 in A major, Op.92; Leonore Overture, Op.72a; Symphony no.6 in F major, Op.68 “Pastoral”
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Ferdinand Leitner (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2039-40 (2CD)

SIBELIUS: Symphony no.2 in D major, Op.43; The Swan of Tuonela, Op.22’2 (from “Four Legends”); Symphony no.1 in E minor, Op.39; Symphony no.7 in C major, Op.105
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Horst Stein (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2033-2034 (2CD)

DVORAK: Symphony no.9 in E minor, Op.95 “From the New World”; Symphony no.8 in G major, Op.88; Slavonic Dance no.10 in E minor, Op.72’2
RESPIGHI: Pini di Roma
SMETANA: Moldau (Vltava)
KING RECORDS KKC 2024-2025 (2CD)

WEBER: Der Freischutz – overture
WAGNER: Overtures to Rienzi, Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser; , Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg – Prelude to Act 1
JANACEK: Sinfonietta
KODALY: Hary Janos Suite
STRAVINSKY: L’Oiseau de feu
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Lovro von Matacic (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2026-2027 (2CD)

MAHLER: Symphony no.4 in G major; Symphony no.5 in C# minor
Akiko Nakajima (soprano), NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2035-2036 (2CD)

HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks – Overture; Organ concerto in G minor, Op.4 no.1
MOZART : Serenade no.9 in D major, K.320 “Posthorn”; Serenade no.7 in D major, K.250 “Haffner”
BEETHOVEN: Leonore overture no.3, Op72b
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Gunter Wand (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2041-2042 (2CD)

MAHLER: Symphony no.1 in D major “Titan”; Symphony no.2 in C minor “Resurrection”
Eiko Soga (soprano), Yuko Tsuji (mezzo-soprano), Choir of Kunitachi College of Music, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Otmar Suitner (conductor)
KING RECORDS KKC 2031-2032 (2CD)

[Seán]

Tomás Luis de Victoria [1549-1611] is considered in Spain the musical equivalent of San Juan de la Cruz or Teresa de Avila in poetry, that is, a mystic. He studied in Rome, probably with Palestrina and later was the chapel composer of Philipp II´s sister.
His Requiem [1605] is certainly his masterpiece, but all his music is glorious, including the Responsorios de Tinieblas.

Thanks Pepe and Jared.

[fergus]

That would be most excellent. I'd have one or two discs to bring along myself...

I will set that up in the near future so and give you a shout.

[fergus]

Victoria? Pardon my ignorance but I have never heard mention of Victoria before today.

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