Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:13 pm
I hope that you are enjoying them and will continue to do so!DaveF wrote:....one of my recently aquired vinyl boxsets.
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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:14 pm
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:14 pm
Sibelius – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 [Bernstein]....
Wonderful performances with a lovely sound emanating from the speakers!
Wonderful performances with a lovely sound emanating from the speakers!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:26 pm
The long-lost Striggio 40-part mass: glorious. I was relieved: I thought the extract I heard on CD Review sounded a bit disappointing.
López-Cobos conducting M3: very satisfying detail, lots of instrumental details becoming apparent. Quite thrilling too.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:19 am
That 40-part mass sounds interesting, Ciaran. Could you make out all 40...?
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:52 pm
I didn't count. But it certainly is quite a bewildering sound, rich and complicated and naturally reminiscent of Spem in alium, Tallis's proof that English composers could also write in forty parts.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:40 pm
I always find I admire Spem in Alium more than I enjoy it. Actually, bewildering is a good word!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:59 pm
Dvorak – Stabat Mater....Kubelik:
This was my first time to hear this work and I really liked it. I thought that the performance was really good with very good singing all round, especially that of Edith Mathis.
This was my first time to hear this work and I really liked it. I thought that the performance was really good with very good singing all round, especially that of Edith Mathis.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:40 pm
Bartok – String Quartet No. 5....
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:51 pm
López-Cobos and M3 again. Actually I was a little disappointed in the 4th movement, the Nietzsche setting, which lacked some of the mystery that Abbado or Chailly give it, but the finale is certainly a rousing blaze of glory!
The symphony for piano solo by Alkan, played by Ronald Smith. Beautiful music!!
The Tallis Scholars singing Josquin's Missa "l'Homme Armé" super voces musicales. Mesmerising. Ecstatic. A lot of polyphony leaves me cold, but I adore Josquin and have since I first heard an LP of the Deller Consort singing one of his "l'Homme Armé" Masses which I borrowed from the Music Library in Kevin Street in about 1978.