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Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 9:57 am
by markof
I have recently been enjoying albums on the Alpha record label, a relatively recent French imprint, and have found the quality of recording and musicianship to be very high.
This is a typical release for them - lovely sound and a novel, highly researched HIP performance.
Strongly recommended. Mark
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:18 pm
by fergus
markof wrote:
Something different there Mark.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 1:37 am
by DonKC
Seán's favorite: Mahler Symphony # 1 Kubelik/BRSO.
Critics used to dismiss this recording as "rough", "unrefined" and "not from an orchestra with a Mahler tradition." Only Amsterdam, Vienna, New York and Chicago could meet that last criterion. Now it is a certified classic.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 11:56 am
by fergus
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:14 pm
by Seán
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2
Christine Schäfer soprano
Michelle DeYoung mezzo soprano
Wiener Singverein
Wiener Philharmoniker
Pierre Boulez conducting.
My poor daughter has her bedroom directly over my music room, she has asked me to stop playing Mahler's Resurrection as she has grown tired of the opening...... LOL!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:16 pm
by Seán
DonKC wrote:Seán's favorite: Mahler Symphony # 1 Kubelik/BRSO.
Spot on Don, I am glad you remembered.
Critics used to dismiss this recording as "rough", "unrefined" and "not from an orchestra with a Mahler tradition." Only Amsterdam, Vienna, New York and Chicago could meet that last criterion. Now it is a certified classic[.
Replace the first word with '
Fools' and you have it right.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:18 pm
by fergus
Seán wrote:
My poor daughter has her bedroom directly over my music room, she has asked me to stop playing Mahler's Resurrection as she has grown tired of the opening...... LOL!
LOL!!!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:19 pm
by fergus
Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516 from this set....
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 1:42 pm
by fergus
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:57 am
by DonKC
Our local orchestra performed the rarely heard yet absolutely wonderful Capriccio sinfonico by Giacomo Puccini. An early work, it is a concise 15 minute, 3 section gem full of drama and incredible melody. Think of Tosca distilled to 15 minutes.
So I dug out this great album of rarely heard Puccini orchestral music, recorded in the 80's and available in many iterations since then. The sound is quite good, Chailly does not enter into a debate whether this is "good Puccini" or not (some of the works including the Capriccio and the earlier and equally charming Preludio sinfonico were from his student days in the Milan Conservatory,) he and the RSO Berlin treat it as if it was gold from the pen of a mature master.
Wonderful.
