Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:57 pm
you hoor! lolfergus wrote:Finally, Szell's great version of the wonderful M4....
Enjoy Fergus.
Enjoy Fergus.
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Enjoy Fergus.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:30 pm
Some very rewarding music this evening.
Inspired by musical life in Venice in 1540, this is a beautiful recording that is inspired by noted composer-gambist Sylvastro Ganassi who wrote a number of treatises on musical improvisation. The musicians on this recordings take vocal works by a number of Ganassi's contemporaries - Nicolas Gombert and Adrien Willert among them - and improvise on their musical themes. A very varied programme consisting of works for recorder and organ, solo lute, solo organ and solo viola da gamba.
A wonderful recording of musical portraits of many of the leading French composer-musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries, most notably Saint-Colombe, Marais and Forqueray. The highlight is a fine performance of one of Marais' greatest masterpieces, Tombeay pour Monsieur Sainte-Colombe, a great tribute from one master to another.
Finally an utterly transporting performance of Monteclair's music for two transverse flutes without a bass continuo. These musical conversations are simultaneously delicate and refined yet also strong and forceful. The music communicates feelings of charm, melancholy, intimacy, tenderness and studied repose. I find it deeply moving.
Inspired by musical life in Venice in 1540, this is a beautiful recording that is inspired by noted composer-gambist Sylvastro Ganassi who wrote a number of treatises on musical improvisation. The musicians on this recordings take vocal works by a number of Ganassi's contemporaries - Nicolas Gombert and Adrien Willert among them - and improvise on their musical themes. A very varied programme consisting of works for recorder and organ, solo lute, solo organ and solo viola da gamba.
A wonderful recording of musical portraits of many of the leading French composer-musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries, most notably Saint-Colombe, Marais and Forqueray. The highlight is a fine performance of one of Marais' greatest masterpieces, Tombeay pour Monsieur Sainte-Colombe, a great tribute from one master to another.
Finally an utterly transporting performance of Monteclair's music for two transverse flutes without a bass continuo. These musical conversations are simultaneously delicate and refined yet also strong and forceful. The music communicates feelings of charm, melancholy, intimacy, tenderness and studied repose. I find it deeply moving.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:11 pm
OH YES, now that is GREAT performance (on vinyl only), what a wonderful recording it is, I LOVE it.DaveF wrote:you hoor! lolfergus wrote:Finally, Szell's great version of the wonderful M4....
Enjoy Fergus.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:13 pm
Szell FIRSTJose Echenique wrote:For many, many years the Szell and the Reiner were the choice recordings for the Mahler 4.fergus wrote:Finally, Szell's great version of the wonderful M4....
Reiner to follow.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:56 am
Seán wrote:Szell FIRSTJose Echenique wrote:For many, many years the Szell and the Reiner were the choice recordings for the Mahler 4.fergus wrote:Finally, Szell's great version of the wonderful M4....
Reiner to follow.
I have never been able to declare a winner between these 2 wonderful performances. Both orchestras are glorious, and both conductors understand and love the score. If anything Reiner has the better soprano in Lisa della Casa, but the Szell is so good that who cares if Judith Raskin is merely ok.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:24 pm
+1 for Szell!Jose Echenique wrote:fergus wrote:
I have never been able to declare a winner between these 2 wonderful performances. Both orchestras are glorious, and both conductors understand and love the score. If anything Reiner has the better soprano in Lisa della Casa, but the Szell is so good that who cares if Judith Raskin is merely ok.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:26 pm
More solo guitar music from Fernando Sor....
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:46 pm
I am very partial to the sound of the oboe, and not just for baroque music. I have just listened to R Strauss’ wonderful Oboe Concerto played by Heinz Holliger from this great 2 CD set....
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:57 pm
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Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:42 pm
Listening this evening to an opera by the 18th century composer Antonio Mazzoni, Aminta (available on the K617 label). An unjustly neglected composer, it would be wonderful to see Mazzoni find the same kind of advocacy that composers like Zelenka and Vinci have received in recent years. Aminta is a wonderful work, very reminiscent of Handelian opera but also recalls Porpora and Hasse. A dramatically vibrant work of great passion, vividly colured, it also contains some exquisite arias of great tenderness. Very highly recommended.
