Album of the Evening

[rando]

More classic Telarc.  This might be the end of my CD collecting as putting on the Moser/Hrůša "Dvořák & Lalo Cello Concertos" in high res directly following produced a staggering increase in SQ.

 

[duxservit]

 

Ichika - on BandCamp. Kinda reminds me of Michael Hedges, Aerial Boundaries. 

 

https://ichika.bandcamp.com/album/forn

[pvanosta]

9 hours ago, Guidof said:

 

CPE Bach: Sinfonias, Cello Concerto & Harpsichord Concerto. Ophélie Gaillard (cello) and Francesco Corti (harpsichord) with the Pulcinella ensemble. Energetic and nuanced playing that brings out the best of these challenging pieces. (This is volume 2 of a series on CPE Bach. On the strength of this album, I will certainly get volume 1 as well).

 

Exemplary sound form a 24/96 Qobuz download.

+1 on this one. Vol. 1 is equally enjoyable.

[Musicophile]

A new recording of the famous Bach Overtures, very nice:

 

 

My review here:

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2017/05/25/a-great-recording-of-bachs-orchestral-suites-by-zefiro/

[christopher3393]

Ce Diabolic Chant: Ballades, Rondeaus & Virelais of the late fourteenth century

Medieval Ensemble of London, Peter and Timothy Davies

1983 recording of Ars Subtilior that holds up surprisingly well... with the exception of an occasionally squealing rebec (early viol)

 

 

review: http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/l/loi59119a.php

 

download: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4759119

[Klavier]

 

 

[BacHolz]

Monteverdi at 450 - Sir John Eliot Gardiner (CD/DVD)

Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists

 

[Video Promo]

Gardiner Celebrates Monteverdi from St. Mark's in Venice

 

[Musicophile]

Triosence´s (24/96) latest album:

 

 

Not as good as some of the previous ones, but, still very nice. Unfortunately recorded a bit too loudly with some compression. 

 

You find my review here: https://musicophilesblog.com/2017/05/26/triosences-latest-album-hidden-beauty-a-review/

[christopher3393]

Ars Magis Subtiliter: Secular Music of the Chantilly Codex

Ensemble Project Ars Nova

 

 

notes: http://www.sonusantiqva.org/i/P/PAN/1987ArsMagisSubtiliter.html

 

review: http://www.allmusic.com/album/ars-magis-subtiliter-secular-music-of-the-chantilly-codex-mw0000682387

[ecmfidelity]

SMALL TOWN

BILL FRISELL, THOMAS MORGAN
ECM 2525

 

Very poetically intense dialogue between Bill Frisell's guitarr and Thomas Morgan's double bass. Mostly I kind of wishing the guitarr was acoustic, but in some songs as "Small Town", the guitar is spectacular.

[christopher3393]

Codex Chantilly: Ballades and Rondeaux

Ensemble Organum / Marcel Pérès

 

 

Struggled with this one a bit. Performances a little uneven and vocal timbres lacking a little of the sweetness, fluidity and subtlety that work better for me with this music.

[ecmfidelity]

Look at Me by Lammel

 

I think these guys are succeding in the difficult task of creating something extra (not new) out of the good old jazz piano trio. They have the rare ability of creating magic together with audio technology. My Stax headphones come alive. 

[duxservit]

[BacHolz]

A recent release of some jazz history from my hometown which guitarist Pat Metheny called 'the absolute greatest jazz guitar album ever made,'

 

Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse

 

Video Promo

http://Resonance Records Tells the Backstory

 

[accwai]

Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans

Magdalena Kožená, Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi

 

[christopher3393]

Cesena: Songs for Popes, Princes & Mercenaries (c. 1400)

Björn Schmelzer / Graindelavoix

 

Ars Subtilior, mostly Codex Chantilly, acapella. Very engaging with some very beautiful passages and sometimes even seconds later, some things that cause me to cringe a little. Takes a lot of liberties, but not frivolous.

 

 

http://www.sonusantiqva.org/i/G/Graindelavoix/2011Cesena.html

 

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Glossa/GCDP32106

 

Quote

…And right from the start this disc sets out to shake preconceptions. The sleeve information is folded within a kind of dust-jacket - the last place you would expect to find it. It folds out into an uncomfortable document in several colors.None of the texts are translated. The first piece, the motet Pictagore per dogmata, taken at breakneck speed, has the tenor doubled an octave lower, with bizarre consequences for the texture. The next one, Solage's Corps feminine, has a whole chunk sung with just the discantus and contratenor, with results that go against everything known about the musical grammar of the time (only one of its three stanzas is sung). But the most famous oddity of this repertory, Solage's creepily chromatic Fumeux fume, is made to sound even by the use of two groups an octave to sing the different strophes, all joining together for the last. Much is sung with a dreamy quietness (no instruments but often multiple voices on a single line), with ornaments and slides, with relatively little diction. Most of the pieces are cut to bits in ways that make them hard to understand unless you have the modern edition in front of you. Still, everything is done with considerable precision and there are some superb voices, carefully controlled. Equally, it is clear that a powerful mind has gone to work on trying to see and hear this music in a new way. The title 'Cesena' marks a terrible slaughter on that city by papal troops in 1377. The recording is the soundtrack of an event at the Avignon Festival last summer, in which dancers also participated. This is either a truly innovative approach to the music or a load of pretentious ideas that rather lost their way. I think, probably, a bit of both.   --- David Fallows, Gramophone May, 2012

 

 

[sphinxsix]

In comparison to Martha Argerich performance (my favorite one) sounds ..well, a bit 'square'.

 

This doesn't.. (secod album of the evening  )

[Snowmonkey]

On 2017-5-22 at 0:10 AM, Musicophile said:

Finally back to reviewing some great music:

 

 

Helge Lien's great new trio album, with an exceptional DR 12-16, and outstanding SQ.

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2017/05/21/helge-liens-new-album-guzuguzu-fantastic/

I listened to this on Tidal - very enjoyable and interesting - almost programme music. Unfortunately not available on Bandcamp yet, though their previous albums are. I too like to support artists by purchasing their work, but preferably via Bandcamp - 85% goes to the artist (though sadly, they don't seem to do hi-res ).

[Klavier]

[jhwalker]

Great new issue from Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Andris Nelsons.  Brilliantly performed, beautifully recorded:

 

http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/brahms-the-symphonies-boston-symphony-orchestra-andris-nelsons-johannes-brahms/0828020003470

 

 

[DMM]

Kirchhof

Bach works for lute

[Klavier]

[accwai]

Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz

Staatskapelle Dresden, Sir Colin Davis

 

[jhwalker]

2017 remaster / re-release of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - wonderful, of course!

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06WGVMLJY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

[BacHolz]

1 hour ago, jhwalker said:

2017 remaster / re-release of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - wonderful, of course!

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06WGVMLJY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

 

When I was young and this music was new, I often had albums as soon as they were released. Beatle-manis was such a thing that my friends would call when they couldn’t come over and ask me to play the album and set the phone by the speaker. And we think the youth of today settle for low fidelity enjoyment of their music!