Album of the Evening

[accwai]

On 3/1/2018 at 1:22 PM, christopher3393 said:

Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music

Monica Huggett / Irish Baroque Orchestra

 

Two thumbs up! In any case, Quicksilver's Stile Moderno (Album of the Evening Apr 19, 2017) is very similar.

 

6 hours ago, Musicophile said:

[...] The 2nd recording of Angela Hewitt. Still have to decide which version of her I prefer. 

 

Don't have that problem since I don't have her WTC first recording. And fortunately, that's pretty much the only Bach recording of hers that I don't have

 

Now Album of Saturday Afternoon:

 

Vivaldi: Concerti for Recorder and Strings -

    la notte, la tempesta di mare, il gardellino, etc

Sébastien Marq, Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi

 

 

Breathtaking performance wall-to-wall from solo recorder and orchestra. Holy cow...

[botrytis]

 

I recently found this LP and just find it breathtaking and amazing for the musicianship.

[Nikhil]

This just showed up on TIDAL's "What's New"

 

[Musicophile]

1 hour ago, Nikhil said:

This just showed up on TIDAL's "What's New"

 

See also here:

 

 

[Musicophile]

 

 

Volodos: Piano Transcriptions. An early album from the virtuoso genius. 

 

Excellent. 

[rando]

Had serious doubts coming into this one.  To quote from an Amazon review found looking for album cover online

 

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Why? Whose bad idea was this?

In the period 1955 - '65 tens of thousands of kids across the USA played these pieces this badly, or perhaps less badly, myself among them. Ditto 10 years later, 20 years later, and 30 years later, when my own kids did so. Keane even makes the same mistakes at the same rough spots I did.

Whoever wrote the metronome/Hannon advice is spot-on. Hands separately, then together. Bring out the appropriate voices. (Listening) Please, God, make it stop hurting. This is *not* to be encouraged or repeated.

 

 

[rando]

On 2/22/2018 at 2:10 PM, rando said:

 

 

This on the other hand  continues to improve with every listen.

[christopher3393]

First exposure to this opera over several evenings:

 

 

libretto: https://www.wgbh.org/UserFiles/File/BEMF_Poppea_Program.pdf

[gdpr]

I am listening at this very moment to “The Luckiest Man” from Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters (48 kHz - 24bit). Even with apparent low DR, highly recommendable both on technical and musical quality (if you like blues of course)

 

[austinpop]

 

Even as a Mahler fanatic, the 10th symphony was not one I had paid much attention to. After all, it was incomplete, right? Oh, I had heard the Adagio, but the idea of someone else's extrapolation of the work was just not appealing. Well, all that changed last week, when I attended a performance with Donald Runnicles conducting the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in DC. They did the Deryck Cooke version, and I was just blown away, both by the piece, and the performance.

 

Since then I've been looking for a good, modern, high-resolution recording, and decided to buy the 24/96 Dausgaard/Seattle. I'm a big fan of Dausgaard's Brahms symphony recording.

 

I just listened to it today and ... me likee. Since I have not heard other interpretations of the Mahler 10th/Cook, I can't say if there are better, but this one is definitely satisfying to this untrained ear.

[realhifi]

On 3/4/2018 at 8:14 AM, Nikhil said:

This just showed up on TIDAL's "What's New"

 

Yes. It’s beautiful. 

[rando]

Following on from a post by @bmoura I downloaded the Just Listen 1 Compilation off Native DSD.  Some files a few times after accidentally erasing them attempting conversions.  Most fun I've had listening to a single album over the course of a week.  Sat down and listened all the way through tonight.

 

[ted_b]

6 minutes ago, rando said:

Following on from a post by @bmoura I downloaded the Just Listen 1 Compilation off Native DSD.  Some files a few times after accidentally erasing them attempting conversions.  Most fun I've had listening to a single album over the course of a week.  Sat down and listened all the way through tonight.

 

I'll tell Jared.  He will be pleased.    Thanks!

[rando]

I'm the one who should be proffering thanks in this deal!

[christopher3393]

The Medieval Piper

Silke Gwendolyn Schulze

 

 

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=2262319

 

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/the-medieval-piper-silke-gwendolyn-schulze/5028421955667

 

not for everyone (understatement) but I really enjoyed it.

[semente]

[accwai]

Bach: The English Suites

Angela Hewitt

 

 

Had a bunch of operas in the listen queue, but would be taking a break from them now, as expert here at CA had pointed out that operas are trash. It's *so* obvious once one is awaken to that fact

[pkane2001]

 

Chesky's Binaural+ recording [24/192]

[Musicophile]

[semente]

3 hours ago, Musicophile said:

 

My favourite PIT VC.

[semente]

[rando]

 

The composer here is certainly more famous for his work on film and television compositions.  

[accwai]

20 hours ago, accwai said:

Had a bunch of operas in the listen queue, but would be taking a break from them now, as expert here at CA had pointed out that operas are trash. It's *so* obvious once one is awaken to that fact

 

Ok, time's up:

 

Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Neville Marriner, Otto Schenk, et al.

 

 

19 minutes of songs and 24 minutes of spoken dialog in German?! What kind of trash is this? And worst, *tons* of Jean-Baptiste Lully operas coming up next. Delicious junk for impoverished souls:

 

 

[rickca]

If you love cello, this is excellent.  Vardai now plays a cello made in 1673 previously owned by Jacqueline du Pre.

Some pieces are cello and piano, and some are solo cello.

 

[austinpop]

Old favorite.