Album of the Evening

[AnotherSpin]

While living and travelling in India I was buying CDs by the Dagar family, widely popular vocalists in the ancient vocal Dhrupad genre. There is a beautiful album by the younger generation of the family on Qobuz. What a joy!

 

[sphinxsix]

56 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

While living and travelling in India I was buying CDs by the Dagar family,

Great stuff!

Got a number of their CDs.

 

[WAM]

Aimez vous Brahms?

 

[AnotherSpin]

1 hour ago, AnotherSpin said:

While living and travelling in India I was buying CDs by the Dagar family, widely popular vocalists in the ancient vocal Dhrupad genre. There is a beautiful album by the younger generation of the family on Qobuz. What a joy!

 

 

There is not much information, which is undoubtedly the special charm of Oriental culture, it seems that in this recording the uncle and nephew, Nasir Zahiruddin and Faiyaz Wasifuddin, are singing.

[AnotherSpin]

A good version of Sibelius' Second performed by Anton Nanut and the Slovenian Symphony. Smooth, cohesive, no excesses.

 

[lamode]

Bassface Swing Trio - Bossa, Ballads and Blues

 

 

[lamode]

How did I not know about this album until now? Loving this.

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - ...and His Mother Called Him Bill

 

[christopher3393]

On 5/16/2023 at 11:27 AM, Iving said:

- even if some might regard the Album as "novelty".

 

 

"Saint-Saëns was a prodigy polymath from whom music flowed effortlessly. Symphonies, concertos, chamber works, opera – there was seemingly nothing he couldn’t turn his hand to. 1886 witnessed the single greatest success of his career, as his epic Third ‘Organ’ Symphony thundered its way around the globe.

 

That same year he composed a ‘grand zoological fantasy’ in 14 movements, scored for two pianos, string quartet, double bass, flute, clarinet, glockenspiel, xylophone, and glass harmonica/celesta, which sprang from the opposite end of the musical spectrum: The Carnival of the Animals.

 

Saint-Saëns was so worried about the harm this plaisanterie might do to his reputation as a serious composer, that after two private performances he placed it under lock and key where it remained until after his death."

 

https://www.classical-music.com/features/recordings/best-recordings-saint-sa-nss-carnival-animals/

 

 "A last word of praise must go to the blissfully surreal artwork, as French as anything in the music."  -- Gramophone review

 

[ray-dude]

[ray-dude]

[AudioDoctor]

This was more akin to albums of the afternoon and evening, but I listened to the entire Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook box set today. Circled in red.

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

Rather slick and delicate performance of Sibelius’ Second.

 

[austinpop]

One of my favorite versions of The Creation.

 

http://open.qobuz.com/album/wbjje2prlwhac

 

[orresearch]

[jiminlogansquare]

[AnotherSpin]

French orchestras don't record Sibelius 2nd very often, even with guest conductors from Britain. That alone may be enough to make this live recording interesting. The atmospheric sound is beautiful, the attention to detail impressive, and the finale vivid.

 

[AnotherSpin]

Wonderful modern performance of Sibelius’ Second. Superb sound, well-articulated and sufficiently controlled delivery. Some listeners may probably ask for certain additional measure of pressure in interpretation, but I am content with what is.

 

[Allan F]

Seven Psalms by Paul Simon

[TubeLover]

4 hours ago, Allan F said:

Seven Psalms by Paul Simon

Allan, thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that this just released, and had been more than eagerly awaiting it. 

 

JC

[austinpop]

[austinpop]

[AnotherSpin]

Charles Mackerras obviously knew well how to conduct a performance of music. Nevertheless, doubts arise as to whether he knew why he needed to conduct Sibelius' Second.

 

RPO version seem to be more coherent from the two.

 

 

 

 

[jiminlogansquare]

[AnotherSpin]

Yutaka Sado with the Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra, live recording at Musikverein. Relaxed, spontaneous performance, no trace of pushing or hysteria. 

 

[AnotherSpin]

Osmo Vänskä knows how to turn a Sibelius performance into magic. Some prefer the earlier version of the Second with the Lahti Symphony, others are more impressed with the version with the Minnesota Orchestra. Both are amazing.

 

Side note. Everyone knows that the perception of performance duration is very subjective, not directly related to the stated minutes. This time it seemed that the entire performance of the Second took no more than a few moments. It all passed like a fleeting dream, without the slightest effort.