Album of the Evening

[austinpop]

42 minutes ago, BacHolz said:

Finally got my SACD player into commission and so

 

Martin Frost plays Mozart (Hybrid SACD)

 

 

+1

 

Excellent recording and performance.

[Booster MPS]

@Jud, also a big fan of the new Son Volt, it just checks all of the boxes.  The new Jason Isbell single also hits these notes and makes me hopeful of the new album on the horizon in a couple months! 

 

 

[qdwieertteyrujpo]

6 hours ago, Klavier said:

Thank you very much for that recommendation. A wonderful, very lyrical interpretation.

 

While I am writing this, I am listening to the 50s interpretation with Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals. That unfortunately suffers from the sound quality.

 

Kind regards

[christopher3393]

Shifting from troubadour/ trouvere music to the Ars Nova period (14th century)

 

Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361): Motets and Chansons

Sequentia

 

 

[Guidof]

 

Zelenka: Six Sonatas. Fine performances by Zefiro, an Italian ensemble that showcases period wind instruments.

 

Excellent sound from a 16/44.1 Presto Classical download.

[Klavier]

Extraordinary playing--very well recorded.

[sphinxsix]

I have mentioned this version of Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' on CA forum probably 5 or 6 times. But the 2007 Sony Japan SACD remix of the original 3 track master sounds so fantastic that I will repeat myself one more time. In brief - I haven't listened to any other album as many times as to this one.

 

[Bob Stern]

1 hour ago, Guidof said:

Zelenka: Six Sonatas. Fine performances by Zefiro, an Italian ensemble that showcases period wind instruments.

 

Glad to see Zelenka mentioned, as Baroque composers are popular on this forum but Zelenka seems overlooked.  His music is distinctive because it uses dissonances and modulations that were considered "incorrect" in that era.

[wgscott]

2 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

 

Glad to see Zelenka mentioned, as Baroque composers are popular on this forum but Zelenka seems overlooked.  His music is distinctive because it uses dissonances and modulations that were considered "incorrect" in that era.

 

Thanks to both of you.  I am listening now.  Excellent...

[BacHolz]

3 hours ago, Klavier said:

Extraordinary playing--very well recorded.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I have enjoyed his Haydn and the Bach Sonatas & Partitas but had passed on this release. I look forward to adding it to my collection.

[accwai]

14 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

Shifting from troubadour/ trouvere music to the Ars Nova period (14th century)

 

Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361): Motets and Chansons

Sequentia

 

Wall to wall polytextual motets eh? That's hardcore  Looks like this one has been out of print for a while and download without booklet is rather useless. Fortunately CD is on its way. Thanks.

 

For albums of the evening, Tallis Scholars performing modern works:

 
Eric Whitacre: Sainte-Chapelle

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips

 

 

Single track ablum: http://www.allmusic.com/album/eric-whitacre-sainte-chapelle-mw0002530616

 

Arvo Pärt: Tintinnabuli
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips

 

 

CD autographed by Peter Philips

[Klavier]

Wonderfully played and recorded.

[BacHolz]

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

 

Glad to see Zelenka mentioned, as Baroque composers are popular on this forum but Zelenka seems overlooked.  His music is distinctive because it uses dissonances and modulations that were considered "incorrect" in that era.

I have a few other trio sonatas and will committ this to memory for a later time.

 

I recently shared of my discovery of a Baroque composer who had escaped my attention. František Jiránek was a Czech composer and I just learned of the minor (and not so minor) players in Prague at the time. Some were true Bohemians and relocated elsewhere and the list is impressive;

• Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1572–1622)
• Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (~1600–1676)
• Alberik Mazák (1609–1661)
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (~1640–1693)
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
• Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (~1644–1718)
• František Jiránek (1698 – 1778)

There is a series of "Music From 18th Century Prague" on Presto.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/llf/-/Music%2BFrom%2B18th%2BCentury%2BPrague/1

 

 

[Snowmonkey]

Laura Marling - Semper Femina. This is turning into a vintage year for solo female vocalists. Another great release.

 

 

and...

Cherubini: String Quartets No.3 in D Minor and No.4 in E Major.

 

 

Sublime.

[elcorso]

 

Lovely and very good recording.

 

http://www.camjazz.com/home/8052405142580-live-in-germany-cd.html

 

Roch

[christopher3393]

18 hours ago, accwai said:

 

Wall to wall polytextual motets eh? That's hardcore  Looks like this one has been out of print for a while and download without booklet is rather useless. Fortunately CD is on its way. Thanks.

 

Actually, there there is some nice variety on this Sequentia album.

This one was more arduous, requiring 2 sittings: 

 

Philippe de Vitry and the Ars Nova: 14th Century Motets

The Orlando Consort

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Saw them live some years ago. The fantastic gig took place in the underground part of a Camaldolese monastery.

 

[Melvin]

Something a bit different for this evening. Electronic pop?

 

[Klavier]

[Klavier]

[sphinxsix]

Just the selected tracks of course starting with 'Equinox'.

 

[christopher3393]

Quote

Stylistically, the music of the ars nova differed from the preceding era in several ways. Developments in notation allowed notes to be written with greater independence of rhythm, shunning the limitations of the rhythmic modes which prevailed in the thirteenth century; secular music acquired much of the polyphonic sophistication previously found only in sacred music; and new techniques and forms, such as isorhythm and the isorhythmic motet, became prevalent. The overall aesthetic effect of these changes was to create music of greater expressiveness and variety than had been the case in the thirteenth century.

 

More music from the late medieval Ars Nova, well performed and recorded:

 

En un gardin: Les quatre saisons de l'Ars Nova
Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings

 

 

[Klavier]

[Klavier]

[BacHolz]

Haydn Trios pour cors de basset

Trios Esterhazy

 

Mozart: Serenaden & Divertimenti

Sandor Vegh with Camerata Academica Mozarteums Salzburg