Album of the Evening

[earnmyturns]

[Booster MPS]

[Musicophile]

4 hours ago, jhwalker said:

This new release from Alexandre Kantarow:

 

http://www.eclassical.com/kantorow-alexandre/bis2150.html

 

 

A truly virtuoso performance, and beautifully recorded.  This guy has a great career ahead of him!

When I read Robert von Bahr's enthusiastic email about this release, I was immediately tempted.  I'll probably get this asap.  

[Klavier]

This SACD includes Henze's complete "Royal Winter Music" plus Britten's "Nocturnal." Wonderful playing and recording.

[earnmyturns]

17 hours ago, Musicophile said:

When I read Robert von Bahr's enthusiastic email about this release, I was immediately tempted.  I'll probably get this asap.  

The only complaint I have is that the metadata on the eClassical.com download is really messed up. But the playing and recording, wow! Especially the piano transcription of "L'Oiseau de feu." Can't have enough of it.

 

[earnmyturns]

[Melvin]

Another from Eddie Higgins.

 

[BacHolz]

Call me predictable

J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion

Nikolaus Harnoncourt with Arnold Schoenberg Chor

[Klavier]

This is plucking sublime in every aspect. 

[earnmyturns]

[accwai]

20 minutes ago, Klavier said:

This is plucking sublime in every aspect.

 

Have been meaning to get this one for a while. Thanks for reminding. What format do you have?

 

Album of the evening:

 

Johann Gottfried Conradi: Neue Lauten Stücke, 1724
José Miguel Moreno

 

[Klavier]

22 minutes ago, accwai said:

 

Have been meaning to get this one for a while. Thanks for reminding. What format do you have?

 

 

As shown: SACD. It's available in hi-res up to D256, but that gets a little pricey.

[sedest]

[earnmyturns]

After listening a couple of times to the wonderful Alexandre Kantorow performance of the piano transcription of "L'Oiseau de feu," I realized that I did not own any performance of the original ballet score or of the orchestral suite. Really? How could that be? So I went searching for options available as downloads (because I'm lazy). There are some highly recommended Boulez-conducted performances of the suite, but only available as CD. After more digging, I struck gold: a 1959 Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra that was digitally remastered to SACD and also available as hires PCM. Got the 88.2/24 PCM version from HDtracks. Looked at one of the files with Musicscope, clearly a SACD conversion with a very nice gentle slope above 22hHz and then the standard gentle SACD discretization "hill" at higher frequencies. Detailed review or the release here. Anyway, listening to it now, beautiful performance and sound with just a hint of background hiss. A gem. For you DSD fans or SACD-rippers, it may well be worth going to the original encoding, but since my DAC is PCM only (Schiit Yggdrasil), it did not make sense to do that.

 

[Klavier]

Op.111

[Guidof]

 

Respighi: Sinfonia Drammatica & Belfagor Overture. John Neschling conducts the Orchestre Philarmonique Royal de Liège in top-notch performances.

 

The sound, from a 24/96 Qobuz download, nicely conveys the rich orchestration of these works.

[Booster MPS]

[accwai]

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis
The English Concert, Andrew Manze

 

[christopher3393]

Bach: Johannes-Passion [2001 Recording]

Philippe Herreweghe / Collegium Vocale Ghent

 

J.S. Bach: Oster-Oratorium

Philippe Herreweghe / Collegium Vocale Ghent

 

[Klavier]

[firedog]

Sorry, too much classical/not enough variety here lately, have to change it up:

 

[Hauser]

On 4/16/2017 at 10:51 AM, earnmyturns said:

 

I have listened to this but to my ears, doesn't have much emotional impact.  I find Sally Whitwell's piano version of Mad Rush much more entertaining.

 

Martin.

[Musicophile]

Last day of Easter, last chance to play:

 

 

One of of my favorite versions of the St Matthew's "little brother", the St. John's passion by René Jacobs, with the AKAMUS.  

[earnmyturns]

5 hours ago, Hauser said:

 

I have listened to this but to my ears, doesn't have much emotional impact.  I find Sally Whitwell's piano version of Mad Rush much more entertaining.

I don't go to minimalist music for "emotional impact," I go for detachment, calm, retuning perception to be more sensitive away from everyday overload. YMMV.

[Klavier]