Album of the Evening

[Musicophile]

Needed something to wind down after a long Easter weekend with too much food and wine (and a decent share of Bach passions, see above).

 

 

I must admit I had never consciously heard of Graun before. Turns out he is quite enjoyable.  And this is really Lezhneva at what she does best. Enchant us with baroque arias.

[EuroChamp]

Easter weekend is over here, too.

I enjoy it with a glass of wine!

 

Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico

Haydn 2032, Vol. 4: Il distratto

Label : Alpha

Qobuz: http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/haydn-2032-vol-4-il-distratto-giovanni-antonini-riccardo-novaro-il-giardino-armonico/3760014196744

 

 

[BacHolz]

4 hours ago, Musicophile said:

Needed something to wind down after a long Easter weekend with too much food and wine (and a decent share of Bach passions, see above).

 

 

I must admit I had never consciously heard of Graun before. Turns out he is quite enjoyable.  And this is really Lezhneva at what she does best. Enchant us with baroque arias.

 

 

 

I too have but an hour of his work, mostly pieces for the viola da gamba by Frey and Perl and a few vocal works on Bartoli's "Sacrificum. I welcome the opportunity to discover these "also rans".

I see that he also wrote some works for the 'Christian season' but I am "passioned" out at the moment.

 

Graun: Der Tod Jesu - Passion Cantata

As I write this I learn that the pieces by Graun in my library are the works of brothers.

From Wikipedia...

"Johann Gottlieb Graun (27 October 1703 – 28 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. (His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and indeed is the better known of the two.)"

 

[Klavier]

[accwai]

Liszt: Hexaméron, Symphonie Fantastique

Leslie Howard

 

 

The Symphonie Fantastique transcription is totally insane Jaw on the floor...

[Booster MPS]

Found on NPR.  Very mature voice and song writing for her years.  If you dig Laura Marling, give this a spin.

 

Download on Bandcamp:  https://lizzieno.bandcamp.com/album/hard-won

 

 

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

On 4/12/2017 at 6:18 PM, Musicophile said:

Rana's Goldberg has received highest praises by pretty much every professional reviewer out there.

 

I find her approach very intimate and interesting, but I'm not yet 100% sold. Probably need to play it some more times.

Her Goldbergs are "nice". Pretty sounds. Rather superficial reading though. Closer to the end I found myself not listening anymore while she was laboring through the notes with apparent strain (var.25, for instance). Far from the top of my personal list.

[Klavier]

This disc has stunning play and superb sound, but it's exhausting to listen in one sitting due to the nearly non-stop flying fingers!

[sphinxsix]

Tessa Souter  'Beyond The Blue'. Vocal jazz based on classical music themes.

Well played, well sung, original, intriguing. Won't say no more right now - just listening to it for the first time.

 

 

[Melvin]

Saxophonist and composer Bob Reynolds is a recent discovery for me. This is his debut album from 2006.

 

 

via Tidal.

[Klavier]

Fabio is fabulous! Demonstration-quality sound, too.

[Melvin]

A surprising new release. Via Tidal.

 

 

From billevansmusic.com:

 

Quote

On A Monday Evening offers Bill Evans fans a rare treat: an unreleased (and never bootlegged!) concert recording of The Bill Evans Trio, featuring Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund from Monday, November 15, 1976. Captured live at Madison, Wisconsin’s Union Theater, On A Monday Evening finds Evans at the top of his game, performing both contemporary compositions from that era, as well as his longstanding signature tunes to a packed house. New liner notes by GRAMMY Award-winning jazz historian Ashley Kahn round out the package, featuring commentary by Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund

 

[accwai]

Stile Moderno - New Music from the Seventeenth Century

Quicksilver

 

 

 

[BacHolz]

2 hours ago, Klavier said:

Fabio is fabulous! Demonstration-quality sound, too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indeed, Vivaldi at his best to my ear. If you like your Vivaldi "d'amore", this is also very good.

Vivaldi: Concerti per viola d'amore

Fabio Biondi with Europa Galante

 

[elcorso]

CD rip, the best way to go and not the DL.

 

 

 

Roch

[elcorso]

2 hours ago, Melvin said:

A surprising new release. Via Tidal.

 

 

From billevansmusic.com:

 

 

 

Great!

 

Also available at Qobuz on 24/192

 

Roch

[Musicophile]

7 hours ago, Melvin said:

A surprising new release. Via Tidal.

 

 

From billevansmusic.com:

 

 

I tried that and didn't find it particularly interesting, although I generally really like Gomez. 

[Musicophile]

5 hours ago, elcorso said:

CD rip, the best way to go and not the DL.

 

 

 

Roch

Where did you buy the album?

[elcorso]

6 hours ago, Musicophile said:

Where did you buy the album?

 

Amazon US

 

Roch

[zyberguran]

I just ordered it from 

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

The Italians charge me quit a lot to send the CD to Sweden so I hope it is worth the effort to follow the recommendation - it is also available as a wav download.

 

[Melvin]

9 hours ago, Musicophile said:

I tried that and didn't find it particularly interesting, although I generally really like Gomez. 

 

I didn't love it but, as with many others, I will give this album another listen. Sometimes an album needs to grow on me (like the latest Brad Mehldau).

[Guidof]

 

Schumann: Cello Concerto & Piano Trio No. 1. Jean-Guihen Queyras beautifully plays the concerto, with the Freiburger Barockorchester conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. (A baroque group playng Schumann? Yes, but it makes for an intimate, engaging reading). Queyras joins Alexander Melnikov on piano and Isabelle Faust on violin in the trio, also a very fine performance.

 

The sound, from a 24/96 Qobuz download, is vivid and clear, but also a bit harsh and with little hall ambiance. Perhaps the result of close miking.

[Klavier]

These performances are technically very clean, but I don't detect a lot of personality in his playing, a common problem with many young musicians. Very well recorded--he's practically in my listening room!

[Klavier]

I think this is still the one to beat.

[sphinxsix]

Yesterday I listened to:

 

 

I liked the performance. I loved the sound of his violin.

Perlman on buying his Stradivarius (I'm not sure this is the instrument he played on this album, could have been Guarneri as well I think):