What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[bart]

Originally Posted by Guitar1

This checks all the boxes: Superb music, playing, and sound. (Streamed on Qobuz 24/88.2)

Over 6 hours of music.
I'm over halfway.

[Formerly YB-2]

Originally Posted by bart

Glenn, there you go (unless it was vinyl):

Bart - thank you (the Chromebook has some quirks I've yet to conquer). That's the one. SACD done well.

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by Formerly YB-2

Bart - thank you (the Chromebook has some quirks I've yet to conquer). That's the one. SACD done well.

Especially in three channels!

[Antonmb]

Francisco de Peñalosa: Lamentaciones
New York Polyphony
BIS (2019), via Qobuz

Beautiful music

[Still-One]

Copland: El salón Mexicó, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo......
by Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Antal Doráti

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Luigi Boccherini - Stabat Mater - 2 arias - Sonata Op. 5.1
Capriola Di Giola
Amaryllis Dieltiens, soprano



Beautiful music!
Well sung, well played, well recorded (in Bruges).

We saw this ensemble this afternoon, in a church in Ostend.
What a good performance (Händel and Porpora)!

[Musicmansweden]

Originally Posted by bart

Mozart - Quartets K. 387 & 421 - Divertimento K. 138

Quatuor Van Kuijk

Qobuz 24/96









This is a recommendation in "Stereo" (German magazine).

It is an absolute sonic delight, besides being a top performance of some absolute masterpieces.

I think I never felt the musicians of a string quartet so present in our living room.



After a first album devoted to Mozart quartets (awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and a ‘Diapason Découverte’), a second to French music (Debussy, Ravel and Chausson) and a third to two quartets by Schubert, Nos. 10 and 14 (the mythical "Death and the Maiden"), the group founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk returns to its first love by recording more Mozart.

This recording is the second part of an eventual triptych that will contain the six string quartets dedicated to Haydn: No. 14 in G major, K.387, the first of them, was composed in 1782, when Mozart had just arrived on the Viennese musical scene; No. 15 in D minor K421, the second, is the only one in the minor mode and was completed in 1783 while his wife Constanze was in labour – she related that the rising intervals of the second movement recalled her cries from the room next door as he composed. [emoji767] Alpha Classics/Outhere

Thanks very much for this recommendation - awesome recording!

[bart]

Originally Posted by Musicmansweden

Thanks very much for this recommendation - awesome recording!

I'm glad you like it!
I'm going to explore their other albums for sure.

[bart]

Originally Posted by AudioNut

Listening to . . . George Frideric Handel: Concerti Grossi Opus 6
A Linn Records 3 disc SACD recording

The Avison Ensemble - Pavlo Beznosiuk, Director and violin



Splendid!

Since Julian posted this the first time, almost a decade ago, there have been about 50 posts regarding this set in the classical thread.
We're listening again, and can only regret Linn doesn't bring out new multi-channel recordings anymore.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Well Dean, while reading your post I'm just playing this SACD:



Gooseflesh!!
Wow.
I do love the Huelgas Ensemble. Have their 15 CD-box.
So I wanted to discover them in surround sound.
This disc brings 9 wonderful pieces together. 1 piece even from a contemporary composer.
But it is the hypnotizing track 3, Qui Habitat, from Josquin Desprez, that leaves me breathless and in tears. Waves of heavenly voices from all sides are enchanting me. This is pure delight, and I'm listening to this SACD for the second time now...

Listening again to one of my favourite discs.
The complexity, the perfectly interwoven melodies, it is all breathtakingly beautiful.
It intertwines in a harmonious, mesmerising, even hypnotising way.
I don't know much about drugs, but with this kind of musical experience, I'll never need them to be high!