What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Toccata]

This is a superbly played and recorded SACD of concertos and symphonies by CPE Bach. I've heard warmer period instrument string tone, but it's still a fine sounding disc.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Pider

Found this. Any others?

John, I have it; it's good.
I even read Analogue Productions is going to release this recording newly remastered. As they mostly do a great job, this is promising.
I have others on CD but I find myself returning to the Reiner.

[AudioNut]

Hey Bart,

I don't think anyone else here has joined us in listening to this glorious and beautiful music . . . . but I'll continue playing and enjoying all of the 8 volumes of:

W.A. Mozart - Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin
Gary Cooper - Fortepiano
Rachel Podger - Violin

Currently listening to Volume 5 - - - - Magnificent !!!!

A Channel Classics SACD

And, you guys don't know what you are missing . . . this is great stuff

[cma29]

Originally Posted by AudioNut

Hey Bart,

I don't think anyone else here has joined us in listening to this glorious and beautiful music . . . . but I'll continue playing and enjoying all of the 8 volumes of:

W.A. Mozart - Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin
Gary Cooper - Fortepiano
Rachel Podger - Violin

Currently listening to Volume 5 - - - - Magnificent !!!!

A Channel Classics SACD

And, you guys don't know what you are missing . . . this is great stuff

Julian - Good stuff. I'll join you and Bart in the enjoyment of this music when Presto Classical has a sale on the Channel Classics label. Which are the top volumes?

Hopefully they will release a box set with all the sonatas.

[bart]

Originally Posted by cma29

Julian - Good stuff. I'll join you and Bart in the enjoyment of this music when Presto Classical has a sale on the Channel Classics label. Which are the top volumes?

Hopefully they will release a box set with all the sonatas.

Carlos, only volume 8 wasn't top.
As it is included in a box with volume 7, for the price of one volume, I didn't mind.
It would be hard for me to pick just one. As soon as I heard the first one I had ordered, I simply had to have all of them. I'm a bit OCD in that way.

[Toccata]

I love Podger's playing, but I can't stand the sound of fortepianos--they remind me of "honky-tonk" pianos in a bar!

[bart]

John, I disliked it also in the past.
I used to prefer a modern Steinway by far.
But the last years pianofortes have grown on me.
I now even prefer Mozart and Schubert on the instrument they had in mind when they were composing.

[bart]

Bach - Weihnachtsoratorium I-III
Essener Philharmoniker
Essener Domsingknaben, directed by Georg Sump



Live recording of December '11.
My nephew is one of the Domsingknaben (unfortunately not on this picture, which is the only one I have), so this concert means a bit more to me than an other CD.
The performance and the sound quality is above average, considering this is done by amateurs.

[Pider]

Originally Posted by bart

John, I have it; it's good.
I even read Analogue Productions is going to release this recording newly remastered. As they mostly do a great job, this is promising.
I have others on CD but I find myself returning to the Reiner.

Thanks. I'll send off for this. Found a new SACD Hybrid on Amazon for $10. Not bad.

[AudioNut]

Domsingknaben huh? . . . Bart

Google Translate identifies this as being a word in the Javanese language, but fails to say what it means. . . translation please . . . ?

Anyway, Bart, very nice looking boys choir and, no doubt, beautiful music. The sound of boy sopranos singing is like no other - much like choirs of angel's.

Just FYI - 147 years ago, I was a boy soprano soloist - unfortunately for me (and for the world at large too, I'm sure) when my voice changed I was left with a voice that would make a bull frog cringe. Who knows, I might have been a young Pavarotti in the making.

What a loss to civilization.

And Bart, thanks for sharing.