What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[ehoove]

Tacet's Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Gaede - Violin
Tube only Transistor Free Microphones to Disc Cutter!
Wonderful performance and a stellar recording!
Tacet Records L163 (2008)
Regards,
Jim

[Antonmb]

Jean-Marie Leclair: Trio Sonatas Op. 4
Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler
Audax (2020), via Qobuz

Another fine recording from Ensemble Diderot

[Antonmb]

Vasks: Distant Light and Piano Quartet & Summer Dances
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
BIS (2020), via Qobuz

From Presto’s list of new releases this week. Interesting music, some of it beautiful, some of it less so.

[bart]

^^^^I also enjoyed most of that album Tony.

[bart]

Thomas Dunford - Jean Rondeau - Barricades
Qobuz 24/96




Well played French baroque.
Ideal for late night listening.

[eljr]

excellent new release

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Bach - Vivaldi - Sonar in Ottava: Double Concertos for violin and violoncello piccolo
Accademia dell'Anunciata, Riccardo Doni
Giuliano Carmignola
Mario Brunello
Qobuz 24/96




Album of the month on our classical station Klara.
It is indeed, apart from the rather ordinary work of Gottlieb, a very successful cooperation.
Especially the Bach works well with a violoncello instead of the second violin.

Violinist Giuliano Carmignola and cellist Mario Brunello: one of the greatest interpreters of Vivaldi and Bach, whose recent recording of the Sonatas and Partitas was described by the authoritative magazine Gramophone as ‘a definite first choice among period instrument recordings of these works’; and his long-time friend Mario Brunello, acclaimed for his personal reinterpretation of that same famous collection on the violoncello piccolo (A469).
Accompanied by the Milanese ensemble Accademia dell’Annunciata, they offer a highly original, experimental programme. Inspired by the three existing double concertos for violin and cello by Vivaldi – an unusual coupling in eighteenth century concerto literature – they revisit double concertos by Vivaldi and Bach (the famous BWV 1043 for two violins and BWV 1060 for violin and oboe), transposing the second solo part an octave lower on the violoncello piccolo.
Underpinned by persuasive historical and musicological evidence, the approach first and foremost reveals their pleasure in working together on an innovative project. The outcome is a delightful opportunity to enjoy famous pieces in a totally different light. © Arcana

Inspired by Ed, playing this album again.
I don't exaggerate when I say I've streamed it at least a dozen times already.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Nikita Koshkin: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Vol. 1
Asya Selyutina, guitar
Naxos (2019), via Qobuz

Selyutina plays very well. Koshkin is new to me, this is interesting and engaging music.

Tony, good suggestion!

[bart]

Roland De Lassus - Inferno
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Qobuz 24/96




I liked this very much.

Though Orlande de Lassus displays overflowing vitality in his secular music, matters are quite different in his sacred music: the twelve motets assembled on this album (most of them composed in the last years of his life) bespeak a profound melancholy and show not only his ability to make use of a wide range of stylistic devices, but also great subtlety in the art of rhetoric. An expressive palette handled in masterly fashion by Daniel Reuss at the head of Cappella Amsterdam! © harmonia mundi

[bart]

Seicento! The Virtuoso Early Italian Violin
Imaginarium Ensemble, Enrico Onofri
Qobuz 24/96




A nice journey!
Belgian label.

Small size, four gut strings, a short bow were at beginning the ingredients of the magic. Such a magic happened in Italy, the cradle of the violin, during the seventeenth century. “Seicento!” is therefore a multifaceted time-travel through the Early Baroque, from Venice to Sicily, exploring the wonders of the first violin virtuosos and their dexterous-passionated playing. A collection of musics born looking at Caravaggio, Bernini and Borromini’s masterworks. © Passacaille