What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Toccata]

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[aardvarkbark]

Originally Posted by Toccata

I had no idea that this instrument existed, or had even ever been conceived.

[bart]

Telemann - Quixotte & La Changeante
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi




This accompanied supper.
In fact a shame, it deserves more attention: good in every aspect.

[bart]

Yet another version of one of my favourite symphonies, but it seems like a good one.
First listen, this came out today.


Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World" & Other Works
Concerto Budapest, András Keller
Miklós Perényi, violoncello
via Qobuz




Very sweet interpretation.
But it is lacking some highs.
For example the triangle sounds are a bit muffled.
The string section is very present indeed, like the Tacet comments tell us.

Dvořák’s 9th symphony paints the town red, for sure. But that’s not all! The strings of András Keller are able to blossom like flowers. They don’t play uniformly but with a seemingly congenital naturalness as if it were easy for 14 violins to sound as homogenously and at the same time as individually as a single violin. Also for the wind it is not the high performance that counts but the sensitivity and the flowing of the music, e. g. the English horn solo in the second movement. The brass: no power play but rich and gentle, always sensitive chords. – The tempi, the transitions, everything flows organically and invites you to go along. That is the great art of legato. Old-fashioned to some people, in fact timeless beautiful. No surprise that one role model for András Keller is Wilhelm Furtwängler. After that and without any showing off the loved by many cellist Miklós Perényi gently carries you off into the mysterious world of the rondo op 68/8 and “Klid” (silent wood) op. 95. Three slavonic dances from op. 46 round off the program. © Tacet

[Puma Cat]

Originally Posted by bart

Telemann - Quixotte & La Changeante
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi




This accompanied supper.
In fact a shame, it deserves more attention: good in every aspect.

Hmm...I will have to check that out...thanks, Bart!

[djwhog]

I was on this early today like ESP wow great spin...

[bart]

Natacha Kudritskaya - Rameau
via Qobuz




While jogging this morning, I heard this on the radio.
The programmer of classical concerts of Gent was raving about it.
The piano player is coming to Belgium this season.

I liked her playing so much that I wanted to hear it over our living room system.
The performance is terrific, but Hewitt's album has the edge on sound quality.

[bart]

Gustav Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Anton Bruckner - Vier Orchesterstücke
Orchestre national d'Île de France, Enrique Mazzola
Markus Werba, baryton
Qobuz 24/96




Recommendation in "Stereoplay", a German magazine. Classical album of the month there.
It's every bit as good as they described it: performance and sound are really top notch!