What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[eljr]

Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
Majorstua Kammerkor & Tore Erik Mohn

Genre:
Classical:
Choral Music
Release Date:
13 Jun. 2013
Label: Meribel Music
Total Length: 32:48

[eljr]

Nicol Matt / Nordic Chamber Choir
Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium

Release Date July 25, 2000
Duration01:17:02
Genre
Classical
Styles
Choral

[eljr]

Not for most I would guess.




Brooklyn Rider
Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass

Release Date May 1, 2011
Duration01:49:49
Genre
Classical
Styles
Chamber Music

[bart]

Mieczysław Weinberg - Symphony No. 21 & Polish Tunes
Siberian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Vasilyev
Veronika Bartenyeva, soprano




This label usually offers less well known works.
But mostly, they are really worth investigating, with good performances and sound to boot.

Weinberg is a composer I've fallen in love with. Wonderful album.

[cma29]

Originally Posted by cma29

After exploring some of Evaristo Dall'Abaco's music in an earlier post, I found this 6-disc box set featuring less well-known composers spanning the 17th and 18th centuries.

Concerto Köln play the Music of Dall'Abaco, Locatelli, Vanhal, Kozeluch and Eberl



A bargain at $18.75 for 6 discs.

Stating off with disc 1 which features concerti by Dall'Abaco. Vigorous playing by the conductorless Concerto Köln. The recorded sound on this disc is natural but I wished It had more bite.

Now playing disc 3, Mannheim: The Golden Age. Superb music captured in an excellent recording. This one disc, so far, makes the whole set worth acquiring.

[Antonmb]

Beethoven: The Beethoven Symphonies Live from The Edinburgh Festival
Disc 1 of 5, Symphonies 1 & 2
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras conducting
Hyperion (2007)

Is it possible to have too many versions of Beethoven’s symphonies? I just got this set and it’s very good so far. The performance on this first disc is lively and engaging, and the sound very good. It’s a lively recording, with plenty of hall ambience, and only enough audience noise between movements to remind you it’s live and provide a sense of being there.

[Antonmb]

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit
Decca (1984)
From the box set “Decca Sound: Dutoit Montréal”

Very nice performance and sound.

[cma29]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Beethoven: The Beethoven Symphonies Live from The Edinburgh Festival
Disc 1 of 5, Symphonies 1 & 2
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras conducting
Hyperion (2007)

Is it possible to have too many versions of Beethoven’s symphonies? I just got this set and it’s very good so far. The performance on this first disc is lively and engaging, and the sound very good. It’s a lively recording, with plenty of hall ambience, and only enough audience noise between movements to remind you it’s live and provide a sense of being there.

Excellent, Tony. I've heard good things about this cycle (and like you I'm a big fan of Beethoven and own several symphony sets).

[eljr]

Hilarion Alfeyev / Russian National Orchestra
Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ: Johann Sebastian Bach - Religious and Secular Works

Release Date July 21, 2017
Duration01:05:43
Genre
Classical
Styles
Orchestral
Vocal Music
Recording DateDecember, 2015
Recording Location
Moscow, Russia

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by cma29

Excellent, Tony. I've heard good things about this cycle (and like you I'm a big fan of Beethoven and own several symphony sets).

$24 from Presto, Carlos - hard to go wrong at that price.
https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/cl...s-1-9-complete