What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[ehoove]

Bach Concertos
Julia Fischer Violin
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Just a beautiful offering.
Decca B0012490-02
Regards,
Jim

[ehoove]

Billy The Kid
Rodeo
Aaron Copeland
Grand Canyon Suite
Ferde Grofe
Morton Gould and his Orchestra
Excellent SACD!
RCA Victor Red Seal SACD 82876-67904-2
Regards,
Jim

[bart]

Blandine Verlet - Complete Philips Recordings
via Qobuz




More than 15 hours in this box set.
We almost finished CD 3.
Some very good recordings, some much less.

[ehoove]

Wassermusik
Telleman
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel Conducting
A Telleman favorite played and recorded very well.
Archiv Production 413 788-2
Regards,
Jim

[ehoove]

Mozart Overtures
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner Conducting
Very Nice!
EMI Records D 134267
Regards,
Jim

[Antonmb]

Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (excerpts)
Piotr Anderszewski, piano
Warner Classics (2021)

Anderszewski has rearranged the order of a selection from Book II. He’s certainly technically proficient, but I didn’t really care for this all that much. There’s just a bit too much drama added in places, and I guess the original order is just too ingrained in me.

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[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Fauré - Requiem, Pavane, Élégie, Super flumina Babylonis, Cantique de Jean Racine
Choeur de l'Orchestre et Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi



This is a wonderful blu-ray.
Excellent singing, playing, conducting.
My heart melts when I see and hear the beautiful soprano Chen Reiss sing Pie Jesu...
Matthias Goerne is one of the best baritones of the moment, and Eric Picard plays a beautiful Élégie for cello and orchestra.

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

From my Stereophile 2014 "Recordings to Die For" (sic):

Fauré: Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine, Super Flumina Babylons, Pavane, Élégie Chien Reiss, soprano; Matthias Goerne, baritone; Eric Picard, cello; l'Orchestra de Paris et Choeur, Paavo Järvi
EuroArts 2058874 (BD). 2012. Isabelle Soulard, prod.; Aurelie Messonnier, eng. DDD. TT: 72:00
From the day the disc slipped from its cellophane wrap, this lovely, evocative, thrilling concert of Fauré's music has never left my "on deck" stack of recordings. Beginning with the graceful Pavane, in the composer's orchestral version with optional chorus, and the heartfelt élégie for cello and orchestra, we hear and see Fauré's major works for chorus and orchestra in performances that equal and/or exceed any I have heard. The sound is balanced and spacious in great concordance with the visual presentation. While these performances are also available on SACD/CD (which I haven't heard), this Blu-ray is one of the few concert discs for which I rarely turn off the video display, even though the music alone more than suffices. What a great concert! I turn to it often, when I want to be transported to another world in which lyrical music and beautiful sounds shut out the cares of the day.

We watch and listen to this at least once a year.
We're in love with it each time...

A very good recording, you even hear the steps of Järvi when he walks off the stage, which gives a very live feeling.

[jimtranr]

Citadel CD rip based on a 24/44.1 remastering of Walter Piston's Concerto for Orchestra in a 1969 performance by William Strickland and the Polish National Radio Orchestra. Originally recorded by CRI (Composers Recording Inc.)

[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Introductio - works by Telemann, CPE Bach, Kleinknect & de Boismortier
Postscript ensemble
TRPTK (2019)

A lovely new recording of baroque chamber music from the label introduced to us by Bart.

Playing this in the car for the moment.
It sounds good even here!

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by bart

Inon Barnatan - Time Traveler's Suite

Qobuz 24/96









Splendid album.

Music from Bach, Händel, Rameau, Couperin, Ravel, Adès, Ligeti, Barber and Brahms.

My first listening of the new year - very enjoyable, thanks Bart.