What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Bach: Lute Works (Arr. for Guitar)
Sean Shibe
Delphian (2020), via Qobuz

Beautifully played and good sound. I really like this one.

He just signed a contract with Pentatone so, I hope, we will be seeing multichannel DSD releases soon.

[bart]

Originally Posted by AudioNut

Listening to . . .Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 - Barry Tuckwell - French Horn

Sir Neville Marriner - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

In honour of the founder of this thread, I play this golden oldie!
For sure some of the best compositions for this defying instrument.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Jeune Homme"
Mozart Festival Orchestra, conducted by Istvan Cohen
Hélène Gál, piano

Piano Concertos No. 9 & 17

I didn't even find a cover of this album.
Other albums of this orchestra exist on the label Bella Musica.
They were very cheap at the time I bought them, and they're not even half bad.

We'll hear this piano concerto played by the third laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition '13 next Saturday.

Sound is not optimal, but the playing is subtle and delicate.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Sibelius: Tone Poems
Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Osmo Vänskä



I like Sibelius. Very accessible music, which has something dreamy, but with some very dynamic moments. Superior recording quality here, that captures these dynamics well. Listen to this at "concert levels"!

Nice music for a summer evening where there is light until almost midnight...

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Domenico Scarlatti - Stabat Mater
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier




We saw this ensemble live this evening.
Nice concert with Bach's Magnificat and some Pachelbel and Kuhnau works.
This is on the Ricercar label, now they are recording for Alpha. They must be doing something good.

One of the "house ensembles" of "our" Concertgebouw Brugge.
They must be suffering, like all artists.
I should stream them instead of listening to the CD...

[ehoove]

Beethoven - Mendelssohn
Violin Concertos
Viktoria Mullova
Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner Conducting
Very clean controlled playing, a wonderful presentation and very well recorded!
Philips SACD 470 629-2
Regards,
Jim

[crwilli]

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor - Sea Pictures [2011 Remaster] - John Barbirolli, Janet Baker, Jacqueline du Pre, London Symphony Orchestra

[crwilli]

Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 - Mutter/Ma/Barenboim

[Portioli]

Originally Posted by crwilli

Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 - Mutter/Ma/Barenboim

Definetely, one of the best CDs of 2020 for me.

[bart]

Portraits de la folie
Stéphanie D'Oustrac
Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard
Qobuz 24/96




I have a CD with Gaillard playing solo pieces for flute.
Here she leads her ensemble, with D'Oustrac as formidable mezzo-soprano.

The Baroque period was characterised by dramatic, grandiose structures, in the fine arts as well as in music. An array of exuberant expression with curved, sinuous lines took over all the arts. This was the starting point for this recording by mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Héloïse Gaillard at the head of her ensemble Amarillis.


This "road movie" into the land of madness invites us to discover its different faces through some of the composers of the time. From the famous theme of the "Folies d'Espagne" used by Reinhard Keiser in his comic opera Jodelet to the Gavotte en rondeau from Carnaval et La Folie, a lyrical comedy by André Cardinal Destouches, there’s a whole itinerary that inscribes madness in her role as a seductress, charmed and triumphant in André Campra's Fêtes vénitiennes, or of love madness through the character of Sémélé set to music by Destouches and Marin Marais, without forgetting a detour into perfidious Albion with Purcell and Eccles.


Love obviously comes with jealousy, one of the recurring themes of tragedy and consequently of opera. Instrumental music is not forgotten in this recording with a Concerto a 7 by Heinichen skillfully blending German, French and Italian influences in a European style ahead of its time. This programme invites us to discover a whole array of affects, which seem to have excluded the most terrible madness of all - that of war... © François Hudry/Qobuz