What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[Ian Thumwood]

I've heard the Jarrett disc, but wasn't impressed, it feels very unnuanced to me. I can see why he was unwilling to release it.

Thanks for getting back. The reviews I had read were positive.

I think the delayed release was due to Manfred Eicher who has a substantial.back catalogue of unreleased material. There is a new cd of a Jarrett trio gig which was recorded back in the 1990s that has just been released.

[Stanfordian]

Rossini – ‘Semiramide’
Opera in 2 acts (prem. Venice 1823)
Semiramide - Albina Shagimuratova (soprano); Arsace - Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano);
Assur - Mirco Palazzi (bass); Idreno - Barry Banks (tenor); Oroe - Gianluca Buratto (bass);
Azema - Susana Gaspar (soprano); Mitrane - David Butt Philip (tenor); Nino’s ghost - James Platt (bass)
Opera Rara Chorus,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
Recorded 2016 Henry Wood Hall, London
Opera Rara, 4 CD set

[vinteuil]

Rossini – ‘Semiramide’

In the words of the musicologist Rodolfo Celletti -

"the last opera of the great Baroque tradition: the most beautiful, the most imaginative, possibly the most complete; but also, irremediably, the last... "


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[vinteuil]

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Biber - Requiem, Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis, Freiburger Barockconsort, 2019 recording

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biber-Requiem-Vox-Luminis/dp/B08SHVJ4VL

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[Mandryka]

Thanks for getting back. The reviews I had read were positive.

I think the delayed release was due to Manfred Eicher who has a substantial.back catalogue of unreleased material. There is a new cd of a Jarrett trio gig which was recorded back in the 1990s that has just been released.

Have you tried Ana-Marija Markovina? She's the one that people who like modern piano seem to praise. There's also Mikhael Pletnev and Nina Milkina.

(Me, I like Jocelyne Cuiller and Miklos Spanyi.)

[richardfinegold]

I ordered a concert disc from 78 experience. Klaus Tennestedt conducted the Detroit SO in the summer of 1976. Horacio Gutierrez pianist. Program was Weber Oberon Overture; (R) Schumann PC; and Schubert Great C Major Symphony.
I was at the concert so this was a memory lane trip. I probably had no idea who KT was at the time. I had just purchased HG and Previn recording of the Tchaikovsky Concerto and I had discovered the Schumann and several of my friends nd I sat on the lawn and were a dinner treat for the mosquitoes.
I enjoyed the Oberon, which is lithe and quick. My only recording is Solti/CSO which sounds like a bulldozer by comparison. In the concerto KT and HG sound mismatched in I with the soloist dawdling and KT pushing him along. HG also messes up some of his runs, which warmed the heart of this struggling piano student. Things get markedly better in the sprightly II and the finale has great forward momentum.
The Schubert is taut, not one of those heavenly length interminable enterprises. I have never heard KT studio version.
Sound quality is meh. There is a constant hiss, quite audible during the Oberon and then variable for the remainder. Stereo separation is minimal. I would recommend this for KT fans primarily due to sonic considerations

[vinteuil]

Have you tried Ana-Marija Markovina? She's the one that people who like modern piano seem to praise. There's also Mikhael Pletnev ....

... for those who like modern piano, Markovina has certainly provided the most 'complete' set of recordings. Pletnev is to my ears more attractively idiomatic.

My go-to performers would be Andreas Staier, Carole Cerasi, Jean Goverts

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[Pulcinella]

Josquin's Legacy: The Gesualdo Six/Owain Park

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9246112--josquins-legacy

Prompted by a mention of Willaerts' Infelix ego in an article in today's Times.

[Mandryka]

Josquin's Legacy: The Gesualdo Six/Owain Park

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9246112--josquins-legacy

Prompted by a mention of Willaerts' Infelix ego in an article in today's Times.

Do check out the wonderful new Graindelavoix

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9666539--ex-nihilo-polyphony-out-of-the-order-of-things?srsltid=AfmBOoqZxvHexjZeohP_L4RPMkOFXVF18Q8SEpdJK_PTm2u75D6kaj0n

[Pulcinella]

Do check out the wonderful new Graindelavoix

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...PTm2u75D6kaj0n

Thanks: found to stream, so listening now.

[Serial_Apologist]

In the words of the musicologist Rodolfo Celletti -

"the last opera of the great Baroque tradition: the most beautiful, the most imaginative, possibly the most complete; but also, irremediably, the last... "


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Simple explanation? Rossini had intended composing a whole Ramide, but he ran out of time.

[Mandryka]

... for those who like modern piano, Markovina has certainly provided the most 'complete' set of recordings. Pletnev is to my ears more attractively idiomatic.

My go-to performers would be Andreas Staier, Carole Cerasi, Jean Goverts

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Jean Goverts is a new name to me, so I'm looking forward to listening to that. I played Nina Milkina's Emanuel Bach this afternoon, she was an outstanding pianist (I got to know her through Chopin mazurkas, which unfortunately isn't streaming.)

[vinteuil]

Simple explanation? Rossini had intended composing a whole Ramide, but he ran out of time.

... ah, the old good ones -

Did he ever get around to writing a whole ramide?

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[MickyD]

Jean Goverts is a new name to me, so I'm looking forward to listening to that. I played Nina Milkina's Emanuel Bach this afternoon, she was an outstanding pianist (I got to know her through Chopin mazurkas, which unfortunately isn't streaming.)

I think somewhere on my shelves I have a CD of Jean Goverts playing Chopin on an early piano.

[smittims]

Rachmaninov, Symphony no.1 in D minor: the USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov.

A 1960's Melodiya recording recut an issued in Britain by EMI as part of their 'HMV/Melodiya' series which introduced a lot of Russian music to British listeners. It's remarkable for the range of tempo, fast in the first movemtn , but very slow and , for me, profound, in the Larghetto.

It's a mystery to me how Rachmaninov thought this symphony 'defective' and withdrew it. Robert Simpson considered it the best of the three. It's taughtly-composed, has memorable themes and wonderful orchestration, a fine achievement for a 22-year-old. I've always returned to it with pleasure ever since I first heard it at the 1969 Proms conducted by Colin Davis, the only occasioon I can recall his conducting any music by this composer.