What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[Bryn]

Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles (Yvonne Loriod, Ensemble Ars Nova, Marius Constant). Might try the Inon Barnatan/Santa Fe/Gilbert live recording later.

[Richard Barrett]

I must try to have a listen to those Paul Kim Messiaen discs. Indeed that reminds me - there's another disc on the same label with a recording of something of mine on it that I've never heard, I guess I should order that too.

[BBMmk2]

I saw the Gilbert recording on Spotify. Any recommendation?

[Petrushka]

Hiya Pet. I haven't listened to this particular recording for a long time. May have to now!(Re the Mahler! )

I hadn't played Rattle's CBSO recording of Mahler 7 for many years but was pleasantly surprised to find it was a lot better than I remembered. The key, I think, is to listen at a higher volume setting than normal. Heard at a usual setting it sounds uninvolving but bump that volume control up and it really opens out and comes to life.

[Bryn]

I saw the Gilbert recording on Spotify. Any recommendation?

Not as yet. I am planning on streaming from QOBUZ at some point.

[pastoralguy]

I hadn't played Rattle's CBSO recording of Mahler 7 for many years but was pleasantly surprised to find it was a lot better than I remembered. The key, I think, is to listen at a higher volume setting than normal. Heard at a usual setting it sounds uninvolving but bump that volume control up and it really opens out and comes to life.

You know, Pet, I found that a lot of EMI CDs from that period are, imho, under-recorded. The worst offender was Nigel's cd of the Sibelius with Sir Simon and his Tchaikovsky with Okku Kamu which are so dim as to be almost unlistenable. I'm not sure why this should be but I don't think the 80's were a good time for EMI's CDs.

[Petrushka]

You know, Pet, I found that a lot of EMI CDs from that period are, imho, under-recorded. The worst offender was Nigel's cd of the Sibelius with Sir Simon and his Tchaikovsky with Okku Kamu which are so dim as to be almost unlistenable. I'm not sure why this should be but I don't think the 80's were a good time for EMI's CDs.

I didn't find that Nigel's Sibelius VC was a problem in this respect but do agree with your first sentence. With most of Rattle's CDs for EMI a considerable bumping up of the volume control works wonders and I'm not sure that the critics picked up on this. Listened to Rattle's Miraculous Mandarin the other night and it sounds terrific at a higher listening level.

[Bryn]

I must try to have a listen to those Paul Kim Messiaen discs. Indeed that reminds me - there's another disc on the same label with a recording of something of mine on it that I've never heard, I guess I should order that too.

I tried Googling you name, along with that of the label, but no hits were returned. Can you offer a clue or two?

Ah, found it using a different approach, Dark Ages for cello with two bows.

[teamsaint]

I tried Googling you name, along with that of the label, but no hits were returned. Can you offer a clue or two?

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp;jsessionid=A69126ED9387FE47A14F440C0998D8E6?album_id=1847607

this maybe ?

top billing too.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Cello-European-Composers-2/dp/B00X6DWBJG/ref=sr_1_1?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1491071951&sr=8-1&keywords=the+new+cello+franklin+cox

Yours for £10.

[BBMmk2]

I hadn't played Rattle's CBSO recording of Mahler 7 for many years but was pleasantly surprised to find it was a lot better than I remembered. The key, I think, is to listen at a higher volume setting than normal. Heard at a usual setting it sounds uninvolving but bump that volume control up and it really opens out and comes to life.

Hope you have no neighbours!!

[Petrushka]

Hope you have no neighbours!!

I'm very fortunate in that my listening room backs on to my neighbour's driveway as their detached house is set further back than mine. The neighbours on the other side have my whole house between us so don't matter. In a residential area like this it's a considerable piece of good fortune.

[Beef Oven!]

Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre Du Printemps
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati. 1959 recording (CD)

[BBMmk2]

Beefy, I bet that's a self recommending recording?


Schubert

Mass no.6 in Eb, D950.
Soloists, Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox.

Haydn

Mass no.12, in Bb, "Theresienmesse".
Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir,
English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

[gurnemanz]

I'm in a French song phase and have been listening again to the superb Gram-award-winning Néère from Véronique Gens. She's at Wigmore for a lunchtime concert in May. I'm very tempted to make a excursion there.

[Bryn]

Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre Du Printemps
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati. 1959 recording (CD)

The Varèse items there can be found, along with all the other Varèse recordings Craft made with CBS, on this double album licenced from Sony to the Wounded Bird label in 2007 (cheaper across the Pond, of course. It was $16.58 including p&p to the UK when I got it in 2008).