What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by bart

Serge, I am a big Jean Rondeau fan.
I own a couple of his CDs, and have streamed the rest.
They sound great too.

New to me Bart. I enjoyed it and it now resided in my Roon collection.

[bart]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is a Lithuanian conductor. She is currently music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.








Qobuz FLAC 96/24

Serge, I played this when it was released last year.
Weinberg is a fascinating composer.
The photographs of the violinist/conductor invite me to play it again.

[PHC1]

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by bart

Serge, I played this when it was released last year.
Weinberg is a fascinating composer.
The photographs of the violinist/conductor invite me to play it again.

I think the pics of the actual musicians/composers goes a long way to put a face with a name/album and makes it more "human"

[bart]

Mahler - Songs with Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Hampson, baritone
SACD, Orchestra's own label




Not the best vocal performances by Hampson, but Susan Graham is superb. These Lieder are a favourite of ours and they are well recorded. Listening in 5.0.

[bart]

Originally Posted by PHC1

New to me Bart. I enjoyed it and it now resided in my Roon collection.

Try 'Vertigo' also.
I first heard it when I was jogging through my in-ears via our classical radio station.
Wow! I was hooked.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Fritz Reiner
With Maureen Forrester (contralto) and Richard Lewis (tenor)



They keep on surprising me, these Living Stereo SACD's...

Some more Mahler tonight.
This recording remains a reference performance.
Listening to the 3-channel version.

[bart]

Mahler - Symphony no. 4
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
Miah Persson, soprano




In the SACD sleeve, I see our tickets of a May '18 concert of this symphony with the BFO, with Christiane Karg as soprano.
It was as always with this orchestra, a memorable experience.
We normally attend 2-3 concerts with the BFO each year.
Unfortunately, last spring everything was cancelled of course.

This SACD is wonderful in all aspects.
The 3-D presentation it offers the closest thing to the live performance we are currently craving.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by bart

Try 'Vertigo' also.
I first heard it when I was jogging through my in-ears via our classical radio station.
Wow! I was hooked.

Very nice. I have all his albums in the Roon folder now. Something about a well played Harpsichord when the mood strikes. To me it always sounds mystical and medieval. Renaissance and Baroque music periods must have sounded different when they were widely used and later phased out by fortepiano and piano.

[PHC1]

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