What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Antonmb]

Granados: Goyescas; El Pelele
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Decca (1977), via Qobuz

Very interesting music, well played. IMG_1061.jpg

[Antonmb]

Novák: Piano Concerto; Toman and the Wood Nymph
Jan Bartoś, piano
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hruša conducting
Supraphon (2020), via Qobuz

I’ve been exploring Novák lately, this one is very enjoyable, well played and good sound.
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[jimtranr]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Granados: Goyescas; El Pelele
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Decca (1977), via Qobuz

Very interesting music, well played. Attachment 65088

A sensually flowing favorite here.

[bart]

Maxim Shalygin - Canti d'inizio e fine
Maya Fridman
trptk
Qobuz 24/96




Maya is very talented... but this is weird music!

[bart]

This is an older recording, rewarded many times, and appearing again in the new Qobuz releases of this week.

Johannes Ockeghem - Missa Mi-mi
Cappella Pratensis, Rebecca Stewart
via Qobuz




The recording is good, the performance great.
Glad to have it in my library!

[bart]

Marin Marais - Pièces à 2 et à 3 violes
Jérôme Hantaï
Kaori Uemura
Alix Verzier
Pierre Hantaï
via Qobuz




Our weekly dose of viola da gamba music.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by bart

Maxim Shalygin - Canti d'inizio e fine

Maya Fridman

trptk

Qobuz 24/96









Maya is very talented... but this is weird music!

I tried it too - my dog left the room.

[Antonmb]

“Spain”
Franz Halász, guitar
BIS (2021), via Qobuz

A wonderful collection of guitar pieces by Sainz de la Maza, Granados, Milan, Sor, Falla, Torroba, Tarrega, Albeniz, and Turina. Halász plays very well, and the sound is the usual BIS quality.

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[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

I tried it too - my dog left the room.

You stayed?!

[bart]

Jean-Philippe Rameau - Naïs, RCT 49
Purcell Choir / Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyï
Qobuz 24/96




A bit of grandeur from the French court.
It has splendid moments, and also bombastic ones, which surely must have impressed most guests then, but not the music lovers.

The set got various awards, like the 5 de Diapason.

Created in 1749 to commemorate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle signed between George II and Louis XV of France to end the War of the Austrian Succession, Rameau’s pastorale héroïque Naïs consecrates the triumph of virtuosity on the stage of the Académie Royale de Musique, while in England, Handel wrote his famous Music for the Royal Fireworks for the same occasion.
Weary of sombre tragedies and their dark and oppressive passions, audiences received lighter works more enthusiastically – ballets and pastorales – for which soprano Marie Fel and tenor Pierre Jélyotte were applauded for their prodigious vocal performances. With Naïs, Rameau produces some of his most impressive pages, among which the overture and descriptive prologue, tracing the epic fight between the Titans and the heavenly court for the rule of Olympus. Chivalrous exchanges, athlete evolutions, prophecies, pastoral celebrations, naval battles and underwater nuptials punctuate the work and support the blooming of tender feelings that unite Naïs and Neptune.
This co-production between the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV − Centre of Baroque Music Versailles) and the Müpa Budapest Early Music Festival confirms the position of György Vashegyi in the field of baroque music, and French music in particular. Following the success of Rameau’s Les Fêtes de Polymnie (The Festivals of Polyhymnia) in 2015, and the revelation that was Mondonville’s Isbé, the Hungarian conductor is at it again with excellent singers and his two ensembles, the Budapest Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Chorus, which he founded in Budapest at the end of his studies at The Franz Liszt Academy of Music, completed by master classes from the likes of Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Helmut Rilling. This French-Hungarian production focusing on Rameau will be extended with the upcoming release of Les Indes Galantes (The Amorous Indies). © François Hudry/Qobuz