What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

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Originally Posted by bart

Domenico Gabrielli - La Nascita del Violoncello
Les Basses Réunies, Bruno Cocset





Fabulous on all accounts.

Indeed. This is the first hi-res file I ever bought, so it's special to me for that and its outstanding musical and audio quality.

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Originally Posted by bart

Brahms - Symphonies 1, 2, 3, & 4
London Symphony Orchestra
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Antal Dorati



All 4 symphonies in one go!
Recorded in '57, '59, and '63.
First listen, but I know these works quite well in other versions.
I'd say: not bad at all!

Listening again.
After having heard it so many times, I still think it is a great version, with good sound.
But... I think I'm spoiled by now with other top performances of these symphonies, modern ones, with better (also multi-channel) sound.
Technology has definitely evolved the last decades.

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Originally Posted by bart

Telemann - 12 Fantaisies
Héloïse Gaillard, flutes




Take away one instrument from this recording and you end up with... complete silence!
Amazing recording.
And Telemann is absolutely one of my favourite baroque composers.

This goes with me to that desert island...

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Antonio Vivaldi - Concerti
Les Basses Réunis, Bruno Cocset




More Agogique bliss...

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Elgar - Falstaff - Elegy - The Sanguine Man
English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones




Most of what Naxos brings out is worth to be heard.
This album is no exception.
Lovely works here, that remind me of Delius, who goes even more "pastorale".

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Dvorák - Walton - Cello Concertos
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello




Going back to a classic interpretation of a top classic piece: the Dvorák Cello Concerto.
Nicely paired with the Walton Cello Concerto.
Julian described Piatigorsky's playing once as too hot, but some like it hot!

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This is a wonderful new release. Fantastic playing and sound (Qobuz 24/192).

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In a word, superb.

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Originally Posted by bart

Mr. Demachy - Pièces de violle et en tablature
Romina Lischka, basse de viole



We saw this lady yesterday live, and she signed my copy.
This is fine viola da gamba music from a composer who lived at the same time as Sainte Colombe.
Lischka also plays in Collegium Vocale. She's a talented gamba player.

Last one for tonight.
We play it quite often.

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Turning to late Beethoven in an attempt to escape the horrors being perpetrated in the US.