What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[bart]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Quite the prodigy Camille Saint Saens was.

Saint-Saëns was born in Paris on October 9, 1835. He was one of the most precocious musicians ever, beginning piano lessons with his aunt at two-and-a-half and composing his first work at three.

At age seven he studied composition with Pierre Maledin. When he was ten, he gave a concert that included Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, Mozart's B flat Concerto, K. 460, along with works by Bach, Handel, and Hummel. In his academic studies, he displayed the same genius, learning languages and advanced mathematics with ease and celerity. He would also develop keen, lifelong interests in geology and astronomy.



Capucon/Moreau/Chamayou are all very talented musicians.


It is a very enjoyable album Bart.

Serge, at the age of three, I was probably still wearing diapers.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Jakob Lindberg - Jacobean Lute Music



Works by Dowland, Robinson, Johnson, Bacheler, Hely, Gaulthier and an anonymous composer.
I have to admit that only Dowland is well known to me, but all these works are truly fantastic.

This was perfect today in the practice...

[bart]

More wonderful, healing lute music in the practice today:

Silvius Weiss - Lute Music II
Jakob Liindberg
via Qobuz

[PHC1]

Excellent.



2020 GRAMMY® Nominee for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Best Engineered Album, Classical, and Producer of the Year, Classical

The Hermitage Piano Trio is distinguished by its exuberant musicality, interpretative range, and sumptuous sound—attributes that Reference Recordings expects to be highly appealing to music lovers and audiophiles worldwide. Following a recent performance, The Washington Post raved that “more striking even than the individual virtuosity was the profound level of integration among the players, who showed a rare degree of ensemble from beginning to end.” Based in the United States, the Trio excels at performing an enormous variety of music and has a wide repertoire ranging from Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Arensky, Glinka, and Tchaikovsky to Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, and Brahms.

This is their debut album as a trio. More albums with Reference Recordings are planned. Sessions were held at famed Mechanics Hall in Worcester, MA, and were recorded by RR’s engineering team, comprised of GRAMMY®-*winning engineer and Technical Director Keith O. Johnson, and multi*-GRAMMY® nominated engineer Sean Royce Martin. The album was produced by the multi*-GRAMMY® nominated team, Marina and Victor Ledin.

[PHC1]

[PHC1]

Powerful.

Qobuz FLAC 176/24

[PHC1]

Organ Wednesday Night continues...

WOW! This recording left me in chills and goosebumps...

QOBUZ FLAC 44/16


Live in San Francisco 1976
It was serendipity, indeed. In September, 1976, America’s most renowned organist, Virgil Fox, was to play a series of concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. RR’s own ‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson was invited to record everything, and he did, using his legendary hand-built three-channel analogue tape machine. Now, after years of complex negotiations, RR is releasing highlights from these concerts, featuring the mighty music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Virgil Fox was always controversial. Like Vladimir Horowitz, Fox always gave highly personal interpretations of everything he played, and purists frequently railed at the liberties he took. But unlike many musicians found on organ benches, Fox was never dull. Invariably, he made one hear the music in a new way, and audiences roared their approval as you’ll hear at these live performances.

[jimtranr]

The New York Philharmonic by another name conducted by the composer in this CD rip.

[Antonmb]

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes conducting
Rubicon (2020), via Qobuz

Good sound and nice performances.
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[PHC1]

Soul Stirring.