What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

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The Goat Rodeo Sessions
Yo-Yo Ma - Stuart Duncan - Edgar Meyer - Chris Thile
Always a fun and enjoyable listen, well recorded!
Sony Classic 88697897862
Regards,
Jim

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Mozart: Mozart Momentum - 1785
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
Sony (2021), via Qobuz

I guess you could call this a concept album:
“Following their widely acclaimed Beethoven Journey, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes join forces once again to explore two especially remarkable years in the history of classical music with Mozart Momentum 1785/1786, a new performing and recording project spanning four years (2019-2022).”

The performances are very good, the recording is pretty good as well, although at times seemed a just a bit hard, and the piano seems to have a rather wide spread in some spots. Overall very enjoyable.

[Antonmb]

The Butterfly Effect - Noelia Rodiles
Music of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Jesús Rueda, David del Puerto and Joan Magrané
Eudora (2020), via Qobuz

An interesting juxtaposition of romantics and modern Spanish composers. Quite nice.

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Originally Posted by Antonmb

Mozart: Mozart Momentum - 1785
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
Sony (2021), via Qobuz

I guess you could call this a concept album:
“Following their widely acclaimed Beethoven Journey, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes join forces once again to explore two especially remarkable years in the history of classical music with Mozart Momentum 1785/1786, a new performing and recording project spanning four years (2019-2022).”

The performances are very good, the recording is pretty good as well, although at times seemed a just a bit hard, and the piano seems to have a rather wide spread in some spots. Overall very enjoyable.

Listening also at the moment Tony.
I concur with your findings: excellent playing, as we're used to hear from Andsnes and the ensemble, and very decent but not excellent sound.

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Amy Beach - Florence Price - Samuel Barber - American Quartets
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Qobuz 24/96




Recommendation from Presto Classical, and it's a good one.
Never heard of Beach and Price, but they wrote great works!


Hailed by "The Times" for its "exhilarating performances", the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective was dreamed up in 2017 by Tom Poster and Elena Urioste. The Collective operates with a flexible roster which features many of today’s most inspirational musicians, both instrumentalists and singers, and its creative programming is marked by an ardent commitment to celebrating diversity of all forms and a desire to unearth lesser-known gems of the repertoire. This ethos is clear in their repertoire selection for this their début recording.

The Piano Quintet is one of Amy Beach’s better-known works, which the KCC collectively fell in love with during a residency at the Cheltenham festival. Composed in 1907, the work reflects the strong influence of the music of Brahms. Florence Price famously claimied to face "two handicaps – those of sex and race", and much of her music remained unpublished at the time of her death. Additionally, a significant quantity of her manuscripts had disappeared without trace. It was not until 2009 that a cache of them (including two lost symphonies) was discovered by property developers in the attic of an abandoned house in Illinois – including the score for the Piano Quintet in A minor that receives its world première recording here. Although characteristically conservative in its late-romantic idiom, the piece celebrates Price’s African-American heritage with echoes of spirituals and hymns, and the popular juba stomping dance rooted in the slave plantations of the Deep South.

Between these two Piano Quintets sits Samuel Barber’s early Dover Beach, a setting of Matthew Arnold’s famous poem that has remained one of the best-known works in the voice-and-quartet repertoire. © Chandos

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Maria Krestinskaya - L'Arte del violino solo
Vivaldi- Locatelli - Tartini - Nardini - Campagnoli - Paganini
Qobuz 24/96




Agreeable pieces.
They of course don't have the finesse of Bach's solo violin pieces (or Biber's), but still worthy of our time.

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Originally Posted by Antonmb

The Butterfly Effect - Noelia Rodiles
Music of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Jesús Rueda, David del Puerto and Joan Magrané
Eudora (2020), via Qobuz

An interesting juxtaposition of romantics and modern Spanish composers. Quite nice.

Tony, thank you for this nice recommendation!
Sounds good too (Qobuz 24/192).

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The Early BBC Recordings 1961-1965
Jacqueline De Pre'
Bach, Britten, Brahms, Couperin, Falla and Handel (disc 1)
She was a great talent, Excellent!
EMI Classics 7243 5 73377 2.4
Regards.
Jim

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Verklarte Nacht
Schonberg
Sextet for Strings
Dvorsk
The Talich Quartet with Jiri Najar - Vaclav Bernasek Violoncello
Wonderful play and very good recording.
Phaia Music PHU011
Regards,
Jim

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Weber
Martin Helmchen - Anna Prohaska
Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Christoph Eschenbach
Qobuz 24/96




I quite liked this new release.

200 years ago, on May 26th 1821, today's Berlin Concert Hall was inaugurated as “Königliches Schauspielhaus”. Destroyed as “Preußisches Staatstheater” during World War II, the building, located in eastern Berlin, was rebuilt during GDR times and reopened as “Konzerthaus” in 1984.
The premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz on June 18th 1821 was a highlight of the opening year. The work became his most popular opera and one of the key works of the 19th century. A few days later, the composer (who died at the age of only 40 in 1826), had another piece premiered at the “Königliches Schauspielhaus”: his brilliant Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 79.
This year the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, with its principal conductor Christoph Eschenbach, will be celebrating these historic events. Weber holds a special place in the life of the great German conductor and pianist, as Der Freischütz was the first opera he saw at the age of ten. Eschenbach is being joined in this program, which combines overtures, arias and the famous concert piece, by two artists who reside at the Konzerthaus Berlin and are also Alpha artists: soprano Anna Prohaska and pianist Martin Helmchen. © Alpha Classics