What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[SCAudiophile]

Try this....Vikings is particularly great

https://www.discogs.com/de/master/78...edo-Pomp-Pipes

[SCAudiophile]

This is a great live performance by the SFO...recorded off system playback here, all I have is a cellphone mic (Samsung built-in) so apologies for that limitation. One of best examples of the bass & tympani closing parts that I know...Any issues playing this from here, copy link into Google Chrome manually to resolve the issue.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Uj...w?usp=drivesdk

[bart]

I posted about Wim Winters earlier in this thread.
He has his own small label.

https://www.authenticsound.org/

This is a 3-CD box.

Music from Bach to Beethoven and beyond indeed.
Played on a clavichord.
Recorded on a Studer.

[Kal Rubinson]

Does anyone have this disc?

I do, or at least I did, and I ripped it only to find that the Macbeth (multichannel) track is faulty and that Pentatone no longer lists it on their website. I ripped the disc and buried it in the basement before I tried to play the rip.

If any one has this and can help me obtain a valid rip of that track, please let me know. Thanks.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Does anyone have this disc?

I do, or at least I did, and I ripped it only to find that the Macbeth (multichannel) track is faulty and that Pentatone no longer lists it on their website. I ripped the disc and buried it in the basement before I tried to play the rip.

If any one has this and can help me obtain a valid rip of that track, please let me know. Thanks.

Kal, sorry I don't have it.
But what I can do is help you to tidy up your basement in the most thorough way possible! I will leave it entirely clean and empty!

[bart]

Charles Martin Löffler - Carl Ruggles - Howard Hanson - Henry Cowell - Americascapes
Basque National Orchestra, Robert Trevino
Qobuz 24/96




I thoroughly enjoyed this album.
All composers were unknown to me until today.

All four American composers on this new album by the Basque National Orchestra and conductor Robert Trevino wrote music that was known, played and esteemed during their lifetimes, but none of them ever had a huge “hit” and so the pieces here are likely familiar only to musical scholars. Yet while it is uncommon enough to find Charles Martin Loeffler, Henry Cowell, Carl Ruggles and Howard Hanson sharing the same album, the conductor Robert Trevino has taken his exploration still further, into the recesses of their repertory – complete with a Hanson piece, Before the Dawn, that has had to wait a century for this, its premiere recording.

Charles Martin Loeffler’s (1861-1935) La Mort de Tintagiles from 1897 is based on a play by Maeterlinck. This impressive 25-minute orchestral work features a solo part for viola d’amore akin to the role of the violin in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) remains among the very greatest of American composers, despite having finished only a little more than an hour’s worth of music over the course of his 95 years. His Evocations exists both as versions for solo piano and orchestra. The orchestral version showcases in an excellent way Ruggles’ skill as an orchestral composer.

Howard Hanson (1896-1981) was one of major figures in American 20th century music. Hanson was a conservative Romantic and sometimes likened to an "American Sibelius". Prior to winning the "Prix de Rome" in 1921 Hanson had already written 20 opuses, including an orchestral work, Before the Dawn, Op. 17. It remains a mystery why Hanson hid this orchestral work in his archives. Hanson may have considered it juvenilia. Yet it is engaging from the start, filled with rich melodies, and sumptuously orchestrated. The album ends with Henry Cowell’s (1897-1965) Variations for Orchestra, written in Shah’s Iran, by the great American experimentalists who had a profound influence on the early music of John Cage and Lou Harrison. © Ondine

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by bart

Kal, sorry I don't have it.
But what I can do is help you to tidy up your basement in the most thorough way possible! I will leave it entirely clean and empty!

I will add your name to the sign-up sheet. Thanks, anyway.

[bart]

Schubert - Octet in F major, D803
Wigmore Soloists
Qobuz 24/192




A new ensemble, with a masterpiece.
Well played, and well recorded.
The musicians are certainly not new.

Formed in 2020, Wigmore Soloists is a chamber ensemble made up of a roster of outstanding musicians, led by Isabelle van Keulen and Michael Collins. An associate ensemble of the iconic London concert venue Wigmore Hall, it is the first one to be given the honour of using the name. The core line-up of string quintet, wind quintet and piano makes it possible to perform a wide and varied repertoire, and for its first recording the ensemble has chosen one of the larger works in the chamber music literature, in terms of duration as well as the forces involved.

Franz Schubert modelled his Octet in F major on Beethoven’s Septet, a work which during the 24 years since its composition had proven extremely popular in Vienna. Schubert therefore copied Beethoven’s instrumentation (with the addition of a second violin) as well as his general plan of six movements. The Octet is however almost half as long again as the Septet, perhaps a consequence of Schubert wanting to "pave the way towards a grand symphony" by writing it. Like Beethoven – and Mozart in his serenades – Schubert strikes a perfect balance between entertainment and sophistication, while also including plenty of opportunities for the players – especially the first violinist and clarinettist – to show off their virtuosity. © BIS Records

[bart]

The Imaginary Book Of J.S. Bach
Café Zimmermann
Qobuz 24/96




I follow this ensemble since quite a while.
Here they bring works from J.S. Bach, his son C.P.E., Mozart, and some transcriptions.

Johann Sebastian Bach has made the reputation of Café Zimmermann ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. This new recording presents the music of the Kantor from a different angle, that of the notebooks in which musicians wrote down pieces and movements they particularly liked. This recording brings together works composed by Bach in the late 1740s which may be described as intimate in character, including the famous Trio Sonata from his Musical Offering. The Baroque idiom of this "experimental" sonata is contextualised by the innovative style developed by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in one of his own trio sonatas. A number of arias by J. S. Bach are also presented here with exclusively instrumental forces.

Under the direction of violinist Pablo Valetti and harpsichordist Céline Frisch, the ensemble even ventures into Mozartian territory with the Aria and Fugue, K. 404a, taken from two pieces by Bach that Mozart himself had annotated and arranged in his own musical notebook. Finally, a chorale that Bach was particularly fond of, a three-part fugue played here by harpsichord and flute. Carl Philipp Emanuel had it printed at the end of his father’s musical testament, The Art of Fugue: "Before thy throne I now appear". © Alpha Classics

[bart]

Anna Thorvaldsdottir - In The Light Of Air
International Contemporary Ensemble
Qobuz 24/192




This label, that I only recently discovered, keeps amazing me.
Another album that defies the borders of classical music.
Recorded in 9.1 DXD, I'd like to hear that!
But 24/192 is already very fine.