What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[eljr]

Pärt: Stabat Mater

Gloriae Dei Cantores, Richard K. Pugsley

This is a very polished recording, confidently performed and sumptuously produced. — Choir & Organ, September/October 2020,
Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: GDCD065
Label: Gloriae Dei Cantores
Length: 68 minutes

[eljr]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

A lot depends on how you like your Mahler.

Truer here, a lot depends on how you like your Vivaldi.





What's Next Vivaldi?

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

Release Date: 11th Sep 2020
Catalogue No: ALPHA624
Label: Alpha
Length: 70 minutes

Presto Editor's Choice
September 2020
Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2020

[eljr]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Haydn: Symphony No. 104 'London'

Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Release Date: 13th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: RCD25020
Label: Russian Compact Disc
Length: 63 minutes

[PHC1]

Was in the mood for Pachelbel's Canon this morning.

Beautiful.


The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood

Decca L'Oiseau Lyre

A 'lollipops' record from Hogwood? Yes, but with a difference: he has had the good idea of presenting all these favorite items in their original form, on period instruments at the right pitch and in the right proportions, played in the right style and at the right tempos. Stripped of spurious reorchestrations and misguided 'improvements' they emerge, as one might have hoped, fresh and clean; and after hearing them only perverse diehards, surely, would go back to the inflated, over-coloured and heavily varnished versions usually heard.

[eljr]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Was in the mood for Pachelbel's Canon this morning.

Beautiful.


[I]The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood

Decca L'Oiseau Lyre

I need seek this out...

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I decided to try this new release as I am not at all familiar with either symphony.



Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Myaskovsky Symphony No. 21

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Release Date: 27th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: LWC1207
Label: LAWO
Length: 62 minutes

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by eljr

I need seek this out...

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I decided to try this new release as I am not at all familiar with either symphony.



Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Myaskovsky Symphony No. 21

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Release Date: 27th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: LWC1207
Label: LAWO
Length: 62 minutes

It is on both Qobuz and Tidal. Good stuff. I'm just a "student" of classical but I have listened to some of the Academy of Ancient Music works and have enjoyed them all.



The Academy of Ancient Music is among the highest-regarded period-instrument orchestras in the world. Initially focused on the music of the Baroque, the Academy has grown to perform music from the Classical period as well as new music written for historical instruments. The orchestra has recorded and performed prolifically since its founding, working with leading performers and ensembles from the historical performance sphere and beyond.

Keyboardist Christopher Hogwood established the Academy of Ancient Music in 1973, using as his model an ensemble that had been founded in 1726 to perform music that was at least 150 years old. Thus, Hogwood's orchestra was one of the first in modern times to perform Baroque works on Baroque instruments.

Hogwood chose members who were not only masters of their instruments but also scholars of the performance style of the period. The orchestra quickly gained recognition for its authentic performances and recordings, or at least stirred up musicological debate. In 1978, it spawned a Classical period orchestra to perform the works of Mozart, Haydn, and their contemporaries.

That orchestra has recorded or taken on recording the complete symphonies of Mozart (the first such cycle on period instruments), Haydn, and Beethoven, and the complete piano concertos of Beethoven and Mozart. Recorded for Decca, these were under the direction of Hogwood, who also led recordings of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice, and Handel's Rinaldo, all of which were prize winners and featured Cecilia Bartoli.

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by eljr

I decided to try this new release as I am not at all familiar with either symphony.
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Myaskovsky Symphony No. 21
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

I like the both the Litton (BIS) and the Gaffigan (Challenge Classics) Prokofiev series (for different reasons) and both are in excellent hi-rez multichannel.

[PHC1]

Familiarizing myself with Henry Purcell.

I enjoyed this very much.

Sylvia McNair's exceptional soprano voice left a big impression on me.

[eljr]

Pachelbel: Canon

Trevor Pinnock (director & harpsichord, director), Wolfgang Meyer (harpsichord), Heinz Holliger (oboe), Hans Elhorst (oboe), Edward Brewer (harpsichord, organ), Eric Bartlett (cello), Eric Wyrick (violin), Naoko Tanaka (violin), Gidon Kremer (violin), Leslie Pearson (organ), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon),...

Release Date: 24th Oct 2011
Catalogue No: E4783372
Label: DG
Series: Virtuoso
Length: 74 minutes

[eljr]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

I like the both the Litton (BIS) and the Gaffigan (Challenge Classics) Prokofiev series (for different reasons) and both are in excellent hi-rez multichannel.

Challenge releases, it seems, are always exemplary.