What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[jimtranr]

CD rip. Lively readings of the suites and overture in spacious sonics.

[Haydn]

Sibelius: The Complete Tone Poems
Scottish National Orchestra
Alexander Gibson
Chandos, 1977,1985.
2 CDs
Very good versions of some of Sibelius' tone poems

[ehoove]

Sarasate
Julia Fischer - violin
Milana Chernyavska - piano
Decca Records 478 5950

[ehoove]

Holst - Handel - Bach
The Cleveland Symphonic Winds
Frederick Fennell Conducting
Fabulous recording and play!
Telarc Digital 56038 (soundstream)

[ehoove]

Moussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Pictures at an Exhibition
The Cleveland Orchestra
Lorin Maazel Conducting
Another Telarc Digital soundstream vinyl masterpiece!
Telarc Digital 10042

[bart]

Due to (much) work, I post less than before.
Fortunately I can listen to music while doing my preparations.
This is an album I do want to share.
Indian music marries renaissance.
I've been a lot to India, so these soundscapes are very familiar to me, and I adore old classical music, with Lischka being one of my favourite artists.
A remarkable journey!

Uday Bhawalkar
Hathor Consort, Romina Lischka - Dhrupad Fantasia
Qobuz 24/96




Dhrupad is the oldest and purest genre within the North Indian classical music and can trace its origins to the recitation of Sanskrit texts in Hindu temples more than two thousand years ago. Dhrupad reached the Mughal courts in Rajasthan in the 16th century, where it developed into a classical art form. "Dhrupad Fantasia" is a meeting of the court music of Queen Elizabeth I of England with that of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great; both monarchs reigned from about 1550 until 1600.

Romina Lischka has created a wondrous fantasy in which the modality of Indian ragas is interwoven with the polyphony of Elizabeth I’s England. She, the Hathor Consort and dhrupad vocalist Uday Bhawalkar have created an imaginary world by combining improvisations based on modal ragas and polyphonic instrumental music, both of which originated in the art music of the aforementioned courts. © Fuga Libera

[Antonmb]

Marais: Pour la Violle et le Théorbe
Hille Perle, Lee Santana
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (2004), via Qobuz

I don’t remember where I learned of this recording, but I find it very enjoyable. The playing is brilliant.
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[eljr]

Originally Posted by bart

Due to (much) work, I post less than before.
Fortunately I can listen to music while doing my preparations.
This is an album I do want to share.
Indian music marries renaissance.
I've been a lot to India, so these soundscapes are very familiar to me, and I adore old classical music, with Lischka being one of my favourite artists.
A remarkable journey!

Uday Bhawalkar
Hathor Consort, Romina Lischka - Dhrupad Fantasia
Qobuz 24/96




Dhrupad is the oldest and purest genre within the North Indian classical music and can trace its origins to the recitation of Sanskrit texts in Hindu temples more than two thousand years ago. Dhrupad reached the Mughal courts in Rajasthan in the 16th century, where it developed into a classical art form. "Dhrupad Fantasia" is a meeting of the court music of Queen Elizabeth I of England with that of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great; both monarchs reigned from about 1550 until 1600.

Romina Lischka has created a wondrous fantasy in which the modality of Indian ragas is interwoven with the polyphony of Elizabeth I’s England. She, the Hathor Consort and dhrupad vocalist Uday Bhawalkar have created an imaginary world by combining improvisations based on modal ragas and polyphonic instrumental music, both of which originated in the art music of the aforementioned courts. © Fuga Libera

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Thanks for taking the time to post this, Bart. This is something I am very interested in. I have placed it in my queue.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Marin Marais - Pour la Violle et le Théorbe
Hille Perl
Lee Santana
via Qobuz




One of my favourite viola da gamba players.

Hille Perl and Lee Santana, a German viola da gamba player and an American theorbo player from Florida, met in Bremen's train station in 1984 and formed what they call a professional and personal "work in progress." Here they offer a disc of music by Marin Marais, a renowned French viol virtuoso and court musician of the late seventeenth century. What fame he has among general listeners comes from his appearance as a character in the 1991 film Tous les matins du monde, which in music-mad Germany caused passers-by, Perl says, to stop asking her "hey, is that a guitar?" and start asking "is that a six- or a seven-string?" In the U.S., music for viol and theorbo qualifies as an out-of-the-way corner of the musical universe, and Perl and Santana make things still more obscure with a lengthy liner-note justification for performing the music on this particular pair of instruments. (It involves the discovery of a Scottish manuscript that did not specify the bass instrumentation that appeared in later Marais publications.) Nevertheless, it's all somehow quite compelling. Perl is an exceptionally smooth player, and she executes the dances of these French suites with the lightness they deserve. In performing the variation sets that Marais would have used to display his own virtuosity, she's got power in reserve. And the music throughout has that elusive meshing of mutually familiar personalities that is the mark of effective chamber music. Marin Marais: Pour la Violle et le Théorbe, in short, comes off as something personal -- an impression intensified by the elegant dedication, written in the old-fashioned style of the French court, of the music to the public by the performers. One solo theorbo piece, by Robert de Visée, is also included.

© TiVo

Following Tony's suggestion.

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