What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[Antonmb]

There are so many good performances of the concerti grossi out there, but this is a worthy addition.

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

There are so many good performances of the concerti grossi out there, but this is a worthy addition.

Agreed, especially in DSD/multichannel.

The new addition from them of the Op. 3 concerti is every bit as good, too.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Agreed, especially in DSD/multichannel.



The new addition from them of the Op. 3 concerti is every bit as good, too.

Some day I’ll have to get a multichannel streamer for the theater setup.

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Some day I’ll have to get a multichannel streamer for the theater setup.

It is something to look forward to.

[Antonmb]

Murray Perahia is one of my favorite pianists, but I didn’t know this wonderful recording until I saw it mentioned in a Jason Serinus equipment review in this month’s Stereophile.

[bart]

Bach - Johannes-Passion
Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe
Qobuz 24/96




Herreweghe on his own Phi label.
I can almost see the singers and musicians in front of my eyes when I listen.
We've seen this fantastic ensemble so many times...

Bach’s St. John Passion, with its famous opening chorus traversed by shadows and light, is a powerful musical and spiritual reflection. Dramatic, grandiose, complex, resolutely theatrical: there has been no lack of superlatives to describe this supreme masterpiece of western music. Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent present an accomplished reading that reflects their knowledge of the composer, based on extensive research and deepened by countless concerts. Soloists Krešimir Stražanac and Maximilian Schmitt demonstrate the breadth of their talents in the roles of Jesus and the Evangelist. © Phi


In their review they forgot to mention the wonderful performance of Dorothee Mields, the leading soprano.

[bart]

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4
Leshnoff - Double Concerto For Clarinet And Bassoon
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Qobuz 24/192




Very good sound (I don't own the multichannel version), and a very good booklet already make this a worthwhile album.
I quite liked the performance of Tchaikovsky's 4th, and the Leshnoff was a nice discovery.

[bart]

Leonardo Vinci - Veni Vidi Vinci
Franco Fagioli
Il Pomo D'Oro, Zefira Valova
Qobuz 24/192




We have some work of this composer ('Artaserse') and listened to other of his compositions and we like him a lot.
This is another fine release, with a fantastic Fagioli.
Another homerun for him after his great Händel album.

Too often confused by journalists or distracted music lovers with the Italian Renaissance genius, Leonardo Vinci was an eighteenth-century Neapolitan Baroque composer whose reputation stems mainly from his thirty-seven operas composed for the great castrates of his time and performed at the Royal Chapel of Naples where he was the successor to Alessandro Scarlatti. After his album devoted to a selection of arias by Handel, Argentine countertenor Franco Fagioli chose a dozen arias from Leonardo Vinci’s operas, more than half of which are world premieres. These include voluptuous and virtuosic arias from Il trionfo di Camilla, Gismondo, re di Polonia, L’Ernelinda, Alessandro nell’Indie and Medo.
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Vinci’s operas were often tailor-made for the “stars” of an era that worshipped singers, just as it was done much later for film actors. The arias in Il trionfo di Camilla were originally composed for the prima donna Faustina Bordoni and those in Medo for the illustrious castrato Farinelli.
The magnificent pastoral aria “Quell’usignolo ch’è innamorato de Gismondo” evokes a nightingale song with two compulsory recorders. This music is full of life and dramatic expression, reborn here with participation of il pomo d'oro ensemble, headed with virtuosity by its concertmaster, the Bulgarian violinist Zefira Valova. © François Hudry/Qobuz

[Still-One]

John Williams in Vienna - by John Williams/Anne-Sophie Mutter/Wiener Philharmoniker

I guess this is actually semi-clasical.

Nice MQA recording

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Oboe Concertos - Symphonies Wq. 180 & 181
Akademie für Alte Musik, Georg Kallweit
Xenia Löffler, oboe
Qobuz 24/96




We can always expect this fantastic ensemble to deliver the goods.
This is the case here also.
New release from this week.

We really enjoyed this during dinner...