Bach, cantate BWV 27, Herreweghe. Spotify
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Current Listening Vol IX [2023]
Here we go again. In the past, this popular thread had to be re-started a number of times because the files got to big for the software used. The latest restart was with volume VIII, which accidentally practically coincided with the start of the new year 2022. Many members thought this was actually a good idea to pick a new year for a new thread, so with 2023 upon us (already or soon, depending on where you live), we are starting a new thread.
Links to previous Current Listening threads:
Current Listening Vol I
Current Listening Vol II
Current Listening Vol III
Current Listening Vol IV
Current Listening Vol V
Current Listening Vol VI
Current Listening Vol VII
Current Listening Vol VIII
A few suggestions (as if anyone bothers reading this):
Many members appreciate if you would not just post a CD cover or an embedded YouTube link. It would be helpful if you would post at least a short description (like composer, work, performers). This holds especially for videos, because not all YouTube videos can be seen in every country, and they tend to disappear over time.
It would be even better if you can post a little bit about your own take on what you are listening to. No need for extensive reviews, but a few lines would make the thread clearly more valuable to other members.
These are suggestions, not rules. They are not subject to intervention by the moderating team.
Have fun, Happy New Year, and enjoy listening to classical music as always!
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Patricia Petibon: Nouveau Monde
Baroque Arias & Songs
Patricia Petibon (soprano)
La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
"Nouveau Monde is conceived as a journey from the Old to the New World, a spell-binding collection of arias, songs and pieces from European composers (Charpentier, Händel, Rameau, Purcell) that testify to their composers’ fascination with the exoticism of recently-discovered lands, as well as South American folksongs which boast exceptional rhythmic energy and colour."
"Conquest is one theme, confession another; the whole a breakneck A-Z of Baroque song from airs de cours to zarzuela. "
- BBC Music Magazine
"'Nouveau Monde' is a tightly thought-through and arranged and compelling programme, a tour de force for its performer/compiler, most atmospherically recorded. Compulsive, repeatable listening. "
- Gramophone
Link to list of complete works on recording - (Too extensive to list here) -
Patricia Petibon: Nouveau Monde: Baroque Arias & Songs
Patricia Petibon: Nouveau Monde. Deutsche Grammophon: 4790079. Buy download online. Patricia Petibon (soprano) La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
www.prestomusic.com
Link to label-authorized complete recording -
If you were only willing to listen to one selection, this is the one that I would recommend -
I could pretend that I've just written what you're about to read instead of acknowledging that I'm actually just copying and pasting something that I wrote here yesterday, but I'm fairly certain that, having been caught doing so twice already, you'll probably tumble on fairly quickly to the fact that I'm doing it once again but it's just as valid today as it was yesterday... And I'm just as lazy today, if not more so, than I was yesterday...
"There's no one quite like her - She is one of life's great "characters" - Wildly talented - Cheerfully eccentric - but with a work ethic that is second to none - She's a superb actor, perhaps without equal, once she steps on stage, she owns every inch of it - Intuitive sense of how to express every word - Her phrasing is perfectly in keeping with the character that she is portrayiing - She's kind of like Kate Bush's kid sister... If Kate Bush had a kid sister who was French... and even more completely off-the-wall than Kate was... but, despite that, you couldn't help but fall in love with her even though everyone, including her, tried to convince you that it might not be the best idea that you've ever had in your life but you went ahead and fell in love with her anyway and didn't regret it for a moment... even when you found out that not only had she broken your heart, she had also stolen your wallet... and your dog... and a really expensive leather jacket that you loved almost as much as you did her... and the dog...
This post is intended as a defense of those artists willing to push past the boundaries of convention - Those artists willing to release high risk/high reward recordings because that is what performers are supposed to do because that is how craft is elevated into art...
Bonus video clip -
Luigi Boccherini: String Quintets (La Magnifica Comunità, Brilliant Classics, 6 CD's)
Music played in the gallery this afternoon. Another thrift shop find, this one many years ago (2 euro). Played CD's 4-6 today.
Boccherini, La Magnifica Comunità - String Quintets Op. 10-11-13
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "String Quintets Op. 10-11-13" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
Continued with the comparison of cantata BWV 27. Herreweghe and Koopman share first place (Koopman has the best overall cast. Herreweghe the most beautiful recording). Then Gardiner, Suzuki, Richter, Rilling
Karl Richter (well known, very familiar voices voices, certainly compared to Herreweghe, the recording/performance is dated)
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Ton Koopman (overall the best voices)
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Suzuki (I don't like the countertenor- sounds almost comical)
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Gardiner (I have to admit that I don't like countertenors)
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Karl Richter (well known, very familiar voices voices, certainly compared to Herreweghe, the recording/performance is dated)
Ton Koopman (overall the best voices)
Suzuki (I don't like the countertenor- sounds almost comical)
Gardiner (I have to admit that I don't like countertenors)
I think I will finally buy this CD as I can't listen to this recording on streaming, and keep hearing that it's outstanding.Still working my way through the VW symphonies.
Vaughan Williams, Symphony No 7 'Sinfonia antartica' - BBC SO, Martyn Brabbins.
Another very fine performance from Brabbins and the BBC SO - the recording omits the spoken introductions which is my preference.
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This four disc set includes quite a few quartets but today I listened to Limited Approximations by Georg Haas (SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg conducted Sylvain Cambreling) and Stroppa's Let Me Sing Into Your Ear (Michele Marelli, Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Hilversum, conducted by Peter Eotvos).
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Some lightly esoteric romantic pieces
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(pianorarescores.com)
Ede Poldini (13 June 1869 – 28 June 1957) was a Hungarian composer of the late romantic / early modern period. Famous in Hungary for writing many operas, he became internationally famous when Fritz Kreisler transcribed his piano piece "La poupée valsante" for violin.
Poldini studied with István Tomka in Budapest and with Eusebius Mandyczewski in Vienna. In 1908 he settled in Switzerland, writing two of his more famous operas: The Vagabond and the Princess (1903) and Wedding in Carnival Time (1924). These were both produced in London, the latter under the title Love Adrift. Himfy was produced in 1938 in Budapest. (Wiki)
Poldini is best known for his miniature piano pieces, such as "La poupée valsante", given wider audience in Fritz Kreisler's transcription, "Arlequinades", "Morceaux pittoresques", "Episodes à la cour", "Images", and "Moments musicaux". "Marionettes" were seven piano pieces that he later orchestrated.
His one-act opera The Vagabond and the Princess was given 14 times in Dresden in 1916/17 under Fritz Reiner with a cast including Ludwig Ermold, Minnie Nast, Georg Zottmayr and Richard Tauber.
He died in Vevey, Switzerland in 1957, aged 88.
(pianorarescores.com)
Ede Poldini (13 June 1869 – 28 June 1957) was a Hungarian composer of the late romantic / early modern period. Famous in Hungary for writing many operas, he became internationally famous when Fritz Kreisler transcribed his piano piece "La poupée valsante" for violin.
Poldini studied with István Tomka in Budapest and with Eusebius Mandyczewski in Vienna. In 1908 he settled in Switzerland, writing two of his more famous operas: The Vagabond and the Princess (1903) and Wedding in Carnival Time (1924). These were both produced in London, the latter under the title Love Adrift. Himfy was produced in 1938 in Budapest. (Wiki)
Poldini is best known for his miniature piano pieces, such as "La poupée valsante", given wider audience in Fritz Kreisler's transcription, "Arlequinades", "Morceaux pittoresques", "Episodes à la cour", "Images", and "Moments musicaux". "Marionettes" were seven piano pieces that he later orchestrated.
His one-act opera The Vagabond and the Princess was given 14 times in Dresden in 1916/17 under Fritz Reiner with a cast including Ludwig Ermold, Minnie Nast, Georg Zottmayr and Richard Tauber.
He died in Vevey, Switzerland in 1957, aged 88.
It wouldn't be a French music celebration without these two works. But unlike the two composers' string quartets, where I cannot for the life of me decide a favorite between them, the Ravel trio here wins hands down. At times, the Debussy trio - a very early work - can seem most un-Debussy-like.
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