Spinning Today (Classical version)

[m10]

[jandl100]

https://open.spotify.com/album/7ibQukTn3nFIIsEs6Y9WTJ
The 1st symphony.
An easy blend of classical and blues/jazz from one of the first African-American composers.
Wonderful stuff.

[jandl100]

https://open.spotify.com/album/3g6ypSbHQXfpAP2rCAqRHB
Nice, the clavichord has a very distinctive, plangent sound.

I like this, too ...


https://open.spotify.com/album/6st9oR7K0rPfNCv9puWmZF

[jandl100]

Bejeebers - this is high quality organ music!


https://open.spotify.com/album/0l7KbJDDOtjkZ9HgH8W2S8

and a couple from this series ...


https://open.spotify.com/album/3mn19ropla9b758rTIKzE0

I can't believe I sat and listened to well over 2 hours of organ music on the trot last night.
But this is good stuff! - JSB, watch yer back!

[m10]

An afternoon Emperor, while I do some proofreading.

[jandl100]

This was a surprise ... and a nice one ...

https://open.spotify.com/album/088wwO5Iob2FpV8awTWSUP
Quite probably the best Bax symphony I have heard (not much of a challenge, I hear you say ), and not even one of the better known numbered ones.


https://open.spotify.com/album/2M8qgO3qU6r6ILAd8B4J7X
Piano trios 1 & 2. Really good! I shall be playing the rest of this set.

[jandl100]

Lawd help me, but I'm becoming a Bernstein fanboy.
What with the cataclysmically wonderful Mahler 3 (NYPO) a week or so back, and now listening to this Brahms 1 ...


https://open.spotify.com/album/59Tia27Lk35SoT7DqB5pcZ

And what have they done to the sound?
- it sounds fairly good now, I'm sure it used to be thin and kinda scrawny?

[dougmon]

Some of my favorite musicians on this one; Jacob Heringman (lute), Susanna Pell (viola da gamba), Catherine King (mezzo).

[jandl100]

Played the lot just now - 1 thru 5 Love it.

[jandl100]

https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZNetkvZd0EsHIqYxCRMQA

A magnificent performance, excellent stereo sound for the 1958 recording date, a bit of tape hiss.

I couldn't resist going straight on to this ...


https://open.spotify.com/album/2XF4GhKOvsWt1viozHlx8a

Interesting.
I marginally prefer Bernstein's vocal soloists, the ladies are a bit shrill on the high notes in the Fricsay.
A bit more pep in the 2nd mvt from Bernstein.
But Fricsay marginally preferred for the overall grandeur of the occasion and a more naturally flowing Adagio.
The mvt timings are remarkably similar.
Good to have both, though.
Less tape hiss than the Fricsay.


https://open.spotify.com/album/25lEIWJGmIwoFlm5DtN0az
A nicely varied programme - a Boccherini concert, really.