Spinning Today (Classical version)

[jandl100]

These again, they really are very good.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3WJJkixQ8rA4dAQ900T0jY

Solo violin "sonatas" by Tartini. Not in JSB's league, but still enjoyable.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1XeaPGxb0vwPK0zEXnXUta


https://open.spotify.com/album/01TwJEGdN2F31KIbOma1hK
Not bad at all. Enjoyable, but still a 2nd tier Bruckner performance for me, though.

[jandl100]

Bruckner's 0th, the "Nullte" which he disowned!! .... one of my favourite symphonies

https://open.spotify.com/album/1s9QgeroHYdjxPjOfYYJCI
Critically mauled, but I really like Venzago's Bruckner. He just sounds right to me, even if everyone else disagrees!

and an evening of G&S in a couple of superb performances on DVD-Video ...

[jandl100]

A reccie from a Wammer ...

https://open.spotify.com/album/7a5nMZpohlYIxEa3xgf7B1
Amazon review here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hillborg-Ele...words=hillborg

Weird avantgarde shit is happily absent, Hillborg seems comfortable with tonality, just it's of the 21stC kind - lots of interesting things going on, very varied. Long lines - he has an attention span longer than many composers seem to have these days.
Consider me a bit of a Hillborg fanboy.


https://open.spotify.com/album/6p8Q8JA89gcwcZqbjN1ooY
The opening track is remarkably like the start of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. It must be intentional.
... the problem is that it lasts for nearly half an hour. IgorS knew that he had to move on after a few minutes. OK, to be fair, there is some development and variety, and things do hot up after 20 minutes. Some tonalities and glissandi are very like Gloria Coates' music (which is a good thing!).
Yep, interesting music.

[jandl100]

Guridi again. I do like his quartets.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2OW8oxamsmdoU5d50gJruY

So I thought I'd try this as well.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2OW8oxamsmdoU5d50gJruY
And apart from a 13 minute piece involving a childrens' chorus it was really good!


https://open.spotify.com/album/4TmGlkaHlh6YZ6YHTSZPTx
Pleasant and quite interesting. Nothing to scare the horses.

I then tried some Enescu symphonies, but they didn't do anything for me.


https://open.spotify.com/album/1QYAUCfTmZBtxRbHy9OAtk
I was surprised how good these were!

And to wind up the evening, K.406 string quintet from

https://open.spotify.com/album/1GIXh9GmX4vmL7YG9satsd
Chamber music doesn't get better than this.

[surv1v0r]

Allegri - Miserere - Tallis Scholars

Quite wonderful and absolutely fascinating watching the technique of the singers

[jandl100]

This is interesting ...

https://open.spotify.com/album/53bGKGt7H9gvl9PqI1rJhs
Franz Clement wrote his violin concerto a year before Beethoven wrote his own, and he commissioned and was the soloist in the 1st performance of the Beethoven concerto.
I've listened to the Clement concerto 3 times now, and each time it sounds increasingly like Beethoven just copied it and extended the ideas / emboldened it to create his own concerto! Astonishingly alike in places. Yup, plagiarism was alive and well back then, and Beethoven was not above a bit of borrowing.
I find it quite shocking, in fact!

[m10]

Solti's Das Rheingold (1958) on HFPA blu-ray. Like the gin and tonic of Wagner recordings - direct and refreshing. Beginning extended preparations for my first live Wagner in the summer.

[m10]

double post

[dougmon]

Oddly enough, I find this very relaxing...

[jandl100]

This is exceedingly pleasant 'light baroque' ...

https://open.spotify.com/album/3FAEiAc4B1ovh3FUQlzXfr

Not so keen on Hasse's choral music. Didn't like some Italian Cantatas.

But these solo organ 'concertos' were good, light and entertaining

https://open.spotify.com/album/2iQWEfF2eoMybuJN8tGCYG

and for a gentle end to the evening ...

https://open.spotify.com/album/3oppj34CAu3xGafsashNSt