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Late night listening on headphones 🎧

Piano 🎹 Four hands 🙌  🙌

French Duets (Faure, Poulenc, Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel) - played by Steve Osbourne and Paul Lewis

 

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8 hours ago, Dilettanteque said:

Bernard Haitink, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 2

Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 9

 

I've never really got into Gustav's symphonies, but I am reliably informed that, like Wagner,  his music is much better than it sounds.

 

--Geoff

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Beethoven symphony no. 3 and Strauss horn concerto no. 1 by one of my favourite labels Reference Recordings. 

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Here is another Chandos release by John Wilson and Sinfonia of London that I enjoy. 

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Takacs Quartet with Garrick Ohlsson- Piano Quintets by Amy Beach and Edward Elgar.

 

Many Hyperion CDs don’t always sound good in my system but this one is not bad. 

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This is not a CD, but the performance is available on YouTube.

 

Another of Bach's unsurpassable choral works, the great 'Mass in B Minor' (High Mass).
This time with the choir of St Thomas Church, Leipzig......the very church where J.S. Bach served as Cantor (for more than 20 years), until his passing in 1750.
 
The 'Gloria' from Bach's 'Mass in B Minor'.  A quite animated performance (from 2013) and good audio quality.
 

 

 

 

And now the towering conclusion to Bach's Mass in B Minor......Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace). Was Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest genius ever produced by the human race?

 

 

 

 
 
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Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov - Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano

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I really quite enjoy this version  of the sonatas for its energy and engagement. My most familiar point of comparison is Perlman /Ashkenazy. 

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This CD by the Latvian Radio Choir is fantastic, highlighting music by Ešenvalds, Vasks and Bryars. The highlight of the CD is the Cadman Requiem which was written for a friend of Gavin Bryars who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash in 1988.

 

CD ripped to Innuos Zen Mini Mk 3 and playing via Roon 

 

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Here is a performance of J.S. Bach's monumental oratorio, St Matthew Passion (BWV 244).
This is one of the summits of Western classical music and it takes a full 2 hours 33 mins to unfold. It is here performed by the Tölzer Knabenchor (Tolzer Boys Choir) and the Hofkapelle München, conducted by Christian Fliegner.
The soprano and alto arias are sung by boys (trebles), which is a tad unfair, although it corresponds to the practice of Bach's time. However, they (the boy soloists) do a mighty job of it but it's really asking a bit too much of them.
The instruments are (largely) period instruments of Bach's time (or copies).
 
I have chosen the magnificent final chorus ....
" Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder "....We sit down with tears
And call to you in your tomb.
A truly heart-wrenching conclusion to what is sometimes claimed to be the greatest choral work, ever written.
 
This is a magnificent and energetic performance and well worth a viewing. As I always say, turn up the volume and enjoy.
 
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