What We Are Listening To [2021-12]

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Ray Charles Still awesome

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Nothing. I’m listening to nothing. I’m getting networking installed and my home is torn apart.
I"M NOT GONNA MAKE IT SOMEONE SEND A DAP!!!

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“This recording features three imaginative and dynamic works by GRAMMY¼ Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty. The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra gives exciting performances under the baton of long-time music director Neal Gittleman, joined by classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco, electric guitarist D. J. Sparr, and narrator Michael Lippert. Bay of Pigs for Classical Guitar and Strings evokes the bittersweet and turbulent events of past and present Cuba. Gee’s Bend for Electric Guitar and Orchestra is a tapestry of syncopated grooves, slow blues and spirituals inspired by the quilts and African- American women quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. TROYJAM for Narrator and Orchestra, with a poetic libretto by Anne Carson, retells the story of the Trojan War from Homer’s Iliad, but with a twist: the Greeks, led by the “lyre-strumming” Achilles against the Trojans led by Hector, decide to play the instruments of the orchestra in a wild jam session to make music, not war.”

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between you @miklats and @Andreas_Philipp1 my knowledge and appreciation for classical has improved greatly. I am sure there are others as well, I am awful with names so forgetting seems apropos.

But thank you all.

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As you are unable to listen to anything at the moment I have just added a little text that you may read 
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I added it. I have a phone and some IEMs
I’ll listen to the new suggestions later.

We’d have to mention @wkimbel87 who has good taste and frequently makes very fine suggestions. Here we are all learning which makes it fun and worthwhile.

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True ! :+1: And @HWZ too :smiley:

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After listening to Anne Akiko Meyers’ recordings on the incredibly sonorous ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri violin I realized that I probably hadn’t ever listened to the concertos by Vieuxtemps himself, with the exception of his most popular Concerto No.4. So I came up with this 3-CD set from 2011 with the complete concertos, each played by another virtuoso violinist.

Dating from 1840–1870, this music strikes as somewhat anachronistic. But it’s lyrical and clearly designed to show off the composer’s skill as virtuoso violinist, probably the most skilled at his time. I think this is music which should be performed more often, and there are many passages where the violin sings very beautifully. Now, if only Ms. Meyers would record these concertos on her Vieuxtemps violin
 that would be something.

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Vinyl time


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If you’re still looking for festive tones that aren’t quite freshly produced, you’ll find them here:

Adolf Scherbaum recorded these festive baroque recordings with Maurice André in the 1960s.

http://www.maurice-andre.com/

I found October 6, 1988 as the release date in my collection. Qobuz gives March 6, 1989 with the same cover and Deutsche Grammophon is also given. Discogs mentions other versions and this table of contents that arouses interest:

Prélude Te Deum
Composed By - Marc Antoine Charpentier
Conductor - Paul Kuentz
Orchestra - Orchestre De Chambre Paul Kuentz
1:35
2 Symphonies Pour Les Soupers Du Roy
Composed By - Michel Richard Delalande
Conductor - Paul Kuentz
Orchestra - Orchestre De Chambre Paul Kuentz
15:14
Concertos For Trumpet And Orchestra No. 2 In D Major (Sinfonia con tromba)
Composed By - Giuseppe Torelli
Conductor - Adolf Scherbaum
Orchestra - Hamburger Barock-Ensemble
3 1st Allegro - Adagio - Allegro 3:03
4 2nd Grave Diviso In Due Chori D’Istromenti - Allegro - Adagio 2:19
5 3rd Allegro 1:47
Concerto No. 10 in G minor (HHA: Concerto I)
Composed By - George Frideric Handel
Conductor - Karl Richter
Orchestra - Munich Bach Orchestra
6 1st Grave 2:58
7 2nd Allegro 1:42
8 3rd Sarabande. Largo 1:52
9 4th Allegro 1:52
Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major
Composed By - Michael Haydn
Conductor - Hans Stadlmair
Orchestra - Munich Chamber Orchestra
10 1st Adagio 7:18
11 2nd Allegro 3:14
Concertos For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major
Composed By - Leopold Mozart
Conductor - Karl Ristenpart
Orchestra - Chamber Orchestra of the Saarland Radio, SaarbrĂŒcken
12 1st Adagio 8:36
13 2nd Allegro 4:08
Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In E Flat Major
Composed By - Joseph Haydn
Conductor - Hans Stadlmair
Orchestra - Munich Chamber Orchestra

https://play.qobuz.com/album/0002894270202

Festliche TrompetenklÀnge

Adolf Scherbaum - Komponist: Various Composers

Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 6. MĂ€rz 1989

Klassik ‱ 16 Tracks ‱ 01h 11m 15s

1 Prélude Adolf Scherbaum 01:36

Nicanor Zabaleta

Nicanor Zabaleta was one of the foremost harpists of the twentieth century, as important to the advancement of the harp as Segovia was to the guitar. At the age of seven, Zabaleta’s father, an amateur musician, bought him a harp from an antique shop. The young Nicanor soon began taking lessons from Vincenta Tormo de Calvo, who was on the Madrid Conservatory faculty, and with Luisa Menarguez. At 17, he began studies in Paris; among his teachers there were Marcel Tournier and Jacqueline Borot. He made his official concert debut in the French capital in 1926. After a brief stint in the military, he traveled to the United States, where he made his North American debut in 1934 and remained a resident for the next two decades. Two years later, he began concert tours of Cuba and Mexico, where he achieved enough critical acclaim to command substantial fees for his concert appearances. His association with Australian-born American composer/critic Peggy Glanville-Hicks, who was active in organizing concerts of contemporary music in the 1940s and 1950s, further advanced his career in the United States. At a 1950 concert in Puerto Rico, Zabaleta met his future wife Graziela, and they were married two years later. They relocated to Spain and Zabaleta thereafter began touring the major cities of Europe, including Paris, Amsterdam, London, Munich, Copenhagen, and Zurich. JoaquĂ­n Rodrigo arranged his Concierto de Aranjuez as the Concierto Serenata for him in 1952, and Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera composed a concerto (1956-64) for him, which Zabaleta premiered with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1965. Nearly 30 other composers from throughout Europe and the Americas wrote works for him, as well. But his repertory was often more traditional and included works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Debussy, and Ravel. Along with giving numerous solo and orchestral concerts, Zabaleta made many recordings, mostly in the 1960s and the decades following. It is estimated that he sold as many as three million records. His later concerts included critical successes at the Theatre Champs ÉlysĂ©es in Paris on March 21, 1981, and in San Jose, CA, on March 12 and 13, where he played concertos by Mozart and Villa-Lobos. His final concert, on June 16, 1992, in Madrid, was given when he was already in seriously declining health.

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Nicanor Zabaleta - Himmlische Harfe

Nicanor Zabaleta - Komponist: Various Composers

Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 1. Januar 1989

Klassik ‱ 15 Tracks ‱ 01h 08m 29s

or

The Art of Nicanor Zabaleta

Nicanor Zabaleta - Komponist: Various Composers

Erschienen bei UMG Recordings, Inc. am 22. August 2020

Klassik ‱ 68 Tracks ‱ 05h 15m 02s

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Yesterday I listened to James Ehnes’ second recording of the Bach sonatas and partitas for violin. In 2000 he released a very good version on Analekta, and during last year’s lockdown he recorded the pieces again at home. I must say I am impressed! The new interpretation may be one of the very best I have ever heard.

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Thank you Andreas. I added the album to my list.

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