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In these pages, I’ll post the album art and list of performers associated with whatever I’m listening to at the time. If something about the performance sticks out as worthy of comment, I’ll comment on it too! My latest ‘listens’ will appear at the end of the list (it’s the way the website software works, I’m afraid).
On the whole, most of my music ‘plays’ are performed by AMP in its randomised mode: I have little to no control over what pops up, or in what order. Which is how I like it (otherwise, I tend to be a creature of habit and choose the same stuff over and over again!). If I mention ‘the randomiser’, that’s what I’m referring to. If I mention specifically choosing something to play, it means I temporarily over-rode the randomiser and decided to make AMP do my own bidding 🙂
Potentially, because I listen to lots of different music throughout the day, these pages are more of a ‘blog’ than the blog pages, which get updated once a week if we’re lucky! Here, there’ll be multiple updates every day, assuming I’m actually listening to music and not just sleeping something off and hoping my head puts itself back together at some point!
Reinhard Keiser’s Der geliebte Adonis
Thomas Ihlenfeldt, Capella Orlandi Bremen, Marietta Zumbült (Venus), Ralf Popken (Adonis), Susanna Rydén (Eumene)
Georg Christoph Wagenseil’s Trombone Concerto in E flat major                                       Â
Jan Willem de Vriend, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jörgen van Rijen (trombone)This is an exceptionally fine disk, with many wonderful, attractive trombone/brass showpieces included.
William Byrd’s The Keyboard Music of William Byrd, Vol. 3 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
All played on the Ahrend organ of l’Église-Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
Henri Dumont’s Cantica Sacra                 Â
René Depoutot, Concert Royal de Nancy
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s Requiem à 15 in Concerto
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations
Duration: 00:44:31A requiem that’s sonically somewhat out of the ordinary (or is that just because it was recorded in Salzburg Cathedral, with what sounds like a wonderfully resonant acoustic?) For whatever reasons: it is a rather splendid way to send someone off on their final journey over the Styx!
László Lajtha’s Symphony ‘Les Soli’     Â
Simone Fontanelli, Budapest Chamber Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 00:31:31Strange sounds. Definitely ‘modern’, but spooky, eerie and fundamentally very tonal.
Georgy Sviridov’s Snowstorm
Vladimir Fedoseyev, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
Duration: 00:29:24Soviet realism writ big, bold and brassy! Love it!
Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes                                                                                                                                       Â
Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Emily Birsan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor)
Duration: 00:51:18
James Horner’s Titanic
James Horner
Duration: 01:12:29Not really classical music at all, but a fine, sweeping orchestral score that wordlessly narrates a tale that has fascinated for more than a century. The big song sung by Celine Dione (or someone else with a giant, screechy, shouted soprano voice) is unfortunate, however!
AntonÃn Dvořák’s Symphony No. 5  Â
Witold Rowicki, London Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 00:37:01Pleased to see that these recordings got David Hurwitz’s thumbs-up in his most recent video blog review. It is always nice to feel vindicated in ones choices from years ago! (I don’t think he mentions in his review, but these recordings all date from somewhere between 1965 and 1971: they sound excellent, though, regardless).
Manuel de Falla’s La Meunière et le Corregidor           Â
Josep Pons, Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure
Duration: Â Â Â Â 00:45:27
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