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What are you listening to? Part III

LizKat said:
I'm up for that. Here's a performance from the Green Mountain Project..

And to stick w/ Monteverdi -- this is all your fault, I'm supposed to be in jazz night on Friday :confused: -- a couple of excerpts from L'Orfeo, including "Vi ricorda, o boschi ombrosi", performed by Zachary Wilder and the Ensemble Clematis. btw I have Clematis' album Monteverdi & Rossi: Balli & Sonate, which is wonderful and includes the works performed here.




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The Green Mountain Project version is superb, isn't it?
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Oh, wow. Do enjoy.

Do you recommend it enough that I should consider ordering it?
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I've never heard of her before last night when I saw she would be performing at my local symphony this October so I looked her up on Apple Music and had a listen to that album, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I can recommend it to you as well.

I haven't seen you post in this thread, there is a lot of good Classical Music conversation going on here.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mmophon-including-full-length-operas.2131920/
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
I've never heard of her before last night when I saw she would be performing at my local symphony this October so I looked her up on Apple Music and had a listen to that album, I thoroughly enjoyed it and I can recommend it to you as well.

I haven't seen you post in this thread, there is a lot of good Classical Music conversation going on here.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mmophon-including-full-length-operas.2131920/
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Ah, that is because that is a section of the from where I rarely - if ever - venture.

I never knew it existed (so, thanks for the link).

Deutsche Grammophon are the gold standard for classical recordings so this is very interesting (though one of the old Soviet labels was superlative as well; they were all called Melodiya, and were all state owned and state run, but the colour of the label was changed depending on what sort of music was recorded, and also served to signal a difference in the quality of the recording).
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Queen this morning whist I did some reports. Specifically Greatest hits 2. A superb album!

My favourite being who wants to live forever!
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I recently watched The Story of Queen: Mercury Rising. An interesting documentary about the group. Farrohk (Freddie Mercury) was born in Zanzibar to Parsis parents from India...which is where he primarily grew up. The family moved to England when Farrokh was 17 years old.

 
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As ABBA will release 2 NEW songs (newly written, newly recorded) later this year, I’m cruising through their music, and their immense song treasure. Came across a song I haven’t heard often at all.
Amazing. Those girls voices :)

 
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bbrks said:
Beautiful seventies....thank you for reminding me ...:)
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Didn’t listen to them so much in youth actually. I was too young when they were really big.
Some were part of my party music though, in late 70’s early 80’s :)
Since some time back I have explored some of the lesser known songs, and there’s a lot of them, and even more recently. Some pearls, for sure.
 
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Will have to get this set pronto.

The performances of the Deutsches Requiem and the Bruckner 8 I have heard on other issues.

But the third disk is intriguing. Berger and Einem — even nowadays, hardly "household names".

A welcome reminder how Karajan did "do" modern composers — and do them damn well! See the Berg/Webern/Schoenberg set for example.
A pity he felt the need in the 80s to re-re-re-record so many of his much finer earlier records… I guess Deutsche Grammophon just couldn't say "Nein! Keine mehr Beethoven. Genug!, mehr als genug!"

And of course the finest Honegger is Karajan's own recording of the 70s (60s?). So to hear his Salzburg live version would be rather a bonus.

Thanks for sharing!
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Lioness~ said:
As ABBA will release 2 NEW songs (newly written, newly recorded) later this year, I’m cruising through their music, and their immense song treasure. Came across a song I haven’t heard often at all.
Amazing. Those girls voices :)

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Fingers crossed the new songs live up to expectations. :)

After all the decades of saying that they will never do anything else after they split up.

Agree on their voices. (I am such an unashamed ABBA fan.)

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Yikes! Holy Smilies overuse. Apologies.
[doublepost=1534166512][/doublepost]Haven't posted much recently in this thread, so… a few things that caught my ear recently:

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Bach: Goldberg Variations (Arranged for for String Quartet)
Ardeo Quartet.

Just a really lovely take on a much heard and played favourite.

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2.
Subramaniam: Journey
Lakshminarayana Subramaniam; Øystein Baadsvik

East meets West. Indian violin and Tuba? Who woulda thunk it? Works though.

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3.
Melanie De Biasio – Lilies

She has a voice I can listen to all evening…

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4.
Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse

"Explicit" so maybe not to everyone's taste. *cough* *cough*

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