What Are You Listening To? May 2022

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Ojai Sam said:
The Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips, cond.) - Josquin des Prez: Missa Pange Lingua-Missa La Sol Fa Re Me (composed 1514; recorded 1986)

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Not to be confused with Josquin de Kessalia. :rolleyes:
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”

 
Ojai Sam said:
The Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips, dir.) - Browne: Music From The Eton Choirbook (comp. c. 1490, rec. 2005)

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Gorgeous polyphonic music from the Tudor era. :heart:

These folks sure look and sound like they are having a lot of fun. :banana:

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O good grief… the replies to this are hilarious!
are you boys dolphins swimming in a river, or what
 
David Binney - Free To Dream (1998)

This lineup is a group of youngsters getting ready to take over a corner of Jazz for the next decade or so. Binney, Donny McCaslin, Edward Simon, Adam Rogers, Scott Colley, Alex Sipiagin and others. Lots of good stuff here.
 
Cantus Colln-Musica Fiata-Knabenchor Hannover - Schutz: Psalms, Motets, Concertos (comp. mid-17th Century, rec. 1992)

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Wiki tells us:

"Heinrich Schütz (18 October 1585 – 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the Early Baroque. Most of his surviving music was written for the Lutheran church, primarily for the Electoral Chapel in Dresden. He wrote what is traditionally considered to be the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost, along with nearly all of his ceremonial and theatrical scores. Schütz was a prolific composer, with more than 500 surviving works."
 
Halle Orchestra (John Barbirolli, cond.) - Viennese Prom Concert (1967)

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The Halle Orchestra, named after its founder, Sir Edward Halle, has been entertaining Manchester audiences since 1858. Sir John Barbirolli led the Halle for 25 years ending in 1968. Somewhat surprisingly for a British conductor, Barbirolli had a great feel for the ebullient works of the Strausses heard here.

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The album represented a typical program on a Sunday night at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, the longest running orchestral music series in the world dating back to 1895. Like the Boston Pops, the Proms has gone a long way toward popularizing classical music for a wide audience. The Royal Albert Hall website tells us:

"Today Henry Wood is remembered every year at the Proms with the placing of a bronze bust – borrowed from the Royal Academy of Music – at the back of the Royal Albert Hall’s stage. On the Last Night of the Proms each year, a member of the audience places a chaplet over the bust and Wood’s ‘Fantasia on British Sea Songs’ is performed."

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Leslie Howard - Liszt: Excelsior! And Other Rare Original Works (1995)

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Australian pianist Leslie Howard is the only person ever to record the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt. The set runs to 99 CD's. :oops:

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I wonder if anyone ever took the time to check his Liszt? :mrgreen:
 
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