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[Mirror Image]

Already posted about this one a few pages back.

[Mirror Image]

Note: I received this today. The discs are not in a box nor a clamshell unit. They are simply stacked into an open-ended box. A pretty cheap and flimsy presentation. Kubelik's Dvořák performances deserve better!!

Which is precisely why I bought this set some years back:

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The newer DG reissues haven't been too impressive in terms of presentation.

[Brian]

Rodion Shchedrin's opera The Left-Hander gets its premiere recording in March on the Mariinsky label.
Aulis Sallinen's opera King Lear gets its premiere recording in May on the Ondine label.

[The new erato]

Did anybody know that Vernon Duke (of Tea for Two fame) had written a violin concerto?

[The new erato]

If you can live without libretti (I guess) this is probably a good way to collect some first class Handel. 25 E on jpc prerelease.

[North Star]

If you can live without libretti (I guess) this is probably a good way to collect some first class Handel. 25 E on jpc prerelease.

Hercules libretto is here , and Giulio Cesare's libretto is available online translated into English, on Chandos's booklet for Mackerras's recording: http://www.chandos.net/pdf/CHAN%203019.pdf

[Dancing Divertimentian]

If you can live without libretti (I guess) this is probably a good way to collect some first class Handel. 25 E on jpc prerelease.

Nice trio of works. I have two of the tree (Hercules and Ariodante) and they are as you say: first class.

[The new erato]

I have all three and you won't be let down by the Giulio Cesare either.

[Moonfish]

Just spotted at jpc:

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – The Complete Sony Recordings, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Bruno Weil, 47 CDs

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/baroque-masterpieces-co/hnum/6489408

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[Jo498]

The Minkowski Handel is an incredible bargain. The Ariodante and Hercules are among the best recordings of baroque dramatic music available (I have not heard the Julius Caesar but it is probably at least very good). And each separate issue would cost >30 EUR, of course...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I have all three and you won't be let down by the Giulio Cesare either.

Good to know. Thanks. Now if I can only find a cheap copy...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

The Minkowski Handel is an incredible bargain. The Ariodante and Hercules are among the best recordings of baroque dramatic music available (I have not heard the Julius Caesar but it is probably at least very good).

Agreed. I would also add his La Resurrezione.

And each separate issue would cost >30 EUR, of course...

Which is exactly what I paid for each of mine at a brick and mortar store years ago.

But no regrets. They've been worth every penny.

[Drasko]

Did anybody know that Vernon Duke (of Tea for Two fame) had written a violin concerto?

He also wrote a ballet for Diaghilev, and you can probably find some more stuff under his real/original name which is Vladimir Dukelsky.

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[Brian]

Yes, "Plays & Sings":

Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons
Cantata RV684 'Cessate, omai cessate' for alto & strings
Gelido in ogni vena (from Il Farnace, RV711)

Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin, countertenor & conductor)
La Voce Strumentale

Beyond the technical and musical options chosen by Sinkovsky, his decision to integrate and sing the vocal pieces in this recording, the cantata 'Cessate omai Cessate' and the aria 'Gelido in ogni vena' from Farnace, give a unique twist to the whole concept. Russian baroque violinist and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky has had a huge profile in Europe and Australia over the past few years. He was the privileged partner of Joyce di Donato during her Drama Queen worldwide tour, of which he was konzertmeister.

[Pat B]

Yes, "Plays & Sings":

I have to admit I'm a bit of a sucker for Four Seasons gimmicks (I recently received von der Goltz's version with harp continuo on DHM) but Sinkovsky's "unique twist" does not really appeal to me at all.

[The new erato]

He also wrote a ballet for Diaghilev, and you can probably find some more stuff under his real/original name which is Vladimir Dukelsky.

I knew that, just not that he wrote concertos, especially for violin which is a special interest of mine. But thank you for reminding me about that Chandos disc, perhaps time to investigate! Anybody know it?

[Peter Power Pop]

Agreed. I would also add his La Resurrezione.

Yep. I think Minkowski's La Resurrezione is mighty fine, despite the shocker of a note by soprano Annick Massis in "Il Nume Vincitor" (at 1:00:46 in the video):

https://www.youtube.com/v/uDQbS-jAeXM

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Yep. I think Minkowski's La Resurrezione is mighty fine, despite the shocker of a note by soprano Annick Massis in "Il Nume Vincitor" (at 1:00:46 in the video):

https://www.youtube.com/v/uDQbS-jAeXM

I, err......have no quarrel with any of those notes. 0:) 0:)

[Peter Power Pop]

I, err......have no quarrel with any of those notes. 0:) 0:)

Oops. The dodgy note is at 1:00:46. Sorry about that.

https://www.youtube.com/v/uDQbS-jAeXM

[Drasko]

I knew that, just not that he wrote concertos, especially for violin which is a special interest of mine. But thank you for reminding me about that Chandos disc, perhaps time to investigate! Anybody know it?

I don't know it, unfortunately. When I was reading Diaghilev biography I was intending to hear all the ballets he commissioned, but few of the less known fell through the cracks. I got the two Tcherepnin ballets and couple of issues of Hanssler's Les Ballets Russes series (Schmitt, Auric, Tommasini, Sauguet), but missed the Dukelsky, then another out of print Chandos disc with Nicolas Nabokov's Ode and Constant Lambert's Romeo and Juliet on Hyperion.