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Mandryka

Quote from: foxandpeng on May 24, 2025, 10:48:46 AMUnknown to me - worth a recommendation, I assume?

Christopher Fox is a composer the establishment avant garde take seriously -- he has a festschrift and such like. I like his music very much.
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foxandpeng

Quote from: Mandryka on May 24, 2025, 10:53:05 AMChristopher Fox is a composer the establishment avant garde take seriously -- he has a festschrift and such like. I like his music very much.

On my list, then! Thank you 😊
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prémont

Quote from: Mandryka on May 24, 2025, 10:51:55 AM

Do we need another recording of French lollipops on a Dutch harpsichord? In all fairness, it sounds very nice, but it's a competitive field.


Only SACD it seems.
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Mandryka

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prémont

Quote from: Mandryka on May 24, 2025, 11:04:39 AMThis also may or may not be of interest -- two Bach trio sonatas for guitar and harpsichord.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9768476--konrad-thoms-ragossnig-play-works-for-lute-guitar-harpsichord

Yes indeed, Konrad Ragossnig was a very good musician.
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vandermolen

Quote from: foxandpeng on May 15, 2025, 02:09:05 PMQuality, sir, as ever.
Thank you my friend!  ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

Should I buy Koechlin's 1st Symphony?
I need to know!  ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Daverz

Quote from: vandermolen on May 25, 2025, 04:50:30 AMShould I buy Koechlin's 1st Symphony?
I need to know!  ;D

It's his orchestration of his String Quartet No. 2. 


(Answer is yes, of course).

vandermolen

Quote from: Daverz on May 25, 2025, 01:23:53 PMIt's his orchestration of his String Quartet No. 2. 


(Answer is yes, of course).
Thank you. I was very taken with the opening of the symphony on You Tube and have ordered it  :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Mandryka

Just discovered this - released in February this year




It would be difficult to think of an instrument in the United Kingdom today better suited to William Byrd's music than the St Telio organ in the vicinity of Cardiff, Wales. Built by the English organ builders Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn in 2001, this chamber instrument is based on a remarkable discovery - a soundboard unearthed in 1977 in Suffolk. Its pipes are constructed on the only pipes surviving from the mediaeval West Country tradition from John Loosemore's 1665 organ for Nettlecombe Court. The extremely narrow scaling produ- ces a sound which is surprisingly rich with a somewhat sibilant trait. It works with hand-ope- rated bellows. This gives rise to very subtle surges and dips in volume and sound pressure as well as the occasional rattle and creak, adding an extra layer of authenticity.
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Brian

"Adrian Boult, the Warner Classics Edition"
36 CDs sometime this fall

lordlance

Quote from: Brian on May 27, 2025, 07:37:54 AM"Adrian Boult, the Warner Classics Edition"
36 CDs sometime this fall
Found a bunch of listings online but no track listing yet sadly.
If you are interested in listening to orchestrations of solo/chamber music, you might be interested in this thread.
Also looking for recommendations on neglected conductors thread.

Mandryka

Quote from: Brian on April 04, 2025, 06:02:21 AMand finally, the biggest release of the month by star power:



Kozena is excellent here, obviously. Someone I know confidently asserted that Uchida plays lots of wrong notes, but it doesn't seem to get in the way.
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