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[Mandryka]

[prémont]

Dragosits' Froberger CD for Divox and her CD for Fra Bernardo called "Italia" are very fine, but the late French Baroque music programming of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is too late to me.

[Selig]

the late French Baroque music programming of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is too late to me.

How about some Chambonnières instead? Looks like this will arrive in August:

[Que]

Dragosits' Froberger CD for Divox and her CD for Fra Bernardo called "Italia" are very fine, but the late French Baroque music programming of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is too late to me.

Oh nooo! The more decadent, the better...

[Mandryka]

Dragosits' Froberger CD for Divox and her CD for Fra Bernardo called "Italia" are very fine, but the late French Baroque music programming of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is too late to me.

Me too really -- @Dry Brett Kavanaugh may like it though (I'm not sure why I say that.)

[Mandryka]

(They've recorded 1 through 5 - qobuz etc.)

[bioluminescentsquid]

Dragosits' Froberger CD for Divox and her CD for Fra Bernardo called "Italia" are very fine, but the late French Baroque music programming of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is too late to me.

I thought so too, but I enjoyed this recording - or at least parts of it. There was something satisfying about her sober and introspective playing that was able to turn this dross into gold.

[AnotherSpin]

Qobuz marked it as Pop/Rock-pop — what do you think?

[prémont]

How about some Chambonnières instead? Looks like this will arrive in August:

Good idea. Chambonnières is something else.

[prémont]

Oh nooo! The more decadent, the better...

This is not compatible with the reasons why I listen to music. 

[prémont]

I thought so too, but I enjoyed this recording - or at least parts of it. There was something satisfying about her sober and introspective playing that was able to turn this dross into gold.

Well. I don't stream. But no need to question Dragosits' excellency.

[Mandryka]

Qobuz marked it as Pop/Rock-pop — what do you think?

Glib.

[pjme]

The "Studiecentrum Vlaamse Muziek" (Study centre Flemish Music) has issued a second CD.

Gustave Huberti (Brussels, 1843-Schaarbeek, 1910) was born into an artistic environment. His father Edouard Huberti (1810-1880) was a gifted violinist and singer, and he composed operettas, songs and piano music. Around 1860 he began to manifest himself more and more as a painter. He mainly painted landscapes en plein air and thus belonged to the early 'School of Tervuren'. In the meantime, Gustave Huberti graduated from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles at the age of sixteen with a first prize in composition under director François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1871). In 1865 he won the Prix de Rome, which allowed him to continue studying in Germany for three years. Driven by his enthusiasm for the art of song by Robert Schumann, Huberti wrote in the years 1867-1868 about twenty songs on German verses by Gottfried August Bürger, Emanuel Geibel, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Ludwig Uhland. In Munich in September 1868, he wrote at least seven of a series of eight Wanderlieder on poems by Uhland in just a few days. Huberti dedicated this cycle to his friend, the bass-baritone Emiel Blauwaert (1845-1891). After his stay in Germany, Huberti spent another year in Italy with his stipend from the Prix de Rome, where he worked on his report Aperçu sur l'histoire de la musique religieuse des Italiens et des Néerlandais (1873). On his return to Belgium he came into contact with the poet Emanuel Hiel (1834-1899) and through him with the composer Peter Benoit (1834-1901). Huberti became a convinced supporter of Benoit's Flemish musical nationalist views, and he too composed to Dutch texts, including those by Hiel. After being director of the Académie de Musique of Mons for three years (1874-1877), Huberti became music inspector at the Antwerp city schools. During that period he mainly wrote compositions for children. In 1893 he became director of the École de Musique of Sint-Joost-ten-Node.

As an ardent Wagnerian, Huberti visited the Bayreuth Festival in 1889, where he accompanied Emiel Blauwaert at the piano in excerpts from the oratorio The War by Peter Benoit and in some of his own songs in Villa Wahnfried. Huberti also maintained contacts with composers of the 'Machtig hoopje'. When Aleksandr Borodin came to Antwerp during the World Exhibition of 1885, Huberti conducted his second symphony. Huberti's important works include, in addition to his songs, the symphonic poem Hymne à la science, Triomffeest for organ and orchestra, a piano concerto, the melodrama Christine (Leconte de Lisle) and the Symphonie funèbre, written under the influence of Hector Berlioz. Huberti was selective in the selection of the poems he set to music. This applies not only to the German Lieder; for his French mélodies he also used verses by famous nineteenth-century poets such as Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Sully Prudhomme, Alfred de Musset, Jean Richepin and Armand Silvestre. The unpublished song Pâle étoile du Soir (1866) is one of his earliest compositions and was set to a poem by his then favourite poet de Musset. In a number of mélodies from his last period, such as Lied (Gautier), Mal ensevelie (Prudhomme), Le monde est méchant (Gautier), and the sarcastic La pêche à la ligne (Richepin) (1905, dedicated to Eugène Ysaÿe) the musical invoice and the harmonic sound are much more progressive. This avant-garde tendency is very pronounced in two orchestral songs on poems by Richepin: Brume de midi and the dramatic scene A la dérive. Some melodies on verses by 15th and 16th century French poets date from an early period (1867-1868) and are set to music in a simpler way.

Source: Jozef De Beenhouwer

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Me too really -- @Dry Brett Kavanaugh may like it though (I'm not sure why I say that.)

I like it!

[AnotherSpin]

Glib.

?)

[prémont]

Qobuz marked it as Pop/Rock-pop — what do you think?

Probably a qobuz "special"! 

[Brian]

creeeepy!!!!!!

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

creeeepy!!!!!!

I can't see this image --- what is it, @Brian?

[JBS]

creeeepy!!!!!!

I'll do what @Harry does with Beauty Farm CDs: paste something else over it.

[JBS]

I can't see this image --- what is it, @Brian?

Jonas Kaufman singing Schumann's Dichterliebe and Kerner Lieder.
Unfortunately you need to see the cover to understand why @Brian's comment is justified.