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[aligreto]

Debussy: String Quartet [Parrenin Quartet]





My impression of this version is that it highlights the conversational, discursive nature of this work very well.

[aligreto]

I sold most of my LP's but this one is stil in my collection,I have seen it even more expensive.Mine is in mint condition

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/SXL-2020-Chabrier-Espana-Rimsky-Korsakov-Capriccio-Espagnol-Argenta-ED1-WBG-TAS/323782940148?hash=item4b62f795f4:g:R2AAAOSwAL9Uclnj

Interestingly, that is the same seller that was selling the Ravel LP that I own. Perhaps a seller that specialises in rare vinyl.

[Mandryka]

Drop dead gorgeous duet by Pierre de la Rue called Mijn Hert. Powerful Wolkenstein song, In Suria, sung by Ramm with a bit of lute in the background, sung with with a lot of variety - sometimes declamatory sometimes confidential.


At their best Binkley and Ramm are astonishing.

[JBS]

I sold most of my LP's but this one is stil in my collection,I have seen it even more expensive.Mine is in mint condition

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/SXL-2020-Chabrier-Espana-Rimsky-Korsakov-Capriccio-Espagnol-Argenta-ED1-WBG-TAS/323782940148?hash=item4b62f795f4:g:R2AAAOSwAL9Uclnj

Even the CD version is also on the pricey side
https://www.amazon.com/Espa%C3%B1a-Argenta-London-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B0000041K6/

[Madiel]

Collectors from the Far East. They drive the market for rare and desirable LPs.

My own response would have been, a computer algorithm that doesn't entirely understand human behaviour.

[SymphonicAddict]

The whole disc. The Violin Sonatas are sheer passion! The other pieces are more restrained and spiritual, worth listening too.

[Kontrapunctus]

Superb playing and sound on this LP.

[JBS]

CD 2, Sonatas 3-6
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[Que]

It's a Wolfy sort of day...

A recording I like.   

(Not so sure about the painting, though....)

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[Que]

Morning listening - a new arrival:

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http://www.sonusantiqva.org/i/E/EgidiusK/2004FortuneHelas.html

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[pjme]

 
https://www.youtube.com/v/rBP8SuZgETk

[Harry]

Francisco Guerau, (1649-1722). The Complete Works for Guitar. "En la última destreza" CD III.

Xavier Diaz-Latorre, plays on a 5 course guitars by Julio Castano.

A truly beautiful set in all respects, bought for a song, and delivered a plethora of beautiful sounds. It is well played and recorded. Why it was not picked up on GMG I have no idea, but I can guarantee, you missed out on it greatly.

[Harry]

A English Fancy.

Trio Settecento.

A marvelous set of 4 CD'S filled with high quality performances by this very competent ensemble. It put me on the trail of Rachel Barton Pine, easily one of my favourite violinists around. The interpretation of the music is an easy match for all that is on the market. So no need to hold back in acquiring the complete set. Sound is top notch.

[milk]

Duetto: Early Music for Keyboard 4 Hands
Quentin Faulkner/Mary Murrell Faulkner: fortepiano. positive organ, organ, harpsichord


Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-84)
Gabrieli, Giovanni (1558-1613)
Hassler, Hans Leo (1564-1612)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91)
Soler, Antonio (1729-83)
Tomkins, Thomas (1572-1656)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8648232--duetto-early-music-for-keyboard-4-hands

[Biffo]

Lassus: Magnificat octavi toni super Aurora lucis rutilat - The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers

[Traverso]

Messiaen

This a really fine set,well played and recorded

   
Les offrandes oubliées    
L'Ascension    
Poèmes pour Mi (version for soprano and orchestra)

[Biffo]

Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major - Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan

[Irons]

My own response would have been, a computer algorithm that doesn't entirely understand human behaviour.

Or more simply; More money then sense.

[Wakefield]

Carl Philipp Emmanuel  Bach: Six Collections of Sonatas, Free Fantasias, and Rondos for Connoisseurs and Amateurs (Third Collection, Wq 57)
Preethi de Silva, fortepiano and harpsichord

Preethi de Silva is founder and music director of Con Gioia and has performed extensively on the harpsichord and fortepiano as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, the UK, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka. London's Daily Telegraph praised her as "a musician of great accomplishment and imagination."

Born in Sri Lanka, where she received her early musical training, she later studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, earning diplomas in performance and teaching, and at Yale University, where she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. She also participated in workshops by harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt and fortepianist Malcolm Bilson. She is the winner of numerous awards and fellowships, including several from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), The JDR 3rd Fund, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, and the prestigious Erwin Bodky Award for early music performance. In 2006 she received an Exceptional Achievement Award from the Sri Lanka Foundation, Los Angeles. Preethi de Silva's recordings of keyboard works by C.P.E. Bach, J. G. Müthel, and Mozart have garnered extraordinary international critical acclaim. The journal Early Music (Oxford) recognized her for her "profound understanding of [C.P.E.] Bach's idiosyncratic language."

Her publications include music for harpsichord and oboe. As well, she has composed works for solo harpsichord and string quartet. Her book, Fortepiano Writings of Streicher, Dieudonné, and the Schiedmayers, on early nineteenth–century German manuals and a previously unpublished workshop notebook on fortepianos, was published by The Edwin Mellen Press and in 2008 was awarded The Adèle Mellen Prize "for its distinguished contribution to scholarship." She is the lead harpsichordist in Con Gioia's compact disc of J.S. Bach's concertos for harpsichord.

In 2011, First Hand Records (U.K.) released Harmonic Labyrinth, which includes her recordings of C.P.E. Bach's Folies d'Espagne and her own compositions for harpsichord. In recent years she has presented lecture-recitals and master classes in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Germany and performed on BBC-3 and the Handel House Museum in London. She also presented recitals in Berlin, Hamburg, and Leipzig at the invitation of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Germany and the University of the Arts, Berlin; and in commemoration of the 300th anniversary C.P.E. Bach's she performed recitals of his works in Germany and at the Zürich Festival.

De Silva's widely acclaimed recordings on five compact discs of C.P.E. Bach's Six Collections of Keyboard Sonatas, Free Fantasias, and Rondos for Connoisseurs and Amateurs were released in 2013-2014 by Centaur Records. She is emerita professor of music of Scripps College, Claremont, and adjunct professor of fortepiano at Claremont Graduate University.

I had never heard about her before; but now I'm tempted to order all her recordings of CPE Bach, although I have listened to just one of them.

As a performer she is deeply meditative (as CPE demands); extremely well articulated and able to convey every mood required by the music. Very, very interesting, IMO.

[jwinter]

Enjoying these... I think Tate is under-rated as a conductor of Mozart.  Yes, he's not in the same league as Szell, but I find Tate's Mozart unfailingly graceful, well-judged, and nicely recorded.  It's a bit middle-of-the-road, but honestly I'm OK with that -- sometimes you want Klemperer to blow your speakers up, but sometimes you just want to relax while listening to some beautiful music...