What are you listening to now?

[Madiel]

After two listens to Jeu de Cartes, time for my first ever listen to Orpheus.

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And wow, the start is very alluring indeed.

[Harry]

Certainly. I had decided to reduce my CD-purchases this year, but it seems impossible to do so, and I already feel the pain in my wallet.

AMEN!

Well two people I respect on this forum are equally happy with this ensemble. I will start with some recordings of them, any recommendations?

[Mandryka]

Certainly. I had decided to reduce my CD-purchases this year, but it seems impossible to do so, and I already feel the pain in my wallet.

Did you notice that v10 of the complete Scheidt has been released? Music from the Görlitzer Tablaturbuch.

[North Star]

Well two people I respect on this forum are equally happy with this ensemble. I will start with some recordings of them, any recommendations?

Their two Dufay discs on Alpha are both beauties, Harry.

[Richard]

And if you like Baroque vocal music at all, you will want this box (contains the Monteverdi set in question, among others), now.

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A simply brilliant collection!!

And may I suggest if you want to dig deeper into the Baroque opera repertoire, get this before it's gone:

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[aligreto]

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Markevitch....





Still my favourite version but I have not yet managed to buy the Markevitch/Berlin Philharmonic version. Perhaps I will in early 2016.

[Harry]

Their two Dufay discs on Alpha are both beauties, Harry.

Right they go on my list my friend, thank you!

[André]

[Todd]

Disc 4 from the Petri box.  A nice Brahms Paganini Variations performance coupled to lots of Busoni.  There's a reason I don't listen to much Busoni.  In a fair number of pieces, take all the counterpoint of Bach, but remove the enjoyable music portion, and you're left with Busoni.  The Busonified Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole here (with orchestra!) is exactly the type of Liszt and Liszt approximations I don't like - it's the antithesis of Albanese's magnificent take on the work proper.

[aligreto]

De Gant: Recorder Sonatas....





Most charming and enjoyable.

[EigenUser]

Messiaen's Poemes pour Mi (orchestral version):
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[Mandryka]

 


Franz Raml plays Samuel Scheidt's In Ortus Cardine, Domini Veni Redemptor Gentium and a couple of Magnificats, all from Bk 3 of Samuel Scheidt's Tabulatura Nova.

The first thing to say is that this volume by Raml, which collects together all of Book 3 of the Tabulatura Nova, contains some complicated  music, same genre as Froberger's capricci (I'm thinking of Egarr) or Sweelinck's Fantasias (I'm thinking of Asperen.)

I chose these pieces because I wanted to compare Raml with volume 5 of The Fagott Complete Scheidt, Christopher Lehman's CD. Lehman plays with dramatic contrasts, relishes fruity registrations and long lyrical phrases.  Raml is leaner and lither, he makes the music come alive through the voicing.

Raml's sound quality is excellent, as is Lehman's - and the sound quality of each seems to suit the different approaches. Raml is strobe lit - everything clear. Lehman sounds richer and more resonant.

[North Star]

Schumann
Violin Sonatas
Widmann & Várjon
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[Harry]

If anyone knows where I can get the Bach organ works played by Andre Isoir for a good price I would be grateful for all info. For now the lowest price is Amazon It 44,95, but the charge for sending it makes it more expensive.

[Que]

Just in:

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If anyone knows where I can get the Bach organ works played by Andre Isoir for a good price I would be grateful for all info. For now the lowest price is Amazon It 44,95, but the charge for sending it makes it more expensive.

Not that it matters (at all), but on Isoir our ways in Bach part....     

Q

[Harry]

Just in:

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Not that it matters (at all), but on Isoir our ways in Bach part....     

Q

I know Que, but I want to build up a collection of divers interpretations. There are some aspects I like about Isoir.

[Camphy]

If anyone knows where I can get the Bach organ works played by Andre Isoir for a good price I would be grateful for all info. For now the lowest price is Amazon It 44,95, but the charge for sending it makes it more expensive.

http://www.bachmuziekshop.nl/la-dolce-volta-/1468-bach-volledige-orgelwerken-door-andre-isoir-3770001901633.html

[Harry]

http://www.bachmuziekshop.nl/la-dolce-volta-/1468-bach-volledige-orgelwerken-door-andre-isoir-3770001901633.html

That's already better, thank you very much.

[North Star]

Beethoven
String Quartet No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 131
Endellions
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[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Thank you for that.