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[SurprisedByBeauty]

Or Leia having a slit dress* 

Sarge

Or the death star being a disco ball.


(* I suppose I did imagine it that way, though.)

[Karl Henning]

Or Leia having a slit dress 

Sarge

Could be why they call them teasers.

[Moonfish]

Hmm, MI, have you slowed down in the Purchasing Department over the last few years?
Is your house "full" at this point in time?   

[Moonfish]

On a Russian Romp! Rough and Rustic! Brassy! Coughing Audiences! Crisp Metallic Sound!   

MusicWeb review: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Jul/Svetlanov_SC501.htm

[ritter]

Just ordered this live recording (from 1940), which many reviewers say is one of the best performances available of a work that, so far, has proven very elusive to me:



I was highly impressed not too long ago by a live recording of the Missa Solemnis conducted by Volkmar Andreae, but it remains a work I find hard to connect with. Let's see if Clemens Krauss (a conductor I greatly admire) helps me "get" the piece...

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

[Mookalafalas]

Saw this on sale, and pounced.  Never heard a thing by her, but praying she is like Franz Bruggen's sister...
For $25, figured it's worth the risk.

[asin]B079VRTWJS[/asin]

[Madiel]

Saw this on sale, and pounced.  Never heard a thing by her, but praying she is like Franz Bruggen's sister...
For $25, figured it's worth the risk.

[asin]B079VRTWJS[/asin]

You're unlikely to get better recorder playing. And I say that without having heard much. But recorder players were talking about Michala Petri in reverent tones when I was in high school.

[Mookalafalas]

You're unlikely to get better recorder playing. And I say that without having heard much. But recorder players were talking about Michala Petri in reverent tones when I was in high school.

  Just started listening.  Telemann--unaccompanied recorder duets.  Nothing to hide behind here.  I wonder if the recorder is the most unforgiving of any instrument? Each note has to be hit perfectly, or it will be immediately obvious.  Anyway, a great beginning.  Apparently some of the other disks are contemporary music written for her. I'm a bit leery of these--but even if only a few other disks are as good as the one I'm playing now, it will have been a good and reasonably priced purchase.

[Karl Henning]

You're unlikely to get better recorder playing. And I say that without having heard much. But recorder players were talking about Michala Petri in reverent tones when I was in high school.

Parenthetically . . . The Beatles famously did not credit guest musicians who executed Geo. Martin's various additions (granted, it was no worse than the then industry practice) . . . over the years, I have at times wondered just who played recorder on "Fool on the Hill."

[Madiel]

Apparently some of the other disks are contemporary music written for her. I'm a bit leery of these--

Those contemporary discs are why I'm considering the box. Specifically, a couple have Holmboe pieces (Petri and Holmboe both being Danish). One I think can't be obtained otherwise. The other... I own the other recording of Holmboe's Recorder Concerto. I found myself disappointed. Then I found Petri's recording online for streaming, and it is markedly better.

But Petri is largely responsible for recorders becoming an option again for 20th century composers.

[Madiel]

Parenthetically . . . The Beatles famously did not credit guest musicians who executed Geo. Martin's various additions (granted, it was no worse than the then industry practice) . . . over the years, I have at times wondered just who played recorder on "Fool on the Hill."

She would have been 9. Which is apparently 2 years before her debut as a soloist.

[Karl Henning]

Well, scratch that 

[Karl Henning]

[...] Apparently some of the other disks are contemporary music written for her.

That was one vibe of the epoch;  it was both the nascence of an awareness that music of Bach and before was not . . . native to the Big Romantic performance practice, and a practical sense that the inventory of of music was perforce limited (I do not think they anticipated the voracious appetite, in our day, for any and every scrap by any and every contemporary of the Greats  )

So there was something of a camaraderie between the Ancient Music Revivalists and contemporary composers (e.g., Carter's Double Concerto for Harpsichord, Piano & Two Chamber Orchestras).

One reason I think you need not be leery is, execution of the new music was purely elective on the part of the performers;  that is, they probably believed in the work.

[Baron Scarpia]

Parenthetically . . . The Beatles famously did not credit guest musicians who executed Geo. Martin's various additions (granted, it was no worse than the then industry practice) . . . over the years, I have at times wondered just who played recorder on "Fool on the Hill."

My understanding is that they were mainly LSO members who were in and out of Abbey Roads for the latest recording project with Boult, etc.

[North Star]

From German Amazon

[asin]B000H3095G[/asin]
[asin]B07B6FP2QN[/asin]
[asin]B000GI34CW[/asin]

[aligreto]

Mozart: Arias for Aloysia Weber [Bruggen]

[aligreto]

Saw this on sale, and pounced.  Never heard a thing by her, but praying she is like Franz Bruggen's sister...
For $25, figured it's worth the risk.

[asin]B079VRTWJS[/asin]

Not much risk there I think. Enjoy the music and music making.

[Karl Henning]

My understanding is that they were mainly LSO members who were in and out of Abbey Roads for the latest recording project with Boult, etc.

So, staff, in a sense;  perfectly sound.

[Baron Scarpia]

So, staff, in a sense;  perfectly sound.

One performer who stands out is David Mason, who played the trumpet solo on Penny Lane (and who also played in the premier of Vaughan Williams Symphony No 9). Apparently McCartney got the idea after seeing Mason on the BBC playing Brandenburg Concerto No 2 with the English Chamber Orchestra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mason_(trumpet_player)