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[Que]

On Spotify:



Very nice.

[Que]

A few days the idea of a dompe, as in My Lady Cary's, came up here. It's a sort of ground. And it turns out that John Johnson wrote a bunch of them, so I thought I'd explore.


Christopher Wilson has recorded a lot of Johnson's musc, but what he does didn't catch my imagination this morning. This CD from Anthony Bailes did though, big time



One name which comes out as a star on this CD is John Danyel.

Anne van Royen wrote a book with Anthony Bailes, as far as I can see this is her only recording.

Anthony Bailes, an excellent lutenist. I much enjoyed his recordings for Ramée!

[Harry]

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
Complete Harpsichord Music.
CD I from VI.


Nine Fantasias.
Fugue in C minor., & in F major.
Claudio Astronio, Harpsichord.
Instruments: Keith Hill, (1984) after Johannes Petrus Bull, Germany 1778.

Okay, Friedemann is not as great a composer as his father, but that does not mean his works should be neglected. What is clear is that he is not a second rank composer, but he lives in the shadow of his father. What you may hear is a creative and inventive composer, who makes the best of his talents, and they are many. The works for harpsichord should be taken in small doses, bur when keeping to this regime, it will give great pleasure. I find that my mind does not wander aimlessly, but I keep focussed on the music, and that has partly to do with Claudio Astronio's view on Friedemann as a composer and his place in history. Lucid, rhythmically alert, he keeps the music flowing at a steady pace, in a somewhat detached manner, and with little warmth added. His is a rational somewhat academic approach, but that works for me. There is no cluttering or wayward expressions, its all clear as a bell.
This CD set is highly recommended both on musical and sound reproduction terms, one of the most gratifying box I have bought in 2017.

[aligreto]

Gombert: Musae Jovis ter maximi





This is a very short but quite an excellent work. It has a wonderfully powerful impact on the ear.

[aligreto]

MusicTurner is referring to the Lucerne performance (1954), which I think is the better performance and definitely in better (excellent) sound.It has been reissued by TAHRA twice, and by others (Audite, Music &Arts, Praga)

I can vouch for the TAHRA issue, but I would be surprised if the Audite didn't sound good.



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Thank you very much for that information, Que. Much appreciated. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
String Quartet No.2

https://www.youtube.com/v/BciXbfAG8NU

[Harry]

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.

Mystery Sonatas.
The Complete Violin Sonatas.
The joyful Mysteries.
The Sorrowful Mysteries.
CD I.
Scordatura tuning.

Ensemble Violini Capricciosi, Igor Ruhadze, Violin.

[Operafreak]

Schubert & Liszt: Excursions

Teo Gheorghiu (piano)- Musikkollegium Winterthur, Douglas Boyd

[Traverso]

I can't say I have many recordings with Anthony Bailes but this is one of them.

[Irons]

Debussy: Nocturnes.

Dreamy Nuages just as it should be. Geoffrey Simon joins Haitink and Ansermet as my benchmark of this wonderful work.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Sonata No. 6 for Violin and Harpsichord BWV 1019 [Kuijken/Leonhardt]






Here, in all of these sonatas, we have two supreme musicians delivering supremely consistent quality musical presentations at the highest level. The interpretations are faithful and the performances are clean, bright and brisk. I also find the pacing of the deliveries to be consistently very good indeed. The performances continually present good forward momentum which consistently and continually moves the music along.
I like the sound of the instruments that both Leonhardt and Kuijken are playing throughout the presentation. The balance in the recording between the two instruments is very good with each voice being given equal space. If I have one minor complaint it is that the recording sometimes sounds on the hollow side but that is outside the scope of both of the musicians involved.

[Traverso]

Masterpieces of French Harpsichord Music.

[Papy Oli]

Wagner - Parsifal Act II (Karajan)

[vandermolen]

Mieczysław Weinberg's Symphony No. 03 
    Thord Svedlund, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

A fine work which, amazingly, I heard live in London a few years ago.

Now playing - another terrific 3rd Symphony - 'Sevastopol' by Boris Tchaikovsky:

[vandermolen]

Debussy: Nocturnes.

Dreamy Nuages just as it should be. Geoffrey Simon joins Haitink and Ansermet as my benchmark of this wonderful work.

+1 for Geoffrey Simon (even though he spells his first name incorrectly  )

[San Antone]

Bartok | Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
Murray Perahia, Georg Solti, Evelyn Glennie, David Corkhill

[Harry]

Franz Berwald.

Complete Works for Piano Quintet.

No. 1 in C minor, & No. 2 in A major
Two movements from a Piano Quintet in A major.

Uppsala Chamber Soloists.
Bengt-Ake Lundin, Piano.

These are quite good performances, and in decent 1996 sound. Concentration above anything else, but also quite conservative. Maybe the words of Franz Liszt were indeed prophetic when he remarked,"You truly possess originality, but you will not enjoy success during your life time". And that is still true today, for he he is little regarded. There is a certain Brahmsian tendency in his music, and unbridled passion, which makes the music a bit uneven in expression. Many ideas follow each other in quick succession which is a bit tiring on my ear. But maybe that's just the interpretation.
Anyone with better suggestions regarding these Piano Quintets, they would be most welcome, for I think my Berwald collection mostly on Naxos needs some updating.

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach's BWV 032 - Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen 
    Masaaku Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan

Excellent series, it will take some time before I am at volume 42, but I will get there, after the heatwave in Europe.

[Traverso]

Boulez

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 Op. 81a [Fischer]