What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

The third/last set of her? I heard that the instruments are fabulous.

Indeed,her third and last set.The recorded organs are fine but can't replace the Beekman recordings wich are closer to my heart and have a better natural sound.Could I suggest otherwise...... :Some listeners will sometimes desire more passion but if you live longer with these Beekman recordings you will discover that he is the most ideal interpreter, in any case he is my first choice. While listening to Marie-claire I was again struck by how much I love his music making.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 8

English Suite No.4
Toccatas
Fantasy and Fugue
Partita No.6

[Spotted Horses]

The third/last set of her? I heard that the instruments are fabulous.

I prefer her first set with Erato (analog recordings from the 70's) I find the 80' recordings a bit too reverberant for my taste, and the earlier set is generally more immediate. I also think her playing has a bit more rhythmic vitality in the earlier set.

[Linz]

Miaskovsky Vol.3 Symphony No.9 in E minor Op.28 and Symphony No.14 in C major Op.37, Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

[Papy Oli]

One cantata (BWV 78) for the Birthday boy (JEG's 80th today)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Most intriguing.

The music swings.
Cziffra and the orchestra are Hungarians, but (therefore?) you can hear they understand and dig the soul of blues in the work.  Maybe their bluesyness is partly thanks to the gipsy background?

[Traverso]

I prefer her first set with Erato (analog recordings from the 70's) I find the 80' recordings a bit too reverberant for my taste, and the earlier set is generally more immediate. I also think her playing has a bit more rhythmic vitality in the earlier set.

I also have her first set but I do not find the recordingsound acceptable for a pleasant listening session.

[Lisztianwagner]

Manuel de Falla
El amor brujo

Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano)
Lorin Maazel & Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Major, (2012 Revised Samale-Mazzuca-Phillips-Cohrs Version) Finale, Sir Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic

[Lisztianwagner]

Alban Berg
3 Wozzeck Fragments
Violin Concerto

Alessandra Marc (soprano)
Reiko Watanabe (violin)
Giuseppe Sinopoli & Staatskapelle Dresden

[prémont]

I prefer her first set with Erato (analog recordings from the 70's) I find the 80' recordings a bit too reverberant for my taste, and the earlier set is generally more immediate. I also think her playing has a bit more rhythmic vitality in the earlier set.

She made three sets in all. The first set in the 1960es, the second in the late 1970es and the third from 1985 to 1993. If you with her "first set" mean what's actually the second I agree completely with your post.

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVP/Alain.htm

[Cato]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Major, (2012 Revised Samale-Mazzuca-Phillips-Cohrs Version) Finale, Sir Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic

One of my favorites!  Especially because of the Finale: of course, Prof. Phillips now has his own updated version of the Finale, which has been discussed on the "Bruckner's Abbey-Composer" topic (q.v.).


A MIDI version which gives you a not bad idea of the music:

[Spotted Horses]

She made three sets in all. The first set in the 1960es, the second in the late 1970es and the third from 1985 to 1993. If you with her "first set" mean what's actually the second I agree completely with your post.

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVP/Alain.htm

Yes, I mean the 70's set when I said the "first set." I thought the series of recordings from the 60's was not complete and didn't constitute a "set." Maybe it was complete enough.

Maybe the confusing reference to the "first set" was what made Traverso comment negatively about the audio quality. I can't imagine anyone thinking the 70's set had audio quality that would spoil enjoyment of the performances.

[foxandpeng]

Nicolai Myaskovsky
Complete String Quartets
SQs 5 & 6
Taneyev Quartet
Northern Flowers

Growing on me!

[prémont]

Yes, I mean the 70's set when I said the "first set." I thought the series of recordings from the 60's was not complete and didn't constitute a "set." Maybe it was complete enough.

Maybe the confusing reference to the "first set" was what made Traverso comment negatively about the audio quality. I can't imagine anyone thinking the 70's set had audio quality that would spoil enjoyment of the performances.

I think you are right, even if I don't find that the sound quality of the first set makes it unlistenable.

 

[Traverso]

Yes, I mean the 70's set when I said the "first set." I thought the series of recordings from the 60's was not complete and didn't constitute a "set." Maybe it was complete enough.

Maybe the confusing reference to the "first set" was what made Traverso comment negatively about the audio quality. I can't imagine anyone thinking the 70's set had audio quality that would spoil enjoyment of the performances.

Maybe I expressed myself too strongly, unlistenable is certainly not what I had in mind. I can't call the recordings really beautiful, I find them to a certain extent rather tiring in the high register.

[JBS]

Re Alain's Bach:
I have the first (60s) and second (70s) but not the third (80s). I prefer the first set; to me the chorales in the second set have the air of being performed because she needed to fulfill the contract--by rote and a bit sterile.
[I do admit it's been quite some time since I listened to it.]
It's her pupil, Vernet, who has the set I like best.

TD
So far tonight

[JBS]

Now on to Mozart
Volume 3 of the Armida cycle is a double CD

A Haydn, two Prussians, and three early quartets

[Spotted Horses]

Maybe I expressed myself too strongly, unlistenable is certainly not what I had in mind. I can't call the recordings really beautiful, I find them to a certain extent rather tiring in the high register.

Just to be clear, are you referring to the 70's recordings or the 60's recordings?

[Harry]

Music in Europe at the Time of the Renaissance.
CD I.
Italy: Secular Music ( from the Frottole to the Madrigale).
Track 1-11, works by Josquin Desprez, &  Luys Narvaez.
Track 12-21, Works by Heinrich Isaac, Baldassare Donato, Philippe Verdelot, Adriaen Willaert, Anonymous.
Taken from the labels: Christophorus, Harmonia Mundi, Accent.

It is always a pleasure to return to these boxes. Jerome Lejeune was the editor of the series that came with a beautiful hardback full of useful info. Despite the fact that many snippets are taken from divers recordings, there is a unity in it, that belies that fact, and thus it has coherence resulting in a fluent whole. Never at any time do I feel that it is put together. Performances are uniformly good as is the sound. There are a few bad apples in it. Some are the older Deller recordings, never liked them, never will. But that's all.