What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Antonio Vivaldi.

Suonate de Camera a Tre, due Violini e Violone o Cembalo, opus 1.

Enrico Gatti and Ensemble Aurora.

I have just one word for it, breathtakingly-beautiful. It is the best performance I have heard from the opus 1 concerti. I have always been an admirer of Enrico Gatti's art, who plays on a gorgeous Matteo Albani instrument from 1673. Almost everything he touches turns into gold, and this opus 1 is certainly ample proof. The recording is state of the Art. Tempi are well judged, and Gatti's bowing is impeccable.
The only drawback is the fine book they produced with it, exactly the same as with the Sweelinck series which I also have. There is some very important info in those books, so I was looking forward to it, only to conclude that it was all in French! Of all languages, French!!! German, Italian and even Greek, if needs be, but French.
Now I know why JPC sold it for just 7 euros, still they might have told me.
But I am very very happy with the performances, so I will stop complaining.

[Traverso]

That CD posed quite an ordeal for me. But you will probably like it very much

You are no doubt in a good mood,the woman wants to flee, what a terrible thought indeed.

[JBS]

Antonio Vivaldi.

Suonate de Camera a Tre, due Violini e Violone o Cembalo, opus 1.

Enrico Gatti and Ensemble Aurora.

I have just one word for it, breathtakingly-beautiful. It is the best performance I have heard from the opus 1 concerti. I have always been an admirer of Enrico Gatti's art, who plays on a gorgeous Matteo Albani instrument from 1673. Almost everything he touches turns into gold, and this opus 1 is certainly ample proof. The recording is state of the Art. Tempi are well judged, and Gatti's bowing is impeccable.
The only drawback is the fine book they produced with it, exactly the same as with the Sweelinck series which I also have. There is some very important info in those books, so I was looking forward to it, only to conclude that it was all in French! Of all languages, French!!! German, Italian and even Greek, if needs be, but French.
Now I know why JPC sold it for just 7 euros, still they might have told me.
But I am very very happy with the performances, so I will stop complaining.

I have the original CD only issue, which, if Amazon US is correct, is no longer available (but is available as a download).

You are quite correct about the performance.

[Mandryka]

This just arrived on Naxos Music Library. Time to try.



In the liner notes, Debargue says that his reference point as an interpreter is Scott Ross, and that he's adopted some of Ross' ideas. He adds that only in certain specific sonatas does he find any pianist to be as convincing as Ross is. The booklet also claims that ten of the sonatas in this package have only previously been recorded by Ross, not by anyone else; I'm not sure whether that is believable.

I heard some of it on France Culture a few days ago, it sounded very good indeed to me.  Ross is 555 inexpressive short rides in a fast machine, and Debargue sounded absolutely nothing like that in the sonatas on the radio. My feeling was that people who like Pletnev will like Debargue. But maybe the ones I heard were unrepresentative.

All the sonatas I heard seemed very familiar to me, I'm looking forward to finding the rarities.

The piano sounded much better than your average modern instrument, and it sounded very nicely recorded.

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[Traverso]

Les Percussions de Strasbourg

CD 7

[Tsaraslondon]

This seems to have been a great concert. Recorded around the time Anne Evans was singing Brünnhilde at Bayreuth.

[Tsaraslondon]

Mutter's second recording of the Beethoven seems to illicit very definite reactions and people either love it or loathe it. Love is quite a strong word, but I do like it quite a lot.

[André]

[Traverso]

The second CD of this box and the beginning is promising

[vandermolen]

NP:

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Khachaturian: Symphony #2 in E Minor, Op. 56, "The Bell"

Aram Khachaturian: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

That's a fine set.

[SymphonicAddict]

I really enjoy much of Weiner's music - but I have to agree with you about this.  Fussily detailed in trying to illustrate the narrative and in so doing losing any sense of flow or musical cohesiveness.....

My thoughts exactly.

[SymphonicAddict]

Indeed, a real tour de force I think. The juxtaposition of parts moving at different speeds for example is one feature that really lingers in the mind.

I've heard all the others but haven't really connected with them in the same way as the first. Not yet anyway. There are certainly passages that appeal, but I wasn't consumed whole as it were, as happened with the first. If you do decide to venture further I'd certainly be interested in any thoughts.

The SQ 2 was playing yesterday and I thought it was even denser and harder to follow. I can't say I enjoyed it, just it was 'different'. The SQ 1 is definitely more akin to my tastes as you also consider it.

[SymphonicAddict]

Two fascinating PCs!!! The 1st one is very romantic, with many tinges of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev without sounding necessarily derivative. The 2nd one is more concise, personal and spicier, supremely engaging altogether. I liked the latter a bit more, but both are simply fabulous. Two more of my greatest discoveries this year.

[vandermolen]

Two fascinating PCs!!! The 1st one is very romantic, with many tinges of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev without sounding necessarily derivative. The 2nd one is more concise, personal and spicier, supremely engaging altogether. I liked the latter a bit more, but both are simply fabulous. Two more of my greatest discoveries this year.

+1 it's a very nice disc.

[Maestro267]

Hoddinott: Piano Concerto No. 1
Fowke (piano)/Royal PO/Wordsworth

Was very intrigued to read in the liner notes that this concerto is scored for winds and percussion only.

[Harry]

The second CD of this box and the beginning is promising

Agreed, thats a fine one.

[SymphonicAddict]

Cello concertos by Honegger and Pizzetti:



Two pretty positive reacquaintances.

[stingo]

I have a different cover, but the repertoire's the same.
Bach: English Suites 2 & 3, Partitas 1 & 2
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

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[SimonNZ]

[André]

Nice! Thanks for posting this, I'll put it on my wish list. Especially if you recommend it ?