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[SonicMan46]

More Vivaldi today!    Cello Concertos - he wrote a total of 28 works (one a double cello concerto) - own the complete solo ones w/ Wallfisch & Galliginni (each 4 discs), and 2 of 3 Coin recordings; now over the years I've culled out others, so plenty out there to pick!  Dave

 

[Madiel]

The Kyrie movement of each of Haydn's 6 late masses.



The Kyrie is a good place to start this comparison not just because it's the opening movement, but also because it's a place where the focus is fairly purely on the music rather than the words.

It's fascinating to hear both the general similarities and the differences. Haydn varies the length of the instrumental introduction (none whatsoever in the Heiligmesse, nearly a minute in the Harmoniemesse), the tempo changes (4 masses have a slower introduction, but the length of it varies significantly and in 2 masses the slower tempo returns later), and whether the focus is on the choir or soloists (the 'Theresa' mass gives a lot of material to a quartet of soloists singing together).

All of it is top quality, and all of it is music I want to know better which is why I'm doing this breakdown.

[Harry]

Equally fine is this, also on the label Lindoro, with Miguel Rincón playing the suites BWV 1010 - 1012 on archilaúd. Rincon varies the repeats a bit more than Rivera, but not in excess, and the results are still very convincing.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8870609--johann-sebastian-bach-suites-1010-1011-1012-archilaud

Right, it is a coincidence but I had this CD already bookmarked for in general I like Miguel Rincon's art. Thank you though for alerting me to him. I will certainly play this very soon. I enjoyed Rivera enormously by the way.

[Nostromo]

I will be enjoying these two new releases today.


(I bought the hi res 24 bit/192kHz version from Presto. Fortunately it's on sale for just $10! No digital booklet, but I downloaded the one on Qobuz.)

[Harry]

The Celtic Viol Vol.2.
An Homage to the Irish and Scottish Musical Traditions.
Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish harp & psaltery), Frank McGuire (bodhrán = Irish frame drum)
Recorded 2010 in the Monastery of St Pere de Rodes (Catalonia)

Closing the day with the second volume after I played this morning volume I. Still it's an ongoing pleasure to come back to them after so many years. Performance and soundwise all is correct and proper. Come to think of it,  Savall is too prominently recorded. The other instruments have to fight a little to stay aboard, and Savall is still moaning as if he complains. It is not to follow that the sound engineer does not say to Savall that he should stop doing that, for it adds an unwelcome layer of notes that are not compatible with the music.

[pi2000]

Enescu: String Octet (string orchestra version! ), Op. 7 – Britten: Lachrymae, Op. 48a
Tabea Zimmermann , Ensemble Resonanz

[Linz]

Claude Debussy Preludes Book I; Images Book I; Estampes CD 1
Claudio Arrau

[Florestan]

[Mandryka]

Morning listening:

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Amazon review by "Gio"

What a pleasure to be reminded of this lovely recording - how can it be that music of such beauty has fallen into near oblivion?

[brewski]

Still replaying moments from this incredible concert last night by cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and lutenist Thomas Dunford — the latter new to me. The program was not in the order below, but threaded with the Marais selections connecting everything.

Plus, the audience was as quiet and focused as any I'd ever seen. Fitting for an evening of extremely quiet music.

Marais: Selections from Pièces de viole, Book II, IV
Forqueray: Selections from Suite No. 2 in G Major
Duparc: Lento
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (Arr. for Lute)
Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas
SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache

[Mandryka]

I will be enjoying these two new releases today.


(I bought the hi res 24 bit/192kHz version from Presto. Fortunately it's on sale for just $10! No digital booklet, but I downloaded the one on Qobuz.)

Thanks for reminding me of Wee's Beethoven - have you heard his Thalberg? If he plays Beethoven with such cantabile it'll be special. (Just a random and probably inappropriate thought - @Kalevala, you may well enjoy the Thalberg.)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Baroque Dialogues. La Sfera Musicale.

[Kalevala]

Thanks for reminding me of Wee's Beethoven - have you heard his Thalberg? If he plays Beethoven with such cantabile it'll be special. (Just a random and probably inappropriate thought - @Kalevala, you may well enjoy the Thalberg.)

Thanks for thinking of me.  I'll see if I can sample it somewhere.

K

[Todd]

[AnotherSpin]

Music by:

Thomas Crecquillon
Benedictus Appenzeller
Joachimus De Monte
Johannes De Cleve
Christian Hollander
Jean Richafort
Nicolas Gombert

Egidius Kwartet & College

[Harry]

Music by:

Thomas Crecquillon
Benedictus Appenzeller
Joachimus De Monte
Johannes De Cleve
Christian Hollander
Jean Richafort
Nicolas Gombert

Egidius Kwartet & College

For me those discs are the best in their repertoire. Legendary performances. There is nothing to compare it with. All volumes are necessary food for thought.

[AnotherSpin]

For me those discs are the best in their repertoire. Legendary performances. There is nothing to compare it with. All volumes are necessary food for thought.

I only started with vol.1, but already tend to agree wholeheartedly.

[71 dB]

On TV: Yle Areena: Radion sinfoniaorkesterin konsertti

Chamber music festival opening concert "Omistettu sinulle" ("Dedicated to you")

André Jolivet: Fanfares pour Britannicus*
Igor Stravinsky: Septet
Benjamin Britten: Russian Funeral*
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
Arvo Pärt: Fratres*
Pekka Jalkanen: Viron orja "slave of Estonia"
Georg Philipp Telemann: Alster Suite, TWV 55: F11**

Members of Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
József Hárs*, conductor
Han Shi**, concertmaster

[Iota]

(I bought the hi res 24 bit/192kHz version from Presto. Fortunately it's on sale for just $10! No digital booklet, but I downloaded the one on Qobuz.)

I always find Ólafsson a distinctive and thought-provoking pianist, and nearly always in a good way. I listened to the Beethoven Op.109 from the above, only a first hearing and sometimes my opinion changes with greater familiarity, but by the end I was won over. It sounds so fresh, his vision emerges with great clarity and not for the first time it feels like a shot in the arm for a much recorded piece.