Favourite recordings on the Glossa label?

[Que]

MDT has till july 28th a special offer on the hard-to-find-and-terribly-expensive-but-oh-so-yummy Spanish label Glossa.

The price is £8,50/ €11,07 incl. VAT - which is over 40% off, if compared with cheapest (European) online seller around: jpc (€18,99).

Notwithstanding my eager anticipation - this offer means will bring me even closer to bankruptcy than this forum has aleady done sofar! I have all kinds of favourite performers on Glossa: gambist Paolo Pandolfo, conductor Hervé Niquet in the French Baroque repertoire, conductor Michael Noone in Iberian Renaissance music, ensemble La Venexiana in Gesualdo and Monteverdi.

So let's tease each other some more with recommendations: your favourites on Glossa please!

My own Glossa favourites:






In my shopping basket till now:
- All the Monteverdi & Gesualdo issues by La Venexiana:


Pandolfo's recording of Bach's cello suites on viola da gamba:




And wondering about these - comments please! 

What about Victoria, Morales and Guerrero with Noone?


Niquet's Charpentier (3 CD's) - better than on Naxos? What about his Desmarest motets? (2 CD's)


How is the Dufay motets series (complete - 4 volumes) by Cantica Symphonia with conductor Giuseppe Maletto? And Marais' Sémélé by Niquet? Monteverdi's L' Orfeo with La Venexiana?


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[Harry]

I think the Naxos issues of Niquet are as good as the Glossa's. Have one of them and the singing/recording quality is in my ears equal.
My order will be extensive too, for it is a lot cheaper as normal.
Happy hunting.

[FideLeo]

Heard that the Marais Semele is a good buy; that the Venexiana L'Orfeo disappoints because the conductor tried too hard. 

[prémont]

I can not claim to own many CDs from Glossa (10 all in all).
These are (and all are most recommendable):

Bach: Goldberg variations / Bonizzoni
Bach: Cellosuites /Pandolfo (v. da Gamba) (2CD)
Bach: Triosonatas / Hazelzet and Ogg
Bach:  Flutesonatas / Hazelzet and Ogg
Böhm: Complete harpsichord suites / Meyerson (2cd)
Picchi: Harpsichord works / Bonizzoni
Storace: Harpsichord works / Bonizzoni
Three sisters / Symphonia
Red Iris / Symphoniae

The Dufay CDs are on my wish list at the moment

[Bunny]

Here's my favorite Glossa recording (and a big thanks to FL.T   )



From the Glossa website:

A cult record if there ever was one, Patrick Cohen's Satie goes far beyond any one of the many versions of this music on the market. It is simply something else. Possibly the best CD Glossa has ever produced, it has provoked controversies of all sorts since its release in 1998, not only due to the interpretation and the instrument used, an 1855 Érard piano, but also because of the polemical essay which accompanied the original edition.

Words fall short. Let yourself be carried away...

[FideLeo]

Here's my favorite Glossa recording (and a big thanks to FL.T   )



From the Glossa website:

A cult record if there ever was one, Patrick Cohen's Satie goes far beyond any one of the many versions of this music on the market. It is simply something else. Possibly the best CD Glossa has ever produced, it has provoked controversies of all sorts since its release in 1998, not only due to the interpretation and the instrument used, an 1855 Érard piano, but also because of the polemical essay which accompanied the original edition.

Words fall short. Let yourself be carried away...

Hi Bunny , thanks for your thank 

Agreed: a very curious recording for those interested....

[Bunny]

The essay in the booklet is a curiousity well.  That is actually available at the Glossa website in pdf and html format -- with two endings!  Apparently since the recording came out, Pedro Elias decided to change the ending (2nd ending is only on the html page).  In order to read it, I had to cut and paste the text into the notepad as the text on the web page was microscopic!

[Que]

I can now add this to my own recommendations - really excellent and on par with Noone's superb recording of Guerrero. 



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[The new erato]

I can now add this to my own recommendations - really excellent and on par with Noone's superb recording of Guerrero. 



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More or less as I told you then? 

[Que]

More or less as I told you then? 

Indeed!

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[Wanderer]

The essay in the booklet is a curiousity well.  That is actually available at the Glossa website in pdf and html format -- with two endings!  Apparently since the recording came out, Pedro Elias decided to change the ending (2nd ending is only on the html page).  In order to read it, I had to cut and paste the text into the notepad as the text on the web page was microscopic!

A very interesting read, indeed. So, is the recording itself actually any good?

[FideLeo]

A very interesting read, indeed. So, is the recording itself actually any good?

Controversially good! 

[Bunny]

A very interesting read, indeed. So, is the recording itself actually any good?

I certainly enjoy it!

[tokmik]

I really like Sonata in A Major (I think it's number 12). It contains a lot of cross-overs for which he was very famous.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I would like to get a 1-disc selection of Monteverdi madrigals. Anyone heard this and can recommend it?

https://www.alibris.com/classicalsearch?qwork=700112745&matches=1&artist=La+Venexiana&browse=1&mtype=C&cm_sp=works*listing*title

[Que]

Since Glossa is on sale again at MDT, I'm bumping this thread!

My own additional recommendations since the OP are these sets:

Comments HERE.

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[The new erato]

The Handel cantata series is (again) essential. But this is a label were I would (more or less) buy everything if I could. Not really helpful advice, I know. There's a brand new Charpentier disc that I plan to order, as well as a new Boismortier opera that interests me.....

[Drasko]

I would like to get a 1-disc selection of Monteverdi madrigals. Anyone heard this and can recommend it?

https://www.alibris.com/classicalsearch?qwork=700112745&matches=1&artist=La+Venexiana&browse=1&mtype=C&cm_sp=works*listing*title

I've heard it and and can recommend it.

Since Glossa is on sale again at MDT, I'm bumping this thread!

Q

Could anyone tell me why would Destouches' Callirhoe and Marais' Semele be 1/3 cheaper than Lully's Proserpine. All three should be tragedie lyriques on 2 CDs. Hopefully it's not the absence of libretti for the former two.

Also which two volumes of Handel Italian Cantatas would be good for a start?

[The new erato]

Also which two volumes of Handel Italian Cantatas would be good for a start?

Start with nr 5. After that it's a toss-up.

[Drasko]

vol.5 noted