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[Que]

Listening to Grand Motets from the French Baroque is a splendid way to begin the day:



Good morning to all.

Q

[Opus106]

Schubert - Impromptus

Oh, those are special! However, that shouldn't deter you from exploring the man's music for two-pianos/four-hands. Listen to D. 940.


Thread duty:

Franceso Maria Veracini
(Violin) Sonata Prima in G minor
Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante

[Conor71]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 - Barshai/WDRSO

[Henk]

[Papy Oli]

Oh, those are special! However, that shouldn't deter you from exploring the man's music for two-pianos/four-hands. Listen to D. 940.

Sample of the D940 on emusic sounded appealing - downloading one version now. thanks Opus.

[Opus106]

Sample of the D940 on emusic sounded appealing - downloading one version now. thanks Opus.

You're welcome, papy. Which one is it?

Even though Schubert didn't write much beyond chamber music and did not come into his own (in terms of his musical style) until the last year or two of his life, whenever I listen to his music he becomes my undisputed favourite.


Thread duty:

The last two movements of LvB's Op. 74. ABQ.

[Harry]

Lully, Createur de L' Opera Francais.
Volume III.

Isis. Highlights.
Amadis. Highlights.

Barbara Kusa, Veronique Gens, Soprano's.
Jean Francois Lombard, Benoit Porcherot, Counter Tenors.
Edwin Crossley-Mercer, David Witczak, Tenors.
Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Musica Florea, Olivier Schneebeli.

What a good recording this is, and what marvelous performances given here. Takes my breath away, I can tell you that.
I am so content with this box.

[Harry]

Cd II with works from Bruhns, Bach, Buxtehude, Mendelssohn, Kodaly, Kee, played on a Christian Muller Organ of the St Bavo, Haarlem, the Netherlands.
Recorded in 1987, and a very good recording it is, played by Piet Kee. He has a very approachable style, and keeps everything clear despite some dense textures. Two of his own pieces recorded here, are not to my liking, really to modernistic for me, but that's only 8 minutes from this cd.
Marvelous box so far.

[The new erato]

Lots of varied listening recently, but the following box set have popped up several times and consistenly impresses through fine performances of fine, underappreciated music, as well as being wonderfull cheap:

[The new erato]

Also this disc, practically given away at jpc, have brought much joy:



Very fine and intimate music, a wonderful instrument, marvellous playing and sound, and a very fine booklet about a much underappreciated composer, can a disc really get any better?

[Harry]

Lots of varied listening recently, but the following box set have popped up several times and consistenly impresses through fine performances of fine, underappreciated music, as well as being wonderfull cheap:

Yes that is truly a wonderful box of music.

[Papy Oli]

You're welcome, papy. Which one is it?

one by Cosmo Buono & David Bradshaw... one of the only ones where i could download it on its own, and not the whole album to get it.

had a couple of listens, liked it.

[Harry]

Lully et ses Successeurs a la Academie Royale de Musique.
CD 4.

Andre Cardinale Destouches. "Callirhoe", Highlights.
Pascalle Colasse, "Achille & Polyxene" Highlights.
Jean Baptiste Lully, "Persee", Highlights.
Marin Marais, "Semele", Highlights.
Marc Antoine Charpentier, "Medee", Highlights.

Stephanie d'Oustrac, Contra Alto.
Le Concert Spiritual, Herve Niquet.

Such wonderful music, and performances. What a marvelous box of goodies. Words fail me.

[Papy Oli]

bought earlier today...enjoyed now... 

[not edward]

I'm not totally convinced by the performance of the symphony here; Pablo Perez's earlier recording seems to me to dig a bit deeper into the melancholy that's at the heart of much of the music, despite an inferior orchestra. I like the performance of the Pandora suite very much, though; the almost Busoniesque understated sadness of the finale comes across particularly well.

[Opus106]

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Emerson String Quartet



I was and still am in the mood for a Late Quartet from Beethoven, but before going to bed I decided to listen (a trial, really) to a quartet by Shostakovich. The first movement set the mood nicely -- quite similar to late Beethoven, I must say.

[Brian]

DVORAK | Cello Concerto
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Prague Philharmonia
Jiri Belohlavek

[Antoine Marchand]

Brahms - Clarinet Trio & Sonatas

(It includes: Trio in A minor, Op.114; Son. No.1 in F minor, Op.120 & Son. No.2 in Eb)

On original instruments.

Alan Hacker -  Pair of Albert clarinets in cocus wood, 2nd half of 19th C.

Jennifer Ward Clarke - Cello by Joseph Guarnenius filius of Andrea of Cremona, 1729. The booklet says "Guarnenius", but this is an error: Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri (1666-1739 or 1740), known as Joseph Guarnerius filius Andreae, was the second son of Andrea.

Richard Burnett - Pianoforte by Erard, London 1866.

Recorded at Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent April 1989.

Total duration: 63'52''

Amon Ra Records

[Opus106]

Is it really HIP if the cello in a Brahms piece dates back to 1729?

[Papy Oli]

now listening to :

Sibelius - Finlandia (Sanderling / Brilliant)