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[Novi]

#15 from this set. I love this piece.

[George]

#15 from this set. I love this piece.

I should revisit it, I have heard the legendary Ormandy recording a few times, but it didn't do much for me. I have that Kondrashin set but haven't worked through it yet.

Now playing the Tallis Dropouts  singing a Mass by Palestrina. 

[Coopmv]

Now playing another recently arrived early music CD ...

[Valentin]

[Coopmv]

Now playing this SACD from my Beethoven collection - the 63 cycle ...

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - The Seven Last Words - last disc in the Buchberger Box - has been an experience; my only other recording is w/ the Emersons, which I do enjoy - but I must say that the Buchberger Quartet have a more introspective & quieter approach to this work, which I enjoyed in the SQ version - need to do a comparison, but liked the performance - 

 

[Brian]

FRANCK | Symphony in D minor
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Marek Janowski

My second listen to this recording in the last couple days.

[Coopmv]

Now playing Beethoven Symphony No. 7 by CSO and Giulini from this set ...

[Conor71]

Bartok: String Quartet No. 1 - Hungarian Quartet

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived a few weeks ago ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set.  The flute playing by Lisa Beznosiuk was just hauntingly beautiful ...

[Bogey]

Copland
Appalachian Spring
Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony
RCA Red Seal
Recorded 1999

[Coopmv]

Now playing this SACD from my baroque collection ...

[Que]

A stunning treasure of by-gone days of early HIP!

And still going strong IMO.



Q

[Opus106]

Experience sublimity in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/GkX4MyDeIqI

Franz Schubert
Impromptu in G-flat major, D. 899 No. 3
Alfred Brendel [Live]

[Que]

More Bach cantatas! 

Q

[Marc]

A stunning treasure of by-gone days of early HIP!

And still going strong IMO.

Is this on CD? (Stupid question of course).
Then I should get them!

I have a 2-LP with those recordings (at least I think they're the same) and I've always rated them very high. The Collegium Aureum plays very good and of course Elly Ameling is top-notch.

[Marc]

Is this on CD? (Stupid question of course).
Then I should get them!

Relax, Marc.

Ordered.

[Harry]

Relax, Marc.

Ordered.

I like your avatar, so comforting.

[Antoine Marchand]

More Bach cantatas! 

Great disc, Q!

This is an interesting and fair review about it:

A real gem of a sublime and intimate recording, May 18, 2008
By    C. Razzell "dsdreamer" (California, United States) - on Amazon.com

This recording is worth the price of admission for the first work alone, (the Mass in A major). Although there is a division of opinion about the use of single voice to a part, the Mass here conveys an intimacy and spirituality that cannot escape the attention of the listner. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, to be sure. The solists and musicians are all in great form, and Philippe Pierlot pulls out the best from them based on his thorough technical and intuitive understanding of what this music is all about. Furhermore, I can scarcely name another CD that is better engineered to capture the warmth and detail of a musical performance than this one.

The overall program is very well conceived, and the use of Francis Jacob's organ playing to mark the division between the major works on this disc is just an example of the thoughtfulness that has gone into evey detail of producing this recorded work. (If it is not to fanciful, I am tempted to think of the insertion of the Prelude BWV 544 in between the Mass and the Cantata No. 198 as a kind of musical pallet cleanser. Of course the b minor prelude and fuge has much more merit than that in its own right, but you will benefit from this among other thoughtful touches when playing the whole program as layed out on the CD.)

This disk is somewhat easy to overlook if you are in the U.S., and the price of an import may scare you off. But this, in my view, is a disc to treasure and play frequently for years to come.