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[Coopmv]

Now playing CD20 from the following set for a first listen.  Considering the age of some of these recordings, they are actually quite good and the performance was first rate IMO ...

[Antoine Marchand]

First listen!



End of a stressful and tiring week. I need this right now.

What a wonderful disc is that, Coco! Daneman and Petibon are simply heavenly.

[Coco]

[Coco]

What a wonderful disc is that, Coco! Daneman and Petibon are simply heavenly.

Absolutely! Sublime — in the full sense of the word.

[DavidRoss]

Absolutely! Sublime — in the full sense of the word.

Okay, had to check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/v/eAI2Q4aninE

(and how can you not love anything featuring: ?)

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD20 from the following set for a first listen.  Considering the age of some of these recordings, they are actually quite good and the performance was first rate IMO ...

Cantata No. 66 on this CD, performed by Collegium Vocale Gent and Leonhardt-Consort, conducted by Gustav Leonhardt is simply fabulous.   

[TheGSMoeller]

Back from vacation, hope everyone is healthy and doing well.


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Haydn's No.6 while sitting on the beach was a memorable moment, trying to relive it now.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD6 - Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (77 cycle) from the following set of 38 CD's for a first listen.  I also have this 9th on SACD and in a deluxe LP set I bought back in the early 80's  ...

[Conor71]

Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Octet


Now listening to Disc 10 of this set.


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[Antoine Marchand]

When Savall forgets his multicultural concerns for a second, he is a superb gambist and a superior musician.

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[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD from my Bach collection for perhaps a third listen ...

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1. Wonderful indeed.

[Conor71]

Haydn: String Quartets Nos. 5, 1, 2 & 3


Now playing Disc 1 and making my 3rd traversal of this excellent set


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[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Bax's Tintagel. Awesome performance so far!

[listener]

Heifetz playing
ROZSA  Violin Concerto       Dallas Symphony Orch., Hendl, cond.
BENJAMIN   Romantic Fantasy for violin, viola & orch.  with William Primrose, viola
RCA Victor Orch.,   / Izler Solomon
and a disc of music for tuba
HINDEMITH Sonata     KRAFT  Encounters II     WILDER Children's Suite: Effie the Elephant
GALLIARD  Sonata for low instrument no.5      BARAT   Introduction and Dance
Roger Bobo, tuba     Ralph Grierson, piano

[Que]

Starting the day with music from Spain, dating from the transition from Renaissance to Baroque.

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Based at the Philip II's court in Madrid, Matteo Romero was born in Liège (then part of the Spanish territories in the Southern Netherlands - present day Belgium) as Mathieu Rosmarin and belongs to the fifth and last generation of the Franco-Flemish School (incl. Lassus, de Rore, Vaet, de Weert). What I hear are is basically Italian style from the dawn of Baroque, mixed in with influence from the tradition of the Northern Netherlands, topped with a Spanish flavour - for example the typical conservative use of Gregorian style interludes.

Q

[The new erato]

Cantata No. 66 on this CD, performed by Collegium Vocale Gent and Leonhardt-Consort, conducted by Gustav Leonhardt is simply fabulous.   

This series was my introduction to the cantatas of Bach, and are still (mainly) my preferred versions. Perfect? Far from it, and variable at times. But in terms of musicianship and spontaneity, and obvious joy in, and love of, Bachs music, no other versions come close.

[The new erato]

Disc 6 (quartets 17,19,20) in my slow traversal of the cycle. Occasionally stern stuff that needs time to mature, but also fleeting moments of extreme calm and beauty:

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[Lethevich]

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[Sergeant Rock]

Mendelssohn Bartholdy Symphony #3 A minor "Scottish" Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia




Sarge