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[madaboutmahler]

Merry Christmas to everyone!!
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Beautiful, excellent music!!

[TheGSMoeller]

Merry Christmas to everyone!!

Same to you, Daniel.  Hope Santa brings you cool stuff 

[madaboutmahler]

Same to you, Daniel.  Hope Santa brings you cool stuff 

Thanks, Greg! Haha, he certainly did!! I got the Ohlssohn complete Chopin set, and the BIS Essential Sibelius boxset among other things!

Thread duty: still the Messiah - fantastic music!

Hope everyone is having a great Christmas!

[Que]

Q

[mc ukrneal]

Thanks, Greg! Haha, he certainly did!! I got the Ohlssohn complete Chopin set, and the BIS Essential Sibelius boxset among other things!

Nice! Sounds like you'll be listening to some good performances!

[Opus106]

Q

How is it, Que?

[Octave]

I ended up listening to the Kempe set most of the day - really enjoying it so far!. It has a lot of stuff I havent heard before which is why I wanted to collect it. I love Karajan in Strauss too so I am hoping to do a bit of comparative listening over the few days

Re: Richard Strauss: Kempe is heroic; my only wish is that I'd waited a bit longer to get that EMI set among a few other items that have become indispensable to me (e.g. Sinopli's ELEKTRA), because it would have sweetened the deal on that Brilliant STRAUSS EDITION megalith.  I am still by far newbie enough to wince when I "re-purchase" performances....I know this hang-up will eventually have to give way.

Today's CHRISTMAS ORATORIO for me was a very recent discovery, with its almost hilarious quadruple-threat phalanx of legendary singing talent (and Janowitz of course has done a super-favorite Strauss FOUR LAST SONGS):


J.S. Bach: WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM (w/Janowitz, Wunderlich, Crass, C. Ludwig - dir. Karl Richter)

[Sergeant Rock]

Corelli Concerto Grosso G minor op.6/8 "Christmas Concerto"




Sarge

[Que]

How is it, Que?

Nice, very nice.

But in listening to this recording from now over 20 years ago, make you also realize how much the focus on what Zelenka is about has developed and progressed.

Compared to the brilliant, dynamic, theatrical and by times exuberant Zelenka that Václav Luks (Accent, Zig Zag), Marek Štryncl (Supraphon, Studio Matous) and Adam Viktora (Nibiru) have brought us in more recent years, this older Bernius recording (I haven't heard his recent recordings on Carus) is a step back in pace, more deft and solemn. But the singing is glorious with superb contributions by Argenta et al. and the accompaniment is spirited and refined. At bargain price, definitely a worthwhile Zelenka disc.

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

I got the Ohlssohn complete Chopin set, and the BIS Essential Sibelius boxset among other things!

Hey, Mad. When you start digging into the Essential box, one of the first things you should hear (if you haven't heard it before) is the rarely recorded Wood-Nymph op.15. It's fantastic.

Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

Hey, Mad. When you start digging into the Essential box, one of the first things you should hear (if you haven't heard it before) is the rarely recorded Wood-Nymph op.15. It's fantastic.

Sarge

Thanks for the recommendation, Sarge - I shall certainly made that piece one of the first I dig into! Very excited to! Merry Christmas, Sarge!

Thread duty: Messiah continued - just entering Part 3 now. Excellent music!

[Opus106]

Nice, very nice.

But in listening to this recording from now over 20 years ago, make you also realize how much the focus on what Zelenka is about has developed and progressed.

Compared to the brilliant, dynamic, theatrical and by times exuberant Zelenka that Václav Luks (Accent, Zig Zag), Marek Štryncl (Supraphon, Matous) and Adam Viktora (ARTA) have brought us in more recent years, this older Bernius recording (I haven't heard his recent recordings on Carus) is a step back in pace, more deft and solemn. But the singing is glorious with superb contributions by Argenta et al. and the accompaniment is spirited and refined. At bargain price, definitely a worthwhile Zelenka disc.

Q

Quite interesting, Que. Thanks for your input.

[Brahmsian]

Gerhard Oppitz ~ Beethoven: Piano Sonatas



No. 29 in B-flat Major, Hammerkalvier

*pounds the table*  or 'Hammers the table*  My favourite Piano Sonata! 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

More Christmas Cheer.

Weihnachten im Dom zu Halle.
A very fine Christmas CD.


Kammerchor Cantamus Halle.
Mannerchor Bouquet Vocalis Halle.
Dorothea Kohler.

NCA recording 1993.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Christmas Cheer.


Christmas Carols by the Tavener Consort, Andrew Parrott.
A beautiful 4 CD box, containing, CD 1 Festive Music from Europe and America, which I am playing right now. Fine sound and performances.

[Wakefield]

This wonderfully celebratory disc:

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I'll be listening to this one tonight:

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This holiday mess will be over hopefully before 6 PM, so I'll manage to get on with my regularly scheduled listening.

[Gurn Blanston]

My annual Christmas Cheer disks;



Marvelously well-done, although Tchaikovsky can withstand nearly anyone (good thing too!).

[Opus106]

This wonderfully celebratory disc:

I was listening to it a couple of days ago. BWV 63, in particular. How many ever times he opens an aria with an oboe or violin solo, it almost never fails to move me.

[Wakefield]

I was listening to it a couple of days ago. BWV 63, in particular. How many ever times he opens an aria with an oboe or violin solo, it almost never fails to move me.

Same here. Bach had a notorious soft point regarding some wind instruments, remarkably the oboe and the flute (and, earlier in his life, the recorder).