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[Que]

Goodmorning Que.


Mozart.Divertimento, and 4 Adagio's & Fugues after Bach.

L' Archibudelli.

The recording made in 1991 is outstanding!
The performance too, not to say the joy of period instruments.
If nothing can convert you, these recordings will, believe me.
The music is gorgeous, finely attuned to my ears this gloomy morning.
There is not a single disc, and there are 11 of them that disappoints.
I call that a 100% score.

I have those on the individual issue - great music and the Bach adaptations are a very interesting side of Mozart. I've enjoyed these works very much.

It's a steal that box (€20) - everybody has it already?

It's a secret weapon to HIPpify all classical music lovers .....

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[Que]

Like cats copulating on a tin roof: Bach: Goldberg variations. Ketil Haugsand, harpsichord. Superb. What better music and music making for a solo harpsicord reference recording?

God morgen!

Isn't love wonderful?

Don't know that recording - it has a good reputation.
How would you rate it against some of your other favourite Goldbergs?

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[Harry]

It's a secret weapon to HIPpify all classical music lovers .....

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[Valentino]

Don't know that recording - it has a good reputation.
How would you rate it against some of your other favourite Goldbergs?

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I only have three. Gould '55 and Hewitt are the other two. Haugsand is the oddity. 70 minutes of harpsicord playing is not easy morning listening..., but mind you, I'm not saying the Goldbergs should be! It has to do with this insrument's limited capacity for dynamic expression.

[Que]

I only have three. Gould '55 and Hewitt are the other two. Haugsand is the oddity. 70 minutes of harpsicord playing is not easy morning listening..., but mind you, I'm not saying the Goldbergs should be! It has to do with this insrument's limited capacity for dynamic expression.

Limited dynamics yes, but also the more "lush"/wider focused sound gives a kind of high density in the music that one has to get used to. But it grows on you - I assure you! Now it's exactly that quality I enjoy most.
But if Haugsand can persuade you to listen to the Goldbergs on harpsichord straight through, he has to be doing something right.

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[Harry]

Rossini.

Complete Piano music, Volume I.

Stefan Irmer, Piano.

Not to long ago I bought the complete piano works from Rossini, in total 8 volumes. Although I dislike heartily his opera's, and other vocal atrocities, his piano music is amazingly beautiful, and well, very well written. Long ago I played many of his works on the piano myself, and delighted many a party of friends with this bubbling compositions. Not easy to play, but then I practiced a lot. Nowadays I rather listen and my line of business is quite different. These recordings on MDG are sonically a lust for the ear. Seldom you get to hear such good piano recordings. Stefan Irmer is a dedicated player, who clearly has a vision on this music, and he seeks not for cheap thrills, but infuses this music with enthusiasm, and a real sense of awareness towards the beauty of it all. And I, well I enjoy it immensely, and look forward to the other volumes. So glad I bought these.

[Haffner]

Just switch allegiances to Haydn, and you'll be fine through your 104th birthday!  Birthday #105 will, however, become problematic .........

Because of you, I have a reason to go on.


Mendellsohn Violin Concerto (Royal Philharmonic)

[Haffner]

Happy birthday Andy:

Oh! This is wonderful, thanks so much Bill!

[Que]

Great fun!



See my earlier comments.

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[Que]

Mendellsohn Violin Concerto (Royal Philharmonic)

I would rather know the violinist and the conductor - is it Heifetz & Beecham?

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[Harry]

A guessing game for the early birds!
This comes out the next recording I will play, and yes its a opera, but which one?
A text

Love in her eyes sits playing
And sheds delicious death
Love on her lips is straying
And warbling in her breath
Love on her breast sits panting
And swells with soft desire
No grace, no charm is wanting
To set the heart on fire

Common guys humor me, all yea musiclovers.

[Que]

A guessing game for the early birds!
This comes out the next recording I will play, and yes its a opera, but which one?
A text

Love in her eyes sits playing
And sheds delicious death
Love on her lips is straying
And warbling in her breath
Love on her breast sits panting
And swells with soft desire
No grace, no charm is wanting
To set the heart on fire

Common guys humor me, all yea musiclovers.

Lousy text or bad translation!
What is the original language Harry?

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[Harry]

Lousy text or bad translation!
What is the original language Harry?

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English my friend, but the German text is not better, and the composer will not be pleased to hear that from you.
Common composer and work if you please.
Its going in my player now..............

[Harry]

Oke some more texst

Oh, the pleasure of the plains
Happy nymphs and happy swains
Harmless, merry, free and gay
Dance and sport the hours away
For us the zephyr blows
For us distills the dew
For us unfolds the rose
And flowers display there hue
For us the winters rain
For us the summers shine
Spring swells for us the grain
And autumn bleeds the vine

Were are the experts huh?

[pjme]

Händel : Acis and Galathea.

18th century texts sound silly now. The music is exquisite

[Harry]

Händel : Acis and Galathea.

18th century texts sound silly now. The music is exquisite

Very good my friend! Did you found out on the first texst or the second?
And yes it is silly, but the music is indeed exquisite, true.
And the performance I play now is quite a surprise for me, on authentic instruments no less.
Will post it in a while, when I heard it completely.

[pjme]

Second. But I know the work quite well. Didn't listen to it for some time, though.
had two versions on LP - an "old fashioned" one with Joan Sutherland (!)- quite lovely , and on Argo ,with Jill Gomez.

This one gets always good reviews:

Norma Burowes / Gardiner

[wintersway]

Just ordered a Chandos production of the same works.
So you guessed huh, tell me what you think of the one you posted!
Thanks.

Lovely disk Harry. Love the Trio No.1 in D Minor!

NP:

[Que]

CD 11:
Sonatas nos. 33, 35, 58, 32 & 53
Played on a fortepiano with Viennese action, made by Louis Dulcken, Munich 1793.

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[Harry]

Handel.

Acis and Galatea.
First Version.

Norma Burrowes, Galatea.
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Acis.
Martyn Hill, Damon.
Willard White, Polyphemus.

The English Baroque Soloist/John Eliot Gerdiner.

This recording from 1978 is delicious, as lucid as the tone of a bell, and a good front to back stage.
Burrowes was a surprise, I always thought her to be a big opera voice, but she has a voice with a natural vibrato, and nothing added to it, at least not that much. Johnson is a absolute delight to hear, what a pure and open voice he has. Hill & White are both right on the spot. As a chorus they work well together, and the pronunciation is excellent, as are the difficult tonal shifts in the choir singing, for instance in Wretched lovers, devilish tricky to sing, but they do it here most perfectly.
The Orchestra is a balm for your ears, and there is a air of novelty around that is quite invigorating. And of cause this is one of the top opera's Handel wrote. Delicious.
Have a few other boxes lying around with Handel's opera's, and look forward to that.
This reissue for 9,99 is a no brainer, if you don't have it buy it. Texts are included.