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[NumberSix]

Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos
Lucie Horsch
Amsterdam Vivaldi Players

When the TwoSet guys made a video during Lockdown about the silliness of the recorder (just goodnatured ribbing - they're great guys), a number of recorder players made clapback videos. Lucie's is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvX_64vtIE

Years later, they had her on their channel in person.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Que]

Excellent! The church acoustics result in somewhat overbearing reverb in the 1st track, but don't get discouraged: this gets much better quickly.

Phillippe de Monte's music is underrated and underrecorded. So this selection from his 1st and 2nd book of his sacred madrigals is most welcome. De Monte was very prolific: we're talking around 40 masses, 250 motets and  800 madrigals! I have my fingers crossed for a De Monte renaissance!

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Passacaille_PAS1143.html

PS Wow....what gorgeous music! This made my day.

[Que]

When the TwoSet guys made a video during Lockdown about the silliness of the recorder (just goodnatured ribbing - they're great guys), a number of recorder players made clapback videos. Lucie's is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvX_64vtIE

Years later, they had her on their channel in person.

She seems like a fun person and she is Dutch. Continuing the tradition of Frans Brüggen, so to speak. And performing concerts with his former orchestra - the Orchestra of the 18th Century.

https://luciehorsch.com/

It makes me proud to see that the Dutch Classical Music scene is still so much alive. Despite the ongoing culture war waged by populists against "cultural elitism".

[Que]

Assorted Renaissance music (transcribed) for recorder consort. Added to the mix are accompanied songs, this time for tenor. Seems to be a popular way of programming these days!

[AnotherSpin]

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Rubbra
Symphony No. 4, Op. 53
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Hickox



Rubbra will never get the amount of attention RVW, Britten or Elgar receives, but he composed some fine music. At his most inspired, he stands inline with any of those afore-mentioned composers.

[ritter]

Elliott Carter: Holiday Overture, suite from Pocahontas, and Syringa.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Jörg Demus.

[ritter]

Assorted Renaissance music (transcribed) for recorder consort. Added to the mix are accompanied songs, this time for tenor. Seems to be a popular way of programming these days!

A fun fact is that the Fugger family from Augsburg, around  whose patronage that disc seems to be themed, have a street named after them ("Calle de Fúcar") here in Madrid, just a couple of blocks away from my home. The Fugger family financed the Spanish crown during the reigns of Charles I and Philipp II, and owned a house on that street.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Reger
Sonata in B-flat Major, for Clarinet / Viola, Op. 107
Barbara Westphal (viola), Jeffrey Swann (piano)

[Todd]

Disc 10 from the Vogt box, a Haydn Flute Trio and the Brahms Piano Trio No 1.  I do not think I've heard the Haydn Flute Trio before.  It is as delightful as one would expect.

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Der Sommer

Nice soprano and piano song from the ever popular Hölderlin .

[Traverso]

Libre Vermell

Pilgim songs & Dances

Back to the dark ages who in comparison weren't dark at all.

[Harry]

Excellent! The church acoustics result in somewhat overbearing reverb in the 1st track, but don't get discouraged: this gets much better quickly.

Phillippe de Monte's music is underrated and underrecorded. So this selection from his 1st and 2nd book of his sacred madrigals is most welcome. De Monte was very prolific: we're talking around 40 masses, 250 motets and  800 madrigals! I have my fingers crossed for a De Monte renaissance!

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Passacaille_PAS1143.html

PS Wow....what gorgeous music! This made made my day.

Book marked! Will try to listen soon to this recording. Thanks for the Thumbs up.

[SonicMan46]

Listening to my Bartok collection (just over two dozen discs; see attachment if interested) - had not listened to Zoltan Kocsis (1952-2016) in the solo piano box in a while - finishing up this afternoon with the violin works.  Dave

 

[Traverso]

Ēriks Ešenvalds

[ritter]

Aimez-vous Brahms?

[Irons]

I prefer the Borodin's earlier recordings on EMI and (with the original members) Melodiya.

[Irons]

I don't know those recordings yet. However, on the strength of the top quality of the performances on the Teldec set, I see difficult they can be bettered for me.

Slight for sure but something not quite the same after first violin Rostislav Dubinsky left.