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[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch II

[AnotherSpin]

Toshio Hosakawa - Lotus under the moonlight
Momo Kodama, Seiji Ozawa, Mito Chamber Orchestra

[steve ridgway]

Crumb - An Idyll For The Misbegotten

[steve ridgway]

Berio - Calmo For Mezzo-Soprano And 22 Instruments

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky - Scherzo Fantastique

[AnotherSpin]

[Wanderer]

[Harry]

Marin Marais.
Pieces de Violes. (See back cover for details)
Wieland Kuijken, Viola da Gamba, Les Voix Humaines.
Recorded: 2006.

What one could say that the intonation is perfect, a balanced harmony between all involved. Very nuanced performances, expressive and highly varied. Tone quality is pure. A warm recording, which is not bad, but some of the detail is obscured. No matter its very enjoyable.

[Que]

[Harry]

Destinies.
Works from French Female composers of the Baroque.
See for details back cover.
Recorded in February 2024 at Eglise allemande de Paris.

These all extremely obscure composers, totally forgotten, it was literally undone of the webs of centuries of neglect, which must be applauded, for the quality of all compositions are superb. Well played and recorded. Many discoveries to be made.

The female composers to whom the baroque violinist Sophie de Bardonnèche pays tribute had very different fates: while the name Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) remains in the memory, who knows Mlle Duval (born around 1718), the second woman whose work was performed at the Paris Opera and who was nicknamed "la Légende" in her day? Her opera ballet Les Génies is a testimony to her great mastery. Then there were Anne-Madeleine Guesdon de Presles and Élisabeth-Louise Pellecier, composers who were married to composers - the latter signed her works with her husband's name, Papavoine... Others had an easier time getting into the limelight because they were aristocrats, such as Mlle de Menetou (1679-1745). No fewer than ten female composers are brought back to life in this program of sonatas, overtures and dances conceived by Sophie de Bardonnèche, a founding member of Le Consort. She is accompanied on her first solo album by her partners Lucile Boulanger and Justin Taylor.

[AnotherSpin]

Organ pieces from this set:

[Wanderer]

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.7 CD 5

[Harry]

Jean Françaix.
Orchestral Works.
See for details back cover.
Ulster Orchestra, Thierry Fischer.
Recorded in Ulster Hall, Belfast, 2001.
Cover: The Dance Foyer at the Opera on the Rue Peletier (1872) by Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Compelling listening, enthusiastically and empathetically played and superb recorded. Francaix is in all respects an amazing composer, which is again proven by this excellent recording. It's simply an hour of pure joy! The music makes you smile from ear to ear. Intricate rhythms bounce around like gremlins and colorful timbres are coming from every corner. Again a testimony of this fine orchestra.

[Que]

[Que]

I'm a fan of Kubelik's Bruckner. Didn't know this live recording!

[Mandryka]

Organ pieces from this set:

Try Marianne Lévy-Noisette, even though it focuses on the tavern music rather than the contrapuntal pieces - fantasias etc - the latter where Byrd's keyboard genius lies.

https://www.qobuz.com/au-en/album/william-byrd-la-musique-dorgue-anglaise-vol-2-marianne-levy-noisette/3491421413758

[Iota]

Bach: Sacred Cantatas, BWV 154, 155, 73
Kristjánsson, Benedikt, Johannsen, Daniel (tenors)
Potter, Alex (counter-tenor)
Winckhler, Matthias, Berndt, Tobias (bass)
Feuersinger, Miriam (soprano)
Gaechinger Cantorey Ensemble, Hans-Christoph Rademann (Conductor)

Am loving these. My first encounter with Rademann and I'm very impressed, the performance, the singers, everything seems just right. And Bach's ceaseless inventiveness lights up the world.

[Harry]

Anthony Collins.
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for details.
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson.
Recorded: 2005, at the Colosseum Town Hall, Watford.

Collins was a very gifted composer with a knack for memorable melodies, and catchy tunes. Light music, but of a very good quality. Wilson gets the most out of this music, even the sometimes serious undertones like in "The Song of Erin" a threatening undercurrent is menacing one's senses, but it fills out in harmony eventually. I am impressed by the works on this album. a fine recording and ditto recording.

[Harry]

Second rerun!