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[Coopmv]

Some of the best baroque performances on non-period instruments and I have this set as well ...

[Bulldog]

Some of the best baroque performances on non-period instruments and I have this set as well ...

I think that Mullova's set is on a period instrument.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived from MDT early in the week ...

[SonicMan46]

 

Own & enjoy that Scarlatti set! 

Myslivecek, Josef - Wind Chamber Works - another listen - Excellent! 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Find out, at the The Age of the Universe thread! ; )

For the sake of my blood pressure I should probably steer clear...

[Antoine Marchand]

What a delightful piece of music AND totally joyful performance!

http://www.youtube.com/v/Vwmq6k8LFYo

[Que]

17th century Italian harpsichord music by Giovanni Salvatore, Gregorio Strozzi and Gaetano Greco, played on a period harpsicord by an anonymous maker from the collection of the Villa Medici Giulini in Briosco, Italy.

A very good morning.

Q

[mc ukrneal]

Here is a pleasant way to start the day (Pavel Vranicky and his symphonies on Supraphone, played by the Dvorak Chamber Orchestra):

If you like Mozart and Haydn, you will almost assuredly like this.

[mc ukrneal]

After Vranicky, I wanted something light and fun. What could be better than Offenbach! Picked Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein. Currently listening to pif, paf pouf (track 6)! It's something only Offenbach could make work. I can't help tapping along...

[mahler10th]

What a delightful piece of music AND totally joyful performance!

http://www.youtube.com/v/Vwmq6k8LFYo

That was great.  First thing I have listened to today...sets me up nicely.
Thanks Antoine.

[prémont]

J.S. BACH       Brandenburg Concertos        Mainz Chamber Orch. playing original instruments, Günther Kehr cond.    originally a Vox or Turnabout analogue LP set   soloists not listed
Some pretty rough sounds here, we used to think this was a refreshing, bracing change from the old Münchinger Stüttgart version.   #4 is not so bad, the players probably had recorders at an earlier age.   If you like mean-tone organ tuning, this could be attractive.

Which recording is this.

Günter Kehr (1920 - 1987) (and the Mainzer Kammerorkester) recorded the Brandenburg concertos for Vox twice.

First recording was made 1958 on modern instruments, the soloists are uncredited (but includes without doubt Günter Kehr himself violin, Heinz Zickler trumpet, Fritz Neumeyer and Martin Galling harpsichord and maybe Susanne Lautenbacher violin, Klaus Pohlers traverse flute and Gustav Scheck recorder.). This recording has since long been rereleased by Vox on CD and is easily available.

Second recording was made 1982 on period instruments, the soloists are credited and rather well known (Susanne Lautenbacher violin, Helmut Hucke oboe, Friedeman Immer tromba, Günter Höller recorder and traverso, Christoph Lehmann harpsichord, Günter Kehr violin et.c. - I can PM you the complete list if you want). This recording was also rereleased by Vox ( ca 1990), but it was difficult to get hold of then and has since long been OOP. A few years ago I asked the owner of the rights to the Vox repertoire about this recording, but he did not know it, and he could not find it, so the mastertapes may have disappeared. 

While the first recording in 1958 was a refreshing achievement for its time, much in the spirit of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / August Wenzinger recording for Archiv, if not in quite as good sound, even if (or rather because) it was recorded in early stereo, the second recording from 1982 was despite the prominent soloists much below par, and it is a great luck, that it was not the first recording, which disappeared.

[Marc]

I think that Mullova's set is on a period instrument.

Yep. Although in fact, almost all soloist violinists use a period instrument.
AFAIK, Mullova has two of them: a Strad and this Guadagnini. But, instead of the Perlmans et al, she's using gut strings and a baroque-style bow on this one.

[Harry]

First listen

[MN Dave]

Good morning.

I am listening to Yuja Wang's Chopin.

[mc ukrneal]

First listen

How many of those Lyrita's do you have left? Every time I see them I think of 'soldes'! Now that the sale is past, I keep remembering/finding discs I wish I had gotten. 

[prémont]

AFAIK, Mullova has two of them: a Strad and this Guadagnini. But, instead of the Perlmans et al, she's using gut strings and a baroque-style bow on this one.

In the booklet to the recording Mullova writes:

"I carried on at first on a modern instrument, then as my understanding of the 18th-century aestitic increased I came, qiute naturally, to feel the need to change to gut strings and Baroque bow."

Reading this I am in doubt as to whether her Guadagnini has become reverted to the original state or not. Maybe only the strings have been changed.

[George]

Now Playing:



Mahler
Symphony 7
Sinopoli
Philharmonia Orchestra

TGIF!

[Harry]

How many of those Lyrita's do you have left? Every time I see them I think of 'soldes'! Now that the sale is past, I keep remembering/finding discs I wish I had gotten. 

Well I still got quite a few, I bought almost all they had in the soldes

[SonicMan46]

This morning, finishing up the final 2 discs of this 5-CD set of Rubbra's Symphonies w/ Hickox:

[karlhenning]

How was that, Dave?  I don't know if my ear could take that sort of trip so early in the day.