What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[SonicMan46]

March 1982 in Stuttgart, according to the booklet of the first Intercord CD release, which I own.

Thanks Antoine & Premont for the year above - just keep my CDs in a database w/ one category being the recording date! 

Finishing up my firt listen of MP3 download of her English Suites this morning - now the option I choose brought up the 'green cover' (below, left); however, there was another download option which brings up the Denon cover - assuming these are the same set of recordings, but have not compared the times?  Dave


 

[prémont]

Thanks Antoine & Premont for the year above - just keep my CDs in a database w/ one category being the recording date! 

Finishing up my firt listen of MP3 download of her English Suites this morning - now the option I choose brought up the 'green cover' (below, left); however, there was another download option which brings up the Denon cover - assuming these are the same set of recordings, but have not compared the times?  Dave

The timings of the Denon cover "release"are exactly identical to the timings of the Intercord release (and the release with the green cover as well - which I also own) .

[Antoine Marchand]

Thanks Antoine & Premont for the year above - just keep my CDs in a database w/ one category being the recording date! 

Finishing up my firt listen of MP3 download of her English Suites this morning - now the option I choose brought up the 'green cover' (below, left); however, there was another download option which brings up the Denon cover - assuming these are the same set of recordings, but have not compared the times?  Dave


 

This is our own Groundhog Day: 

I have now compared the timings in the link above of the claimed Denon recordings (pictures of Denon releases) and the timings are conspicuously identical with the Saphire timings. I doubt that she recorded the works more than once.

I did the same exercise and, clearly, those Denon recordings are the same Saphire releases (now on the Amado box set)...

Thank you very much for the specific dates and instrument of the English Suites. I will copy them and will put that info into my set. 

[Coopmv]

CD 7: La Chapelle Royale au Temps de Louis XIV

Henry Dumont (1610-1684): Exultat animus; Magnificat.
Céline Scheen, Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, dessus; Mathias Vidal, haute-contre; Lluís Vilamajó, taille; Stephan MacLeod, basse-taille. Collegium Vocale Gent; Ricercar Consort; Philippe Pierlot, direction.
Live recording at the Chapelle royale du Château de Versailles.

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): Miserere (LWV 125)
Amel Brahim-Djelloul, dessus; Damien Guillon, bas-dessus; Howard Crook, haute-contre; Hervé Lamy, taille; Arnaud Marzorati, basse-taille.
Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Musica Florea (Marek Stryncl); Olivier Schneebeli, direction.
(from a recording on K617)

Henry Desmarest (1661-1741): De profundis
Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Stéphanie Révidat, dessus; François Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre; Sébastien Droy, taille. Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet, direction.
(from a recording on Glossa)

Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

Q

This is a wonderful set.  I am glad I found the time to finish listening to it and hope to come back for a second listen at some point ...

[Antoine Marchand]

The timings of the Denon cover "release"are exactly identical to the timings of the Intercord release (and the release with the green cover as well - which I also own) .

Do you know if she recorded any of Bach's solo keyboard works more than one time?

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which has been sitting unopen for some time ...

[prémont]

Do you know if she recorded any of Bach's solo keyboard works more than one time?

The only other (other than the Intercord set) Bach solo harpsichord recording from her I know of is the one I mentioned above: Excerpts from WTC (Concert Hall Society one LP ca 1964). I got it already then, but my only point of reference was Walcha´s set, and I was only a teenager without much knowledge of historical informed performance. I found the recording dull and discarded it. Maybe I would have appreciated it more to day.

[jlaurson]

BTW, now playing the excellet Jaccottet's seven Toccatas BWV 910-916. That Amado set is a steal! If I had money I would buy all rights of Jaccottet's recordings and I would give to her decent editions for her marvelous performances. Word.

Amen, brother. The editions she's been on have all been nasty, and the Amado set is the nastiest of them. I'd be happy to fork over $15,- per disc or maybe $20,- per 2 CD set for well done editions with new essays by Brad Lehmann and all in a high quality digi-pack. Alas...

[prémont]

Amen, brother. The editions she's been on have all been nasty, and the Amado set is the nastiest of them.

Well, the SQ is excellent - just as good as the old Intercord releases, and this is in the end what matters. AMEN.

[Coopmv]

Well, the SQ is excellent - just as good as the old Intercord releases, and this is in the end what matters. AMEN.

Can't agree with you more.  It is still better than putting the LP's on the TT platter ...

[prémont]

Can't agree with you more.  It is still better than putting the LP's on the TT platter ...

The old Intercord CD releases I meant.

[Antoine Marchand]

Amen, brother. The editions she's been on have all been nasty, and the Amado set is the nastiest of them. I'd be happy to fork over $15,- per disc or maybe $20,- per 2 CD set for well done editions with new essays by Brad Lehmann and all in a high quality digi-pack. Alas...

Agreed: Bradley Lehman, great notes, pictures, a decent Jaccottet's biography; but just one quibble: jewel-cases, please, not digipacks.

On the other hand, I will be grateful forever for Premont's recommendation of the Amado set. That music is a treasure. 

[Coopmv]

The old Intercord CD releases I meant.

Any CD is more convenient than an LP, though I will hang on to my 4000+ classical LP's and my turntables.  Intercord CD is not all bad.  I have always enjoyed this CD by Karl Munchinger on Intercord.  I must admit I do not see Intercord CD's too often stateside ...

[Antoine Marchand]

Well, the SQ is excellent - just as good as the old Intercord releases, and this is in the end what matters. AMEN.

I understand your point, but the current situation of Jaccottet's musical legacy is a disaster. You need to be a musical detective -like you are  - to discover her music. 

[Novi]

Not quite the 10 years as in Bogey's thread, but it's been a while with this one. Schneiderhan is great!

[jlaurson]

...but just one quibble: jewel-cases, please, not digipacks.

Seriously? You prefer jewel cases over (good) digipacks??? Because you throw them away? (That's the only reason I prefer them; then I am free to use my own plastic sleeves from JazzLoft. But other than that, I find jewel cases (except the best of the Super Jewel cases) rather ungainly to the touch and to the eye.

[Antoine Marchand]

Seriously? You prefer jewel cases over (good) digipacks??? Because you throw them away? (That's the only reason I prefer them; then I am free to use my own plastic sleeves from JazzLoft. But other than that, I find jewel cases (except the best of the Super Jewel cases) rather ungainly to the touch and to the eye.

We even have our own thread: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,16107.0.html

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set.  CD1 was excellent and I am glad I have started to build out my collection of chamber music, a subgenre of classical music I never liked in the past ...

[bhodges]

Last night, a really fine performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the American Classical Orchestra (period instruments) with Thomas Crawford conducting.  Soloists were Arianna Zukerman (soprano), Heather Johnson (alto), Choong Lee (tenor), and Camille Reno (bass)--all very good--and three choirs for a combined chorus of over 150 people. 

The performance was at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine--a huge space with a sound decay of 9 seconds, so in some respects not ideal for this piece.  But that was offset by the sheer magnetism of the reading, the tangy sound of the instruments, and the heft of the vocal forces.  The pauses after climaxes, such as in the final movement after the chorus belts out "vor Gott," were spine-tingling as the sound died away.

--Bruce

[prémont]

I understand your point, but the current situation of Jaccottet's musical legacy is a disaster. You need to be a musical detective -like you are  - to discover her music. 

You are certainly a better musical detective than I am (you know, what I think of)