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[Brian]

Hi, Sonic. I don't know if you have noticed this re-release:

To anyone who has this particular box - what's the quality of the booklet or physical presentation? Would I lose anything via MP3 purchase?

[Brian]

My first listen of 2011:

[Drasko]

Fine performance, but what I found very interesting about it is that it caught the orchestra in transition from old soviet sound to "international" of today, so at the same time horns play with barely any vibrato while the principal trumpet plays with wide soviet style one (or the other way around, haven't listened to it in long time).




Nice program, off the beaten track mostly. Liked the Liszt homage. Playing clean, crisp, swift and rather charmless.

[Que]

Nice program, off the beaten track mostly. Liked the Liszt homage. Playing clean, crisp, swift and rather charmless.

Yup, agree with that. Light but dry...

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Schubert Octet D.803




Sarge

[Coopmv]

To anyone who has this particular box - what's the quality of the booklet or physical presentation? Would I lose anything via MP3 purchase?

Happy New Year.  This set has been on my shopping list for a while.  If anything, it is as much nostalgia as appreciation for the ensemble since I started listening to the group when I first ventured into classical music and baroque music in particular.  Then I drifted off to embrace recordings by Trevor Pinnock, Christopher Hogwood and John Eliot Gardiner like countless others.  BTW, the emergence of these newer HIP ensembles was supposed to be the principal reason Reinhard Goebel decided to disband MAK ...

[Coopmv]

My first listen of 2011:

How do you like this recording?  I added it to my collection over a year ago.  I also have the following version, which is another excellent performance ...

[SonicMan46]

 

A very good morning everybody, and a happy new year.

Q - HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and all here! 

Perotin w/ the Hilliard Ensemble - 

[SonicMan46]

Dvorak - String Quartets - new acquisitions and some re-listening - believe that Brian was the main impetus to my purchase of these recordings and each is excellent!   

 

[Coopmv]

Time for some French Baroque.  Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived from across the pond a few weeks ago for a first listen ...



Incidentally, this CD is also available separately as

[Sergeant Rock]

New Year's concert, 1987...a very good year for me. A year spent in Munich.




Sarge

[Que]

Time for some French Baroque.  Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived from across the pond a few weeks ago for a first listen ...

Talking about good deals - well done.  I enjoyed that immensely. Great value for anyone interested in Charpentier.

Q

[Mirror Image]

Now:




First listen to this recording and it's really good, but my usual problem with Tilson Thomas is still the same. He's too rhythmically slack for Stravinsky. Those rhythms should be tighter and punchier. But nevertheless, this is a fine program of late Stravinsky material.

[Coopmv]

New Year's concert, 1987...a very good year for me. A year spent in Munich.




Sarge

Here is one of my favorite New Year's Concerts by the BPO and Karajan from 1984 - an all Bach program - Violin Concertos with Sofie Mutter and the Magnificat with Karajan at the harpsichord.  Great stuff!



Happy New Year, Sarge.

[Coopmv]

Talking about good deals - well done.  I enjoyed that immensely. Great value for anyone interested in Charpentier.

Q

I got this set in a very good deal at Presto Classical ...

[Antoine Marchand]

Happy New Year to all here at GMG! 

This morning - first listen of the year:



J.S. Bach - Cantatas Vol. 4: Ansbach/Haddington

CD1 53:48 For the Sixth Sunday after Trinity

Es ist das Heil uns kommen her BWV 9
Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust BWV 170
Motet (Kuhnau/Bach attrib.): Der Gerechte kommt um

Now:

Mozart - Complete Piano Sonatas
Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano



CD1: K279, 280 & 281

Fortepiano by Claude Kelecom, Brussels 1978, based on an original by Johann Andreas Stein (1788). 

[Mirror Image]

Here is what I'm going to try to listen to today:





I'm going to try to listen to Symphony No. 9 to begin listening to this cycle which I bought months ago!

Then later on:

[Brian]

Symphonies by J.C.F. Bach - such a new release they were uploaded to Naxos Music Library today, but this is already my second listen!

[DavidRoss]

Ringing in the new year with the first hearing of this:

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 - T1 "Winter Dreams" and Francesca da Rimini from this set for a first listen ...