What are you listening to now?

[Mandryka]

Hmm, I am not too familiar with Gaultier's music (I am more of a Weiss fan), but I am enjoying the disc. It comes across as the realm of the baroque lute in vivid sound. However, I have no reference recording for Gaultier.

Are you talking about Vieux Gaultier? I have a friend who's explored the music and he cites Hopkinson Smith's CD as a sort of high point. You'll find it on spotify.

[Moonfish]

Are you talking about Vieux Gaultier? I have a friend who's explored the music and he cites Hopkinson Smith's CD as a sort of high point. You'll find it on spotify.

No, this particular cd has pieces by Ennemond and Denis Gaultier (French Baroque).  Erato was pulling my leg with his post and I was too dimwitted to pick it up in time....     

[Que]

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[The new erato]

duh!  I thought Erato was bad at typing....   

I am.......but I'm also bad at puns it seems.

[The new erato]

But..... have you ever heard this interpretation on the BIS label?

I'm waiting for the cheap megabox with 100 copies inside.

[Mandryka]

No, this particular cd has pieces by Ennemond and Denis Gaultier (French Baroque).  Erato was pulling my leg with his post and I was too dimwitted to pick it up in time....     

Ennemond Gaultier = Vieux Gaultier. Dennis Gaultier, who was related in some way, is Jeune Gaultier.

There's another Gaultier who I rather like, Pierre Gaultier (qui n'est ni vieux ni jeune, âge de pierre peut-être )

[Moonfish]

Ennemond Gaultier = Vieux Gaultier. Dennis Gaultier, who was related in some way, is Jeune Gaultier.

There's another Gaultier who I rather like, Pierre Gaultier (qui n'est ni vieux ni jeune, âge de pierre peut-être )

That's right - I didn't realize that Ennemond was the same individual. I will check out Hopkinson-Smith. Thanks Mandryka!! 

[Harry]

Good morning all. I am on my second rerun of the Frescobaldi set.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/04/frescobaldi-girolamo-1583-1643-complete_14.html?spref=tw

[North Star]

Handel (23.2.1685 – 14.4.1759)
Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, nos. 8, 9 & 12
Manze & Academy of Ancient Music



Prokofiev
Suite from Cinderella (transcribed for piano duo by Pletnev {14.4.1957– })

Ravel
Ma mère l'oye
Argerich & Pletnev

[andolink]

That's right - I didn't realize that Ennemond was the same individual. I will check out Hopkinson-Smith. Thanks Mandryka!! 

I'll second the rec. for Hopkinson Smith's Vieux Gualtier disc.  It's sublime!  My copy is autographed by Mr. Smith himself who I chatted with backstage after a performance here with Paul O'Dette.

[andolink]

Hector Parra: Stress Tensor for flute, clarinet, piano and string trio (2009)
ensemble recherche

Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929
The Mozartean Players

[The new erato]

I've been playing a few operas from this set:

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Mozart's Bastian & Bastienne, Gluck's Die Betrogene Kadi, Weber's Abu Hassan and Schubert's Der vierjahrige Posten so far.

Some very fine music, wonderful recorded sound and state of the art singing. Very worthwhile except for the lack of even plot synopsises of these mostly pretty unknown works. Some times I cannot fathom what the record companies are thinking of .. so what if a few pages of synopsises added a couple of quid to the price of this already absurdly cheap set (I seem to remember I paid around GBP 15)?

[Harry]

Some light music, for a dreary morning in the Netherlands, and what better as this recording?

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/04/coates-eric-1886-1957-orchestral-works.html?spref=tw

[Moonfish]

I'll second the rec. for Hopkinson Smith's Vieux Gualtier disc.  It's sublime!  My copy is autographed by Mr. Smith himself who I chatted with backstage after a performance here with Paul O'Dette.

Ahh, it is a bit pricey....   Did that disk ever end up in a compilation?

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[andolink]

Ahh, it is a bit pricey....   Did that disk ever end up in a compilation?

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I don't know.  Wouldn't surprise me though.

[Moonfish]

Ahh, it is a bit pricey....   Did that disk ever end up in a compilation?

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I bet it is in this one (but I don't know for sure)....

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[North Star]

Bach / Kurtág
Márta & György Kurtág (pf4h)

https://www.youtube.com/v/g319gW5_O0o

[andolink]

Gabriel Faure: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Trio George Sand

Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Trio George Sand

[Sergeant Rock]

Prokofiev Three Pieces op.59, Tales of an Old Grandmother op.31 and Pensées op.62 played by Gyorgy Sandor




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Liszt
Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, S. 529ii
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, S. 173/3
Venezia e Napoli – Supplement to Années de Pèlerinage vol. II, S. 162
Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178
Hamelin
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Some of the most beautiful piano playing on this disc - particularly the Années extracts. and B-A-C-H Oh, and those tremolo passages are quite astonishingly played.

At 31 minutes the Sonata isn't among the fastest performances, but the performance is superb - no inappropriate rushing, no harsh banging at any point, and a fantastic tonal range. Musicality and virtuosity are in perfect harmony here - in toto, I haven't heard a better Liszt recording than this.

Thanks, Karlo! I was hoping the performance would call forth praise on that order, and so I ordered the CD on spec