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I remember some spectacularly fine LP recordings that were not successfully transferred to cd like Haitink´s The Planets and Scheherazade on Philips. And on the contrary, some LP´s that didn´t sound too good when first released were very successfully transferred to cd like DG Falla´s La Vida Breve. ...

http://images.handy.de/fundb/article/8/507/3730902.jpg Tomorrow I´ll go to a recital with dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt. You may remember her as the soprano Covent Garden dumped because she was too fat to wear a little black dress in their production of Ariadne auf Naxos a few years ago. Voigt had...

The soloists are nowhere as good as in the Solti recording, and Boulez is his usual clinical, analytical self, but I still enjoyed the discipline and sense of purpose of the performance. A few years ago I bought a copy of Boulez's Mahler 2 with the VPO and I do not like it so I have given his Mahle...

The soloists are nowhere as good as in the Solti recording, and Boulez is his usual clinical, analytical self, but I still enjoyed the discipline and sense of purpose of the performance.

Alessandrini´s is also my preferred version.

http://ml.naxos.jp/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/OP3084.jpg My favourites are: both of Pierre Hantaï´s recordings, Opus111 & Mirare, Ottavio Dantone´s hard to get Italian DECCA recording, or if it has to be on the piano András Schiff or Murray Perahia, but I´m really a cembalo man when it´s Bach...

Oh yes Fergus, granted that he is no Mozart. But Antonio Salieri was a very fine composer on his own and he most certainly should be investigated. The Bartoli disc would be a wonderful place to start.

http://www.freecodesource.com/album-cover/51vtg%2BlF%2BTL/Cecilia-Bartoli-Salieri-Album.jpg Of the many "theme" recitals that La Bartoli has recorded I´m particularly fond of 2: the rare Gluck arias album and the Salieri. These 2 albums besides offering gorgeous singing are also valuable ...

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Fran wrote:Good to see you on Pepe - glad that it all worked out!!


Cead mile failte!!

Thank you Fran, I´m very happy to be here.

Behave yourself while you are here Pepe....I am responsible for you!!!!!

I promise to be as nice and urbane as any proper Irish gentleman.

Fran wrote:Good to see you on Pepe - glad that it all worked out!!


Cead mile failte!!

Thank you Fran, I´m very happy to be here.