I hope that you are enjoying them and will continue to do so!DaveF wrote:....one of my recently aquired vinyl boxsets.
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To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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Sibelius – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 [Bernstein]....
Wonderful performances with a lovely sound emanating from the speakers!
Wonderful performances with a lovely sound emanating from the speakers!
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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The long-lost Striggio 40-part mass: glorious. I was relieved: I thought the extract I heard on CD Review sounded a bit disappointing.
López-Cobos conducting M3: very satisfying detail, lots of instrumental details becoming apparent. Quite thrilling too.
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That 40-part mass sounds interesting, Ciaran. Could you make out all 40...?
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I didn't count. But it certainly is quite a bewildering sound, rich and complicated and naturally reminiscent of Spem in alium, Tallis's proof that English composers could also write in forty parts.
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I always find I admire Spem in Alium more than I enjoy it. Actually, bewildering is a good word!
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Dvorak – Stabat Mater....Kubelik:
This was my first time to hear this work and I really liked it. I thought that the performance was really good with very good singing all round, especially that of Edith Mathis.
This was my first time to hear this work and I really liked it. I thought that the performance was really good with very good singing all round, especially that of Edith Mathis.
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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Bartok – String Quartet No. 5....
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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López-Cobos and M3 again. Actually I was a little disappointed in the 4th movement, the Nietzsche setting, which lacked some of the mystery that Abbado or Chailly give it, but the finale is certainly a rousing blaze of glory!
The symphony for piano solo by Alkan, played by Ronald Smith. Beautiful music!!
The Tallis Scholars singing Josquin's Missa "l'Homme Armé" super voces musicales. Mesmerising. Ecstatic. A lot of polyphony leaves me cold, but I adore Josquin and have since I first heard an LP of the Deller Consort singing one of his "l'Homme Armé" Masses which I borrowed from the Music Library in Kevin Street in about 1978.