Recent Purchases

[fergus]

[fergus]

[Jared]

great choice there Fergus... it's a beautifully performed album.. ;-))

[fergus]

great choice there Fergus... it's a beautifully performed album.. ;-))

Thank you Jared....I like both Weber and Johnson so.....

[fergus]

[Seán]

On occasion I stumble on a performer or group of performers who really impress me and have me determined to acquire more of their recordings, the likes of Clara Haskil, Quatuor Mosaïques and the Quartetto Italiano immediately spring to mind. A new one -- for me at any rate -- is the Freiburger Barockorchester and as I find the instrumental music of JS Bach simply irresistible I just had to get these two CDs:



And now for more Baroque music, this delightful box set includes my first recording of Handel's Messiah:



And finally a huge box set of Baroque music to educate me and perhaps even further whet my appetite, we'll see:

1-2 Bach Brandenburg Concertos La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
3 Bach Overtures Collegium Aureum, F. Maier, H.-M. Linde
4 Bach Musical Offering Ensemble Sigiswald Kuijken, G. Leonhardt
5 Bach Great Organ Works Gustav Leonhardt
6 Bach The Art of Fugue Berliner Bach Akademie
7 Bach Goldberg Variations Gustav Leonhardt
8 Bach Inventions and Sinfonias Gustav Leonhardt
9 Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Gustav Leonhardt
10 Bach Works for Lute Julian Bream, George Malcolm
11 Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin Rudolf Gähler
12-13 Bach Cello Suites Guido Schiefen
14 Bach Motets Cantus Cölln
15 Bach Sacred Cantatas Max van Egmond, Frans Brüggen
16 Bach Secular Cantatas Collegium Aureum, Reinhard Peters
17 Bach Christmas Oratorio Gächinger Kantorei, Bach Collegium Stuttgart
18-19 Bach St. John Passion, Bach-Ensemble der St. Matthew Passion EuropaChorAkademie, J. Daus
20-21 Bach Mass in B minor Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock
22 Bach / Magnificat/ Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Vivaldi Beatus Vir Gloria Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling

23 Buxtehude Organ Works Rainer Oster
24 Corelli 6 Concerti grossi Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon
25 Corelli Sonatas Op. 5 ("La Follia") Frans Brüggen, Anner Bylsma, G. Leonhardt
26 Couperin Concerts Royaux Ensemble Sigiswald Kuijken
27 Frescobaldi Fiori Musicali Canticum, Christoph Erkens
28 Fux Requiem Clemencic Consort, Rene Clemencic

29 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks, Orchestre de Chambre Water Musik Jean-François Paillard
30 Handel Organ Concertos Op. 4 Collegium Aureum, Rudolf Ewerhart
31 Handel Concertos M. Messiter, London Festival Orchestra, R. Pople
32 Handel Te Deum, Chandos Anthem "Let God Arise" Vocalsolisten Frankfurt
33 Handel Messiah The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
34 Handel "Rinaldo", "Alessandro" La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy, J.-C. Malgoire, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
35-36 Handel "Julio Cesare", "Tamerlano", J. Malafronte, N. Treigle, "Serse" R. Jacobs, N. McGegan

37-38 Lully Ballet Le Bourgeois Gentil- Capriccio Stravagante, homme, Divertissements Skip Sempé, La Petite Bande
39 Monteverdi/ Vespro della Beata Vergine / La Grande Écurie et Charpentier Te Deum La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
40 Pergolesi Stabat Mater Wolfgang Gröhs, Stefanie Kopinits, Gabriella Bessenyei, Europa Symphony
41 Pergolesi La serva padrona Collegium Aureum
42 Purcell / Locke Anthems and Hymns David Cordier, Gustav Leonhardt, Harry van der Kamp
43 Purcell "Dido and Aeneas", "The Fairy Queen", "King Arthur" Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon
44 Rameau Suites from "Les Indes Galantes", "Pygmalion", Collegium Aureum, La Petite Bande, "Zoroastre" G. Leonhardt
45 A. Scarlatti Duet Cantatas Dominique Labelle, Christine Brandes
46 D. Scarlatti Sonatas "Pour le Clavecin" Andreas Staier
47 Schütz Psalms of David Musica Fiata Köln, Frieder Bernius
48 Schütz Symphoniae Sacrae II Musica Fiata Köln, La Capella Ducale
49 Telemann Suite "Don Quichotte" a.o. Cis Collegium Mozarteum, J. Geise
50 Telemann Concertos from "Tafelmusik" Collegium Aureum

51-52 Vivaldi L'Estro Armonico St. Petersburg Soloists, Michail Gantvarg
53 Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni, Ensemble Sigiswald Kuijken, Concertos for Oboe La Petite Bande
54 Vivaldi Concertos for Violin Pinchas Zukerman
55 Vivaldi 6 Concertos James Galway, I Solisti Veneti

56 Froberger/Kerll/ Organ Works Pachelbel Gustav Leonhardt
57 Bach/Handel Choruses Mormon Tabernacle Choir
58 Carissimi/ Jephte/ D. Scarlatti/Vivaldi Stabat Mater Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel
59 (Anon.) Missa Salisburgensis, Hymnus "Plaudite Tympana" Escolania de Montserrat
60 Pachelbel/Albinoni and others Barock Highlights Ramón Vargas, The Harp Consort, Andrew Lawrence-King u.a.

[fergus]

Excellent haul there Seán....that lot should keep you going well into the Christmas season!!

[Seán]

Excellent haul there Seán....that lot should keep you going well into the Christmas season!!

Thanks Fergus, and the Brandenburg Concertos by La Petite Bande are mighty fine indeed, this 60 CD set cost the princely sum of €39.99 on jpc.

[fergus]

Excellent haul there Seán....that lot should keep you going well into the Christmas season!!

Thanks Fergus, and the Brandenburg Concertos by La Petite Bande are mighty fine indeed, this 60 CD set cost the princely sum of €39.99 on jpc.

I like those performances too Seán; I am glad that you enjoyed them.

[fergus]