What are you listening to?

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WOW....Savall doing Mozart!!!

I would not have put those two together....how did you get on with that one Dave??
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yes Savall and Mozart was not a combination I expected to come across either. It was an impulse buy online while browsing MDT one night. Yes, as expected it's quite superb which is a foregone conclusion with Savall these days hence the lack of comments. (...truth is that I was just too lazy to comment ;-)
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Late night listening:

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Schubert
Symphonies 2, 3 & 5

Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen conducting


Gorgeous music, beautifully played.
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This morning, two versions of the same JSB Cantata BWV4 (one of JSB’s earliest) for Easter Sunday....

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fergus wrote:This morning, two versions of the same JSB Cantata BWV4 (one of JSB’s earliest) for Easter Sunday....

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Christ lag in Todesbunden! One of my favourites! A really extraordinary cantata. Did you like either version, Fergus!

The Ricercar Consort have an excellent recording

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on Mirare together with another very early cantata, Aus der Tieffen ruffe Ich zu Dir, BWV 131 and Himmelskönig sei willkommen, BWV 182.
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Early morning listening:

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Schubert
Symphonies 6 & 8

Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen conducting


That completes my listening to the Schubert cycle. Leaving aside my initial misgivings about the 9th I have to say that it is a great set and one that I wil return to again and again.
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Seán wrote:Early morning listening:

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Schubert
Symphonies 6 & 8

Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen conducting


That completes my listening to the Schubert cycle. Leaving aside my initial misgivings about the 9th I have to say that it is a great set and one that I wil return to again and again.
I've been enjoying 1-6 from that set, but not so happy about 8 and 9.
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Ciaran wrote:Christ lag in Todesbunden! One of my favourites! A really extraordinary cantata. Did you like either version, Fergus!
The first played was the version by Gardiner with its usual up tempo, up-beat approach while the second version was by Karl Richter with the big, full bodied orchestral sound also, I must add, with a well sprung up-beat version. I am not crazy about the "heavy" orchestration used by Richter (a little too syrupy in places for me) as I like my Bach a little leaner but the singing, both solo and choral, was wonderful.
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Seán wrote:That completes my listening to the Schubert cycle. Leaving aside my initial misgivings about the 9th I have to say that it is a great set and one that I wil return to again and again.
I am glad that you stuck with it as the earlier, "Classical" symphonies really are wonderful.
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