What are you listening to?

[Jared]

The Rose & The Ostrich Feather...

[bombasticDarren]

Prokofiev - Symphony No.3 (Walter Weller, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Decca)

[Ciaran]

Our "local" Rosary Sonatas with Camerata Kilkenny. I listened to Sonata V, The Finding of Jesus in the Temple.

Ciaran, that's an intriguing looking disk... how do you find the performances of those delightful works?

I find them very poetic, with an improvisational feel to Barry Guy's continuo work on the double bass. I wouldn't recommend it as a first version, but when you know the sonatas quite well it's an interesting alternative view. I encountered it in a BAL on the Rosary Sonatas: it wasn't first choice but I liked what I heard so much that I bought it. I think I had the "winner" already!

[bombasticDarren]

Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite (Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Philips)

[Jose Echenique]

Thank you all for the friendliest welcome ever, I already feel at home.

I´m a great fan of the Mystery Sonatas, it´s amazing how many versions are now available, and most of them are excellent. When I was a teen in the 70´s the only 3 recordings available were with Susanne Lautenbacher in Vox, Franzjosef Maier in Harmonia Mundi and Edward Melkus in Archiv. Now the list is enormous, and includes marvelous versions with Reinhard Goebel, John Holloway, Andrew Manze and Riccardo Minasi, but just last year I added to my collection 2 absolutely fascinating recordings worth recommending: Daniel Sepec in Coviello Classics and even more surprising Julia Wedman in Sono Luminus. The Sepec version has a fantastic continuo full of imagination and needless to say superb violin playing from one of the best young virtuosos in the period violin. The Julia Wedman recording was even more of a surprise because so far I have only known her as second violin in the Canadian period orchestra Tafelmusik (next to concertino Jean Lamon), but in the Biber sonatas she proves a formidable player, and her inward and majestic interpretation has an almost hypnotic quality. This is one of the less expensive recordings of these works, but the quality of the music making is anything but budget.

[Fran]

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


Cead mile failte!!

[fergus]

Thank you all for the friendliest welcome ever, I already feel at home.

I´m a great fan of the Mystery Sonatas, it´s amazing how many versions are now available, and most of them are excellent. When I was a teen in the 70´s the only 3 recordings available were with Susanne Lautenbacher in Vox, Franzjosef Maier in Harmonia Mundi and Edward Melkus in Archiv. Now the list is enormous, and includes marvelous versions with Reinhard Goebel, John Holloway, Andrew Manze and Riccardo Minasi, but just last year I added to my collection 2 absolutely fascinating recordings worth recommending: Daniel Sepec in Coviello Classics and even more surprising Julia Wedman in Sono Luminus. The Sepec version has a fantastic continuo full of imagination and needless to say superb violin playing from one of the best young virtuosos in the period violin. The Julia Wedman recording was even more of a surprise because so far I have only known her as second violin in the Canadian period orchestra Tafelmusik (next to concertino Jean Lamon), but in the Biber sonatas she proves a formidable player, and her inward and majestic interpretation has an almost hypnotic quality. This is one of the less expensive recordings of these works, but the quality of the music making is anything but budget.

That is very interesting Pepe and one I am sure that should be investigated. I am a fan of Tafelmusik.

[Seán]

Thank you all for the friendliest welcome ever, I already feel at home.

I´m a great fan of the Mystery Sonatas, it´s amazing how many versions are now available, and most of them are excellent. When I was a teen in the 70´s the only 3 recordings available were with Susanne Lautenbacher in Vox, Franzjosef Maier in Harmonia Mundi and Edward Melkus in Archiv. Now the list is enormous, and includes marvelous versions with Reinhard Goebel, John Holloway, Andrew Manze and Riccardo Minasi, but just last year I added to my collection 2 absolutely fascinating recordings worth recommending: Daniel Sepec in Coviello Classics and even more surprising Julia Wedman in Sono Luminus. The Sepec version has a fantastic continuo full of imagination and needless to say superb violin playing from one of the best young virtuosos in the period violin. The Julia Wedman recording was even more of a surprise because so far I have only known her as second violin in the Canadian period orchestra Tafelmusik (next to concertino Jean Lamon), but in the Biber sonatas she proves a formidable player, and her inward and majestic interpretation has an almost hypnotic quality. This is one of the less expensive recordings of these works, but the quality of the music making is anything but budget.

That is very interesting Pepe and one I am sure that should be investigated. I am a fan of Tafelmusik.

There is a very fine clip of Julia Wedman on youtube leading the Tafelmusik in a performance of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto. I can't access youtube from work but a search on "Tafelmusik and Bach" will find it easily enough.

[Jose Echenique]

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.

[bombasticDarren]

Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues No.7-12 (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Decca)