What are you listening to?

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Diapason
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Good man, Ciaran. I can transfer those directly to my amazon cart!

The Bach CD is one I can't really point to online, but it's a live recording of Chorale Saint-Michel and 'La Banda' Orchestra directed by Gerry Welter.
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Shostakovich - Symphony No.3 First of May (Rudolf Barshai, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Brilliant Classics)

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fergus wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:Schnittke - Symphony No.6 (Tadaaki Otaka, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BIS)

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Wow Darren, you are now entering territories that I have not dared contemplate yet!
I do it so you don't have to Fergus ;-)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 23, Opus 57

Rudolf Serkin - piano.


This is a very enjoyable performance, it was recorded in 1957.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata No. 1 Opus 5

Rudolf Serkin - piano
Pablo Casals - cello.
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Claude Debussy
String Quartet, Op. 10
Maurice Ravel
Pavanne pour une infante défunte

Linos Saxophon Quartett:

Andreas Hilner - soprano saxophone; Martin Hilner - alto saxophone; Roland Lichters - tenor saxophone; Sebastian Pottmeier - baritine saxophone


I like it.
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fergus wrote:
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You are very fond indeed of your Fux Pepe and now you have his music performed by the Freiburgers!!
Wickedly magnificent music and performance Fergus.
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Jose Echenique wrote:
fergus wrote: You are very fond indeed of your Fux Pepe and now you have his music performed by the Freiburgers!!
Wickedly magnificent music and performance Fergus.
I expect that they are incapable of giving a poor performance, they are a magnificent ensemble.

Fergus & Pepe, who is your favourite leader of the Freiburger Barackorchester: Hengelbrock? Creed? van der Goltz? Just curious.
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Seán wrote: I expect that they are incapable of giving a poor performance, they are a magnificent ensemble.

Fergus & Pepe, who is your favourite leader of the Freiburger Barackorchester: Hengelbrock? Creed? van der Goltz? Just curious.
Interesting Seán....I honestly have never given that a moment's notice. I just enjoy them!
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Seán wrote:
Jose Echenique wrote:
fergus wrote: You are very fond indeed of your Fux Pepe and now you have his music performed by the Freiburgers!!
Wickedly magnificent music and performance Fergus.
I expect that they are incapable of giving a poor performance, they are a magnificent ensemble.

Fergus & Pepe, who is your favourite leader of the Freiburger Barackorchester: Hengelbrock? Creed? van der Goltz? Just curious.
Thomas Hengelbrock mostly made recordings with the Freiburgers in the late 90´s, before turning to the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble (his most important recordings are with them, including the priceless Lotti recordings). Marcus Creed has conducted them live, but HM usually paired him in recordings with the equally stupendous Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, actually the Freiburger´s most dangerous rivals.
Gottfried von der Goltz is one of the 2 concertinos of the ensemble, the other is Petra Müllejans.
But if I had to name their most impressive conductor it would have to be René Jacobs, don´t you think?
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