What are you listening to?

[jaybee]

Another:



I enjoyed it a lot!

I guess that's about as rock and roll as classical gets....

He'd be the Jimmy Page of the Lute-Shredding Brigade......

[Jose Echenique]

Andreas Hammerschmidt was a Bohemian composer born in 1612. His father was a protestant Saxon though, and had to flee Bohemia during the Thirty Years War. He probably was the most notable North German composer between Schütz and Buxtehude, and in fact his music can be seen as a bridge between them.
In this cd we get some instrumental pieces and motets in the mid-XVII Century concertato style. The performances are exquisite, with particularly breathtaking singing from the Knabenchor Hannover.

[Jared]

Hewitt/ Bach: French Suites....

I'm on my 6th listen... they are starting to make structural sense...

[Ciaran]

Another:



I enjoyed it a lot!

I guess that's about as rock and roll as classical gets....

He'd be the Jimmy Page of the Lute-Shredding Brigade......

I believe he has actually played in rock bands (before he saw the light)!

[bombasticDarren]

Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet & Overture 1812 (Adrian Leaper, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Naxos)

[DaveF]

[Seán]

Dave, is that recording on vinyl? I have a couple of LPs from the Great Performances series including the Szell/CO Mahler 4 and they are superb performances and recordings too.

[bombasticDarren]

Dvorak - The Golden Spinning Wheel (Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker, EMI)

[DaveF]

Dave, is that recording on vinyl? I have a couple of LPs from the Great Performances series including the Szell/CO Mahler 4 and they are superb performances and recordings too.

It's on vinyl yes. A really great performance and the recording sounds magnificent too.

[bombasticDarren]

Copland - Appalachian Spring (Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, EMI)