Well done Paul....your eloquence exceeds itself as ever!
I also would be a Curzon fan.
What are you listening to?
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To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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On vinyl....
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
Re: What are you listening to?
Thank you, Fergus, that's very kind of you.fergus wrote:Well done Paul....your eloquence exceeds itself as ever!
I also would be a Curzon fan.
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bombasticDarren
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Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1 (Yefim Bronfman/David Zinman, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Arte Nova)
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Darren, I'm on (another) Beethoven kick at present and am wallowing in these wonderful concertos, do you like these performances?bombasticDarren wrote:Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1 (Yefim Bronfman/David Zinman, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Arte Nova)
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Jose Echenique
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This is an excellent Damnation de Faust. What a pity that Gardiner didn´t use the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique with period instruments, though of course it didn´t yet exist at the time of this recording. Anne Sofie von Otter who also recorded the work with Myung Whun-Chung is one of the finest Marguerites ever.Jared wrote:
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Jose Echenique
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Graupner recordings keep coming aplenty. This is the second recording of the overtures with Chalumeaux, the first made some 20 years ago for Pierre Verany was probably the first Graupner recording ever.
The Chalumeaux is the missing link between the recorder and the clarinet. Only 8 instruments have survived from the XVIII Century, so even then it must have been an extremely rare instrument. It´s tubular sound is odd but not unpleasant.
This new recording is superb, as are all Ars Antiqua Austria recordings.