What are you listening to?

[Jared]

Berlioz:
Les nuits d'ete
Le Corsaire Overture
Le Carnaval romain Overture
Le Roi Lear Overture
Hungarian March

BBC Phil/ Vassily Sinaisky
Katarina Karneus (Mezzo)

[fergus]

[Seán]

I will be spending a few days recapping on a few of my Berlioz recordings, which haven't seen the light of day in some time.

Jared, do you have this?



It is superb.

[Jared]

I will be spending a few days recapping on a few of my Berlioz recordings, which haven't seen the light of day in some time.

Jared, do you have this?



It is superb.

I only have the Requiem, Sean.... I have the Colin Davis 6CD set of Orchestral Works, which is also great.

[fergus]

Vinyl....

[jaybee]

..... and I give up, I can't, no matter how often I try it, warm to Bach's masses.... they leave me cold....

I don't doubt the genius, but it does nothing for me ( unlike the solo cello and violin works )

[Jared]

Berlioz:
Les nuits d'ete
Le Corsaire Overture
Le Carnaval romain Overture
Le Roi Lear Overture
Hungarian March

BBC Phil/ Vassily Sinaisky
Katarina Karneus (Mezzo)

another listen, in preparation for the arrival of Susan Graham's version...

[jaybee]

Vinyl....

ditto....but on cd

[Jared]

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..... and I give up, I can't, no matter how often I try it, warm to Bach's masses.... they leave me cold....

I don't doubt the genius, but it does nothing for me ( unlike the solo cello and violin works )

hmm... if the mass in B minor doesn't move you... :-/

tell you what, put it to one side for a couple of years, and let it collect a bit of dust. This is what I did with a couple of disks which I really struggled with very early on, but came back to them 3 years later to find them very pleasurable... you might find the same.

in the mean time, have a listen to some other Germanic baroque choral works, like Buxtehude's fabulous 'Membra Jesu Nostri' or some Biber, and work your way in.

[Jared]

ditto....but on cd

I similarly have and love that set....