What are you listening to?

[fergus]

More Brahms....

[Seán]

Henry Purcell
Hail! Bright Cecila
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Jennifer Smith, Stephen Varcoe, Paul Elliott, Brian Gordon, Ashley Stafford, Elizabeth Wilcock
John Eliot Gardiner - conducting.

I listened to Hail! Bright Cecila in one sitting this evening and enjoyed it very much indeed. I will listen to it a couple of times before I revisit Simon's thread and use the notes. I do like Purcell's music.

[Diapason]

Sean, I'm delighted!

[Jared]

I do like Purcell's music.

how could anyone not like it? vibrant, colourful, lively, with so many incredible melodies... it's magnificent stuff!

[Jose Echenique]

I do like Purcell's music.

how could anyone not like it? vibrant, colourful, lively, with so many incredible melodies... it's magnificent stuff!

Of course it is. Though I would personally NOT agree with this, Herreweghe said that he wouldn´t exchange the whole output of Handel for the Purcell St. Cecilia´s Ode. Obviously he adores Purcell, and by the way, he has never recorded a note of Handel. Maybe Handel is too much of an hedonist for him. I have no problem with hedonism, voluptuousness and most other deadly sins, so I gladly take my Handel.

[Jared]

Mozart: Mass in C minor K.427
David Robertson/ BBC Symph Orchestra & Chorus

[Jared]

Mozart:
Piano Concerto No.24 K.491
Clifford Curzon/ London Mozart Players

[Seán]

Sean, I'm delighted!

Thanks Simon, I listened to it again tonight, I don't see a pattern yet I want to get a a bit familiar with it before studying your notes.

[Seán]

I was inspired by my mentor, Mr Byrne, to listen to this again tonight:



Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D
Orchestre National de la Radioffusion Française,
Otto Klemperer - conducting.

What a wonderful performance by Oistrakh, one could be mistaken for thinking that Brahms wrote it for him, it is great music-making, I love it.

[fergus]

I was inspired by my mentor, Mr Byrne, to listen to this again tonight:



Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D
Orchestre National de la Radioffusion Française,
Otto Klemperer - conducting.

What a wonderful performance by Oistrakh, one could be mistaken for thinking that Brahms wrote it for him, it is great music-making, I love it.

I am delighted that you liked it Seán; he was indeed a master musician. I came to the conclusion some time ago that if one was having difficulty with a violin piece then listen to an Oistrakh version and all will be revealed!