What are you listening to?

[fergus]

To put it simply, that´s the greatest recording of the 1980´s.

I feel so unfamiliar with Rossini's operas. Is this a good place to start from your perspective?

I am not qualified enough in Rossini to answer that question for you Peter as I also am deficient in Rossini listening so I will also learn for other answers that you have received.

[fergus]

Bach: Cantatas for the 20th Sunday after Trinity....





....for Peter!

[Seán]

Do you like it Fergus? I have not listened to it yet as I am still engrossed in the first two operas in Maestro Abbado's four opera set:

I did enjoy it Seán. It was apparently written for the best voices around at the time and one can certainly hear that. The singing was very good here.

Just an observation (and nothing else!); Rossini has a musical voice of his own otherwise he would obviously not be Rossini but to my untrained ear and not a lot of Rossini listening behind me as I sat through this it seems to me that there is just a little too much of Mozart's musical language permeating Rossini....then again perhaps that is why I like it LOL!!

Well, funny that you should say that Fergus because that was my initial impression of the delightful orchestral writing in 'L'italiana in Algeri'

[fergus]

Just an observation (and nothing else!); Rossini has a musical voice of his own otherwise he would obviously not be Rossini but to my untrained ear and not a lot of Rossini listening behind me as I sat through this it seems to me that there is just a little too much of Mozart's musical language permeating Rossini....then again perhaps that is why I like it LOL!!

Well, funny that you should say that Fergus because that was my initial impression of the delightful orchestral writing in 'L'italiana in Algeri'

Pepe will probably skin us both alive LOL!!!

[DaveF]

[Jared]

^^ you've always got something intriguing going round in that CD player of yours, Dave...

[Jared]

a Vivaldi morning... perhaps for the final time for a little while.

[DaveF]

This mornings listening. That Vivaldi one is one of my reference recordings. Stunning from start to finish.

[Jared]

this is a lovely disk... but I really should remember to listen to these Christmas Cantatas....AT THE RIGHT TIME OF THE YEAR!

[Jose Echenique]

Just an observation (and nothing else!); Rossini has a musical voice of his own otherwise he would obviously not be Rossini but to my untrained ear and not a lot of Rossini listening behind me as I sat through this it seems to me that there is just a little too much of Mozart's musical language permeating Rossini....then again perhaps that is why I like it LOL!!

Well, funny that you should say that Fergus because that was my initial impression of the delightful orchestral writing in 'L'italiana in Algeri'

Pepe will probably skin us both alive LOL!!!

Of course not. Rossini was a most elegant and skillful composer, and a GENIUS. He studied Mozart and Haydn throughly, and even though no one can compare with Mozart, the fact that his name can be mentioned in the same breath makes the point that he was a truly great composer.