Wonderful performances!
What are you listening two?
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Wonderful performances!
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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Fergus, what a lovely coincidence because, of late, I have been enjoying these performances by the Quatuor Mosaïques:
Sadly, I don't have any of their Beethoven recordings
Sadly, I don't have any of their Beethoven recordings
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Recent listening included this set of selected Beethoven Piano Sonatas played on fortepiano....
These are no anaemic performances on a limp sounding instrument. They are robust, assertive performances on two different instruments that, to me, seem to resonate more than some other fortepianos that I have heard. The instruments seem to deal easily with all of the demands of the music and the soloist; the sound is most effective in the bass registers where the bass notes are not over reverberating thus yielding very clean lines. It is well worth hearing these works just perhaps as contemporaries of Beethoven would have heard them.
These are no anaemic performances on a limp sounding instrument. They are robust, assertive performances on two different instruments that, to me, seem to resonate more than some other fortepianos that I have heard. The instruments seem to deal easily with all of the demands of the music and the soloist; the sound is most effective in the bass registers where the bass notes are not over reverberating thus yielding very clean lines. It is well worth hearing these works just perhaps as contemporaries of Beethoven would have heard them.
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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This morning, music for Advent from Charpentier: Antiennes "O" de l'Avent....
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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Two Advent Cantatas by Telemann from this CD....
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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Fergusfergus wrote:
Wonderful performances!
I do like this Quartet very much. They have just had their Haydn CD's reissued in a cheap 10 CD box by Naive.
They're all very good
http://www.bookbutler.com/music/compare ... uk&cur=gbp
Cheers
Aleg
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I have all 10 CDs, they are marvellous recordings, highly recommended.Aleg wrote:Fergusfergus wrote:
Wonderful performances!
I do like this Quartet very much. They have just had their Haydn CD's reissued in a cheap 10 CD box by Naive.
They're all very good
http://www.bookbutler.com/music/compare ... uk&cur=gbp
Cheers
Aleg
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Another box set purchase that deserves far more attention than I give it:
Nerdcave: ...is no more! 
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Sitting Room: Wadia 581SE - Rega Planar 3/AT VM95ML & SH - Bluesound Node II - Copland CSA 100 - Audioplan Kontrast 3
Kitchen: WiiM Pro - Wadia 151 - B&W 685s2
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Yesterday's BAL recommendation was
Johann Sebastian Bach
BWV 21
Collegium Vocale Gent / La Chapelle Royale
Soprano: Barbara Schlick; Alto: Gérard Lesne; Tenor: Howard Crook; Bass: Peter Harvey
Philippe Herreweghe - conducting.
I really enjoyed the programme and so today I listened to:BACH: Cantata BWV21 Ich hatte viel Bekummernis
c/w Magnificat in D major BWV243
Greta de Reyghere (soprano), Rene Jacobs (alto), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Peter Lika (bass), Nederland Kamerkoor, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
VIRGIN CLASSICS (ERATO / WARNER CLASSICS) 3632992 (CD mid-price)
Johann Sebastian Bach
BWV 21
Collegium Vocale Gent / La Chapelle Royale
Soprano: Barbara Schlick; Alto: Gérard Lesne; Tenor: Howard Crook; Bass: Peter Harvey
Philippe Herreweghe - conducting.
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Sweelinck? I don't have any recordings of his works, yet another gap!Diapason wrote:Another box set purchase that deserves far more attention than I give it:
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler