What are you listening two?

Seán
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Johan Sebastian Bach
Christen, ätzet diesen Tag BWV 63
Gloria in excelsis Deo BWV 191

Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner - conducting.

I had these two on repeat play yesterday and gain today.
If I, as a newbie, were to compare Bach performers I would say that I LOVE Herreweghe's Bach for it's sheer beauty and uplifting spiritual feeling; I like Suzuki for it's surgically clean, beautifully recorded, flawless (yet, at times monotonous) performances and now Gardiner's for the pulsating (unavoidable foot-tapping) rhythms, the awesome beauty of the choir and Gardiner's singers, the ritualistic dedication and devotion of all the performers; every performance is delivered with 100% conviction which is hugely uplifting, in short, it is marvellous, I LOVE it. Thanks JEG!
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I have ploughed a long and lonely furrow in the promotion of Gardiner's Bach interpretations for many years and I am delighted that my efforts to convince are finally beginning to pay dividends. Long may you enjoy the music making of those wonderful forces Seán!
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Some more beautiful Christmas music in between shopping excursions, this time from Alessandro Stradella....


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fergus wrote:I have ploughed a long and lonely furrow in the promotion of Gardiner's Bach interpretations for many years
Indeed you have Fergus.
...I am delighted that my efforts to convince are finally beginning to pay dividends. Long may you enjoy the music making of those wonderful forces Seán!
thanks for your efforts and perhaps now, finally, I get JEG.
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Johan Sebastian Bach
Christen, ätzet diesen Tag BWV 63

La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale Ghent
Philippe Herreweghe - conducting.


This is a really gorgeous and spiritually uplifting performance of BWV63, when I had finished listening to it I returned to Gardiner's recording which is simply the best.
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fergus wrote:
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Did you enjoy that CD Claus?
I liked it very much. I have a cold so the sound was a bit shrill, but her voice is great in my opinion.
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Seán wrote:
fergus wrote:...I am delighted that my efforts to convince are finally beginning to pay dividends. Long may you enjoy the music making of those wonderful forces Seán!


thanks for your efforts and perhaps now, finally, I get JEG.

I am delighted Seán and what is more I now hand the JEG/JSB baton over to you as the new voice to kindle the flame.
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Claus wrote:
fergus wrote:
Claus wrote:Image

Did you enjoy that CD Claus?
I liked it very much. I have a cold so the sound was a bit shrill, but her voice is great in my opinion.

I am delighted that you liked it Claus and get well soon!
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A wonderful performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto....


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A relatively short but beautiful work by Charpentier - In Navitatem D.N.J.C. Canticum....


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