What are you listening to?

[DaveF]

JS Bach: Organ Works / Helmut Walcha....
I finished off my listening to this set with the Orgelbuchlein.

conclusions Fergus? Did it give you an appetite to explore other Organ works?

Absolutely Dave....I suspect that I am only at the beginning of a very long journey!!

There was a Koopman set of Bach's Organ works in Tower recently but it was expensive.
Buxtehude might be a good option to look at next. I've a few of those recordings and I think they are pretty good. Hopefully our resident expert will be along to offer some advice. :-)

[fergus]

There was a Koopman set of Bach's Organ works in Tower recently but it was expensive.
Buxtehude might be a good option to look at next. I've a few of those recordings and I think they are pretty good. Hopefully our resident expert will be along to offer some advice. :-)

Hopefully so Dave as I am unsure which way to turn next. I would like to get some more versions of the JS Bach Organ Works played by various other organists and played on various instruments for comparison but, as you say, these tend to be expensive.
Buxtehude would seem to be a natural follow on all right but after that I am totally ignorant!!

[Seán]

and once again it's back to Schubert .....



Franz Schubert
Synphony No. 5
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Franz Bruggen - conducting.

[Seán]

Faure's Requiem is a work thats appeal has often eluded me Fergus...

...however, this recording may just have made it 'click' for me. I recommend it.

Just to put you in the picture the other recordings I own are:-

Cluytens (EMI)
Giulini (DG)
Gardiner (Philips)

Thanks for that Darren. I know that I am like a broken record on this one ....

No you're not, what makes you say tha, say tha, say tha...... [smile]

[bombasticDarren]

J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 107 'Was willst du dich betruben' (Katharine Fuge/Kobie van Rensburg/Stephan Loges/John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir/The English Baroque Soloists, Soli Deo Gloria) below

Brahms - Symphony No.1 (Gunter Wand, NDR-Symphonieorchester, RCA)

Chopin - 'Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise' (Artur Rubenstein/Alfred Wallenstein, Symphony of the Air, RCA)

Rachmaninoff - 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' (Artur Rubenstein/Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, RCA)

[bombasticDarren]

Thanks for that Darren. I know that I am like a broken record on this one but I think that the Summerly version on Naxos is still the best that I have yet heard

Thanks, I will keep an eye out for it Fergus

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ;-)

[bombasticDarren]

I will soon be able to hand over the Bach Cantata mantle to you Darren!!!

I doubt that will happen anytime soon Fergus

They are great fun though aren't they?

Incidentally I am going to the JEG Proms which will see all the Brandenburgs performed on Saturday!

[fergus]

Incidentally I am going to the JEG Proms which will see all the Brandenburgs performed on Saturday!

Oh you lucky, lucky sod....enjoy every note of it and be aware that I will be there with you in spirit my friend. A full report is expected!!!

[fergus]

Sibelius – Symphonies 1-3 played by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra/Sanderling....




These performances have a big, full-bodied sound and are well played and quite powerful (almost triumphant) in places....numbers 2 & 3 ending in a blaze of glory. The slow movement of no. 3 is a particular favourite of mine and I was well pleased with this version.

[Seán]

Sibelius – Symphonies 1-3 played by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra/Sanderling....




These performances have a big, full-bodied sound and are well played and quite powerful (almost triumphant) in places....numbers 2 & 3 ending in a blaze of glory. The slow movement of no. 3 is a particular favourite of mine and I was well pleased with this version.

They are lovely performances, the Sanderling/BSO Sibelius recordings do not receive the recognition that they deserve.