What are you listening two?

[Diapason]

JS Bach: Mass in B minor

I recently engaged in a listening project of the following versions of the JS Bach Mass in B minor in my collection [listed by conductor in alphabetical order]:

Bruggen - Glossa [CD]
Fasolis - Brilliant [CD]
Gardiner - Archiv [CD]
Gardiner - SDG [CD]
Harnoncourt: Telefunken/Das Alte Werk [LP]
Hengelbrock - [DHM] CD
Herreweghe - Virgin [CD]
Jochum - EMI [CD]
Parrott: EMI [LP]
Suzuki - BIS [CD]
Van Veldhoven - Channel [CD]

This is such a magnificent work! Cantatas on steroids here!!

I have some of those recordings in my collection but certainly not all. If pushed I might even suggest that I think this is the best piece of music ever written, but in reality I hardly ever listen to it. Do you have a favourite recording, Fergus?

[markof]

JS Bach: Mass in B minor

I recently engaged in a listening project of the following versions of the JS Bach Mass in B minor in my collection [listed by conductor in alphabetical order]:

Bruggen - Glossa [CD]
Fasolis - Brilliant [CD]
Gardiner - Archiv [CD]
Gardiner - SDG [CD]
Harnoncourt: Telefunken/Das Alte Werk [LP]
Hengelbrock - [DHM] CD
Herreweghe - Virgin [CD]
Jochum - EMI [CD]
Parrott: EMI [LP]
Suzuki - BIS [CD]
Van Veldhoven - Channel [CD]

This is such a magnificent work! Cantatas on steroids here!!

I really like this version too.

[fergus]

JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio [Chailly]:





Chailly is not a conductor whom I would associate with the music of JS Bach but this presentation was terrific, interesting and it is one that offers a different interpretation of this work for me.

[fergus]

JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio [Chailly]:





Chailly is not a conductor whom I would associate with the music of JS Bach but this presentation was terrific, interesting and it is one that offers a different interpretation of this work for me.

Could someone please remind me how to reduce the size of the image.
I am posting via url link.

[fergus]

JS Bach: Mass in B minor

I recently engaged in a listening project of the following versions of the JS Bach Mass in B minor in my collection [listed by conductor in alphabetical order]:

Bruggen - Glossa [CD]
Fasolis - Brilliant [CD]
Gardiner - Archiv [CD]
Gardiner - SDG [CD]
Harnoncourt: Telefunken/Das Alte Werk [LP]
Hengelbrock - [DHM] CD
Herreweghe - Virgin [CD]
Jochum - EMI [CD]
Parrott: EMI [LP]
Suzuki - BIS [CD]
Van Veldhoven - Channel [CD]

This is such a magnificent work! Cantatas on steroids here!!

I have some of those recordings in my collection but certainly not all. If pushed I might even suggest that I think this is the best piece of music ever written, but in reality I hardly ever listen to it. Do you have a favourite recording, Fergus?

I have long admired Gardiner in Bach so therein lies my preference.
Gardiner stood on the shoulders of Harnoncourt and the Harnoncourt is also impressive.
In truth, I would not be without most of the above presentations.

[fergus]

JS Bach: Mass in B minor

I recently engaged in a listening project of the following versions of the JS Bach Mass in B minor in my collection [listed by conductor in alphabetical order]:

Bruggen - Glossa [CD]
Fasolis - Brilliant [CD]
Gardiner - Archiv [CD]
Gardiner - SDG [CD]
Harnoncourt: Telefunken/Das Alte Werk [LP]
Hengelbrock - [DHM] CD
Herreweghe - Virgin [CD]
Jochum - EMI [CD]
Parrott: EMI [LP]
Suzuki - BIS [CD]
Van Veldhoven - Channel [CD]

This is such a magnificent work! Cantatas on steroids here!!

I really like this version too.

I have not heard that particular version. Butt is very good in Bach so I can readily understand your liking for it.

[fergus]

JS Bach Organ Works performed by Ewald Kooiman [CD 7-15]





I have recently completed listening to the Kooiman set from which the above is taken and I have liked listening to it from beginning to end.
I like Kooiman’s playing, interpretation, the organ sounds and the recorded acoustic of the set. I find Kooiman’s performance of The Art of Fugue to be very appealing.
His playing is very fine and is well paced. The sound is well captured on these recordings.

[Diapason]

Well Fergus, you're really smoking me out here!

I don't know these recordings, but I really should seek them out. I never met Ewald I don't think, but I understand he was a keen bodybuilder. When playing a concert in a new city he would find a gym to work out, safe in the knowledge that he was HIGHLY unlikely to bump into another organist there!

[fergus]

Frans Bruggen Edition Vol. 3: English Ensemble Music





Here is music by Holborne, Taverner, Tye, Byrd, Simpson, Morley, Jeffreys, Parcham, Carr, Babell, Pepusch and Purcell played by Bruggen, Boeke, van Hauwe, A. Bylsma & Leonhardt. The playing is always engaging even if all of the music is not quite so engaging.

[fergus]

Well Fergus, you're really smoking me out here!

I don't know these recordings, but I really should seek them out. I never met Ewald I don't think, but I understand he was a keen bodybuilder. When playing a concert in a new city he would find a gym to work out, safe in the knowledge that he was HIGHLY unlikely to bump into another organist there!

Cheers, Simon.

I have been working hard on my listening during my long absence from this site but not in the gym I hasten to add!