What are you listening two?

mcq
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Rounding out the evening's listening with Amandine Beyer's impassioned performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.  This is an exceptionally powerful version - rustic, coarse, vibrant, unbuttoned yet performed with an evident love for the music which is utterly infectious - that simply bursts out from your speakers.  My first choice for this work.

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The Gli Incogniti version is extremely fine, but the competition is so fierce for the 4 Seasons that any of the above could easily claim to be # 1.
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Competition is extremely stiff for the Four Seasons, Pepe, and there are a plethora of superb versions available, including the ones you mentioned above.  But I am very enthusiastic about Amandine Beyer, in particular, whose versions of the Corelli Concerti Grossi, the Bach solo Partitas/Sonatas and the Vivaldi Four Seasons strike me as very successful.  The recording of the Corelli Op.6 works impressed me as being the finest recorded since her former teacher Chiara Bianchini's wonderful versions for Harmonia Mundi.  I believe her next project is Francois Couperin for HM which I eagerly awaiting.
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I´ve loved this recording since it first appeared some 10 years ago, and my admiration only increases with every repast.

Onto the Wish List it goes!
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Another member here has that recording, let me hear it and I bought it instantly!
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fergus wrote:
Jose Echenique wrote:
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I´ve loved this recording since it first appeared some 10 years ago, and my admiration only increases with every repast.

Onto the Wish List it goes!
Very interesting. I do like Bruno Weil's Haydn recordings.
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Ah, on a Tchaikovsky kick I see.
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Ah, on a Tchaikovsky kick I see.

LOL!!

With all of the talk of Tchaikovsky around here lately I just could not resist listening to his Piano Concerto No. 1 - a very old favourite of mine.
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Another favourite, this time Mozart's Requiem. This is very much an "old school" version under the baton of Krips and features a boy soprano and a boy alto in the line up.
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