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fergus wrote:I can honestly say that I have enjoyed every single note of this music!!

Course you have, sure I'm blue in the face telling people that this is some of the best music ever written...! ;-)

Diapason wrote:

fergus wrote:I can honestly say that I have enjoyed every single note of this music!!

Course you have, sure I'm blue in the face telling people that this is some of the best music ever written...! ;-)

Well here is one belated but convinced convert!!!

fergus wrote:

worth checking out, Fergus?

DaveF wrote:worth checking out, Fergus?

As you know Dave this is always pleasant, enjoyable and engaging music to listen to. This is well played music with well paced speeds in the outer movements and the effortless virtuosity of the soloist, Michael Schneider, is wonderful to hear. Although nicely done, the slow movements were not quite as successful as they could be but I am very fussy about my Vivaldi slow movements!! For me that quintessential element of a sense of the lazy, languid, dead heat of an Italian midday that is the essence of a Vivaldi slow movement is not quite there (but I am being very picky here). Otherwise it was a very engaging collection and would certainly come recommended!

R Strauss - Four Last Songs....

Janacek - Taras Bulba and Sinfonietta....



What a wonderful sound world there is in the Sinfonietta....lots and lots of brass!!

CPE Bach - Two Oboe Concertos....

JSB – Two Cantatas, BWV94 & BWV 105 for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity....

J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 155 'Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange' (Midori Suzuki/Yoshikazu Mera/Makoto Sakurada/Peter Kooij/Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, BIS)

Mahler - Symphony No.7 (Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, DG) below

Schubert - String Quintet (The Hollywood String Quartet/Kurt Reher, Testament)