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Franz Schubert
Symphonies 5 & 8
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting.

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bombasticDarren wrote: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 but I think that the Summerly version on Naxos is still the best that I have yet heard. It is the original small orchestra version and it stripr the musical sonorities, textures and emotions right down to the bare bones!

Telemann – Recorder Sonatas and Fantasias played by Frans Bruggen....



Listening to JS Bach’s Cantata BWV46 this morning with its lovely recorder passages prompted me to listen to more recorder music.

This is beautifully engaging music that is wistful at times. Speeds are lively in the allegros which allow the music to dance and sing. The slow movements are thoughtful and suitably pensive. A very sensitive continuo is provided by Anner Bylsma and Gustav Leonhardt. The instruments are beautifully recorded with a lovely balance struck between all three.

J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 170 'Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust' (Michael Chance/John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir/The English Baroque Soloists, Soli Deo Gloria)

Franck - Symphony in D minor (Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs Elysees, Harmonia Mundi)

Liszt - 'Hungarian Rhapsodies' No.1-No.10 (Roberto Szidon, DG) below

J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 186 'Argre dich, o Seele, nicht' (Katharine Fuge/Richard Wyn Roberts/Kobie van Rensburg/Stephan Loges/John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir/The English Baroque Soloists, Soli Deo Gloria)

Haydn - Piano Trio No.26 (Beaux Arts Trio, Philips)

Liszt - 'Les Preludes' & 'Mazeppa' (Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, DG) below

Vivaldi - 'L'estro armonico' Concerto No.7-No.12 (Simon Standage/Elizabeth Wilcock/Micaela Comberti/Miles Golding/Jaap ter Linden/Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert, Archiv)

bombasticDarren wrote:J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 186 'Argre dich, o Seele, nicht' (Katharine Fuge/Richard Wyn Roberts/Kobie van Rensburg/Stephan Loges/John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir/The English Baroque Soloists, Soli Deo Gloria)

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

JS Bach: Organ Works / Helmut Walcha....



I finished off my listening to this set with the Orgelbuchlein.

fergus wrote: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?

DaveF wrote:

fergus wrote: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!!