Tír Na HiFi

Tchaikovsky / Glazunov Violin Concertos played by Vengerov, BPO / Abbado....



Thcaikovsky: The interpretation was different but certainly very interesting and the playing from Vengerov was superb!
Glazunov: I had not heard this work before and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once again the music making was top class!

Haydn String Quartet Op.64 No. 1 played by Quatuor Mosaiques....

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov - conducting.
Recorded in June 1981

This is a wonderful rousing performance of Shostakovich's Fifth.

Berlioz: Harold in Italy performed by the ORR/Gardiner....



I think that this really is such a lovely piece of music

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink - conducting

Wonderful, I love it.

JSB – The beautiful Cantata BWV 96 for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity....

Lunchtime listening on BBC Radio 3 was a very good version of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis.

Catherine Bott introduces a performance of John Blow's Masque "Venus and Adonis" presented at the 2010 York Early Music Festival by Theatre of the Ayre directed by Elizabeth Kenny.
This broadcast is given as part of the Early Music Show's monthly celebration of baroque opera, and the BBC's year long Focus on Opera.
Venus and Adonis was the last masque ever composed for the Stuart Court, and while it is in effect a miniature opera, it was intended as a vehicle for the members of the royal court to take part in. John Blow crafted an exquisite allegory on contemporary court issues around the classical myth of the goddess Venus and her thwarted love for the mortal Adonis. It became the model for Purcell's celebrated Dido and Aeneas.

Vivaldi – Motets: performed by Patrizia Ciofi and Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi....



What a wonderful disc this is! Infectious music that is wonderfully sung and played with the usual fresh, uninhibited and exciting approach that Biondi usually brings to proceedings.

Dvorak Symphony No. 1 performed by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra/Gunzenhauser....



This is a work that I have come to like very much of late and this is a good performance and interpretation.