What are you listening two?
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Who would have known 20 years ago that there would be a time when 4 commercial recordings of Glück´s Ezio would be available?
Let´s take our Glück operas off the shelves, next year is his Tricentenary!!!!
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Right, I have just returned from listening to the entire symphony including the 4th movement again of course, and I take back what I said earlier, it is marvellous, full of vitality and bounce a lovely sound really.Seán wrote:The first, second and third movements of the Ninth are simply divine and, in particular, the delicious sound of the woodwinds in the first movement are heavenly. I think the symphony may have waned a wee bit in the fourth movement but I will have to listen to it again before knowing for sure or perhaps I was otherwise distracted.Jose Echenique wrote:Schubert bathed in warm, lovely, Italian waters.Seán wrote:
In work, using headphones and have enjoyed:
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9, 8 & 1
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado - conducting.
Wonderful! Now for number 2.
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Dear Pepe, it's probably about time that I put a few on the shelves, have you any recommendations for a novice like me?Jose Echenique wrote: Who would have known 20 years ago that there would be a time when 4 commercial recordings of Glück´s Ezio would be available?
Let´s take our Glück operas off the shelves, next year is his Tricentenary!!!!
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Excellent recordings to start with the great Christoph W. Glück. René Jacobs´Orfeo couldn´t possibly be more gorgeously sung, and the orchestral playing is of course, out of this world.
Magdalena Kozena is absolutely delicious in the Paride ed Elena, a very beautiful 1770 opera written for Vienna.
Glück´s greatest opera is certainly Iphigenie en Tauride, but that is rather more complex, and more difficult to start with. But both Orfeo and Paride are masterworks that will give you a taste of this great man´s music and I guarantee that you will love both works and the respective recordings.
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Seán wrote:Did you Fergus? I am pleased, I missed it unfortunately. That must have been a lovely experience?fergus wrote:Jose Echenique wrote:Well I´ve heard the 2nd and the 4th. Both are very good, and are extremely well played.
The 2nd starts rather nervously, but has a lovely slow movement and the finale is thrilling -as it should be-.
The 4th is magisterial and analytical, but does not erase memories of the famous Carlos Kleiber/VPO or even the quite excellent Herbert Blomstedt also with the Gewandhausorchester, a slightly warmer and more convivial 4th.
In general I liked the cycle except for the 3rd, but it is an improvement on the previous Concertgebouw.
Thank you for that Pepe; you seem to be positive overall with a reservation on the 3rd. The idea of hearing the Gewandhausorchester playing Brahms is the attraction here (and I also like Chailly - I got to see him perform here in Dublin not too long ago with the Gewandhaus Liepzig).
The sheer quality was almost overwhelming from the very first note Seán; it was almost frightening it was that good - the stuff of goosebumps!!
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Jose Echenique wrote:Schubert bathed in warm, lovely, Italian waters.Seán wrote:
Beautifully described Pepe!!
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Thanks Pepe, much appreciated.Jose Echenique wrote:
Excellent recordings to start with the great Christoph W. Glück. René Jacobs´Orfeo couldn´t possibly be more gorgeously sung, and the orchestral playing is of course, out of this world.
Magdalena Kozena is absolutely delicious in the Paride ed Elena, a very beautiful 1770 opera written for Vienna.
Glück´s greatest opera is certainly Iphigenie en Tauride, but that is rather more complex, and more difficult to start with. But both Orfeo and Paride are masterworks that will give you a taste of this great man´s music and I guarantee that you will love both works and the respective recordings.
I have excerpts from the works of Gluck in my Harmonia Mundi box sets, I will revise them today.
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Seán wrote:Dear Pepe, it's probably about time that I put a few on the shelves, have you any recommendations for a novice like me?Jose Echenique wrote: Who would have known 20 years ago that there would be a time when 4 commercial recordings of Glück´s Ezio would be available?
Let´s take our Glück operas off the shelves, next year is his Tricentenary!!!!
I only have Gluck's Orfeo Seán (the inevetible Gardiner version!) and it is a lovely work and very accessible music.
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The Gardiner is also excellent Fergus, and that is still the best recording with a countertenor, but Bernarda Fink is indecently gorgeous in the Jacobs.fergus wrote:Seán wrote:Dear Pepe, it's probably about time that I put a few on the shelves, have you any recommendations for a novice like me?Jose Echenique wrote: Who would have known 20 years ago that there would be a time when 4 commercial recordings of Glück´s Ezio would be available?
Let´s take our Glück operas off the shelves, next year is his Tricentenary!!!!
I only have Gluck's Orfeo Seán (the inevetible Gardiner version!) and it is a lovely work and very accessible music.
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Jose Echenique wrote:
I am a big fan of Jacobs and I fancy that one Pepe!
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