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Seán wrote:On Pepe's recommendation:

I have that set Seán and I would be interested in what you think of it. In particular I would be interested to see how you ultimately compare the sound world of these Bruggen performances with that of Abbado's Haydn (given that the works are different) which I do not have nor have heard.

fergus wrote:

Seán wrote:On Pepe's recommendation:

I have that set Seán and I would be interested in what you think of it. In particular I would be interested to see how you ultimately compare the sound world of these Bruggen performances with that of Abbado's Haydn (given that the works are different) which I do not have nor have heard.

Hi Fergus, they are well worth getting. Unfortunately Abbado did not record the Paris Symphonies he didn't even finish the cycle of London Symphonies, which is a real shame. I already have the following recordings of the Paris Symphonies and will listen to each one in turn:
Doráti/Philharmonia Hungarica;
Bernstein/New York Philharmonic Orchestra;
Weil/Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra;
Harnoncourt/Concentus Musicus Wien and
Kuijken/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

I will compare Bruggen's sound world with that of Abbado and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

impulse buy....

£1.50 for the pair from the Cancer Research shop

bombasticDarren wrote:

£1.50 for the pair from the Cancer Research shop

As Simon would say...."It would be rude not to take them at that price"!

jaybee wrote:

impulse buy....

I've seen impulse buys which demonstrate far poorer judgement than that JB... hope you enjoy it.

bombasticDarren wrote:

£1.50 for the pair from the Cancer Research shop

I think Darren must have had cause to visit Woodbridge again...

At long last my set arrived this morning.




I will probably listen to this first:

CD11 The monuments of Classicism: Haydn: Symphony No 92 'Oxford'; Mozart: Symphone No 41 'Jupiter' (Freiburger Barokorchester, Jacobs)

Jared wrote:

bombasticDarren wrote:

£1.50 for the pair from the Cancer Research shop

I think Darren must have had cause to visit Woodbridge again...

Boring old Ipswich this time Jared....