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I think Fergus (at least) might be very pleased to learn that I have amassed a rather wonderful collection of mainly Baroque and Early Music bargains recently, which I have just commenced listening to... thus far my experience in EM has been at best patchy and sporadic (hey, you can't do everything at once, can you?) and yet, every time I listen to EM, I really do enjoy it... be it vocal or instrumental, its almost always spiritually uplifting, so here's Part 1:

and here's the 2nd bunch:










I may be gone some while.... ;-)

You really have dived in at the deep end there Jared....well done. I am sure that you will enjoy it all. I will be very curious to read which music you had an initial preference for.

On vinyl....

I remember being introduced to some HoB a number of years ago, when I did an Open University course, and enjoyed it very much. It's a shame it's taken this long for me to actually purchase my first disk, but I'm finding it quite enchanting. I know that Emma Kirkby and Gothic Voices have attempted to create an authentic a sound as possible, although I know this in itself brings problems owing to interpreting the manuscripts and gaining an understanding of the quality and number of voices at her disposal... but I for one like to think I'm listening to early thirteenth century devotions as they would have been heard...

fergus wrote:You really have dived in at the deep end there Jared....well done. I am sure that you will enjoy it all. I will be very curious to read which music you had an initial preference for.

it's all sounding fairly wonderful on first listen... although some of the liturgical chanting in the Morales could take a bit of getting used to... these 7 disks (less the 2 Bach disks, which I'm quite familiar with and already love anyway) will be going around in the player for some time, in an attempt to widen my appreciation of earlier music than I have really listened to, up until now...

(where's Corlyss when you need her??!!)

digging out some of my old favorites...

it's certainly growing on me... some of the soaring, multi-layered harmonic textures are simply otherworldly in their depths... Paul McCreesh has very quickly become a personal favourite of mine, and the sound recording quality is wonderful... once again, the acoustics at Brinkburn Abbey in Northumberland (a favourite recording venue of McCreesh's) are stellar. Fergus, I think you'd love this disk, if not for the sheer stylistic variety in its 76 minute playing time, but for the fact that the harmonies will make those little hairs on the back of your neck stand on end...

...it's really quite emotional..

DaveF wrote:digging out some of my old favorites...

and indeed, that should be an old favourite of everyone's... ;-))