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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:06 pm
by fergus
I had a problem logging on last night for some reason when I was going to post this one....
CD 1....Nocturnes.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:11 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:
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..
I am delighted that you are enjoying the Early Music Jared. What I really like about it is when one is hit with that wall of polyphony....it can be quite special as you say.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:13 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote: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...
Interesting comments as I too only have one CD of her music which I have not listened to for quite some time....I must dig it out soon.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:14 pm
by fergus
More enjoyable music and playing.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:50 pm
by Jared
likewise this is beautiful, especially the magnificent 'Salve Intermerata' which concludes the disk...
a Penguin Guide **** star key recording for £1.95 in a charity shop... can't go wrong really, can you?
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:15 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:
likewise this is beautiful, especially the magnificent 'Salve Intermerata' which concludes the disk...
a Penguin Guide **** star key recording for £1.95 in a charity shop...
can't go wrong really, can you?
Absolutely not; especially at that price for the Tallis Scholars.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:16 pm
by fergus
Bruckner 4....
A wonderfully powerful performance....heavily laden with brass! Speeds are brisk and the music moves along at a fair pace but it is never rushed.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:41 am
by fergus
This was one of the very first LPs that I ever bought way back in the day.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:41 am
by Jared
fergus wrote:
This was one of the very first LPs that I ever bought way back in the day.
clearly, you were a young man of impeccable taste and discernment, even when you were in short trousers... ;-))
Fergus... I'm absolutely adoring this...
both the performance and the work are magnetic... MUST explore Haydn's other Masses in due course..
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:07 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:
Fergus... I'm absolutely adoring this...
both the performance and the work are magnetic... MUST explore Haydn's other Masses in due course..
Haydn's Masses are wonderful works Jared and are definitely worth further exploration!