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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 2 in C major, K.515
String Quintet No. 3 in G minor, K.516

This is great music, beautifully played from a wonderfully set that should have been in my collection years ago, at least I have it now.

Seán wrote:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 2 in C major, K.515
String Quintet No. 3 in G minor, K.516

This is great music, beautifully played from a wonderfully set that should have been in my collection years ago, at least I have it now.

And you will get continued enjoyment from it for years to come Seán. If you ever eventually feel the need for another set I can thoroughly recommend the Griller set Seán....

fergus wrote:

Seán wrote:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 2 in C major, K.515
String Quintet No. 3 in G minor, K.516

This is great music, beautifully played from a wonderfully set that should have been in my collection years ago, at least I have it now.

And you will get continued enjoyment from it for years to come Seán. If you ever eventually feel the need for another set I can thoroughly recommend the Griller set Seán....

Thanks Fergus, I definitely do have a strong desire for another set. I will put that one in my basket.

I am currently listening to and enjoying Tim Thurston on Lyric.

Wonderful performance! Great sense of celebration and jubilation. Lovely lilting rhythms which are so necessary in the performance of Bach’ music. Great performances all round from vocalists and particularly from the instrumental ensemble.

Accompanying the CD is a DVD showing the rehearsal and recording process and the boredom and frustration that can go with all of that - very interesting.

Beautiful Bach:



Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata BWV 207, 'Vereinigte Zweitracht der wechse'
Cantata BWV 214, 'Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschalle'
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe conducting.

So good I played them twice.

Albert Roussel
Symphony No. 3
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Georges Tessler - Violin
André Cluytens conducting.

Marvellous!

Albert Roussel
Piano Trio in E flat major, opus 2
Jet Röling - Piano
Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Violin
Herre-Jan Stegenga - Cello

The piano trio was only Roussel's second composition and it is reported that we was heavily influenced by D'Indy at this stage of his career and had not yet found his own distinctive voice. That said, this is a lovely work performed beautifully her by Röling et al.