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Wonderful performances!

Fergus, what a lovely coincidence because, of late, I have been enjoying these performances by the Quatuor Mosaïques:



Sadly, I don't have any of their Beethoven recordings

Recent listening included this set of selected Beethoven Piano Sonatas played on fortepiano....





These are no anaemic performances on a limp sounding instrument. They are robust, assertive performances on two different instruments that, to me, seem to resonate more than some other fortepianos that I have heard. The instruments seem to deal easily with all of the demands of the music and the soloist; the sound is most effective in the bass registers where the bass notes are not over reverberating thus yielding very clean lines. It is well worth hearing these works just perhaps as contemporaries of Beethoven would have heard them.

This morning, music for Advent from Charpentier: Antiennes "O" de l'Avent....

Two Advent Cantatas by Telemann from this CD....

fergus wrote:


Wonderful performances!

Fergus

I do like this Quartet very much. They have just had their Haydn CD's reissued in a cheap 10 CD box by Naive.
They're all very good
http://www.bookbutler.com/music/compare ... uk&cur=gbp



Cheers

Aleg

Aleg wrote:

fergus wrote:


Wonderful performances!

Fergus

I do like this Quartet very much. They have just had their Haydn CD's reissued in a cheap 10 CD box by Naive.
They're all very good
http://www.bookbutler.com/music/compare ... uk&cur=gbp



Cheers

Aleg

I have all 10 CDs, they are marvellous recordings, highly recommended.

Another box set purchase that deserves far more attention than I give it:

Yesterday's BAL recommendation was

BACH: Cantata BWV21 Ich hatte viel Bekummernis
c/w Magnificat in D major BWV243
Greta de Reyghere (soprano), Rene Jacobs (alto), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Peter Lika (bass), Nederland Kamerkoor, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
VIRGIN CLASSICS (ERATO / WARNER CLASSICS) 3632992 (CD mid-price)

I really enjoyed the programme and so today I listened to:


Johann Sebastian Bach
BWV 21
Collegium Vocale Gent / La Chapelle Royale
Soprano: Barbara Schlick; Alto: Gérard Lesne; Tenor: Howard Crook; Bass: Peter Harvey
Philippe Herreweghe - conducting.

Diapason wrote:Another box set purchase that deserves far more attention than I give it:

Sweelinck? I don't have any recordings of his works, yet another gap!