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the usual sublime performances from Jordi Savall and Les Concert Des Nations.

^^ continuing the theme... I'm just breaking into my next set of delights which, along with my wonderful 'Handel & Haydn Fest' I have ongoing, will I have no doubt keep me entranced for the next fortnight all told:

^^ some great music there Jared. Enjoy!

watched a perfomance of this on BBC Four last night and so decided to dig out the only copy I have.

Jared wrote:

There are many hours of wonderful musical delights to be enjoyed there Jared....I am sure that you will savour every moment of it!!

Charming music that is well played.

fergus wrote: There are many hours of wonderful musical delights to be enjoyed there Jared....I am sure that you will savour every moment of it!!

Many thanks Fergus... and Dave. This is probably a good time to say that I'll be gone for a couple of days, as I leave for a work training course tomorrow first thing... but I shall be taking some of these lovely recordings with me.

DaveF wrote:Symphony No.9

That's a great version of the Ninth, Dave, but do look out for Karajan's 1977 version. The quartet of singers that he employs in the later version - Jose van Dam, Peter Schreier, Agnes Baltsa and Anna Tomowa-Sintow - seem to be me to be on better form than the 1960s quartet - excepting, of course, the ever beautiful Gundula Janowitz - and, very often, it is the quality of the singers in this mighty work that distinguish the really great versions from the merely very good.