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I've recently been enjoying double cd of Bach Cantatas recorded live, performed by Chorale Saint-Michel and 'La Banda' Orchestra directed by Gerry Welter. Basically, I turned pages for a friend's organ recital in Luxembourg last year, and the guy who recorded that concert kindly have me some of his other recordings. They all seen to be uniformly great, but this Cantata disc is especially enjoyable. I know nothing about any of the performers, cut they do a lovely job here. Cantatas are BWV 140, 187, 10 and 70.

Diapason wrote:I've recently been enjoying double cd of Bach Cantatas recorded live, performed by Chorale Saint-Michel and 'La Banda' Orchestra directed by Gerry Welter. Basically, I turned pages for a friend's organ recital in Luxembourg last year, and the guy who recorded that concert kindly have me some of his other recordings. They all seen to be uniformly great, but this Cantata disc is especially enjoyable. I know nothing about any of the performers, cut they do a lovely job here. Cantatas are BWV 140, 187, 10 and 70.

sounds very enjoyable Simon... I'll shortly be embarking on an excursion through some of Bach's Cantatas myself..

DaveF wrote:

that's a wonderful symphony, Dave...

For the past few weeks I have listened to a lot of music that is entirely new to me, mainly Baroque music, so it was comforting to finish off today's listening session by returning to a thoroughly enjoyable performance of a symphony that is very familiar to me:



Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 1
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä - conducting.

Holst - The Planets (Charles Dutoit, Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Decca)

bombasticDarren wrote:Holst - The Planets (Charles Dutoit, Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Decca)

welcome (back) to our little hidy hole Darren... really thought I'd got the wrong website for a moment, but delighted to see you over here... ;-))

Purcell: The Fairy Queen (5th run through)

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3 (Richard Goode/Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Nonesuch)

Jared wrote:welcome (back) to our little hidy hole Darren... really thought I'd got the wrong website for a moment, but delighted to see you over here... ;-))

Purcell: The Fairy Queen (5th run through)

Jared, you have a PM.