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Seán wrote:To be fair, I love CMG, but one must walk carefully. I can be myself here though: a moaning, whingey, whiny grouch, right Fergus?

Seán, I am shocked that you would think that I thought that way of you....NEVER!!!

bombasticDarren wrote:Adams - El Dorado (Kent Nagano, The Halle Orchestra, Nonesuch)

I would be interested in your comments on that one Darren.

J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite No.3 (Karl Munchinger, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Decca Eloquence)

Seán wrote:

Just for the record lads I do have that one and its Schumann cousin....I do try....really!!

I know none of you (except Fergus) are that bothered... but I'll post it anyway...

Jared wrote:

I know none of you (except Fergus) are that bothered... but I'll post it anyway...

What on earth is that?

Jared wrote: Martinu will shortly be up for me... having purchased the Thomson set on Chandos, recently.

I said it to you before Jared, I am looking forward to reading your reaction to Martinu. I will be curious to read how you get on.

fergus wrote:

bombasticDarren wrote:Adams - El Dorado (Kent Nagano, The Halle Orchestra, Nonesuch)

I would be interested in your comments on that one Darren.

I don't think it's Adams' best work by any means (for that accolade I would nominate Naive and Sentimental Music). I do like it though; it's perhaps a bit more 'formless' than I am comfortable with but it gradually culminates into a thoroughly absorbing rhyhthmic pulse (common in this composers work) that makes it a piece that I will come back to again...

fergus wrote:

Seán wrote:

Just for the record lads I do have that one and its Schumann cousin....I do try....really!!

actually Fergus, it's residing in my Amazon basket... so if you really feel you can't get on with it... ;-)

Seán wrote:

Jared wrote:

I know none of you (except Fergus) are that bothered... but I'll post it anyway...

What on earth is that?

soothing, simple religious polyphony from 15th century Flanders.... naturally... ;-)