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WOW....Savall doing Mozart!!!

I would not have put those two together....how did you get on with that one Dave??

yes Savall and Mozart was not a combination I expected to come across either. It was an impulse buy online while browsing MDT one night. Yes, as expected it's quite superb which is a foregone conclusion with Savall these days hence the lack of comments. (...truth is that I was just too lazy to comment ;-)

Late night listening:



Schubert
Symphonies 2, 3 & 5
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen conducting

Gorgeous music, beautifully played.

This morning, two versions of the same JSB Cantata BWV4 (one of JSB’s earliest) for Easter Sunday....

fergus wrote:This morning, two versions of the same JSB Cantata BWV4 (one of JSB’s earliest) for Easter Sunday....

Christ lag in Todesbunden! One of my favourites! A really extraordinary cantata. Did you like either version, Fergus!

The Ricercar Consort have an excellent recording



on Mirare together with another very early cantata, Aus der Tieffen ruffe Ich zu Dir, BWV 131 and Himmelskönig sei willkommen, BWV 182.

Early morning listening:



Schubert
Symphonies 6 & 8
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen conducting

That completes my listening to the Schubert cycle. Leaving aside my initial misgivings about the 9th I have to say that it is a great set and one that I wil return to again and again.

Seán wrote:Early morning listening:



Schubert
Symphonies 6 & 8
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen conducting

That completes my listening to the Schubert cycle. Leaving aside my initial misgivings about the 9th I have to say that it is a great set and one that I wil return to again and again.

I've been enjoying 1-6 from that set, but not so happy about 8 and 9.

Ciaran wrote:Christ lag in Todesbunden! One of my favourites! A really extraordinary cantata. Did you like either version, Fergus!

The first played was the version by Gardiner with its usual up tempo, up-beat approach while the second version was by Karl Richter with the big, full bodied orchestral sound also, I must add, with a well sprung up-beat version. I am not crazy about the "heavy" orchestration used by Richter (a little too syrupy in places for me) as I like my Bach a little leaner but the singing, both solo and choral, was wonderful.

Seán wrote:That completes my listening to the Schubert cycle. Leaving aside my initial misgivings about the 9th I have to say that it is a great set and one that I wil return to again and again.

I am glad that you stuck with it as the earlier, "Classical" symphonies really are wonderful.