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Some more appropriate music for Holy Week....

fergus wrote:Some more appropriate music for Holy Week....

I have a couple of things to say to that... firstly, it really doesn't get much better... sublime harmonic beauty of the very highest order.

Secondly, I admire greatly the dedication you put into actually playing the right music at the right time of the year... as you'll no doubt remember , you made a polite comment about me listening to the choral version of Jesus' 7 Last Words from the Cross by Haydn at Christmas.. well, I've just been playing Tallis' Missa Puer natus est nobis at Easter...

Fergus, my whole life is a shambles...

Bruckner - Symphony No.7

de Falla - El sombrero de tres picos (excerpts)

Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina Prelude (Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Legends)

Jared wrote:[... as you'll no doubt remember , you made a polite comment about me listening to the choral version of Jesus' 7 Last Words from the Cross by Haydn at Christmas.. well, I've just been playing Tallis' Missa Puer natus est nobis at Easter...

Fergus, my whole life is a shambles...

LOL!!!! Join the club; you are not alone my friend.

It does not matter when one plays the music Jared so long as one enjoys it....and I know that you do! It is just that I have been listening to this stuff for so long now that I have eventually gotten around to putting it in the correct sequence....that is all.

The music on this CD comprises Horn Concertos from Haydn, Telemann, Leopold Mozart and Forster. The music itself is wonderful and the performances are delightful. The playing has a lovely light touch but is very assured.

fergus wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:

Another little known Passion by Mozart´s rival.

That looks interesting and intruiging Pepe! I had not realised that Salieri had written a Passion!

Like Mozart and Haydn, Salieri composed operas, concertos, symphonies and a large amount of religious music. In the competitive XVIII century that was expected of every composer.
Having said that, Salieri`s Passion is a nice work, well composed, but perhaps not a masterpiece.

For a great mid XVIII Century Passion look for Jommelli´s which I will hear tomorrow.

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:Some more appropriate music for Holy Week....

I have a couple of things to say to that... firstly, it really doesn't get much better... sublime harmonic beauty of the very highest order.

Secondly, I admire greatly the dedication you put into actually playing the right music at the right time of the year... as you'll no doubt remember , you made a polite comment about me listening to the choral version of Jesus' 7 Last Words from the Cross by Haydn at Christmas.. well, I've just been playing Tallis' Missa Puer natus est nobis at Easter...

Fergus, my whole life is a shambles...

And something very important that is often overlooked: this music was meant for a boys/men chorus, a mixed choir like the Tallis Scholars and so many others, in spite of how well and accurate they sing they just don´t produce the real "period" sound, and that´s why the Westminster Cathedral recording are invaluable. The same goes for Palestrina and any other XVI Century choral music.
Now it´s very rare to see recordings of children´s choirs. Even 20 years ago you could take your pick from the Regensburger Domspatzen (conducted by the Pope´s Brother who was recently accused of slapping children when they failed to reach a C or and F -good for Herr Ratzinger I say-), the Tölzer Knabenchor, the Vienna Boy´s Choir and the Westminster Cathedral Choir.

Jose Echenique wrote:Now it´s very rare to see recordings of children´s choirs. Even 20 years ago you could take your pick from the Regensburger Domspatzen (conducted by the Pope´s Brother who was recently accused of slapping children when they failed to reach a C or and F -good for Herr Ratzinger I say-), the Tölzer Knabenchor, the Vienna Boy´s Choir and the Westminster Cathedral Choir.

Oh you are a hard task master Pepe LOL!!!

fergus wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:Now it´s very rare to see recordings of children´s choirs. Even 20 years ago you could take your pick from the Regensburger Domspatzen (conducted by the Pope´s Brother who was recently accused of slapping children when they failed to reach a C or and F -good for Herr Ratzinger I say-), the Tölzer Knabenchor, the Vienna Boy´s Choir and the Westminster Cathedral Choir.

Oh you are a hard task master Pepe LOL!!!

He confessed to using physical violence on children, slapping them on the ear was a particular favourite of his, of course he regretted it afterwards and was relieved when this form of abuse was outlawed in Germany. Well I can tell you what I would do to him if that was a child of mine, suffice it to say that I wouldn't restrain myself from doing him some serious damage.