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Faure - Pelleas et Melisande (Frederica von Stade/Michel Plasson, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, EMI)

This is the first all-instrumental recording by la Cappella de´Turchini, with cello concertos and a sinfonia concertante by some master Neapolitan composers like Leo, Fiorenza and Di Majo, all well known from previous Turchini recordings. The performances as expected, are expert and beautiful, cellist Giovanni Sollima has a beautiful, warm Italian sound and superb technique. He also happens to be a composer, and strikingly, a 20 minute composition by him is included. It´s a stravinskyan one movement piece for cello and strings that´s actually quite good, inventive, funny and certainly not unattractive. But it really feels out of place among these elegant baroque concertos.
I think I´ll play the modern piece separately when I play this cd.

kind of suits the weather.....

It´s raining in Mexico City too, so I´d better stay home and listen to some 3 and a half hours of Cavalli.
This is a live recording from the Antwerp Opera, and Dynamic has released it in both, cd and dvd formats.
The star is the young countertenor Christophe Dumaux, but the large cast acquits very well.
Conductor Federico Maria Sardelli, a baroque specialist, manages to make the musicians of the Antwerp Opera play like life-long hip players.
The opera is gorgeous.

Brahms - Hungarian Dances Nos.1, 3, 5, 10, 16, 18-21 (John Eliot Gardiner, NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Deutsche Grammophon)

Bruckner - Symphony No.1 (Riccardo Chailly, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Decca)

Beethoven - Symphony No.7 (Karl Bohm, Wiener Philharmoniker, Deutsche Grammophon)

Jose Echenique wrote:

It´s raining in Mexico City too, so I´d better stay home and listen to some 3 and a half hours of Cavalli.
This is a live recording from the Antwerp Opera, and Dynamic has released it in both, cd and dvd formats.
The star is the young countertenor Christophe Dumaux, but the large cast acquits very well.
Conductor Federico Maria Sardelli, a baroque specialist, manages to make the musicians of the Antwerp Opera play like life-long hip players.
The opera is gorgeous.

I only have a small amount of music by Cavalli but I really like it I must say.

bombasticDarren wrote:Bruckner - Symphony No.1 (Riccardo Chailly, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Decca)

I will be asking you for your thoughts on that set in due course Darren!

I have plunged straight into listening to this new arrival with the two-part and three-part inventions....





Apart from the impeccable playing I was just pondering the two-part and three-part inventions themselves. These two works comprise 30 tracks in total and if one can use a food analogy one would be quite satisfied after any single track of the 30 the quality of the music is so good IMHO.