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Some recent acquisitions:



Café Zimmermann strike again: a wonderfully fresh Brandenburg 4.



Messiaen's Harawi from Hetna Regitza Bruun. Excellent, though not quite up to Jane Manning's standard in this hair-raising music!



One-to-a-part B Minor Mass from Kuijken and La Petite Bande. Stupendous!

Roy Goodman’s take on the Brandenburg Concertos....

fergus wrote:Roy Goodman’s take on the Brandenburg Concertos....

and the verdict? :-)

Serge Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5
Gürzenich-Orchester Koln
Dmitrji Kitajenko conducting

Earlier this evening I listened to the Fifth Symphony from this splendid box set of Prokofiev symphonies.

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And tonight...


Maurice Ravel
Ma Mère l'Oye
Orchestre National de France
Eliahu Inbal conducting

Gorgeous music, I really like this.

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DaveF wrote:

fergus wrote:Roy Goodman’s take on the Brandenburg Concertos....

and the verdict? :-)

This set has stylish playing with a full sound. The speeds are medium paced and the sound quality is very good. The set has a unique “feel” to it which I cannot quite pinpoint Dave but it is attractively different. An example would be No. 6 with its lower register instruments which has a really lovely sound.

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Martha Argerich - Piano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado conducting