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I don't think she gets the credit she deserves.... Could it be because she's pretty? Call her Nigel and have a nice painting on the front cover and I'll wager the reviews would have been better...!!!

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:Vinyl....

back in the day when they used to present us with fine Romantic style pictures on the cover, rather than romantic pictures of pretty girls...

Point well made Jared!

On Vinyl....

jaybee wrote:

I don't think she gets the credit she deserves.... Could it be because she's pretty? Call her Nigel and have a nice painting on the front cover and I'll wager the reviews would have been better...!!!

funnily enough, I've just been listening to all three of those works this morning, from this peerless box set:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Works-So ... 227&sr=1-1

and incidentally, £18 is about the cheapest I've ever seen it... ;-)

Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium....

^^ I bet that's a lovely disk, Fergus... Summerley's EM with the Oxford Canerata is some of the finest output from the Naxos label imho...

today, I am working my way through this delightful boxset, so I won't post the cover any more!:

Jared wrote:^^ I bet that's a lovely disk, Fergus... Summerley's EM with the Oxford Canerata is some of the finest output from the Naxos label imho...

Yes it is Jared....as you know I hold Summerly in high regard. His music making is simple but good....just the job!

^^ how are you getting on with Martinu, Fergus?

I have to say, I struggled with his musical language, so have set it aside for a later date. I know you have persevered a bit with Nielsen 6 of late; another work I have always found difficult to access... has repeated listening to either of these later sets of symphonies, born fruit for you?

Mendelssohn: Symph No.2 'Hymn of Praise'
BBC NOW/ Richard Hickox (Live)

another very fine work which has regrettably been collecting dust on my shelf, of late....