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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:57 pm
by fergus
More Brahms....
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:42 pm
by Seán
Henry Purcell
Hail! Bright Cecila
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Jennifer Smith, Stephen Varcoe, Paul Elliott, Brian Gordon, Ashley Stafford, Elizabeth Wilcock
John Eliot Gardiner - conducting.
I listened to Hail! Bright Cecila in one sitting this evening and enjoyed it very much indeed. I will listen to it a couple of times before I revisit Simon's thread and use the notes. I do like Purcell's music.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:11 am
by Diapason
Sean, I'm delighted!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:22 pm
by Jared
Seán wrote: I do like Purcell's music.
how could anyone not like it? vibrant, colourful, lively, with so many incredible melodies... it's magnificent stuff!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:52 pm
by Jose Echenique
Jared wrote:Seán wrote: I do like Purcell's music.
how could anyone not like it? vibrant, colourful, lively, with so many incredible melodies... it's magnificent stuff!
Of course it is. Though I would personally NOT agree with this, Herreweghe said that he wouldn´t exchange the whole output of Handel for the Purcell St. Cecilia´s Ode. Obviously he adores Purcell, and by the way, he has never recorded a note of Handel. Maybe Handel is too much of an hedonist for him. I have no problem with hedonism, voluptuousness and most other deadly sins, so I gladly take my Handel.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:05 pm
by Jared
Mozart: Mass in C minor K.427
David Robertson/ BBC Symph Orchestra & Chorus
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:21 pm
by Jared
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No.24 K.491
Clifford Curzon/ London Mozart Players
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:40 pm
by Seán
Diapason wrote:Sean, I'm delighted!
Thanks Simon, I listened to it again tonight, I don't see a pattern yet I want to get a a bit familiar with it before studying your notes.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:45 pm
by Seán
I was inspired by my mentor, Mr Byrne, to listen to this again tonight:
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D
Orchestre National de la Radioffusion Française,
Otto Klemperer - conducting.
What a wonderful performance by Oistrakh, one could be mistaken for thinking that Brahms wrote it for him, it is great music-making, I love it.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:59 am
by fergus
Seán wrote:I was inspired by my mentor, Mr Byrne, to listen to this again tonight:
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D
Orchestre National de la Radioffusion Française,
Otto Klemperer - conducting.
What a wonderful performance by Oistrakh, one could be mistaken for thinking that Brahms wrote it for him, it is great music-making, I love it.
I am delighted that you liked it Seán; he was indeed a master musician. I came to the conclusion some time ago that if one was having difficulty with a violin piece then listen to an Oistrakh version and all will be revealed!