What are you listening to?

[fergus]

Characteristic strong rhythmic patterns throughout with some really lovely arias make this compelling listening!

And the Accademia Bizantina plays superbly. Ottavio Dantone is right up there next to Biondi and Alessandrini.

You just reminded me Pepe that I should have mentioned the excellent performances on this set!

[fergus]

And yet another recording of the Bach violin concertos, but how can one resist when it´s played by the fabulous Freiburger Barockorchester and their 3 wonderful concertinos?
The playing needless to say, it´s out of this world. Personally I would have welcomed a tiny bit of vibrato here and there, for example in the 2-Violins Concerto´s second movement, as when I heard Biondi played it last year with La Europa Galante, but the Freiburgers are beyond reproach, this is yet, another glorious disc.

And in a few months Viktoria Mullova will release her own recording with the Accademia Bizantina and her beloved Bach mentor Ottavio Dantone. Sexy Russian girl and a bunch of Italian guys? It´s going to be good!

My shelves are bulging Pepe....I cannot fit any more onto them!!!

[jaybee]

And yet another recording of the Bach violin concertos, but how can one resist when it´s played by the fabulous Freiburger Barockorchester and their 3 wonderful concertinos?
The playing needless to say, it´s out of this world. Personally I would have welcomed a tiny bit of vibrato here and there, for example in the 2-Violins Concerto´s second movement, as when I heard Biondi played it last year with La Europa Galante, but the Freiburgers are beyond reproach, this is yet, another glorious disc.

And in a few months Viktoria Mullova will release her own recording with the Accademia Bizantina and her beloved Bach mentor Ottavio Dantone. Sexy Russian girl and a bunch of Italian guys? It´s going to be good!

My shelves are bulging Pepe....I cannot fit any more onto them!!!

i only bought that this week!

along with

[jaybee]

what I'm going to do once my tt lands i don't know! as far as i can see my two go to labels; Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion don't issue a shred of vinyl!!

[fergus]

That one is on my Wish List actually! What did you think of it Johnny if you have managed to get a listen to it yet?

[fergus]

what I'm going to do once my tt lands i don't know! as far as i can see my two go to labels; Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion don't issue a shred of vinyl!!

That is one of the stark realities that I had to come to terms with when I revitalised my vinyl collection Johnny. Obviously you will not be using a TT exclusively for Classical music but modern period performance recordings (you know what I mean) are not available on vinyl. The older ones can be got but they can be the squeaky violin type! Hence the need to maintain a CD collection and a playback component if one is not going down the PC audio route.

[Jose Echenique]

<My shelves are bulging Pepe....I cannot fit any more onto them!!!>

Oh yes, mine too, that´s why I had to buy cardboard boxes a long time ago. Once the shelves are full new additions have to go into boxes.

[Jose Echenique]

Today Sir John Eliot Gardiner is 70 years old. Happy birthday maestro!!!
He shares his birthday with Georg Philipp Telemann, actress Jessica Lange, Adolf Hitler and yours truly.
And what better way to celebrate him than with some marvelous Schumann.

[Seán]

That one is on my Wish List actually! What did you think of it Johnny if you have managed to get a listen to it yet?

Fergus, it is fab-u-lous!

[jaybee]

That one is on my Wish List actually! What did you think of it Johnny if you have managed to get a listen to it yet?

It hasn't landed yet!