Tír Na HiFi

DonKC wrote:

Jared wrote:^^ goodness, that's a turn up for the book!

I was out this evening, but managed to play Shostakovich Symphony No.14 in the car on the journey...

A nice "cheery" piece for the road! :)

Yes Don... I have never really taken to Stravinsky, Prokofiev or Shostakovich but have been giving them each another airing of late... my feelings for Shostakovich have thawed a little to be fair and that symphony in particular is very powerful... but I doubt I'll own extensive libraries of any of them to be fair.

Shostakovich:
Piano Concerto No.2
Symphony No.15
Gadfly Suite
BBC Phil/ Sinaisky/ Martin Roscoe (piano)

Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3
Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
Maurice Duruflé organ
Georges Prêtre - conducting.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake, Op. 20
L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet - conducting.

^^ I have the disk of the edited ballet suites Sean, but I never thought I would be able to eat a whole one...

I have also been lent I Fagilioni's Striggio 40 part Mass by a resident here, and found it to be very pleasant indeed... played it through 3x now, and watched the short accompanying DVD about it's making. Does anyone else own it?

Jared wrote:^^ I have the disk of the edited ballet suites Sean, but I never thought I would be able to eat a whole one...

I listened to it this afternoon in the kitchen when I was preparing the dinner, et al. I have speakers mounted in the kitchen ceiling and they are driven by my HiFi kit in my listening room, there's posh for you.

I have also been lent I Fagilioni's Striggio 40 part Mass by a resident here, and found it to be very pleasant indeed... played it through 3x now, and watched the short accompanying DVD about it's making. Does anyone else own it?

Never heard of it Jared.

Seán wrote:I have speakers mounted in the kitchen ceiling and they are driven by my HiFi kit in my listening room, there's posh for you.

that's just gratuitous...

Jared wrote: I have also been lent I Fagilioni's Striggio 40 part Mass by a resident here, and found it to be very pleasant indeed... played it through 3x now, and watched the short accompanying DVD about it's making. Does anyone else own it?

I do not know of it either Jared.

fergus wrote:

Jared wrote: I have also been lent I Fagilioni's Striggio 40 part Mass by a resident here, and found it to be very pleasant indeed... played it through 3x now, and watched the short accompanying DVD about it's making. Does anyone else own it?

I do not know of it either Jared.

I certainly think you'd enjoy it, Fergus... Striggio was a successor to the Gabrielis, and wrote a Mass in 1566 which contained '40 Parts' and was believed to be the inspiration behind Tallis' 'Spem In Alium':

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Striggio-Mass-4 ... io+mass+40