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Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5668 Location: Los Angeles, California
Brian wrote:
I have some spare change, and Sorin has piqued my interest in this.
Music by Martin Luther himself; how cool is that? It will sit prominently next to my recording of psalms from the French Reformation written by Claude Goudimel. (Goudimel was martyred in the St. Bartholomew massacre.)
I know you'll enjoy the Luther, Brian. The Goudimel looks interesting, may have to throw that in the cart next time around!
The Goudimel looks interesting, may have to throw that in the cart next time around!
Listen to the sound clips first. They sing it as it was meant to sound - in a private gathering, not in a church - so they sing with a nasal pitch, not full-throated. There is another CD of French Reformation songs; it may have a better vocal sound.
_________________ "There are two things that haven't got to mean anything. The one is music, and the other one is laughter." Immanuel Kant.
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5668 Location: Los Angeles, California
Melmoth wrote:
Plugging some gaps in my Schumann the easy way with this 7 CD set.
Don't you just love Brilliant Classics??? I bet you could walk into their headquarters with two buttons and a pocket comb and walk out with the Complete Brahms Edition!
Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:34 am Posts: 3967 Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Ordered these from Amazon this weekend.
Cherubini's Dirge on the Death of Michael Haydn. When Cherubini read an account that Haydn had died he wrote a dirge for his friend. Turns out that paper was erroneous in it's claims, but Cherubini still released this work.
I enjoy Leonskaja's performance of Brahms' op 116-119 so much that I had to try out her Chopin. Ordered this disc where she records the Nocturnes on her 1901 Steinway.
I've continued to pick up Tartini's violin concertos, which are all of a high quality, and when I saw this disc of cello and flute concertos I had to grab it too.
_________________ "I learned more from a three minute record, than I ever did in school."
Joined: Sun May 04, 2008 5:44 pm Posts: 2169 Location: Old Blighty
smileyman wrote:
I enjoy Leonskaja's performance of Brahms' op 116-119 so much that I had to try out her Chopin. Ordered this disc where she records the Nocturnes on her 1901 Steinway.
Although I already have Leonskaja's recording of the nocturnes on Apex I am very interested to know if she and that 1901 Steinway are able to do here with Chopin what she did with the Brahms. Be sure to let me know if the lightning strikes twice!
_________________ "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. " - Walter Pater
Yesterday I was digging through the super-bargain section of my CD store and found this.
Maybe it's not Gliere's best symphony, but it is well-recorded and well-played.
Then for $3, I took a chance on Fritz Busch's recording of Beethoven's 7th and Brahms' 4th from 1950 on the Urania label (no picture). Now I remember why I don't gamble.
_________________ "There are two things that haven't got to mean anything. The one is music, and the other one is laughter." Immanuel Kant.
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5668 Location: Los Angeles, California
Considering Vivaldi's Op. 4 concerti "La Stravaganza" are right around the bend I went ahead and ordered this:
I gave the samples at Amazon a good listening and it seems a lively and vivacious recording in contrast with the Hogwood I currently have, Arte dei Suonatori being an ensemble in the more recent period performance tradition.
Yesterday I dug through the super-bargain bin and found this for $2.
Grainger was born in Australia, became an American citizen, and dug up British folk songs in their original context. I believe he was the first to do this, even before Bartok did in Hungary. And it doesn't hurt that he played soprano sax - we have something in common.
I had a few extra pennies, so I threw in Dutoit's Daphnis et Chloe.
_________________ "There are two things that haven't got to mean anything. The one is music, and the other one is laughter." Immanuel Kant.
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5668 Location: Los Angeles, California
Brian wrote:
Grainger was born in Australia, became an American citizen, and dug up British folk songs in their original context. I believe he was the first to do this, even before Bartok did in Hungary. And it doesn't hurt that he played soprano sax - we have something in common.
We have some samples of him playing the Grieg concerto (he being Grieg's editor) in the appropriate topic...
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5668 Location: Los Angeles, California
In preparation for the next installment of the Mozart symphonies I've placed an order for this...
Very cheap used thanks to Amazon Marketplace. The samples sound quite good and the track times look nice and brisk. Period instruments, of course. These guys are supposedly one of the newer, livelier bands, founded quite recently in 2005...
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