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Melmoth
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| Now listening to Hildegard von Bingen's "A feather on the breath of God" as performed by the group Gothic Voices. |
Is this as good as its reputation suggests?
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| Now listening to Hildegard von Bingen's "A feather on the breath of God" as performed by the group Gothic Voices. |
Is this as good as its reputation suggests? |
Outstanding. I love this one, but then again I'm a big fan of Hildegard anyway. There's a thread about her in the Religious Music forum, but I haven't uploaded anything from this one though. Hildegard von Bingen
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Now making my way through the complete symphonies of Mozart as performed by Trevor Pinnock with the English Consort.
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| Now making my way through the complete symphonies of Mozart as performed by Trevor Pinnock with the English Consort. |
How ironic - I'm doing the exact same thing at the moment! The Pinnock set is a personal favourite of mine, and his performance of No. 25 is most laudable.
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Tonight Handel's Anthem for the Founding Hospital 'Blessed are they that considereth the poor and needy' (could have been written for me!). Contains a fair proportion of old stuff, but very good stuff. From a great compilation of Handel music...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handel-Vocal-Works/dp/B000024A05
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Can't get away from this today. Outstanding.
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| Some of the most beautiful music for violincello ever written, no doubt. |
I'll second that. The copy I have by Maurice Gendron on Philips is one of my desert island discs... |
Now listening to:
I hadn't been impressed by this music until I heard it on period instruments. Gorgeous. If you like cello music, you can't go wrong with this, Mel. Highly recommended. I can post a sample, if you'd like.
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Now listening to a cd of music from ancient Sumeria, Egypt and Greece--quite a large geographical area to be sure, and the CD covers an extremely broad period of time (20th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.), but since we don't have much written material from that time the breadth of time is understandable.
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Ensemble De Organographia with Philip Neuman directing.
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| Sorin Eushayson wrote: |
| I hadn't been impressed by this music until I heard it on period instruments. Gorgeous. If you like cello music, you can't go wrong with this, Mel. Highly recommended. I can post a sample, if you'd like. |
Certainly Sorin, I'll give it a go- it's the sort of thing I would be highly unlikely to explore under my own volition; so now's my chance! 
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| Now listening to a cd of music from ancient Sumeria, Egypt and Greece |
Now that looks rather intriguing! Anything on there from around the time of Plato?
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| Now listening to a cd of music from ancient Sumeria, Egypt and Greece |
Now that looks rather intriguing! Anything on there from around the time of Plato? |
It's definitely interesting. The same group has a CD out of entirely Greek music, but I haven't listened to that one yet so couldn't comment on it. The nearest they have to Plato's time on the cd is a fragment from the 6th century B.C., so 150 years before Plato.
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Thanks for the Sorin-sonic samples! That really is pleasant music, very refined- I can see why you're fond of it.
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Thanks for the Sorin-sonic samples! That really is pleasant music, very refined- I can see why you're fond of it. |
Thank you, Mel. Alas, Cello Concerti are hard to come by; I'm not sure if you'll be able to find anything better than Franz Joseph's (from this era, at least)... Supposedly Mozart had one, but it's now lost.  (Article)
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Thanks for the Sorin-sonic samples! That really is pleasant music, very refined- I can see why you're fond of it. |
Thank you, Mel. Alas, Cello Concerti are hard to come by; I'm not sure if you'll be able to find anything better than Franz Joseph's (from this era, at least)... Supposedly Mozart had one, but it's now lost. (Article) |
Oooh, that's the first time I've been to Mozart forum. I probably set some alarms off or something. 
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| ...Also Handel sacred music spoiled by Emma Kirkby... |
An apt decription! 
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Now listening to:
Uff-da!
Hearing these on period instruments gives them new life. They're much more substantial, not the frilly things you hear on television commercials. Modern interpretations of these pieces often leaves them sounding almost romantic-period! The historical-treatment makes them sound almost medieval in parts. Excellent.
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Allow me to bring us forward in time a little to this gem...
Leon Boellmann
Piano Music
Jean-Pierre Ferey - piano
Skarbo
Lovely renditions of some little known works.
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Listening to Op. 6 No. 8 in C Minor, from the album:
If but for a place to purchase this...
Hogwood seems to avoid his tendency to produce mathematical, academic performances here. Some truly magnificent examples of the baroque concerto before bed tonight...
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