What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

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Peter Waldner - Bachs Mentoren
Tastenfreuden CD

https://andrewbensonwilson.org/2020/...achs-mentoren/


This is a new release and must be quite a rare CD, I didn't even find a decent cover picture, except for the one in the review above.

Music from Dietrich Buxtehude, Jan Adam Reincken and Georg Böhm.
Played on harpsichord, octave spinet and muselar.

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What's Next Vivaldi?
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Giovanni Antonini
Il Giardino Armonico
Qobuz 24/192




Virtuosity, humor, composers from today and recomposed Vivaldi.
A hell of a ride!
This is, to me, more a curiosity than music that really touches me.


Giovanni Antonini and his ensemble Il Giardino Armonico celebrate the composer who made them famous: Antonio Vivaldi. Their recordings of the Four Seasons and Cecilia Bartoli’s famous first Vivaldi recital left an indelible mark on the discography of the Red-haired Priest! Their musical fireworks display continues with a programme of concertos that is bound to provoke strong reactions, since it is the result of a meeting with a musician who is equally adept at shifting boundaries, the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Together they have devised a programme which interweaves ultra-virtuosic concertos by Vivaldi ("Il Grosso Mogul" RV 208, "La Tempesta di Mare" RV 253, and RV 157, 191, 550 among others) with, between each concerto, short pieces written by much more recent composers, Luca Francesconi, Simone Movio, Giacinto Scelsi, Aureliano Cattaneo and Giovanni Sollima, and mostly commissioned by Patricia Kopatchinskaja especially for this programme. © Alpha Classics

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This great soprano from Martinique died recently...

L'Art de Christiane Eda-Pierre - Airs d'opéras comiques
Grétry & Philidor
Rameau
Mozart
Berlioz
Stravinsky
Honegger
via Qobuz

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Marin Marais - 1689 - Pièces à une et à deux violes et basse continue
Paolo Pandolfo
Amélie Chemin -Thomas Boysen - Markus Hünninger
Qobuz 24/88.2

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Listening to the album above, Roon suggested this album:

Marin Marais - Images
Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba
Fred Jacobs, French theorbo
Qobuz 24/88.2




Superb playing and sound!

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Marin Marais - Dialogues
Miieneke van der Velden
Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba
Fred Jacobs, French theorbo
Qobuz 24/88.2




Mieneke together with her teacher.
I'm very happy I've discovered such a fine viola da gamba player!

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Last viol album for the day:

William Lawes - Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol
Richard Boothby, lyra viol
Qobuz 24/96




Another album I discovered through Roon...

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English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard Conducting
Wynton Marsalis Trumpet
Edita Gruberova Soprano
Wonderful Selection of works by Purcell, Haandel, Torelli, Fasch and Molter. Excellent on all counts!
CBS Records Masterworks IM 39061
Regards,
Jim

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Originally Posted by ehoove

English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard Conducting
Wynton Marsalis Trumpet
Edita Gruberova Soprano
Wonderful Selection of works by Purcell, Haandel, Torelli, Fasch and Molter. Excellent on all counts!
CBS Records Masterworks IM 39061
Regards,
Jim

Jim, thank you for posting this.
I'm going to listen to it in the next week.

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Mozart - Complete Clavier Sonatas
Arthur Schoonderwoerd
via Qobuz




This was playing in the practice today.
Performed on historical instruments.