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Old 05-02-2019, 06:54 PM
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Handel Organ Concertos Op. 4
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr
harmonia mundi SACD

I believe this was recommended by a fellow Aficionado - now one of the best I own for both performances and recording quality.
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Old 05-03-2019, 12:33 AM
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Exciting and interesting

Thanks Bart, I’ll have to find that one.
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Thanks Bart, I’ll have to find that one.

Easy to find on Qobuz.
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Bach: English Suites
Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord
BIS (2019) via Qobuz

Here’s a lovely new recording from Suzuki. There is a natural, easy flow to his playing which is very nice, if at times it feels just a bit slow. The sound is very good.

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Old 05-04-2019, 08:07 AM
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Bach: English Suites
Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord
BIS (2019) via Qobuz

Here’s a lovely new recording from Suzuki. There is a natural, easy flow to his playing which is very nice, if at times it feels just a bit slow. The sound is very good.


Was on my list too, and I am listening now.
If you can bear harpsichord, this is one to listen to!
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Regina Bastarda - The virtuoso viola da gamba in Italy around 1600
Paolo Gandolfo, viola bastarda
Qobuz 24/88.2




Gandolfo is one of my favourite viola da gamba players.
This album is a fine release.


Thomas Boysen, theorbo
Chiara Granata, arpa doppia
Amélie Chemin, lira da gamba
Francesco Saverio Pedrini, organ & harpsichord

La Pedrina*
Gabriel Jublin, countertenor
Paolo Borgonovo, tenor
Matthias Deger, tenor
Raitis Grigalis, baritone
Matteo Bellotto, bass
Francesco Saverio Pedrini, direction


Popular madrigals and chansons of the 16th century served as models for richly embellished “alla bastarda” versions on the viola da gamba. In this recording, the vocal originals are presented together with the extremely virtuoso instrumental versions which represent the first and hardly surpassed apex of solo literature for viola da gamba.
For 25 years, Paolo Pandolfo has been one of the leading viola da gambists of his generation, researching and promoting the repertoire of his instruments in all directions. The thorough knowledge of all aspects of the viola da gamba repertoire becomes clear in his extensive discography. Not only has he recorded the most important works of the viol literature, but also very personal musical statements in which he combined the youthful experiences as a double bass player and guitarist with compositions and improvisations that are just as influenced by jazz as they are by the historical repertoire. With the “bastarda” diminutions, he now proffers an early milestone of the solo viol literature in which the exuberant virtuosity serves to present enchantingly beautiful music.
On this very special project, with instruments built ad hoc, he is joined by some of the finest continuo players of the early music scene (Boysen, Granata, Chemin, Pedrini) and the exquisite vocal ensemble La Pedrina, together producing what definitely will be considered as a key recording of repertoire for the viola da gamba. © Glossa
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Franz Schubert - The Complete Symphonies Vol. 2: Symphony 1,3 & 8
Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Jan Willem de Vriend
Qobuz 24/44.1




We visited the recording engineer Bert van der Wolf in his studio last Wednesday (review next week).
This album has a very clear sound, as we're used to hear in his recordings.
I like the interpretation too.
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Mieczysław Weinberg - Symphonies 2 & 21
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Kremerata Baltica

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, conductor & soprano
Gidon Kremer, solo violin
Qobuz 24/96




I'm a Weinberg fan.
His (Chamber) Symphonies, String Quartets, Violin Concerto, etc. are brilliant works.
This is an album that brings us an early and a late symphony.
Great performances and sound.
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Mendelssohn - IN TIME - Violin Concerto & Octet
Anima Eterna Brugge, Jakob Lehmann
Chouchane Siranossian, violin
Qobuz 24/88.2




Our beloved Concertgebouw Orchestra (the one from Bruges, where we are members) had to do it with young (assistent and guest) conductors last year.
Van Immerseel had a liver transplant, but he's alive and kicking again now.
Nevertheless, he is looking for the survival of his fantastic orchestra into the next decades, this with fresh blood.
This album is the first recording with new talent leading Anima Eterna.
We attended a concert earlier this year (Beethoven's 9th), and we rest assured: there is a future for this orchestra!

This was recording of the month in "Stereoplay".

Chouchane Siranossian is a rising star of the baroque and classical violin, Jakob Lehmann a virtuoso violinist and orchestral director who frequently conducts Anima Eterna. Together, they embody what the Bruges orchestra and its founder, Jos van Immerseel, have decided to call the ‘Next Generation Anima Eterna’... Today they are presenting Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in its original version. “We wanted to take a look into Mendelssohn’s workshop. He struggled with his self-diagnosed ‘revision disease’ and always strove to work hard on himself and his creations” says Jakob Lehmann. Chouchane Siranossian keeps on : “It was a fascinating experience for me to discover historical research and its implementation on period instruments in collaboration with Anima Eterna Brugge. In my interpretation, I used exclusively the fingerings, bowings and other performance markings of Ferdinand David and Joseph Joachim, both of whom rehearsed the work with the composer.”
This recording is rounded off with the Octet, also in its original version, which is longer and has many alterations in instrumentation, harmony and articulation... © Alpha Classics

Revisiting this album.
It is great!
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J.S. Bach - Sonatas For Violin & Harpsichord
Isabelle Faust - Kristian Bezuidenhout
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First listen.
Seems utterly magnificent.
Great sound.

Listening again (probably for the 5th time already!).
Glorious on all accounts.
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