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Old 12-15-2019, 08:19 PM
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The Season
Jane Monheit
Interesting sultry Female vocals and well recorded Christmas tunes.
BMG Music Dual disc EN 94897
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Old 12-16-2019, 05:55 PM
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This now but the first volume (Concerti 1-6) are as good.

Listening to the first volume now.
Indeed a marvellous performance.

Händel - Concerti Grossi Op. 6 (1-6)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
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The praise in this review seems well deserved to me:

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin kickstarts their Handel trilogy with this recording of the first six concerti grossi op. 6. Originally designed as attractive interludes to English oratorio performances, Handel’s concerti grossi soon gained fame as the most appealing orchestral music of the baroque era. Written in London in 1739, towards the end of his career, Handel paid tribute to the immensely popular concerti grossi of Corelli while simultaneously proving his mastery incorporating all musical styles of his times. Led by their concertmaster Bernhard Forck, the players of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin demonstrate why many consider them the best baroque ensemble of today. This first installment will be followed by the last six concerti grossi op. 6, as well as a recording of the concerti grossi op. 3.© Pierre-Yves Lascar/Qobuz
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Old 12-16-2019, 06:35 PM
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Haydn - Missa Cellensis
Rias Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
, Justin Doyle
Qobuz 24/44.1




The ever underestimated Haydn!
Wonderful mass, splendid singers.

Joseph Haydn composed around 15 masses between 1748 and 1802. The Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, presented here in this new release from the Akademie für Alte Musik and the excellent RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin conducted by Justin Doyle, is better known by the later name Missa Sanctae Caeciliae ("Mass for Saint Cecilia").
It's the most vast of Haydn's masses and his only mass-cantata in the solemn Neapolitan style, whose numbers alternate between arias, ensembles and choirs. It seems that Haydn had intended the composition of this mass to be a great coup: it is a deft mix of the "modern" writing of his day and the "baroque" writing of his predecessors. In his monumental biography of the composer, Marc Vignal notes correctly that Haydn's masses are first-rate, not only set against the production of his quartets or symphonies, but also when set against the religious music of his times. This recording, taken at a June 2018 concert at the Berlin Konzerthaus, completes a RIAS-Kammerchor discography which is already rich in choral works but which hadn't yet tackled Haydn's masterpieces. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Old 12-16-2019, 09:00 PM
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Listening to the first volume now.
Indeed a marvellous performance.
Then let me suggest another winner (in 5.1 too):
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Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano & Concerto for Solo Piano
Paul Wee
BIS (2019), via Qobuz

I see a Kal just played this as well. It’s a fine performance.

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Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 17, K. 453 & No. 24, K. 491
Orli Shaham, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra w/ David Robertson conducting
Canary Classics (2019) via Qobuz

Good new performances of these standards.

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Not mention the joy in her expressions while she plays on the DVD!
Fabulous set IMHO

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Absolutely Jim.
Just finished it.
One of my most cherished sets.
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The Tube only Violin
Daniel Gaede - violin
Xuesu Liu - Piano
Wonderful LP - Tube only / Transistorfrei from start to finish on 180g vinyl
Tacet L117
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The Firebird Suite
Stravinsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Mussorgsky
The London Symphony
Stowkoski Conducting
A very solid piece of vinyl, wonderful dynamics.
London Phase 4 SPC 21026
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Josef Mysliveček - Violiin Concertos - Sinfonia - Ouverture
Collegium 1704, Václav Luks
Leila Schayegh, violin



Fanfare Magazine doesn't like the violin sound on this album.
They seem to prefer modern instruments.

I find Schayegh brilliant, and i do like HIP.
Light and optimistic pieces, that make one think of Mozart's early violin concertos.
And it seems they were inspired by Mysliveček's violin concertos.
Young Mozart was a great admirer of his Czech colleague.

Václav Luks tries to make the composer's works popular again, like he does with Zelenka.

He was kind enough to sign this CD yesterday after a long concert with his ensemble and choir.
They brought Händel's Messiah.
The ensemble was great, the choir also, the 4 solo singers decent to good.
Luks is kind of hyperkinetic on the scene, and clearly inspires his musicians.
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