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Streaming this excellent, rough version of the Quattro Stagione again. For me probably the most attractive and exciting performance of it.
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That’s quite a recommendation, I’ll have to try it.
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Maybe not the greatest version of all times, but still good to accompany some work.
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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos - Orchestral Suites
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki Qobuz 24/44.1 Very consistent, the Bach performances of this top ensemble. 3 hours and 20 minutes of bliss... Listening to this irresistibly joyful and magnificently musical set of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites, one is immediately struck by two thoughts. First, Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have been wasting their time concentrating on Bach's dour cantatas, and second, Bach himself was wasting his time writing his melancholy church music when he could have been composing infinitely more cheerful secular music. While Suzuki and his crew have turned in superlatively performed, if spectacularly severe recording of the cantatas, they sound just as virtuosic and vastly more comfortable here. The performances are just as musical; from top to bottom, the Bach Collegium Japan is an outstanding period instrument chamber orchestra. The sound is rich but bright, the ensemble tight but relaxed, and the intonation virtually flawless. One can point out any number of felicities: Shigeharu Yamaoka's warm-toned flute in the Second Brandenburg, Natsumi Wakamatsu's keen-edged violin in the Fourth Brandenburg, and Masaaki Suzuki's airborne harpsichord in the Fifth Brandenburg. Recorded in BIS' characteristically vivid super audio digital sound, this three-disc set begs to be heard by anyone who likes the works. © TiVo
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Violin Concerto
Elgar The Lark Ascending Vaughn Williams Hilary Hahn - Violin London Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis Conducting Deutsche Grammophon B0003026-02 Regards, Jim
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Petit Musique de Nuit
Divertmenti K.136 &138 Quatuors K.80 et 173 Mozart Le Quatuor Talich Excellent play and a stellar recording! Approche Cal 5248 Regards, Jim
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This was playing gently into the practice earlier today...
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Ligeti's more cerebral works nicely balanced by Barber's Adagio for strings.
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Joseph Haydn - Piano Sonatas Nos. 32, 40, 49, 50
Paul Lewis Qobuz 24/96 Solid performance of these very beautiful pieces. The vagaries of the market have led a French pianist to record all his albums in England (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet for Chandos) whereas an English pianist, Paul Lewis, recorded all of his for the French label Harmonia Mundi. They both share a real love of Haydn. While the Frenchman has been recording sonatas by the Austrian composer from the start, Paul Lewis waited until he had assimilated Beethoven's 32 Sonatas and Schubert's as well, so as to be able to get to the root of the repertoire. For his first album dedicated solely to Haydn, he has chosen four sonatas, 32, 40, 49, and 50, allowing him to deploy his whole expressive range, dispelling once and for all the "Papa Haydn" tag that has for so long dogged the great musical innovator. In Paul Lewis's hands, Haydn's music is not that of an ancestor, however good, but of a Viennese classicist, performed with great nuance, a fluid sound and a wonderful, plastic beauty which makes the keyboard sing, underlining Haydn's joyful and puckish side as well as his passing melancholy. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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