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Old 01-23-2022, 11:47 AM
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Falla - Albeniz - Granados
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner Conducting
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Old 01-23-2022, 12:25 PM
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Brahms - Late Piano Works Opp. 116-119
Qobuz 24/96




Splendid new release!
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Old 01-23-2022, 12:28 PM
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Earlier today, I listened to:

William Byrd - Keyboard Music
Friederike Chylek, harpsichord
Qobuz 24/96




To be consumed in small doses.


William Byrd's work stands out above all for the variety of genres and structural principles. This is particularly evident in his unique keyboard music. The influence that Byrd also had on the continental development of piano music remains remarkable. With William Byrd, Friederike Chylek follows up on her last albums "From Byrd To Byrd" and "Time stands still". Friederike Chylek plays on a copy of the harpsichord by Matthias Griewisch after Ioannes Ruckers, 1624. © Oehms Classics
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George Frideric Händel & Friends - "Mr Händel's Dinner" - Music for the opera intermissions.
Maurice Steger
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

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Quite pleasant.
Pieces from Händel of course, and Geminiani, Finger, Babell.

London in the 1730s. Musical life was flourishing around the figure of Handel. The Saxon composer also served as director; at the height of his fame, he surrounded himself with the finest London musicians, and was joined by many foreign composers to occupy the long breaks between the acts of his lyric works. Their musical interludes accompanied lavish dinners, during which Mr Handel escaped from the pit to indulge his gourmet tendencies. Quite a programme! © harmonia mundi
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Bach - Abel

Lucile Boulanger


Qobuz 24/192









This is really fantastic!

Bach's masterworks played on a viola da gamba gives them something extra.

This is such a wonderfully rich instrument - you all know I'm addicted to it - and it really adds to the experience.

Like Meijer playing Glass on the harp also tends to be more beautiful than on the piano.

The fact that Boulanger is such a great musician doesn't do harm either.

The sound is impeccable.



Familiar music heard through an unfamiliar prism. It was par for the course in the Baroque era, when transcription and pasticcio (patching together multifarious pieces by different composers to create a new work) were part of every musician and composer’s everyday musical toolkit. These days, though, not so much, meaning that when an artist does get as creative with 18th century repertoire as gambist Lucile Boulanger has been on this first solo recording of hers for Alpha, it’s all the more of a pleasure.



Those who know their viola da gamba repertoire will be unsurprised at the presence of pre-classical-era composer Carl Friedrich Abel on this solo programme, given his renown both in his day and now as one of the gamba greats. To pair him with J. S. Bach, though, is entirely unexpected, because while the king of Baroque did write three accompanied gamba sonatas, he never explored the instrument’s solo capabilities. Yet the two men were in fact linked both musically and personally. First, because Bach was Abel’s godfather, and probably also one of his musical instructors. Second, because of Abel’s friendship with Bach’s son Johann Christian, the tangible legacy of which was the Bach-Abel subscription concert series they founded together in 1760s London after Johann Christian followed Abel across the channel.



Boulanger’s aim therefore has been to make the link in a solo viola da gamba programme that existed between the two men in real life, juxtaposing original works for it from Abel’s famous Drexel manuscript, with her own new transcriptions of Bach works, presented as “pasticcio suites” reminiscent of the suites, sonatas and partitas Bach wrote for solo cello and violin. Cleverly, to give herself a head start as to how Bach himself may have gone about this transcription process, she’s selected pieces he worked his own transcriptions from – works such as the famous Prelude in C major BWV 846/846a, and the A minor Grave for keyboard or violin BWV 964/1003. Equally cleverly, she’s also looked closer to home by way of three dances from Bach’s final (6th) Solo Cello Suite in D major – because not only is D major a highly typical key for viola da gamba, but this particular suite was originally not for the standard four-stringed cello but instead a five-stringed one, bringing it closer to the viola da gamba with its five to seven strings.



The whole works wonderfully well. On the linguistic front, while Abel may have been a generation onwards of Bach, and with a trailblazing outlook that saw his symphonies influence Mozart, he adopted a more retro language for the viola da gamba. So, when Bach was an enthusiastic follower and imitator of the latest styles right up to his 1750 death, their respective works are effortlessly mutually complimentary here. Ultimately though, the joy of this album is Boulanger’s playing: the elegant legato flow and melancholically improvisatory feel to Abel’s Adagio in D minor, WK 209; the delicacy with which she articulates Bach’s aforementioned C major Prelude, and the array of shapes, light and shade she’s brought to its “arpeggio” figures; her rivetingly developed musical argument in Abel’s Vivace in D major, WK 190, fingers dancing with feather-like grace over its fast-figurations and embellishments, and double-stopped passages executed to perfection.



This is one that’ll have you spotting fresh things to appreciate on each repeated listen. [emoji767] Charlotte Gardner/Qobuz



This is great. The tone of her instrument in a reverberant room is fantastic. Thanks Bart!
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Ultra HD

Æther

Sarah Aristidou (soloist), Daniel Barenboim, Christian Rivet, Emmanuel Pahud

Orchester des Wandels, Chor der Klangverwaltung, Thomas Guggeis

Can you capture the ineffable? Sarah Aristidou’s remarkable debut disc Æther explores things within and beyond. She is duly shrouded in mist for the booklet pictures, but there is nothing the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…
Release Date: 12th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: ALPHA781
Label: Alpha
Length: 65 minutes

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OK, I'm in and concur, it is wonderful!


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Solo Bach-Abel

Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba)

Release Date: 28th Jan 2022
Catalogue No: ALPHA783
Label: Alpha
Runtime: 1:30:00
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Solo Bach-Abel

Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba)

Release Date: 28th Jan 2022
Catalogue No: ALPHA783
Label: Alpha
Runtime: 1:30:00
Listening now on the Magnapans - Fabulous!
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Old 01-25-2022, 03:58 PM
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Macho Marches
The Cleveland Symphonic Winds
Frederick Fennell Conducting
A bit out of my wheelhouse, but like most Telarc Digital LP's this one has dynamics galore!
Telarc Digital DG10043
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ULTRA HD

Glass: Akhnaten

Zachary James (Amenhotep III), Richard Bernstein (Aye), Aaron Blake (High Priest), Will Liverman (General Horemhab), Anthony Roth Constanzo (Akhnaten), Disella Larusdottir (Queen Tye), J'Nai Bridges (Nefertiti), Metropolitan Opera, Karen Kamensek

Release Date: 1st Oct 2021
Catalogue No: OMM0154
Label: Orange Mountain
Nominee - Best Opera Recording
Grammy Awards
64th Awards (2022)
Nominee - Best Opera Recording

Just spectacular in every way is this opera.
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