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Old 02-11-2021, 03:47 PM
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Old 02-11-2021, 04:12 PM
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Ysaÿe - Six Sonatas For Solo Violin
Kerson Leonig
Qobuz 24/96




I've always loved these complex works from the Belgian composer.
Good performance!

Kerson Leong recently participated in the award-winning "Tribute to Ysaÿe" (FUG758). Here is his first solo recital for Alpha. The young Canadian violinist’s career began at the age of thirteen when he won the First Prize of the Junior division of the Menuhin Competition in Oslo in 2010. In 2018 he was named artist-in-residence with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal. An associate musician at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the mentorship of Augustin Dumay, he has already performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Verbier Festival and Wigmore Hall. The Quebec newspaper Le Devoir, which has followed him since the start of his career, speaks of ‘the purity of intonation, the brilliance of the high notes, the power of the sound... Kerson Leong has remained as brilliant as ever, but he has added a new patina and, deep down inside himself, a new class’. He plays a superb Guarneri del Gesù, on loan from a Canadian patron.

Here he tackles a monument of the violin repertory, the Sonatas for Solo Violin of Eugène Ysaÿe: ‘These sonatas are of course a big test . . . The music is highly emotional, pervasive and in some ways also very sombre, which makes it extremely powerful’, says Leong of these six Sonatas, which he frequently plays in their entirety in a single concert. © Alpha Classics
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Old 02-11-2021, 05:03 PM
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J.S. Bach - Sonatas for viola (da gamba) and harpsichord BWV 1027 - 1029
Marie Stockmarr Becker, viola
Ilaria Macedonio, harpsichord
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For lovers of Bach's chamber music, this is fantastic!
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Bach - Harpsichord Concertos II
Il Pomo d'Oro
Francesco Corti

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Marvellous album.
Extremely well played, in a most transparent way (small ensemble).
The sound is to die for.

Francesco Corti and il pomo d’oro continue their acclaimed series of Bach harpsichord concertos with a recording of the concertos BWV 1044, 1054, 1056 and 1057. This completes the cycle of seven “official” harpsichord concertos that Bach composed. Many of them are masterful reworkings of existing material, either own compositions or works by contemporaries, showing Bach’s exceptional skill to present musical ideas in a different light. For this second volume, Corti and il pomo d’oro have chosen to work with a relatively small ensemble, in order to bring out the individuality of each melodic line. Corti shares the centre stage with recorder players Andrés Locatelli and Alessandro Nasello in BWV 1057, while joining forces with violinist Evgenii Sviridov and traverso player Marcello Gatti in the concluding “triple” concerto BWV 1044. © Pentatone
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Bach - Harpsichord Concertos
Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti
Qobuz 24/96




These masterpieces can be heard over and over again.
In this album the harpsichord has a very pronounced place - its righteous place - in the recording.
Recommended.

Bach’s harpsichord concertos are arguably the first in the history of music designed specifically for this instrument. Composing them, Bach aimed to adapt the string writing of Italian instrumental concertos to a keyboard instrument, while simultaneously enriching this style with typically-German traits such as counterpoint and motivic development.
Francesco Corti and il pomo d’oro present Concertos BWV 1052, 1053, 1055 and 1058 as the first volume of what should become a cycle spanning four albums. Corti has chosen to combine these four concertos for the full orchestral sound they call for, while later recordings in this series will have a chamber setting in comparison. For tempo choices and melodic variations, Corti has been inspired by treatises from Bach’s time, as well as the composer’s own written-out ornamentations. © Pentatone

These pieces really bring me in quite a euphoric state!
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Mozart - Complete Clavier Sonatas
Arthur Schoonderwoerd
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This was playing in the practice today.
Performed on historical instruments.

Last one for tonight.
Schoonderwoerd on fortepiano, clavichord and tangent piano.
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Jan Dismas Zelenka - Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta - Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae
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Nice works from this Czech composer brought in a very good way by this Czech ensemble.

We saw them at work last Thursday and they were excellent.
They want to promote Zelenka's compositions, but also bring Bach, Biber, Monteverdi and others.

We saw/heard Biber's Missa Salisburburgensis (was coming from all sides in the Concert Hall in Bruges), and Excerpts out of Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale & Vespro della beata vergine.
There was a standing ovation afterwards.

Listening on our tube system, while watching the snowy garden.
The sun turns this unheated veranda into a mild sauna!
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We saw/heard Biber's Missa Salisburburgensis (was coming from all sides in the Concert Hall in Bruges), and Excerpts out of Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale & Vespro della beata vergine.
There was a standing ovation afterwards.
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Listening to the CD my wife purchased yesterday after the concert.
We already own some work from this contemporary composer.
The clarinet concerto D'Om Le Vrai Sens is quite impressive. A pretty depressive atmosphere... at first glance. Dark colours. Piercing clarinet. But as so often with the Scandinavian composers (unlike for example Górecki; some moments in this concerto made me think of him), you also get the other pole: light and optimism. Brilliant playing by Kari Kriikku whom Saariaho had in mind when composing the concerto.
This ambience continues in the second piece Laterna Magica.
In the Leino Songs you hear the fantastic soprano Anu Komsi; very beautiful.
This CD will not fade into oblivion.

We play this album quite often.
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Bach - Harpsichord Concertos
Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti
Qobuz 24/96




These masterpieces can be heard over and over again.
In this album the harpsichord has a very pronounced place - its righteous place - in the recording.
Recommended.

Bach’s harpsichord concertos are arguably the first in the history of music designed specifically for this instrument. Composing them, Bach aimed to adapt the string writing of Italian instrumental concertos to a keyboard instrument, while simultaneously enriching this style with typically-German traits such as counterpoint and motivic development.
Francesco Corti and il pomo d’oro present Concertos BWV 1052, 1053, 1055 and 1058 as the first volume of what should become a cycle spanning four albums. Corti has chosen to combine these four concertos for the full orchestral sound they call for, while later recordings in this series will have a chamber setting in comparison. For tempo choices and melodic variations, Corti has been inspired by treatises from Bach’s time, as well as the composer’s own written-out ornamentations. © Pentatone
Wonderful music!

Watching the Concerto No.4, BWV 1055, was also very interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMH56hJBVI
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