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Old 05-09-2021, 09:58 PM
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Old 05-10-2021, 03:54 PM
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Midnight at Notre-Dame
Organ transcriptions
Olivier Latry

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I've listened a couple of times to this mighty organ.
It of course was never as silent in the cathedral as in this recording.
But you still got a good impression of what the instrument was able of.
I hope mankind will be able to enjoy organ music there again in the next decade.

We've just finished this album.
There are so many good recordings the last years that this one, from 2004, suddenly doesn't impress as much anymore as in in the first years we owned it.
Still a good disc, with a couple of great transcriptions.
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Old 05-10-2021, 04:54 PM
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantatas Vol. 1
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
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This series is always in rotation here.
It offers very transparent (the one voice - one instrument approach) performances, which are almost always outstanding, with good to excellent surround sound to boot.
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Old 05-10-2021, 05:09 PM
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Olivier Messiaen - Chamber Works
Hebrides Ensemble



This Linn SACD offers intense works in good surround sound.
These are not smooth romantic pieces.
Parts of the Quatuor pour la fin du temps were written when the composer was a war prisoner in Germany.

Finishing the evening with this intense album.
There are very gripping moments in the 'Quartet for the end of Time'!
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Old 05-11-2021, 03:51 PM
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Channa Malkin - This is not a lullaby
with Artem Belogurov & Maya Fridman
Qobuz 24/88.2




Wonderful, gripping release.
Works from Weinberg, Josef Malkin, John Tavener.
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Old 05-11-2021, 04:08 PM
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David Achenberg - Bleu Ébčne - Complete String Quartets
Quatuor Tana
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This is, as you can see above, new music.
It is well recorded, adventurous but still listenable, even very much so.
I like this discovery!

Quite a journey!
Amazing what you can do with 4 string instruments.
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Symphony No 2 in D Major, Op.43
Sibelius
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Kletzki Conductor
Excellent recording and rendition!
Angel Records S 35314
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György Kurtág - Scenes
Viktoriia Vitrenko, soprano
David Grimal, violin
Luigi Gaggero, cimbalom
Niek De Groot, double bass
Qobuz 24/96




Fascinating music, as well as performance.
It's not easy, but rewarding...

In the history of music, György Kurtág is a figure apart. Born in Hungary in 1926, he stood aside from the great ideological movements of his time and created his own personal language in solitude, thinking of music as he put it, "as an ongoing search". But while doggedly independent, he was also a man of culture whose language developed in the shadow of two great teachers: Bartók and Beethoven, the former following on largely from the latter. A champion of the small form, Kurtág also drew inspiration (when he wasn't revisiting them explicitly) from Bach, Schubert and Schumann.

This thrilling album offers a journey through the composer's private world, with pieces that take in song (a leitmotif of his oeuvre), violin, cimbalom and double bass – instruments of Hungarian folk tradition.

From the poetic highlights of Stsenď iz romana ("Scenes from a novel on poems by Rimma Dalos") sung in Russian, to the Homage to his friend, the painter Berényi Ferenc, this perfectly-performed recording follows the trail of a particularly secret and captivating composer. The Eight Duets for Violin and Cimbalom, Op.4 are taken in hand by a Hungarian virtuoso playing one of his favourite instruments, the cimbalom, which is at once typical of Magyar culture and a link to the medieval psalter. The Seven Songs, Op.22 evoke Japanese haikus through their brevity and content, and conjure up the stunning final image of a snail ascending Mount Fuji. Egy Téli alkony emlékére ("In memory of a Winter evening") is a very expressive and moving rendering of long evenings spent at the fireside.

The Russian poet Rimma Dalos summed up Kurtág's personality: "Kurtág always chose the minimalist and the romantic. The poetry of the small form, the aphorism, a weightlessness which is at the same time very weighty. To speak without saying it all, to graze but not break, to penetrate without betraying." We couldn't put it better. © François Hudry/Qobuz

A rollercoaster!
I seem to go more and more radical this evening.
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Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet
Trio Wanderer: Vincent Coq, piano; Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, violin; Raphaël Pidoux, cello
Christophe Gaugué, viola
Catherine Montier, violin
Harmonia Mundi (2021), via Qobuz

Very nicely played.

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