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Old 04-04-2021, 02:24 PM
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Some Fitting R2R Tape on Easter Sunday!
The Great "Messiah" Choruses
Handel
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Condie Conducting
Fabulous!
Columbia Masterworks 1R1 6242 7.5ips
Have a Blessed Easter,
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Old 04-04-2021, 04:41 PM
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Justin Taylor - La Famille Rameau
Qobuz 24/96




I'm following this young harpsichordist since he won the Musica Antiqua Price of Bruges a couple of years ago.
This album is splendid... for lovers of the instrument.
Pieces we're used to hear on a (grand) piano, but this time on an instrument Rameau originally composed them for.

During his lifetime, Rameau enjoyed a glittering reputation and was admired by all Europe, while Debussy’s Hommage à Rameau proves that his fame survived down the centuries. But what do we know about the rest of the Rameau family? After a highly acclaimed album devoted to the Forqueray family, the harpsichordist-genealogist Justin Taylor sets out on the trail of Jean-Philippe’s son Claude-François and his nephew Lazare. To be sure, Rameau’s genius dwarfs all around him, as is demonstrated by such pieces as La Livri, La Poule and L’Égyptienne, not to mention the magnificent Nouvelle Suite in A minor, but the music of his descendants has its own interest.

Justin Taylor introduces us to a work by Claude-François Rameau (La Forqueray) and the Sonata No. 1 in E major by Lazare Rameau. He switches from the splendid harpsichord of the Château d’Assas (a two-manual instrument of the first half of the eighteenth century, attributed to the Lyon-based maker Donzelague) to the 1891 Érard piano of the Musée de la Musique in Paris for Debussy’s tribute to his great predecessor. © Alpha Classics
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Old 04-04-2021, 04:59 PM
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Charles Avison - CONCERTI GROSSI - based on Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti
Tiento Nuovo
Ignacio Prego

Qobuz 24/88.2




Not the most touching nor the most ingenious baroque.
It never reaches the intensity/quality of the master, on whose works it is based.


The imaginative musician that is harpsichordist Ignacio Prego directs a new selection of the Concerti grossi by Charles Avison drawing inspiration from keyboard Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. The Madrid-born Prego is alive to the variety of musical ideas embedded in these concertos – four of the concertos “after Scarlatti” that Avison had published in 1744: each concerto, with the ensemble divided into concertino and ripieno groups, is a sequence of movements, the appealing, lively, melodious and playful contrasting with the slow, light, restful and contemplative.

Added to Avison’s inventiveness and freshness are Prego and his ensemble’s creativity and sensitivity, especially in matters of ornamentation. Italian music had great popularity in Britain at the time and Avison himself had studied with Francesco Geminiani. Avison also rode the wave of the then current “English cult of Domenico Scarlatti”, adapting and transforming Scarlatti’s Sonata ideas into his “Grand Concertos” and making them his own.

Ignacio Prego and his new Spain-based ensemble Tiento Nuovo (led by Emmanuel Resche-Caserta) relish the Iberian influences pervading the concertos; these are peppered with folk-music references drawn in by Scarlatti across his more than three decades of travelling around Spain and Portugal with his patron María Bárbara de Braganza. The solo harpsichordist in Prego – Glossa issued a warmly-received set of Bach’s Goldberg Variations – is put to stirring use with the inclusion of four Scarlatti keyboard Sonatas. © Glossa
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Old 04-05-2021, 01:48 PM
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Max Richter - Sleep
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We decided to give this work another go.
It's been played a lot here!
We own the box, but Qobuz is offering a gapless hi-res stream so...

Though the eight-hour work Sleep is one of the longest single pieces of classical music ever composed and the audience at its premiere were given beds instead of seats, Max Richter's intentions for the work were anything but sensational. Describing it as “an eight-hour personal lullaby for a frenetic world and a manifesto for a slower pace of existence," he consulted neuroscientist David Eagleman as he worked on these soft, gliding compositions for piano, strings, electronics and vocals, taking into account the nuances of dreaming sleep and deep sleep. Designed to be listened to while asleep, the low drones that wind through the work encourage a phase of sleep that consolidates memory and learning -- a process that might seem as thrilling as defragmenting a hard drive, but in Richter's hands, has the same aching-yet-inspiring beauty that has graced his work since The Blue Notebooks.

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The Flying Dutchman and Tannhauser Overtures and more
Wagner
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti Conducting
London Record Co 1R1 6863 (R2R 7.5ips) 1978
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Joseph Haydn - Symphonies nos. 24 - 30 - 42 - 43
Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi
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Quite enjoyable performances.
Sounds transparent and fresh.

The "Esterházy Music Collection" series with the Orfeo Orchestra conducted by György Vashegyi on the Accent label is dedicated to presenting musical treasures of the Esterházy family, many of which have been largely forgotten over the centuries. The recordings usually take place in the Apollo Hall of the Esterházy Palace in Fertod-Eszterháza, whose acoustics are among the best in the world.
The present production is the third volume and offers a selection of earlier symphonies by Joseph Haydn. In addition to Symphonies Nos. 24, 42 and 43 from the years 1764 to 1771, No. 30, which already bore the epithet "Alleluja" on contemporary copies from 1765, is also heard. This is based on the use of the Gregorian "Alleluia" of the Easter liturgy in the main theme of the first movement. The symphony may have been composed for ecclesiastical use; a possible performance took place on Easter Sunday 1765. © Accent
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Late easter night, this is a very well-regarded recording, but first listen for me thru Audeze 'phones, with Roon DSP settings for Audeze. Not too bad at all.
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Late easter night, this is a very well-regarded recording, but first listen for me thru Audeze 'phones, with Roon DSP settings for Audeze. Not too bad at all.



It is one of THE reference recordings of these works.
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Carl Friedrich Abel: Mr Abel's Fine Airs
Susanne Heinrich, viola da gamba
Hyperion Records (2007), 16/44 files

This is beautiful music, “fine” indeed.
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It is one of THE reference recordings of these works.
For the performances. The sound is not outstanding.
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