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Pēter Eötvos - 'Alhambra Concerto'
Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre Du Printemps Orchestre de Paris, Pablo Heras-Casado Isabelle Faust, violin Qobuz 24/48 World premiere recording of this brand new work of Eötvos (I've become a fan!). Solid performance of the Rite of Spring. Excellent, full sound.
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This was streaming into the practice today.
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The genius at work. I still prefer Lavinia Meijer on harp, but you can feel that Glass understands these works.
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Beethoven - Symphony no. 3 'Eroica'
Méhul - Overture from 'Les Amazones' Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth Qobuz 24/44.1 Decent performance of the 'Eroica'. The Méhul piece is a nice surprise. The opera was not a success, in spite of its obvious qualities. Continuing their exploration of Beethoven's Symphonies, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles give us an opportunity to rediscover the Eroica in all its modernity and power. Thanks to the magic of period timbres, Beethoven’s intended instrumental balances and effects are restored in revelatory fashion. The Overture to Méhul’s opera Les Amazones, written eight years later, will be a discovery for many listeners. This time it was a French composer who established a further milestone in the new aesthetic of Romanticism. © harmonia mundi
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Mussorgsky orch. Ravel - Pictures at an exhibition
Ravel - La Valse Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth Qobuz 24/44.1 I own better versions of Mussorgsky's masterpiece. The Ravel is decent.
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I had a very similar experience with this recording. The Méhul is quite nice, but the Beethoven will not be added to my collection.
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Telemann - Suite en La Mineur - Deux Concertospour flute à bec, viole de gambe, hautbois baroque et orchestre à cordes
Michel Piguet Jordi Savall Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard Qobuz 24/192 This was recorded in '72. Most of these pieces are quite familiar to me, as I own them in different versions. Quite enjoyable although I find the sound a bit thin.
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Bach - Concerti a Violino Certato
Gli Incogniti, Amandine Beyer via Qobuz Top performance of these old warhorses. Here's one of those discs that throws multiple innovations at the listener, any one of which alone might have made sense but which are a bit overwhelming taken together. You may be puzzled to see four Bach violin concertos listed; what's happening is that two of them, BWV 1052 and BWV 1056, were transcribed from harpsichord concertos on the theory that Bach himself made similar transcriptions in the opposite direction. Tempos are quick, with a nervous, slightly pace-bending energy at odds with the usual tempo stability of Baroque instrumental music. Finally, the "orchestral" passages are taken with one instrument per part, in keeping with an approach more often heard in Bach's choral music (where the chorus consists of single voices) but sometimes mooted for concertos as well. This last decision seems especially debateable in music modeled on the concertos of Vivaldi, which were, on the testimony of none less than Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composed to be played by an orchestra of young women. If you grant that the experiment is worth trying, you may still find that it works markedly better in the two actual violin concertos than in the two transcriptions. Despite all of the booklet's claims for the violinistic quality of the melodies of the two harpsichord concertos, the music turns into a shapeless mess here. Violinist Amandine Beyer and the ensemble Gli Incogniti assert the novel approach that the polyphonic element in Bach's concertos ruled over the spectacular soloistic concept of the Italian style, and they reduce the emphasis on the solo part accordingly. It's an odd way to play these pieces, but competently and briskly executed, and the engineering from the new Zig Zag imprint of Harmonia Mundi is sharp. In all, though, anyone considering this disc should sample and compare extensively; the minority of listeners who are thoroughly experiment-minded are most likely to enjoy it. © TiVo
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Incredible how much one instrument can convey... Glad I purchased this.
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