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Víkingur Ólafsson | Reflections
Claude Debussy and some Jean-Philippe Rameau...very distinctive interpretations and reworks...I like this one a lot...sure to ruffle some feathers Last edited by JemHadar; 03-17-2021 at 03:00 PM. |
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I liked it as well, enough to buy the download. I’ve been impressed with his work. I also enjoyed these two: IMG_0708.jpg IMG_0709.jpg
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Bach and Beyond, Part 1
Jennifer Koh, violin Cedille (2012), via Qobuz Bach partitas interspersed with other solo violin pieces. The selections are always interesting, and beautifully performed and recorded. I don’t know how this one slipped under my radar. IMG_0713.jpg
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Joseph Haydn - Twelve Trios for Transverse Flute, Violin and Violoncello
Barthold Kuijken Sigiswald Kuijken Wieland Kuijken via Qobuz This was playing gently into the practice today. This double-disc reissue combines two releases by Barthold, Sigiswald, and Wieland Kuijken, respectively from 1978 and 1986. The earlier one, especially, dates from the years when historical-performance philosophies were first applied to music of the Classical era, and both recordings have held up well. Barthold Kuijken's gentle transverse flute blends in with the other two instruments in a way that's difficult to achieve with a modern flute. The works are all incidental pieces by Haydn, written for his princely employer at Esterháza. All are in three movements, although the sequence of the three is hardly duplicated at all. They are pleasant examples of background music, with short movements artfully arranged so as to draw the listener's ear to a single affecting detail, and the Kuijkens deliver ingratiating performances without a hint of the severity that sometimes afflicts Baroque specialists playing Classical music. There are a few caveats for the buyer. The two discs don't form a sonic whole and haven't even been dynamically equalized. They don't really form an artistic whole, either. The music is not the advertised "Twelve Trios for transverse flute, violin, and violoncello" of Haydn; the works on the first disc are alternate versions of divertimenti for two violins and cello, while the second consists of baryton trios in an arrangement made during Haydn's day with, the performers argue, Haydn's implicit or explicit approval. Haydn realized that the baryton, a bizarre cello-like instrument with a lot of sympathetic strings, was an instrument played by Prince Nikolaus Esterházy and very few others, the reasoning goes, so he composed these works with an eye toward eventual transposition for the forces represented here. The argument is rather detailed, and those with a specific interest in the performance practice of the era will doubtless find it useful. It is a bit exasperating, however, for the general listener who is curious as to what the original versions of these pieces sounded like but who, despite several decades of "authentic" performances, rarely if ever gets to hear them. None of this, however, affects the pleasant, polished, and (as always with Haydn), slightly jocular music heard on these two discs. © TiVo
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One of the better releases of 2020.
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Enjoying this again.
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Jacques... streaming it now (Qobuz 24/96). Really different from the Debussy/Rameau album he brought out last year. I wrote then: "Surprisingly nice marriage of 2 composers coming from a totally different era". This creates an atmosphere, totally unlike in nature and form. It has to be listened as a whole. I really dig it.
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Schumann: Fantasia in C, Op.17; Novelettes, Op.21, No’s.1 and 2
Arthur Rubinstein RCA Red Seal ARL1-3427 (1965), vinyl From the vinyl shelves this evening: beautiful music played as only Rubinstein could. IMG_0718.jpg
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