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Old 02-04-2012, 10:49 AM
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Wink A classic from the Baroque period :

Album : Music for a while & other Songs
Composer : Henry Purcell
Artist : Alfred Deller, Wieland Kuijken, William Christie
Released : 1979 (Re-issued in 2008)
Label : Harmonia Mundi
Format : CD



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Old 02-04-2012, 11:53 AM
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Wagner - Götterdämmerung excerpts: Furtwangler, Vienna Philharmonic Orch; The Philharmonia Orchestra, Flagstad
Welcome to AA and the classical thread watercourse. It's nice to have more perspective here.

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Old 02-04-2012, 11:53 AM
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Wink Listening to a fabulous SACD set from AliaVox !

Album : Vespro della Beata Vergine
Composer : Claudio Monteverdi
Artist : La Capella Reial, Coro Del Centro Musica Antica di Padova, Schola Gregoriana, Jordi Savall dir.
Released : 1988 (Re-mastered in 2007)
Label : AliaVox
Format : SACD (2 Discs)



A monument of religious music, beautiful voices and instrumentation wonderfully recorded !
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Old 02-04-2012, 11:55 AM
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Welcome to the classical thread, watercourse !
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Old 02-04-2012, 02:29 PM
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Wink A change of pace !

Album : Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5
Composer : Ludwig Van Beethoven
Artist : Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (Kent Nagano) - Till Fellner, piano
Released : 2010
Label : ECM New Series
Format : CD



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Old 02-04-2012, 03:34 PM
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Holst in the morning - no, not jolly Jupiter or gnarly Neptune ... it's a delightful smaller piece, the Japanese Suite, commissioned as a dance work. Holst received its themes as sung to him by the commissioner. Critics tend to dismiss it, but I find the music enchanting. Excellent SACD sonics from Chandos.

Nice but I enjoy its predecessor in the series even more!
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Old 02-04-2012, 04:19 PM
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Thanks, gentlemen (Tim and Kal)!
Your recommendations are always interesting. We have a lot to learn from you!
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Old 02-04-2012, 04:23 PM
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Wink Listening to Mahler's 5th

Album : Symphony #5 In C Sharp Minor
Composer : Gustav Mahler
Artist : Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Riccardo Chailly cond.)
Released : 1998
Label : Decca
Format : CD





Taken from Mahler: The Symphonies, a 12 CD set from Decca.

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Old 02-04-2012, 05:11 PM
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Album : Vespro della Beata Vergine
Composer : Claudio Monteverdi
Artist : La Capella Reial, Coro Del Centro Musica Antica di Padova, Schola Gregoriana, Jordi Savall dir.
Released : 1988 (Re-mastered in 2007)
Label : AliaVox
Format : SACD (2 Discs)



A monument of religious music, beautiful voices and instrumentation wonderfully recorded !
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A bit of Mozart is always nice.
This comes out of my big Brilliant Classics box.

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