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2023-09-22 23:00:00
The Bach Family [12 CDs]
These CD's of the Bach Family are from the shelfs of member Thomas Cadfael and myself.Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Arias with piccolo celloSandrine Piau, soprano; Christophe Dumaux, alto; Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenorPulcinella - Ophélie Gaillard, piccolo celloRecorded: 2012Label: Aparté AP045Download 1fichier gofile workuploadJohann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)OverturesEnsemble L'AchéronFrancois Joubert-Caillet - directionRecorded March 2016Label: Ricercar RIC 373Download 1fichier pixel workuploadJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Ruhm und Glück - Birthday Cantatas BWV 36a & 66aGudrun Sidonie Otto, soprano; Wiebke Lehmkuhl, contralto;Hans Jörg Mammel, tenor; Carsten Krüger, bassMitteldeutsche Hofmusik - Alexander GrychtolikRecorded: 2012Label: Rondeau ROP6058Download 1fichier gofile workuploadJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Wo soll ich fliehen hinTranscriptions for Viol TrioCellini ConsortRecorded: October 2017Label: Ramee RAM 1911Download 1fichier pixel workuploadJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Flute sonatas BWV 1030, 1034 & 1035; Partita BWV 1013Linde Brunmayr-Tutz, transverse flute;Lars Ulrik Mortensen, harpsichordRecorded: 2005Bonus: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt, viola da gamba et alRecorded: 1950Label: fra bernardo fb 2211700Download 1fichier gofile workuploadJohann Sebastian Bach […]
2023-08-30 08:42:00
Salzburg Festival (4) - Le nozze di Figaro, 20 August 2023
[…] approach this work with this orchestra, but the chemistry seemed genuine, and Pichon, thank God, made no apparent effort to make the Viennese sound other than they will. (It would never work, so why try?) Pichon is clearly attentive to words as well as music, and has evidently encouraged his cast in that respect too. Tempi were mostly well chosen, with none of the fashionable hectic quality that mistakes Mozart for Rossini. There were some post-Harnoncourt allargandi, yet with better dramatic justification and greater flexibility. This was a highly creditable main-stage debut. The fashion for hyperactive continuo playing continues apace. Pedro Beriso was no exception, but unusually, his playing often fulfilled a role more dramatically important than shouting ‘look at me’. Given the particular requirements of Kušej’s production, Beriso was often called on to provide connecting music, Mozart’s or Mozartian, not unlike an organist during a service. Use of Mozart’s extraordinary, […]
2023-08-30 07:48:00
Salzburg Festival (2) - Il re pastore (concert performance), 19 August 2023
[…] belief in every bar by Ádám Fischer. Leading a small yet, in the acoustic, warm and expansive Mozarteum Orchestra (strings 6.6.5.4.3), Fischer unsurprisingly drove harder at times, for instance during the Overture, than Leopold Hager in his classic Philips recording with the same band from what is now half a century ago, but there was always good and discernible reason for his choices, with none of the arbitrary distortion so favoured by a good number of post-Harnoncourt conductors. Such was the sense of a greater whole, style and ideas as one, I could even for once enjoy the rasping of natural brass. The Overture’s twin characters, presaging those of the drama – regal and pastoral – were presented with beguiling brilliance. Trumpets, drums, and key associations rang as true for Alessandro (Alexander the Great) as for the House of Habsburg, the occasion of Mozart’s Metastasio setting being the visit of Archduke […]
2023-07-23 08:07:00
No one thought there was a market for the Beatles
[…] CB: No, it is strange now, but I think the thing was Boult was doing a set of Brandenburg Concertos, and therefore we had to have a recorder or flautist for numbers 2 and 4. I think that Boult was amazingly adventurous to accept the idea of doing it. But he immediately said 'that's a wonderful idea'. I think these days it would have been recorded by a tiny 'Bachy' type orchestra with Harnoncourt or someone. In those days symphony orchestras did still play Bach, and jolly well too. BS: Tragically David Munrow took his own life in May 1976. Presumably this came as a terrible shock to his fiends and colleagues. CB: It did; but in a way, when you think about it afterwards, he drove himself so terribly that any emotional problem would have had a much greater impact on him […]
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