Album of the Evening

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This one just arrived in the mail:

 

 

First time in a long while to have time to listen to a whole album start to finish.

 

Andy

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Bach: keyboard concertos - Hantai

 

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Another Hantaï: Frescobaldi Partite & Toccate

 

 

Andy

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Thomas Tallis: Lamentations, Hymes, Cantiones Sacrae for 5 voices

 

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Exquisite!

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Evgeni Koroliov: J.S.Bach Art of Fugue

 

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Boccherini: La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid

Sauret: Music for Violin and Piano

 

The violin playing on this last one is quite spectacular.

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CD1: Appendices & Diversities, 23 Sonatas from existing and unpublished manuscripts. This CD contains sonatas that have duplicates from secondary sources and recent discoveries that are not in the Kirkpatrick catalog.

 

Andy

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Nice! Turns out No. 5 is in RCM Grade 8 and I've heard my niece play it a long while back. Time to add this to the buy queue...

 

Andy

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Ricci: Tartini 50 Variations on a theme by Corelli, Paganini 60 Variations sur l'Air Barucaba

 

 

Fritz Kreisler's Variations on a theme by Corelli in the style of Tartini is a knock off, but this is the real thing.

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Sayaka Shoji: Bach & Reger works for violin solo

 

 

Juxtaposing 3 pieces from J.S.Bach's solo violin sonatas & partitas against 3 "corresponding" pieces from Max Reger's Opus 117.

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Biondi: Vivaldi concertos for viola d'amore

 

 

The usual energy and precision of Biondi plus mesmerizing tone of the viola d'amore. Great stuff.

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Plum Blossom Melody

Yang Qing, guqin solo

Blu-spec CD

 

 

Guqin is the Chinese musical instrument of purity. Listening to the sound and melody of the qin is supposed to calm and purify ones mind. The subtle micro dynamics and endless shades of tone color on this recording is jaw dropping.

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Tomás Luis de Victoria: Requiem Mass Officium Defunctorum, motets

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe

 

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J.S.Bach: Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, Overture in French Style, 4 Duets

Scott Ross

 

 

Excellent version of Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue. Some of the tracks have chirping birds and barking dog in the background...

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Bach: Keyboard Partitas

Scott Ross

 

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Bach: 6 Trio Sonatas

E. Power Biggs, Pedal Harpsichord

 

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Bach: 2 & 3 Part Inventions, Fugue on a Theme by Albinoni

Bernard Lagacé, organ

 

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Yasÿe: 6 Sonatas for solo violin - Tai Murray

88/24 from Qobuz

 

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J.S.Bach Cantatas Vol. 54: BWV 14, 100, 197, 197a

Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

 

 

Hot off the press. Not even listed on the bis.se website yet.

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Just saw it as well on eclassical. With 30% off the FLAC 24/44. I'm tempted to get it, although I must have these cantatas already in 3 or 4 other versions.

 

The ones in this volume aren't particularly popular. According to bach-cantatas.com, they mostly exist in complete sets. In particular, the BWV 197a fragment has only one other version--in the Rilling cycle. But I know what you're talking about. It's amazing how many versions and complete sets the market is supporting now.

 

This is a no brainer for me though, as I've been following the this series for the past 10 years and it's my baseline.

 

And looks like the Suzuki cycle is going to finish this year. It's been 18 years and it's almost done. Wow...

 

Andy