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Recordings do help in a number of ways: they preserve a great performance for posterity, they make music available where it might be impossible to hear live, and often a recording is cheaper than a theater ticket for those who can't afford them. I love my CDs.

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maestrob wrote:Thanks, Pepe. It's now on my birthday want-list......

Very enjoyable and very well done, I´ll be surprised if you don´t love it.

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http://i.ndcd.net/13/Item/500/345133.jpg Not much new these days worth mentioning, but this late Baroque Te Deum is a worthy successor to Charpentier´s. Henry Madin only has a handful of CDs to his credit, including smaller scaled motets, but this festive and large scaled Te Deum is surely going to...

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Currentzis can afford the luxury of over extended rehearsal time recording in the middle of the Urals to get everything as he likes it. That said, I didn´t love his Mozart and was not interested in his Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.

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The Lady Vanishes.

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http://www.francemusique.fr/sites/default/files/styles/image_ppale_full/public/asset/images/2016/03/aiglon.jpg?itok=jyg1hsz5 Quite a discovery, hugely enjoyable. I don´t know if we should call L´ Aiglon an operetta, though every now and then it sounds like Chabrier, based on the short life of Napol...

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Excellent conductor.

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What a nightmare.

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Though I love the Gergiev, the Karajan and the old Melyk-Pashaev versions, it is the Abbado the one I enjoy the most.

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I just hope people appreciated the wonderful mezza voce and the musicianship, not only the high D at the end of the cabaletta.

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Richter`s Christmas Oratorio quartet has never been matched, that´s a tough act to follow, but Eugen Jochum also had a fine quartet in Elly Ameling, Brigitte Fassbaender, Horst Laubenthal and Hermann Prey [Laubenthal though, not quite in the level]. René Jacobs also has a superb quartet in Dorothea ...

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Sorry this happened to you Lance. May you recover all your data.

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Easily the most influential musician of our time. Music was not the same after him.

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https://www.br-klassik.de/orchester-und-chor/br-klassik-cds/br-klassik-wissen/cd-cover-bach-johannes-passion-dijkstra-100~_h-558_v-img__16__9__xl_w-994_-e1d284d92729d9396a907e303225e0f2d9fa53b4.jpg?version=4aaeb Dutch maestro Peter Dijkstra gets better and better. A cohesive, eloquent and very beau...

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Heard him several times live, both with orchestra and in recital. He may have played the most encores I have ever heard in my life in a single concert: some 45 minutes worth of Liszt.

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Lent always brings interesting offerings from the record labels. A beautiful Stabat Mater in the Pergolesi mould, but for 4 voices. Beautiful recording.

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This music needs imagination, fantasy and as Garcia Lorca used to say, "duende", and this is what we get from Roberta Invernizzi and harpist Margret Köll.

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Awesome!

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I´m looking forward in February and March to Pergolesi´s Adriano in Siria in Decca, the Zelenka´s Italian arias recorded in Accent by gorgeous Czech soprano Hana Blaziková and Handel´s Imeneo in the Dublin version with Ann Hallenberg andFabio Biondi in Glossa. Ann Hallenberg also recorded a Farinell...

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Wonderful Lenny.

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He does have a good Liszt Faust Symphony, a difficult work that tests a conductor.

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I first heard I Lombardi in a live Rome Opera tape with Scotto and Pavarotti conducted by Gavazzeni. In spite of the less admirable sound, it still is the finest Lombardi I have ever heard, Pavarotti was in glorious voice and Scotto outclasses big time Deutekom in the Philips recording.

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Now this is a first--apparently I'm the precocious one here. I "got" it the first time I heard it. It was a broadcast of a live performance from St. Peter's Basilica, of all places, with Pope Paul VI in attendance. The acoustics must have been terrible at the site, but this did not come across in t...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91fMB3hYfvL._SX522_.jpg This is my favorite reading, formerly available on EMI....... I suppose you could say that I "got" the piece in my forties or thereabouts. Wish I had sung it, but never had the chance. That was also my first recording, a noble and compel...

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Merry Christmas to all and thank you for one more year of your friendship.

Pepe.

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I think the Missa Solemnis Beethoven´s greatest work, in fact I remember reading that he said so himself. It´s a big, long, demanding work, with frightening demands for the chorus and soloists, but it´s also, noble, compassionate and awe inspiring. The sheer number of recordings now available contra...

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lennygoran wrote:
josé echenique wrote:Merry Christmas to all.

Jose same thoughts from me from a rare 70 degree temperature day here in NJ! Regards, Len

I know, isn´t it weird?

Even in Mexico City it´s a little warmer than usual for December.

Peace, Health and Joy dear Lenny.

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Merry Christmas to all. Hugs from Mexico.

Pepe.

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I´m sure you won´t be disappointed with Dijkstra´s dear Maestro. The last thing one wants is a routine Messiah, and this is not.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/713GLXfAK2L._SX522_.jpg An early Christmas present, I couldn't wait to hear these three Sibelius discs, as I had heard good things. Okko Kamu was a conductor unknown to me: his attention to shape, pacing and detail turned out to be excellent, but the one elemen...

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I don´t think he is a very interesting artist. Jose respectfully have to disagree-he's been sensational in the roles we've seen him in--his stage presence is super imo. Regards, Len He is certainly a great singer and has a unique voice Lenny, I didn´t mean to say he is bad, it´s just that he sings ...

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http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/932/MI0003932802.jpg?partner=allrovi.com Not just a new recording of Messiah, but a very special one. Superbly conducted by Dutch maestro Peter Dijkstra, this is a Messiah as thrilling, awe inspiring, and beautiful as any you have heard. The amazing B...

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Perhaps he sang Mozart early in his career, but not since he became famous. He dropped the Duke after a few performances, but at least it was filmed in a curious Dresden production. There´s nothing wrong to concentrate on 5 roles of course, but in spite of his dazzling high C´s in La Fille, I don´t ...

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Still there´s something monotonous about his career. No Mozart, especially Ferrando and Don Ottavio that might have seemed tailor made for him, almost no Baroque music, and too many Tonios and Almavivas.

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There are several recordings of the Ryba mass, including some in stereo. It is very popular in the Czech Republic.

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TASHI was a remarkable group whose core members were those needed to perform Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time": Peter Serkin, Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Ida Kavafian (violin), Fred Sherry (cello). The ensemble existed from 1973 to 1978. I'm surprised to hear that they performed the Trout ...

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I remember a performance of Schubert´s Die Forelle quintet with him and a group called Tashi or something, he came a few times in the 70´s, and then I lost sight of him.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71SWgFy6GlL._SX466_.jpg Partenope is perhaps not among Handel´s top 5 operas [Giulio Cesare, Rodelinda, Alcina, Ariodante and Orlando] but it must be number 6. This adorable romantic comedy has had several fine recordings, including the early Sigiswald Kuijken ...

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https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/12208554_10206744802272553_6951272236862445229_n.jpg?oh=f46f326d02cb15bd5701eff7fd150134&oe=56BD0654 This 2010 live recording from Vienna is a most welcome addition to the Meyerbeer discography [Lenny should celebrate!]. Emma di Resburgo wa...

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http://d250ptlkmugbjz.cloudfront.net/images/covers/37/36/5400439003637_600.jpg Glorious needless to say, there hasn´t been a recording of this masterpiece since Malgoire´s 1975 version for CBS, never released on CD by the way, but this new Ricercar recording is in a different league. Les Agrémens a...

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A lovely opéra-comique from Gounod, the kind of discovery one expects from Opera Rara. Lovingly conducted by Mark Elder and beautifully sung by Camarena, Morley and Naouri.

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http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/946/MI0003946359.jpg?partner=allrovi.com http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/876/MI0003876893.jpg?partner=allrovi.com What are the chances of seeing two major recordings of the same opera these days? Nézet-Seguin continues with his Mozart ...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513fqJLlEoL.jpg Félicien David has indeed been enjoying an outing lately. His opera Herculanum show us a very different composer from the one in Le Désert, perhaps a more traditional one, but never less than interesting. The recording is good, both Véronique Ge...

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The important thing is that it´s a masterpiece, and a showpiece for a great orchestra in the best sense of the word.

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Am currently listening to Symphonies IV & V. Have listened to roughly all of the early works and the concerti, and I must admit this is a standout set. My one disappointment is the piano concerto, which Garrick Ohlsson plays like Chopin: very bland. I prefer a muscular approach, i.e. Firkusny, but ...

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http://www.francemusique.fr/sites/default/files/styles/image_ppale_full/public/asset/images/2015/09/sortie2octobre.png?itok=D8lAWi-n An expensive opera studio recording! This is something we haven´t seen in a long time, and in the case of Aida, not since Harnoncourt´s recording of 2001. Fortunately...

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Angélica is pronounced the A as in Apple, the gé which has the accent, is more tricky, it is not as in generous, since we have a different pronunciation for the g, it´s a sharper sound, damn, can´t think of something similar in English.

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No problem dear Lance, Luz is pronounced like Lou and the z like sss, instead of thhh as in Spain.
Uribe also every vocal is pronounced, the U as in University, ri as in river, and be as in Beethoven.

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It´s Kubelik!!!!

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