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Bach - Oboe Concertos
L'Arte del Mondo, Werner Ehrhardt
Céline Moinet, oboe
Qobuz 24/96
This is absolutely delicious... if you care for period instruments... actually even if you don't.
And the oboe is modern.
Sound is impeccable. Wow!
Céline Moinet is often asked why she decided to become an oboe player. She was adamant: she did not want to play a brass or stringed instrument or even a piano – it had to be woodwind. After having begun, as most children do, with the recorder, she turned at age 7 to the oboe, which had captivated her from the word go. On her new album she takes a look at Johann Sebastian Bach: "Here, the oboe becomes the narrator".
Together with the prizewinning instrumental ensemble "l’arte del mondo" under Werner Ehrhardt she combines a historically-informed orchestral sound with her modern Marigaux oboe. The musicians have recorded Bach's three oboe concertos: BWV 1059, 1053r and 1055 as well as the sinfonias to the cantatas Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen and Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis in which the solo oboe is the focus. "Bach's cantatas were my first port of call. They are a rich, sophisticated source of literature for oboists; one might say they are the quintessence of his music", says Moinet. Following on from her last album centred on Schumann's Romances she enters a very different sound world this time round, though not one that is a stranger to her: she heard Alessandro Marcello's Oboe Concerto very early on, the second movement of which Bach ornamented. "I have strong childhood memories of the work". © Berlin Classics
L'Arte del Mondo, Werner Ehrhardt
Céline Moinet, oboe
Qobuz 24/96
This is absolutely delicious... if you care for period instruments... actually even if you don't.
And the oboe is modern.
Sound is impeccable. Wow!
Céline Moinet is often asked why she decided to become an oboe player. She was adamant: she did not want to play a brass or stringed instrument or even a piano – it had to be woodwind. After having begun, as most children do, with the recorder, she turned at age 7 to the oboe, which had captivated her from the word go. On her new album she takes a look at Johann Sebastian Bach: "Here, the oboe becomes the narrator".
Together with the prizewinning instrumental ensemble "l’arte del mondo" under Werner Ehrhardt she combines a historically-informed orchestral sound with her modern Marigaux oboe. The musicians have recorded Bach's three oboe concertos: BWV 1059, 1053r and 1055 as well as the sinfonias to the cantatas Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen and Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis in which the solo oboe is the focus. "Bach's cantatas were my first port of call. They are a rich, sophisticated source of literature for oboists; one might say they are the quintessence of his music", says Moinet. Following on from her last album centred on Schumann's Romances she enters a very different sound world this time round, though not one that is a stranger to her: she heard Alessandro Marcello's Oboe Concerto very early on, the second movement of which Bach ornamented. "I have strong childhood memories of the work". © Berlin Classics
+1--a wonderful recording.
Bach[B - Oboe Concertos
L'Arte del Mondo, Werner Ehrhardt
Céline Moinet, oboe
Qobuz 24/96
This is absolutely delicious... if you care for period instruments... actually even if you don't.
And the oboe is modern.
Sound is impeccable. Wow!
Céline Moinet is often asked why she decided to become an oboe player. She was adamant: she did not want to play a brass or stringed instrument or even a piano – it had to be woodwind. After having begun, as most children do, with the recorder, she turned at age 7 to the oboe, which had captivated her from the word go. On her new album she takes a look at Johann Sebastian Bach: "Here, the oboe becomes the narrator".
Together with the prizewinning instrumental ensemble "l’arte del mondo" under Werner Ehrhardt she combines a historically-informed orchestral sound with her modern Marigaux oboe. The musicians have recorded Bach's three oboe concertos: BWV 1059, 1053r and 1055 as well as the sinfonias to the cantatas Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen and Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis in which the solo oboe is the focus. "Bach's cantatas were my first port of call. They are a rich, sophisticated source of literature for oboists; one might say they are the quintessence of his music", says Moinet. Following on from her last album centred on Schumann's Romances she enters a very different sound world this time round, though not one that is a stranger to her: she heard Alessandro Marcello's Oboe Concerto very early on, the second movement of which Bach ornamented. "I have strong childhood memories of the work". © Berlin Classics
Dowland - 'Whose Heavenly Touch'
Mariana Flores
Hopkinson Smith
Qobuz 24/96
A great album for Dowland lovers.
The Argentinian singer does a great job, Smith is always good on his lute.
"In his darker works, one is abandoned at the depths of a dry well, far from any light, alone with ogres and demons, and just as Dowland goes to extremes in his textual allusions, in a like manner he will twist and turn the lutenist’s hands to wring the excruciating essence from the text. In another moment, he can elicit an almost ferocious capriciousness with as many colours as a rainbow where the lute, which was his instrument of torture a few minutes before, suddenly rises to unexpected heights of lightness and eloquent folly."
It is in such passionate terms as these that lutist Hopkinson Smith describes the music that John Dowland selected for his instrument. This new album dedicated to his famous songs could seem sacrilegious to some aficionados. But the simple music-lover will find in it a source of unparalleled delight. Hopkinson Smith and Mariana Florès have changed the original text by transposing and altering some pages. Anticipating the indignation that such liberties might inspire, the performers point out, correctly, that in those days musical pragmatism was the spice of creativity. Dowland himself left behind several variants of his most famous works.
Argentine soprano Mariana Florès threw herself into this project, both a labour of love and a departure for a performer who tends to sing in Romance languages. With the help of a coach, she has found the perfect English pronunciation, chiselling every syllable with care, working with her lutist friend to find the best colour for Dowland's language and music. It's this mixture of a firm vision and artistic freedom that gives this record such a uniquely enchanting tone. © François Hudry/Qobuz
Mariana Flores
Hopkinson Smith
Qobuz 24/96
A great album for Dowland lovers.
The Argentinian singer does a great job, Smith is always good on his lute.
"In his darker works, one is abandoned at the depths of a dry well, far from any light, alone with ogres and demons, and just as Dowland goes to extremes in his textual allusions, in a like manner he will twist and turn the lutenist’s hands to wring the excruciating essence from the text. In another moment, he can elicit an almost ferocious capriciousness with as many colours as a rainbow where the lute, which was his instrument of torture a few minutes before, suddenly rises to unexpected heights of lightness and eloquent folly."
It is in such passionate terms as these that lutist Hopkinson Smith describes the music that John Dowland selected for his instrument. This new album dedicated to his famous songs could seem sacrilegious to some aficionados. But the simple music-lover will find in it a source of unparalleled delight. Hopkinson Smith and Mariana Florès have changed the original text by transposing and altering some pages. Anticipating the indignation that such liberties might inspire, the performers point out, correctly, that in those days musical pragmatism was the spice of creativity. Dowland himself left behind several variants of his most famous works.
Argentine soprano Mariana Florès threw herself into this project, both a labour of love and a departure for a performer who tends to sing in Romance languages. With the help of a coach, she has found the perfect English pronunciation, chiselling every syllable with care, working with her lutist friend to find the best colour for Dowland's language and music. It's this mixture of a firm vision and artistic freedom that gives this record such a uniquely enchanting tone. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Northern Lights Choral Works by Ola Gjeilo
Here is a newsly published ultra luxurious 2 LP album, full analog record: the French pianist Marcelle MEYER plays a Debussy piano recital = Preludes book I and II, Images I... ( Discophiles Français DF 211 - 212 )
This is a world premiere vinyl edition; the sell of the only 20 copies has started around 4 months ago. This is without any doubt the most beautiful piano LP produced for decades !!
Beauty of sound, beauty of manufacturing : deluxe inside paper text, canvas album, gold lettering hand made... Interested ?! It's edited and available at French Record Company .
This is a world premiere vinyl edition; the sell of the only 20 copies has started around 4 months ago. This is without any doubt the most beautiful piano LP produced for decades !!
Beauty of sound, beauty of manufacturing : deluxe inside paper text, canvas album, gold lettering hand made... Interested ?! It's edited and available at French Record Company .
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Mozart - Quartets K. 387 & 421 - Divertimento K. 138
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Qobuz 24/96
This is a recommendation in "Stereo" (German magazine).
It is an absolute sonic delight, besides being a top performance of some absolute masterpieces.
I think I never felt the musicians of a string quartet so present in our living room.
After a first album devoted to Mozart quartets (awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and a ‘Diapason Découverte’), a second to French music (Debussy, Ravel and Chausson) and a third to two quartets by Schubert, Nos. 10 and 14 (the mythical "Death and the Maiden"), the group founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk returns to its first love by recording more Mozart.
This recording is the second part of an eventual triptych that will contain the six string quartets dedicated to Haydn: No. 14 in G major, K.387, the first of them, was composed in 1782, when Mozart had just arrived on the Viennese musical scene; No. 15 in D minor K421, the second, is the only one in the minor mode and was completed in 1783 while his wife Constanze was in labour – she related that the rising intervals of the second movement recalled her cries from the room next door as he composed. © Alpha Classics/Outhere
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Qobuz 24/96
This is a recommendation in "Stereo" (German magazine).
It is an absolute sonic delight, besides being a top performance of some absolute masterpieces.
I think I never felt the musicians of a string quartet so present in our living room.
After a first album devoted to Mozart quartets (awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and a ‘Diapason Découverte’), a second to French music (Debussy, Ravel and Chausson) and a third to two quartets by Schubert, Nos. 10 and 14 (the mythical "Death and the Maiden"), the group founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk returns to its first love by recording more Mozart.
This recording is the second part of an eventual triptych that will contain the six string quartets dedicated to Haydn: No. 14 in G major, K.387, the first of them, was composed in 1782, when Mozart had just arrived on the Viennese musical scene; No. 15 in D minor K421, the second, is the only one in the minor mode and was completed in 1783 while his wife Constanze was in labour – she related that the rising intervals of the second movement recalled her cries from the room next door as he composed. © Alpha Classics/Outhere
Luigi Boccherini - Stabat Mater - 2 arias - Sonata Op. 5.1
Capriola Di Giola
Amaryllis Dieltiens, soprano
Beautiful music!
Well sung, well played, well recorded (in Bruges).
We saw this ensemble this afternoon, in a church in Ostend.
What a good performance (Händel and Porpora)!
Capriola Di Giola
Amaryllis Dieltiens, soprano
Beautiful music!
Well sung, well played, well recorded (in Bruges).
We saw this ensemble this afternoon, in a church in Ostend.
What a good performance (Händel and Porpora)!
Gooseflesh!!
Wow.
I do love the Huelgas Ensemble. Have their 15 CD-box.
So I wanted to discover them in surround sound.
This disc brings 9 wonderful pieces together. 1 piece even from a contemporary composer.
But it is the hypnotizing track 3, Qui Habitat, from Josquin Desprez, that leaves me breathless and in tears. Waves of heavenly voices from all sides are enchanting me. This is pure delight!
Listening again to one of my favourite discs.
The complexity, the perfectly interwoven melodies, it is all breathtakingly beautiful.
It intertwines in a harmonious, mesmerising, even hypnotising way.
I don't know much about drugs, but with this kind of musical experience, I'll never need them to be high!
La Poesia Cromatica - music of Michelangelo Rossi
Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel
Very nice SACD.
We listen a lot to polyphony at home, and we keep coming back to this ensemble.
We're going to see them live in a couple of months too.
They do Flemish polyphonists, but their repertoire is vast, like this Italian composer here.
Michelangelo Rossi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This album contains 13 madrigals never before recorded.
Paul Van Nevel is a genius in discovering new old music and seeing the potential of it.
Wonderful 5.0 recording.
And a nice cover.
We stay with the same ensemble.
More intimate than the album above, but also a gem.
We see this ensemble live almost every year.
David Achtenberg - Bleu Ébène - Complete String Quartets
Quatuor Tana
Qobuz 24/88.2
I quite liked this.
My wife said that the first of the three works made her think too much of her tinnitus.
Modern, daring, but the 2 last works are rather accessible.
Quatuor Tana
Qobuz 24/88.2
I quite liked this.
My wife said that the first of the three works made her think too much of her tinnitus.
Modern, daring, but the 2 last works are rather accessible.
Cecilia Bartoli - Farinelli
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Qobuz 24/96
La Bartoli does it again!
What a performance...
There are no current voices that can equal the castrates of Farinelli's era.
For the Belgian motion picture 'Farinelli' that got an Academy Award in the 90s, they had to combine a counter tenor and a female voice.
I have to say that Cecilia Bartoli comes very close here. Wow!
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Qobuz 24/96
La Bartoli does it again!
What a performance...
There are no current voices that can equal the castrates of Farinelli's era.
For the Belgian motion picture 'Farinelli' that got an Academy Award in the 90s, they had to combine a counter tenor and a female voice.
I have to say that Cecilia Bartoli comes very close here. Wow!
To commemorate one of the greatest conductors of the last decades who passed away today:
Mahler - Symphony No. 5
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
Wonderful symphony of course, but the always excellent Concertgebouw Orchestra is conducted in a brilliant way here.
The recording is fantastic.
You can read here about an evening we spent with the recording engineer Everett Porter:
https://www.audioaficionado.org/showthread.php?t=43436
Mahler - Symphony No. 5
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
Wonderful symphony of course, but the always excellent Concertgebouw Orchestra is conducted in a brilliant way here.
The recording is fantastic.
You can read here about an evening we spent with the recording engineer Everett Porter:
https://www.audioaficionado.org/showthread.php?t=43436
