What are you listening to?

[fergus]

First dip into a donated vinyl collection. Unfortunately with a lot of surface noise but the sound and performance was very enjoyable!


The rest of the collection is mostly mfp, cfp, Argo etc. But a few DG, Decca and RCA as well.... Must get a Knosti record cleaner soon... ;)

I am delighted that you are now able to dip into your collection Claus. I hope that you enjoy it and I will be curious to see what you have in it.

[fergus]

[Jose Echenique]

Lovely early Haydn Mass and lovely recording too. For decades that was the prime recommendation, certainly on period instruments, though Kubelik has a very fine version in ORFEO too.
Now Preston has more serious competition, especially from Marc Minkowski.

[Jose Echenique]

Why bother?
Herreweghe recorded one of the finest Missa Solemnis ever for HM about a decade ago. It is both, a noble and extremely beautiful performance, superbly recorded and gloriously sung by the Collegium Vocale as in this new November 2011 Alpha recording. So one wonders...why record it again?
This new recording doesn´t differ greatly from the previous one, so Herreweghe does not evince new thoughts on the work. It is also very well played and sung, but it also leaves a little something of dejá vu.
I have only gone through it twice, but I can tell you that if you own the first recording, you don´t need the second one, in fact i´d say that I find fresher and more spontaneous the HM. If Herreweghe tried to damage HM by rerecording one of his finest performances there I´m afraid it backfired on him.

[fergus]

Why bother?
Herreweghe recorded one of the finest Missa Solemnis ever for HM about a decade ago. It is both, a noble and extremely beautiful performance, superbly recorded and gloriously sung by the Collegium Vocale as in this new November 2011 Alpha recording. So one wonders...why record it again?
This new recording doesn´t differ greatly from the previous one, so Herreweghe does not evince new thoughts on the work. It is also very well played and sung, but it also leaves a little something of dejá vu.
I have only gone through it twice, but I can tell you that if you own the first recording, you don´t need the second one, in fact i´d say that I find fresher and more spontaneous the HM. If Herreweghe tried to damage HM by rerecording one of his finest performances there I´m afraid it backfired on him.

Interesting post Pepe; is/was there a problem between Herreweghe and HM?

[fergus]

Double Alkan....

[Jose Echenique]

<Interesting post Pepe; is/was there a problem between Herreweghe and HM?>

Oh yes, Herreweghe left HM about 2 years ago and now is recording for Pentatone and Alpha, it´s been a while since his last HM recording.
It´s sad for HM. William Christie left about 15 years ago because HM thought too expensive his cherished project of recording all the Mozart operas (though they did record them with René Jacobs).

[markof]

Love this recording. It's like the Martin Logans were built with the cello in mind.

[fergus]

Love this recording. It's like the Martin Logans were built with the cello in mind.

I really like that one too; I assume that you have Vol. 1 MarK?

[fergus]

A recent purchase as it had good reviews here in the past from a number of people. On first listen I really liked it.