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Minuet (From "Brummel"
Dream Children, Two Pieces For Small Orchestra, Op. 43
Salut D'Amour, Op. 12
Conductor - Lawrance Collingwood
Orchestra - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Minuet, Op. 21
May Song
Rosemary ("That's For Remembrance")
Romance, For Bassoon And Orchestra, Op. 62
Bassoon - Michael Chapman (4)
Sevillana, Op. 7
Sérénade Lyrique
Three Characteristic Pieces, Op. 10
Carissima
Mina
Conductor - Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra - The Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Louis Spohr: Die letzten Dinge
Sally Matthews, Katharine Goeldner, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams
Salzburger Bachchor, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Ivor Bolton
This is a really great oratorio! It's a positive, affirming work, focusing on grace, forgiveness, and transformation, rather than judgment and wrath.
After a concentrated spell of listening to a lot of Donizetti operas, I've moved to something rather differnt in the consort music of Dowland and Byrd. Though my Donizetti listening involved the three Tudor operas, the sound world here is completely different.
Michael Chance provided vocals on Disc 1 and Elizabeth Liddle plays viol on Disc 2.
PSALMS AND MOTETS FROM RENAISSANCE SWITZERLAND Genevan Psalter - Goudimel - Sweelinck Ensemble Lamaraviglia
Stephan Boller - director
Claves Records - Radio SRF2
After a concentrated spell of listening to a lot of Donizetti operas, I've moved to something rather differnt in the consort music of Dowland and Byrd. Though my Donizetti listening involved the three Tudor operas, the sound world here is completely different.
Michael Chance provided vocals on Disc 1 and Elizabeth Liddle plays viol on Disc 2.
Thank you. I am happy about that because I myself play the tenor viol, and also my future husband plays viols (all viols from the small descant viol to the big consort bass viol, including lyra viol and division viol, and also the violone).
Thank you. I am happy about that because I myself play the tenor viol, and also my future husband plays viols (all viols from the small descant viol to the big consort bass viol, including lyra viol and division viol, and also the violone).
O.K, here a bit of "coaching" : Viols normally have got six strings, tuned in fourths, with a major third between the two middle strings. Bass viols sometimes have got seven strings. Furthermore, they have got frets, which probably makes playing the viol a bit easier than playing, for example, the violoncello. In a consort there are normally three different sizes: Descant, tenor and bass viol, usually with two tenor viols. But in the early 18th century there was also a kind of sopranino viol, the pardessus de viole. It was hardly bigger than a violin. But all viols, including the pardessus de viole, are played holded between the legs, as the Italian name "viola da gamba" says: "Gamba" is the Italian word for "leg".
As I wrote elsewhere, the string quintet by Schubert is my favourite string quintet composed for a quintet with two cellists by a German-speaking composer.
In the Mist, Four Piano Pieces
Sonata "Oct. 1, 1905"
On the Overgrown Path, Small Piano Pieces, Set 1
Concertino for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, Clarinet, French Horn, and Bassoon
Capriccio for Piano Left Hand & Wind Ensemble
Josef Palenicek, piano
Czech Philharmonic Wind Instruments Ensemble
2-LP set on Supraphon (Prague, Czechoslovakia), from 1973
Recorded 1972
Carl Maria von Weber: Piano Sonatas Nos.3 & 4
Garrick Ohlsson (Piano)
These performances are beautiful in every sense of the word. This Hyperion set of Weber's Complete Piano Sonatas has been an excellent addition to my collection and a joy to listen to.
Likewise, this set has been my introduction to the musician Garrick Ohlsson and has made a glowing first impression on me. From a Q&A/music talk I saw with Ohlsson on YouTube, I may look into his other recordings in the near future.
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