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Mozart: Bassoon/Fagotto Concerto KV191; can it be performed as Cello Concerto??

Today, peaceful Sunday afternoon, we (me and my wife) listened twice, with great enjoyments, to this charming and impressive album of Mozart Bassoon/Fagotto Concerto KV191 Klaus THUNEMANN and Clarinet Concerto KV622 Thomas FRIEDLI;
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You can hear the first movement KV191 in this CD on YouTube;

I happenstantially noticed that the Fq coverage of Bassoon/Fagotto keynote tones is quite similar to that of Cello (ref. my post #644 on my project thread);
Ref. my post #644 on my project thread.
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and we discussed about whether the KV191 Bassoon/Fagotto Concerto could be performed as Cello Concerto, or not. I myself assume it would be quite attractive performance if played by one of the world-top cellists accompanied by an excellent chamber orchestra.

What would be your thoughts on this (stupid?) idea? Is this idea a kind of "blasphemy" to Mozart music??
 
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Yesterday I had the chance to listen to the Tallis Scholars in concert in my town and I can't tell the magic of the voices in a big, reverberant church, there is no way to reproduce it at home, no matter how much you are willing to invest. It was an all italian religious program (Palestrina, Monteverdi, etc.) but this crucifixus a otto voci by Antonio Lotti is a beautiful discovery for me.
 
What's your go-to recording of JS Bach's Matthaeus Passion, and why?

I feel there are a number of very good ones that have come out just in the past year or two.

Mine is probably still John Gardiner's 1989 recording on Archiv:

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The recording quality could be better, but Barbara Bonney's, "Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben" remains the best I've heard, and I feel that is the beating heart of the whole piece.
 
Münchinger because of Fritz Wunderlich and his breathtaking Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen.
 
After waiting for more than three years, finally I could purchase this CD; JS Bach "Fantansies Capriccios Variations", VOID 9810, by pianist Ivo Janssen recorded in 2004:
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You can hear his performance of my most favorite Fantasy in C-minor BVW904 in this CD on YouTube;

During 1994 - 2007, Ivo Janssen played and recorded all the keyboard works of JS Bach on his own label VOID Classics, and the amazing work is now available in a 20-CD box (ref. here VOID Classics).

During the Corona virus pandemic period, however, it looked Ivo Janssen had very difficult situation in his music endeavors, and CDs from VOID Classics were not available especially in Japan for several years.

Recently I was much delighted finding that Ivo restarted the VOID Classics web site successfully; I could order/purchase the specific CD VOID 9810 on his web site.

I have several CDs of piano performance of Fantasy in C-minor BVW904 including the famous (and popular?) one by Alfred Brendel, but at least for me this performance by Ivo Janssen is the best! Very interestingly, he uses YAMAHA Grand Piano C7.

As for performances by harpsichord, I like this 4K UHD YouTube video clip by Yuko Tanaka under Voices of Music release;
as I have already shared here and here.
 
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I've finally broken down and subscribed to a streaming service, Tidal. I heard it had consistently good sound and a big catalog of classical music. Right now I am listening to an old favorite, Volume 4 of Blandine Verlet's complete transversal of the harpsichord works of François Couperin. This volume includes his famous Les Barricades Mystérieuses. These CDs have become unobtanium, fetching absurd prices on the used market. Fortunately, Tidal streams them in full 16/44.1 fidelity:

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I still very much like and often listen to the Clavecin/harpsichord performances by William Christie on Couperin and Rameau as well as Royer;
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And, by Jean Rondeau and Yuko Tanaka, as shared here;
Excellent Recording Quality Music Albums/Tracks for Subjective (and Possibly Objective) Test/Check/Tuning of Multichannel Multi-Driver Multi-Amplifier Time-Aligned Active Stereo Audio System and Room Acoustics; at least a Portion and/or One Track being Analyzed by Color Spectrum of Adobe Audition in Common Parameters: [Part-13] Harpsichord (Cembalo, Clavecin) Music: my post #645 on my project thread.

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I've finally broken down and subscribed to a streaming service, Tidal. I heard it had consistently good sound and a big catalog of classical music. Right now I am listening to an old favorite, Volume 4 of Blandine Verlet's complete transversal of the harpsichord works of François Couperin. This volume includes his famous Les Barricades Mystérieuses. These CDs have become unobtanium, fetching absurd prices on the used market. Fortunately, Tidal streams them in full 16/44.1 fidelity:

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Correction, Tidal streams this title as 320 KBPS. Don't know why, Tidal streams other Astree titles as 16/44.1. It seems like the older titles are 320 KBPS with some of the more recent titles in high-rez.
 
Thirty years ago, I was a freelance engineer of classical music. One of my clients was the charming and sensitive Julian White (R.I.P.). One of his students (sorry, forgot his name) had a concert I recorded where the big piece was one of Schubert's last sonatas. I had never before encountered a performer with such pre-concert nerves. He was wondering if he should perform at all that day. When he started to play, it seemed like he, and the music he was playing, were overwhelmed with intensity.

Somehow, I managed to get that work confused with Schubert's piano sonata #20 in A major, D. 959, mainly because I had recalled Artur Schnabel playing it on a recording from the 1930s. He never recorded the C minor sonata, alas. As it turned out, this young man performed the sonata #19 in C minor, D. 958. The opening gestures of the two are similar and reminiscent of Beethoven in their power and intensity. I wasn't until this week, soon after I finally signed up with Tidal, that I heard the work again. I must have heard six different performances this week. I'm getting CDs of two next week - Svaitoslav Richter's studio performance that originally was on Olympia (now on Alto) coupled with the B flat sonata, D960, and Murray Perahia's recording for Sony coupled with D. 959 and D. 960. The Richter recording is, predictably, quite fine as a performance and somewhat compromised as regards engineering. The Perahia is excellent in all regards. But the sleeper out of all the versions I've heard turned out to be a performer I haven't listened to before, Elizabeth Leonskaja from a set of the complete piano sonatas on Warner Classics. I think the recordings were originally from Teldec, but I'm not sure. I was really surprised at how good her performances of D. 958 and D. 960 are:


I'd be tempted to buy the box of the complete Schubert piano sonatas on Warner Classics, but I've got Tidal now and my pile of CDs is getting mighty big as it's getting really close to 1600 CDs. But I urge fans of piano music to check out Elizabeth Leonskaja's Schubert. Her performance of the B flat sonata is just as good, the engineering is excellent, she gets deep inside this turbulent music.
 
Thank you, @Robin L!
Very nice story and recommendations...
 
So it's like Netflix, but without DTS-HD MA or Dolby TrueHD and without moving pictures, and for more money than Netflix $6.99/month?
How much...$20/month. And the hi-res is what...PCM 16/44.1 or higher?
And last, how many music albums do they have in their database, and is there a good selection of Opera, Classical, Chamber, Jazz, Blues, New Age, International music?
...The good old and new stuff, Folk too?

If their Classical music selection is good; why are people paying $30 for a Classical SACD, ...is Tidal also hi-res multichannel music reproduction, or just stereo?
Sorry for all them questions but they are honest and coming up directly as I type them...in the moment.
Music streaming costs more than video streaming. Go figure.

Just a guess, but there are many more titles to manage, and the labor cost is the same per file, regardless of file size.
 
Music streaming costs more than video streaming. Go figure.

Just a guess, but there are many more titles to manage, and the labor cost is the same per file, regardless of file size.
The cost is due to licensing fees paid to the record labels that own the music.
 
Music streaming costs more than video streaming. Go figure.

Just a guess, but there are many more titles to manage, and the labor cost is the same per file, regardless of file size.
I Just got Tidal. My wife pays for all video streaming, thankfully. I hardly watch any TV. But I do listen to music for hours a day. Tidal has a good catalog and I'm surprised at how many titles are offered as hi-rez. Not that I think that hi-rez offers any audible improvement. It wouldn't on my gear, which downsamples it to 16/44.1 anyway. But the sound quality I'm getting is the same as what I'm getting from CDs. $11 a month is less than what I've been paying for used CDs and I'm running out of room for CDs. So, I consider Tidal to be a good value.
 
I Just got Tidal. My wife pays for all video streaming, thankfully. I hardly watch any TV. But I do listen to music for hours a day. Tidal has a good catalog and I'm surprised at how many titles are offered as hi-rez. Not that I think that hi-rez offers any audible improvement. It wouldn't on my gear, which downsamples it to 16/44.1 anyway. But the sound quality I'm getting is the same as what I'm getting from CDs. $11 a month is less than what I've been paying for used CDs and I'm running out of room for CDs. So, I consider Tidal to be a good value.
I listen mostly as background, and I’m mostly interested in periods I knower nothing about. Medieval, Renaissance, and so forth. Spotify has many playlists and user mixes that introduce me to stuff I could never search for.
 
I listen mostly as background, and I’m mostly interested in periods I knower nothing about. Medieval, Renaissance, and so forth. Spotify has many playlists and user mixes that introduce me to stuff I could never search for.
I'm hunting down specific pieces and specific performers. Have a lot of background in recordings of all sorts of classical music, but there's a few holes. Today I'll be listening to Haydn piano sonatas, a corner I haven't explored very much before. Right now, I am checking out an album of Sviatoslav Richter performances of Haydn sonatas on Decca with better sound than he usually gets. I also have only heard a few Haydn string quartets. I was involved in the California Renaissance Faires in the 1970s and recorded a number of Medieval groups in the 1990s. So, I've had a fair amount of exposure to pre-baroque music, not to mention exposure to plenty of obscure Baroque music thanks to being the recording engineer for the San Francisco Early Music Society in the 1990s. I can strongly recommend Biber's Sonata Representativa:

 
I picked up a used copy of this 2nd symphony a couple of days ago. The SACD layer is excellent and the integration of the organ in the finale is suitably impressive. That said the standout feature of this recording is the singing of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who here bested my former favorite (Crista Ludwig) with her reading of "Urlicht." Anyone interested in beautiful, sensitive, INTELLIGENT singing must hear it.

 
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