Great recordings of classical music

[Tangband]

I'd love to get some recommendations for baroque and early music recordings. I have some of the recordings mentioned in this thread but I'm always looking for more. My favorite is instrumental music for small ensembles. I love double reed instruments and viols.

Look for the artist and viola player Jordi Savall , many outstanding recordings with smaller ensembles with very good acoustics .

 

[computer-audiophile]

Look for the artist and viola player Jordi Savall , many outstanding recordings with smaller ensembles with very good acoustics .

I think your tip is very good! I had also briefly thought about what I could recommend in this segment, but nothing special came to mind. Jordi Savall is also highly appreciated by me.

 

[computer-audiophile]

Just one example from the web:

 

[computer-audiophile]

This Album is new and in my opinion very good which does not surprise me because we like to listen to Hélène Grimaud anyway and often. She is a outstanding pianist. The recording in the Polling monastery is available for a fee at stage-plus.com. I also found the new album at Deezer HiFi.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

Look for the artist and viola player Jordi Savall , many outstanding recordings with smaller ensembles with very good acoustics .

I have several of his recordings. They're great.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

Just one example from the web:

I have this one. Love it.

 

[computer-audiophile]

A nice random find on YouTube. I hope you like it too:

 

[Albertine]

Hi Joel

If you are referring to my photo, I am trying to remember what it was. Works by the composer Anna Korsun were played, I think.

There is a very interesting and enjoyable event format at the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden that we have attended regularly for many years. It's called 'Composers for Breakfast'. (Komponist:innen zum Frühstück)

It is a Sunday matinee, there is breakfast in a relatively small circle of insiders and music lovers. A usually relatively young composer is introduced, interviewed and exemplary works are performed. As far as I know, no recordings are made. In this way we have already met quite a few young composers and also got into conversation with some of them.

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Apologies for the very late reply, but this looks like a wonderful event!. What a great idea to combine contemporary music and breakfast!

 

[Albertine]

I've been enjoying this series of fresh, period instrument recordings of the Haydn symphonies by Giovanni Antonini, with the Basel Chamber orchestra and Il Giardino Armonico, part of an exciting ongoing project called Haydn 2032. Running under the auspices of the Haydn Foundation, Basel, Antonini will record all 108 symphonies, alongside contemporary pieces by various composers. He brings an informed, always spirited and fresh approach to this great classical canon. If you ever think of Haydn's music being dusty, four-square or, heaven forbid, dull, then these performances will change your mind! He brings out the wit, zest and boundless invention of these masterpieces.

Bravo to Alpha Classics, one of Europe's brightest most enterprising labels, for this wonderful project!

 

[computer-audiophile]

I've been enjoying this series of fresh, period instrument recordings of the Haydn symphonies by Giovanni Antonini, with the Basel Chamber orchestra and Il Giardino Armonico, part of an exciting ongoing project called Haydn 2032. Running under the auspices of the Haydn Foundation, Basel, Antonini will record all 108 symphonies, alongside contemporary pieces by various composers. He brings an informed, always spirited and fresh approach to this great classical canon. If you ever think of Haydn's music being dusty, four-square or, heaven forbid, dull, then these performances will change your mind! He brings out the wit, zest and boundless invention of these masterpieces.

Bravo to Alpha Classics, one of Europe's brightest most enterprising labels, for this wonderful project!

Thank you,
I haven't found this label Alpha Classics on Deezer HiFi yet. Maybe it's still too new. But I found a playlist with Haydn symphonies by Antonini, where the Basel Chamber Orchestra also plays. I'll give it a listen later.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

I haven't listened to this album in a couple of months. It's eccentric and beautifully recorded. We sang this piece in my high school chorus.

 

[computer-audiophile]

I haven't listened to this album in a couple of months. It's eccentric and beautifully recorded. We sang this piece in my high school chorus.

Some classical pieces I find not bad in principle, but it can happen that I have simply heard them far too often and therefore no longer find them appealing.

Lively choir participation is fun, of course.

 

[Yuhasz01]

''Marie-Claire Alain kept finding new organs during her life that she thought were good for playing Bach''

Well, it's a bit more complicated than this, the article is misleading. In short, she believed it was important to play different organs (even bad ones sometimes!). The one from the 1980 recordings still remains the one best adapted to both Bach and her skills and style, the others, like the Silbermann one, heavier and with a ''cheating'' acoustic.
Anyway, whatever the discussion it always seems to come back to you, your region, your wife, whatever, man you know you have a condition right? It's really annoying let's just keep talking about artists and music, nobody cares about your life here, sorry to be blunt but it's for the greater good.

Be civil here. Best for everyone.

 

[mSpot]

I haven't found this label Alpha Classics on Deezer HiFi yet.

Alpha Classics is one of the largest independent classical music record labels. Here in the US it is on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Qobuz, Tidal – and Deezer. I'm very surprised that it wouldn't be on Deezer worldwide.

For example, the well known violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has 11 albums on Alpha Classics. Do you see this album on your Deezer?

Sol & Pat

Patricia Kopatchinskaja - album - 2021 - 23 Songs

www.deezer.com

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

Some classical pieces I find not bad in principle, but it can happen that I have simply heard them far too often and therefore no longer find them appealing.

Lively choir participation is fun, of course.

I like the whole album. It's 2 discs. The interesting thing to me is the choice of instruments. He played them all and multi-tracked.

 

[computer-audiophile]

Alpha Classics is one of the largest independent classical music record labels. Here in the US it is on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Qobuz, Tidal – and Deezer. I'm very surprised that it wouldn't be on Deezer worldwide.

For example, the well known violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has 11 albums on Alpha Classics. Do you see this album on your Deezer?

Thank you for asking!

Sol & Pat

Patricia Kopatchinskaja - album - 2021 - 23 Songs

www.deezer.com

Yes, I also find the album of Sol & Pat when I follow your link to Deezer-HiFi.

Maybe I didn't search well enough for the other one. I was looking for the album that @Albertine had suggested. This particular Album I could not find.

 

[LewisWaddo]

Enjoyed going through these posts. Here are my recommendations

 

[mSpot]

Maybe I didn't search well enough for the other one. I was looking for the album that @Albertine had suggested. This particular Album I could not find.

It is a collection of 10 albums that were already released separately, and now available together in a 10-CD box set.

Haydn 2032, Vol. 1-10: The Symphonies

This ten-CD set celebrates the release of the first ten volumes of the HAYDN2032 series, which aims to record all 107 Haydn symphonies by the 300th anniversary of his birth in 2032. This highly ambitious project under the artistic direction of Giovanni Antonini is shared between two ensembles...

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It will probably not be released on streaming services in this format as a single set, but the individual volumes should be all available if you search for "haydn 2032". I've listened to some of the releases and this series is excellent.

 

[computer-audiophile]

It is a collection of 10 albums that were already released separately, and now available together in a 10-CD box set.
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It will probably not be released on streaming services in this format as a single set, but the individual volumes should be all available if you search for "haydn 2032". I've listened to some of the releases and this series is excellent.

Thanks again, this info is helpful.

 

[dualazmak]

I haven't listened to this album in a couple of months. It's eccentric and beautifully recorded. We sang this piece in my high school chorus.

I may hopefully guess your music preferences from your above post...
I assume you would be somewhat interested in my "audio sampler/reference playlist" summarized here and here as well as the links shown thereof.

My thread here entitled "Lute Music and Other Early Music: Stunning Recordings We Love" would be also hopefully of your interest and reference.