Almost missed this one on my radar... the Missa Votiva is a definite desert island mass if I have ever heard one - exciting, never boring no matter how many times you listen to it, and a splendid recording of it right there, though not my favorite personally.
I have only a handful of Telarc recordings. But one of my all-time favourite recordings is of Barber's Prayers of Kirkegaard, Bartok's Cantata Profana, and Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem, which is already a collection of very underrated pieces and wonderfully played by Shaw and the ASO. . Telarc really cranked out some amazing things from time to time.
Love that disk, and it is overlooked. Well, till now-let Amazon get ready for the 'Hurwitz effect'... I saw a performance of Lelio in England many years ago (and I am old enough now for that phrase to have some real meaning) and it was staged; Lelio was dressed and made up in the Jeune-France style of 1830. In fact he was made up to look like the famous Signol picture of Berlioz from the 1830's. He spoke the long (translated) tirades with great declamatory seriousness, with the orchestra playing the music when introduced. Exactly like Berlioz felt he had to do to re-introduce himself and his art and obsessions to the musical public of its day. ( I think he had just come back from his Rome Prize sojourn). Done that way, I actually found it great fun!
Have you done a segment devoted to Zelenka? Worth considering given that composer's stature and unique, personal style. With your Z's and B's mixed up, maybe it's time to recommend to your viewers another method of CD sorting and classification. I organize my collection in historical order, from Medieval to Contemporary, and within those generic classifications, I try to keep national groups and contemporaries together. So I begin my Early Baroque section with the Italians, Monteverdi, Cavalli, etc., then proceed to the Germans (Schütz through Buxtehude, the Brits (Gibbons through Purcell). Other nationalities reside in an "appendix." do the same for the Late Baroque, the Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods. So if I want to find, say, a Zelenka Mass, I would look for the shelves that contain the Late Baroque, and the particular region that houses the "appendix," since Zelenka was Czech, and there weren't a lot of famous Czech composers at that time. If I want to find a work by Debussy, I look for the Modern Period shelves and within those, the "French Quarter" so to speak. Within the range devoted to a major composer, I organize according to genre. This sounds complex, but it works splendidly. I always think of classical music historically (a peculiarity of mine), and that has governed my classification system from the dawn of my collecting career (ah, those halcyon days!).
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Almost missed this one on my radar... the Missa Votiva is a definite desert island mass if I have ever heard one - exciting, never boring no matter how many times you listen to it, and a splendid recording of it right there, though not my favorite personally.
I have only a handful of Telarc recordings. But one of my all-time favourite recordings is of Barber's Prayers of Kirkegaard, Bartok's Cantata Profana, and Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem, which is already a collection of very underrated pieces and wonderfully played by Shaw and the ASO. .
Telarc really cranked out some amazing things from time to time.
Your new home is shaping up great!! 👍I'll keep listening if YOU keep unpacking!! 😃
Just listening to the Busoni. It's so characterful it flies by!
These are splendid! Many thanks and good luck with the unpacking.
Love that disk, and it is overlooked. Well, till now-let Amazon get ready for the 'Hurwitz effect'...
I saw a performance of Lelio in England many years ago (and I am old enough now for that phrase to have some real meaning) and it was staged; Lelio was dressed and made up in the Jeune-France style of 1830. In fact he was made up to look like the famous Signol picture of Berlioz from the 1830's. He spoke the long (translated) tirades with great declamatory seriousness, with the orchestra playing the music when introduced. Exactly like Berlioz felt he had to do to re-introduce himself and his art and obsessions to the musical public of its day. ( I think he had just come back from his Rome Prize sojourn). Done that way, I actually found it great fun!
I have Hamelin’s and John Ogdon’s, so this one appeals to me, somewhat!
Have you done a segment devoted to Zelenka? Worth considering given that composer's stature and unique, personal style. With your Z's and B's mixed up, maybe it's time to recommend to your viewers another method of CD sorting and classification. I organize my collection in historical order, from Medieval to Contemporary, and within those generic classifications, I try to keep national groups and contemporaries together. So I begin my Early Baroque section with the Italians, Monteverdi, Cavalli, etc., then proceed to the Germans (Schütz through Buxtehude, the Brits (Gibbons through Purcell). Other nationalities reside in an "appendix." do the same for the Late Baroque, the Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods. So if I want to find, say, a Zelenka Mass, I would look for the shelves that contain the Late Baroque, and the particular region that houses the "appendix," since Zelenka was Czech, and there weren't a lot of famous Czech composers at that time. If I want to find a work by Debussy, I look for the Modern Period shelves and within those, the "French Quarter" so to speak. Within the range devoted to a major composer, I organize according to genre. This sounds complex, but it works splendidly. I always think of classical music historically (a peculiarity of mine), and that has governed my classification system from the dawn of my collecting career (ah, those halcyon days!).
More space to buy more CD's!