Still working my way through the box. Just heard no. 68 - the Adagio must be one of the loveliest Haydn ever wrote and the Presto finale with all its tricks has me grinning from ear to ear!
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One disc per evening, accompanied by a glass of something chilled, looking out at a perfect warm cloudless sky. Bliss!Comment
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That sounds ideal, Dougie.
I've finally got to the 'Morzin' symphonies, the ones that were first recorded in the cycle. I have finally found one criticism and that is the use of harpsichord continuo in those early works. I guess I'm so used to the Hogwood recordings in which he eschewed a harpsichord for various reasons and I have to say I do prefer his leaner sound. But this is nitpicking really - the Solomons box is just so extraordinarily good in every respect. I'll be sad when I get to the end, but hey, I'll just start the discs all over again!Comment
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Just had to check - found I'd already got that box - sitting on my shelves! Not sure if I [or anyone I leave the set to] will be able to get that much for it, but worth knowing.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
... what you really want is this -
(I see the price has gone up. It was 80 euros when I got it in 2010...
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Just started listening to the Solomons Haydn box. I think it'll take a while. Makes a change from other things I might be doing.
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....well indeed a spin of the dice makes the day go around....Originally posted by Dave2002 View Postbong chingComment
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Just finished the 18th and last disc - one regret is the lack of even just a few programme notes on each of the symphonies, but the box is surely one of the happiest purchases I have made in the last few yearsComment
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... just back from three weeks in that part of the world, the last three days spent in Saint-Félix-Lauragais - made a pilgrimage to the tombs of Déodat and Aldo : happy to report that as well as a plaque on his house ( "a plaque on all your houses" sez I ), there is now an Espace Déodat de Séverac in the main square with various of his things : the woman in charge was an elderly aristocratic Parisienne - we very much suspected she might be a de Séverac... There is also a rather good bust of him on the south side of the château walls. Here follows an advertorial for the town -Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... the lovely little township of Saint-Félix-Lauragais was the birthplace of Déodat de Séverac. There is a plaque, but I'm not sure the house is visitable. But the place is well worth a visit in its own right (excellent restaurant avec chambres too... )
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(Aldo Ciccolini is buried in Saint-Félix-Lauragais , near to the tomb of Déodat de Séverac... )
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[ I can if necessary provide further info on the interesting cimetière des Anglais at Saint-Félix-Lauragais referred to in the above : the dead wounded after the Battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814 (by which time Napoleon had already capitulated) - but I fear we have already drifted too far from the marvellous Derek Solomons box of Haydn symphonies... ]
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How fascinating, Vints... welcome back! Sounds like a delightful pilgrimage and I do hope that your suspicions of the elderly doyenne are correct.
I see there's another chance to get the Ciccolini set on Amazon, so I'm just off to snap it up.
Where are you with the Solomons set?Comment
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