Your favourite modern instrument baroque records

[Barbirollians]

No doubt they have been sent to charity shops or the storage boxes of shame - as now HIPP performances and before that " authentic instruments " records were all the critics told us we should listen to . Don't get me wrong I have learned lots from those recordings and they form the vast bulk of the recordings I have of baroque repertoire but some older performances still seem to me to capture the spirit of the music just as well .

There has been some recent rehabilitation of older baroque recordings judging by the music press but it seems largely for historical interest . I wondered what modern instrument performances are still beloved and played by forum members .

Two to start for me - Menuhin's Water Music recording - lots of bounce and Schneiderhan's thrilling Four Seasons .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Marriner's Fireworks and Water Music
Barbirolli's Dido and Aeneas
Rilling's Bach series

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'd second Alpie's Dido and add either of Janet Baker's recordings.
The Busch's Brandenburgs
Furtwangler's Handel Concerto Grosso.
Fischer and Gould in Bach's 48
Ferrier in anything!

[mathias broucek]

Iona Brown's 2nd recording of Handel's Op 6 (now on Brilliant) is fabulous.

(I also have a somewhat odd affection for HvK's anachronistic but beautifully played version of the same pieces.)

[Bryn]

W Carlos's Brandenburgs, etc.


And, of course:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

W Carlos's Brandenburgs, etc.

[verismissimo]

As I reported elsewhere, Leppard's La Calisto.

[aeolium]

Lipatti - Bach Partita no 1
Elisabeth Schumann - Bach "Bist du bei mir"
Sutherland in Handel's Alcina
Lisa della Casa singing Handel arias (in German!)
I Musici - Corelli concerti grossi
Murray Perahia - Scarlatti and Handel keyboard works

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Colin Davis's Messiah

[teamsaint]

The First JEG Monteverdi Vespers.

I know i will get beaten up for this, so do your worst !!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The First JEG Monteverdi Vespers.

I know i will get beaten up for this, so do your worst !!

But - JEG has never thought of himself as a HIPP conductor.

[jayne lee wilson]

Hermann Scherchen conducting just about anything by J.S.Bach, but especially the Matthew Passion (!!) and The Art of Fugue...

[teamsaint]

But - JEG has never thought of himself as a HIPP conductor.

Has JEG made any public pronouncements about how he feels about his first stab at the Vespers?

[Barbirollians]

Somehow Lipatti's Bach and Scarlatti are so wonderful I didn't feel they needed to be rescued from modern instrument obscurity .