BaL 17.09.16 - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And if the reference to the bizarre extract from the Karajan recording wasn't fair comment, I don't know what is!

I've just ordered it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've just ordered it.

I'm going to! But it STILL sounds bovine rather than canine!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm going to! But it STILL sounds bovine rather than canine!

I'll be able to judge that in the context of the whole performance.

(Anyway, whoever mentioned Pedigree Chum?)

[vinteuil]

I'm going to! [order the Karajan]

... why?

[MickyD]

There was also a very good disc of Vivaldi Lute Concertos with Jakob Lindberg and the Drottningholm Ensemble, released on BIS at around the same time as their Four Seasons.

[Tony Halstead]

... why?

That's exactly what I thought...!

[Bryn]

That's exactly what I thought...!

Nowt wrong with seeking out teachers by negative example.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Now then! It will be irresistable - like the Stokowski Fireworks Music (complete with recorded firework explosions) or the Beecham Messiah; so camp they're brilliant!

Meanwhile, the maestro expresses his appreciation of Mr Esfahani's sense of humour:

[Alain Maréchal]

Does anybody else like the recording by Suzanne Lautenbacher with Jorg Faerber and the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, or is it just the nostalgia influencing me?

[Thropplenoggin]

Now then! It will be irresistable - like the Stokowski Fireworks Music (complete with recorded firework explosions) or the Beecham Messiah; so camp they're brilliant!

Meanwhile, the maestro expresses his appreciation of Mr Esfahani's sense of humour:

I expect it would be more of a death stare:

[CallMePaul]

Does anybody else like the recording by Suzanne Lautenbacher with Jorg Faerber and the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, or is it just the nostalgia influencing me?

I once had this recording on LP but replaced it with the Hogwood when period instrument recordings became the norm. At the time it was recorded Lautenbacher was well-regarded in these concerti but when I began to hear HIP performances it seemed heavy going, so I replaced it. Suzanne Lautenbacher made a number of recordings for Vox/ Turnabout (I still have her Bartók 2/ Contrasts) but I have no idea whether any of them are easily available or even if they have made it to CD.

[BBMmk2]

Now then! It will be irresistable - like the Stokowski Fireworks Music (complete with recorded firework explosions) or the Beecham Messiah; so camp they're brilliant!

Meanwhile, the maestro expresses his appreciation of Mr Esfahani's sense of humour:

Now we are all being very naughty here! :)

[Beef Oven!]

My team at the Karajan Centrum are making notes of everything being said ...............

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Now then! It will be irresistable - like the Stokowski Fireworks Music (complete with recorded firework explosions) or the Beecham Messiah; so camp they're brilliant!

Mine arrived this morning, so I was able to listen to it as four complete works, without comparing it with anything else and without having to endure sneers.

Simply superb music making.

[Alain Maréchal]

[SIZE=5]My team at the Karajan Centrum are making notes of everything being said

What makes you sure that somebody, somewhere, isn't?