Originally posted by Pulcinella
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Information about Ivana Valotti here
This sounds wonderful to me, performance and organ, and I’m particularly pleased to have a new recording collecting all Bk 2 toccatas together - since I’m not totally clear still about the differences stylistically between the two collections of music. Her CV on the Milan Conservatory website says that her recording of Bk 1 is imminent.
The downer is that I can’t find the booklet online - and she’s a real scholar so it could well be interesting to read. If anyone finds it, please say.
(I really feel like writing to her and asking what she thinks of Vartolo - but my Italian isn’t up to it!)
(And listening to it I’m getting clearer about Bks 1 and 2 - some of this music is really complicated! Thought after hearing Toccatas 5 and 6.)Last edited by Mandryka; 04-11-23, 09:52.
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Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
Oh bliss! Minasi makes the first movement of The Prague sound like music as uncompromisingly tough and dramatic and complicated as Don Giovanni. Gone for ever the sweet and elegant symphony I thought I knew and loved.
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Originally posted by Mandryka View PostOh bliss! Minasi makes the first movement of The Prague sound like music as uncompromisingly tough and dramatic and complicated as Don Giovanni. Gone for ever the sweet and elegant symphony I thought I knew and loved."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
And in today's releases is a Hyperion release of Steven Osborne playing the Debussy Etudes, recordings/interpretations of which have featured recently on another thread (can't remember which, offhand). (PS: Actually, I now think that the discussion might have been about the Preludes. )
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...-pour-le-piano
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I see that the new Chandos recording of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe with John Wilson is on promotion at eClassical, currently at a discount. However, the disc version is a hybrid SACD with a multi-channel surround layer in addition to 16- and 24-bit stereo options. However, the eClassical download is 2-channel stereo only.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostI see that the new Chandos recording of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe with John Wilson is on promotion at eClassical, currently at a discount. However, the disc version is a hybrid SACD with a multi-channel surround layer in addition to 16- and 24-bit stereo options. However, the eClassical download is 2-channel stereo only.
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Whichever, it looks interesting!
Having rather neglected the 5-channel plus sub-woofer system in my sitting/TV room here in Scotland, I've upgraded the universal disc player and the AV multi-channel amp, spruced up the cables and and better positioned the speakers so have been re-experiencing the pleasures of multi-channel SACDs like the John Wilson Rachmaninov 3rd. I realise that there is an anti-JW camp on this Forum for whom he can do no good so it will no doubt be dissed in its turn. For me, though, I will look forward to listening later to this Daphnis and Chloë.
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