Music that doesn't move you

[Bryn]

Just realised that MickyD's Bartok investigation gives an opportunity to re-plug this splendid disc

Highly educational on Bartok's relationship to Hungarian folk music and also intensely moving about his forced separation from it when he fled Hitler to the USA. The disc features a mixture of Bartok's own field recordings, modern folk-band versions by Muzsikas, and some of the violin duets played by Alexander Balanescu and Laszlo Porteleki, fiddler of Muzsikas. Plus singer Marta Sebestyen.

A fine disc indeed. One of the best £1 purchases I ever made from a PDSA charity shop (now sadly closed).

[cloughie]

Faure's Pavane in its orchestral form is a beautiful piece of music although I think it is sometimes played a little too quickly. The choral version, however, I have yet to to hear a satisfying performance. Maybe I don't get what Faure wanted from it or maybe it needs to be sung by a small choir but to me it needs to be sung with the sensitivity usually afforded to his Requiem.