Another one for early music fans... Am hugely enjoying the Avison pieces today 
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"...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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... glad to hear it!Originally posted by Caliban View Post... Am hugely enjoying the Avison pieces today
Yes, Avison is great fun. And anyone who likes Scarlatti will find lots to enjoy in Avison's re-working of Scarlatti sonatas. -
I bought the older Brandenburg Consort version of the Concerti Grossi on Hyperion....I like it, but notice there have been other versions since. Have you had a chance to compare any, Vints?Comment
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There are now many excellent recordings of Italian, German and Bohemian Baroque music by lesser known composers. It’s about time this happened (or happened more often) to English Baroque music. This CoW is an excellent follow-up to Sunday’s Early Music Show: Daniel Purcell.Comment
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Indeed...one must give credit to Peter Holman and Hyperion for all those wonderful "English Orpheus" discs that were issued, many sadly no longer available. They really did unearth some buried treasure.Comment
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Stanley. All good stuff, of course, but rather 'samey' and perhaps lacking the spark of originality. But as the programme said, he wrote what became to be regarded as the archetypal English voluntary. And many's the time I've grabbed a book of JS to play them in or play them out when I haven't had time to polish up some JSB.Comment
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When I was living in Italy I used sometimes to slip in at the end of Mass to hear the organist play a voluntary on the nice little organ by Francesco Dacci (il giovane).
If he saw that I was there, he would play something English for me - I got to hear a lot of Stanley that way!Comment
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