Works by Palestrina and Gesualdo.

Thanks, Ev ... I haven't listened to this album in years and years (nor anything else from the pile of Chantilly MS stuff on the shelf).  It really is wonderful.  Though ... for those interested in this particular repertoire, it's worth exploring a few other performance practice approaches.  I can recommend:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FDFO1M/104-3971321-5248707.  It's quite a bit more aggressive in its vocal performance style.

This one is only so-so, but the homogeneous timbre of the three recorders, while removing some of the sense of independent, polyphonic lines, does sometimes help to intensify the rhythmic complexity a bit:  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005SDC/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-3971321-5248707?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

This one's good:  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I6M1/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-3971321-5248707?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

This one's stunning (as is everything put out by Mala Punica/Pedro Memelsdorff), but, alas, it's unbelievably hard to find:  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008EOOA/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-3971321-5248707?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance


Ah, and a score excerpt of one of my favorites from the Chantilly MS, Rodericus's stunning little 2-part ballade Angelorum Psalat, here:  http://www.aaroncassidy.com/images/scores/rodericus2.gif

Pictures at an Exhibition - the Emerson, Lake and Palmer version. I found that someone had it and I'm always curious to hear new arrangements of it so I borrowed it.

I've only heard it once so far but I think I'll buy it, IRF. It'll make an interesting addition to my collection. I liked the Baba Yaga tracks the best, followed by the Gnome. They were a bit too free with the Old Castle for my liking so I preferred Blues Variation on it. The beginning of the Promenade didn't inspire confidence but when the synthesizer started sounding like an organ it made a strong impact. I wonder if there's an arrangement of the whole thing for organ. They do play their instruments very well, I must say.

That was no synthesiser, that was Keith Emerson playing the pipe organ in Newcastle City Hall. The album was recorded live at the City Hall in 1971. One of those "I wish I was there" moments in my life (though at age six I probably wouldn't have appreciated it!)

I shouldn't think Moog synthesisers were good enough in 1971 to sound like a real organ!

Most certainly, ros:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/55003.asp

Just had some Beethoven sonatas from Brendel (his more recent digital cycle) - the op.7, op.28 and op.49/2. Before that is was Bruckner's 3 from Barenboim and the Berliners, Sibelius's Kullervo from Vanska and his Lahti orchestra and some Beethoven concertos from Barenboim, Klemperer and the Philharmonia. The latter from an EMI box of all the symphonies, which I found a little disappointing but the concertos rather redeem it.

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A recent trip to Academy Records in Manhattan yielded discs of music by, in chronological order!, Gombert, Carter, Feldman, Tenney, and Lucier, all for about forty dollars.

So far I've only heard the Gombert - which is, of course, Hilliardized (not to mention ECM-ized), but this high-polyphony repertoire is that in which Hilliardization is the most appropriate - and Feldman - gorgeous music, wonderfully performed and horribly, horribly recorded. 

As for the Lucier, "Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra" was a mesmerizing live experience at June in Buffalo 2005; how it will fare on record, particularly on my less-than-stellar stereo system, remains to be seen.  But who can resist a solo bagpipe piece?