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« Reply #1 on: 20:31:19, 25-04-2007 » |
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An interesting month indeed, Ron. Your link doesn't appear to work and I tried to paste it too, but with no success; readers can just enter www.mdt.co.uk and the May 2007 link is on the left of the page.... I can heartily recommend two CDs in ongoing series:   The Bach arrived last week - Cantatas for the First and Second Sunday after Easter, so I gave them a spin on Sunday morning. The Vivaldi's been with me for some time now (they get released in France quite a bit ahead of the UK). Christophe Coin has recorded some concertos with Il Giardino Armonico before, for Teldec, and this new disc is just as good. Vivaldi wrote an amazing number of cello concertos and they're well worth hearing - plenty of songlike introspection in the middle movements. I've read that a second volume is being recorded in the autumn. This could be interesting, Ron...  ...tempted? |
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« Reply #2 on: 21:02:54, 25-04-2007 » |
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What is the connection between the content of this disc and the cover picture? And if there isn't one, does it matter? |
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« Reply #3 on: 21:07:05, 25-04-2007 » |
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The photos on the Monteverdi Choir's Bach Cantata releases are all by Steve McCurry, 'a celebrated photographic correspondent who is most known for the "Afghan girl" photo which appeared on the cover of National Geographic'. Another quote on the website states: 'McCurry's pictures are immensely striking; they seemed to provide a potent imagery which perfectly complements that of the music.'http://monteverdiproductions.co.uk/about_us/sdg.cfm |
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« Reply #4 on: 22:13:19, 25-04-2007 » |
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Tempted? Well, maybe, IGI. But there's the Maxim set to think about, and the Rostropovich, plus a handful of Lyritas and that Martin Butler NMC which should just about arrive for my return. If I didn't already have the Previn 4 I'd be adding that as well; all in all I think he handles the end of the symphony better than anyone, and it's well recorded too.
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« Reply #5 on: 22:32:22, 25-04-2007 » |
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Many thanks, Ron.  Robert Erickson on NAXOS, the Violin Concerto by Hauer on CPO, Kats-Chernin, early works of Otto Ketting on ETCETERA, Kleiber and Klemperer conducting the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Malipiero's String Quartets on BRILLIANT, to name just a few. Wonderful. |
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« Reply #6 on: 23:12:11, 25-04-2007 » |
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I'm sorry, but this is all an illusion. The classical record industry is in terminal decline. The great Lebrecht has spoken.
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« Reply #8 on: 10:05:39, 26-04-2007 » |
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EEll,Jan,chacun a son gout,eh?
I decided that the pictures on the Gardiner series were so unrelated to the music it was a silly gimmick.Even if I wanted to buy a CD of Bach cantatas I'd avoid these just for this.
It did occur to me that Gardiner was trying to be politically correct to expunge the memory of his father's racist affiliations. But maybe I'm being nasty and suspicious.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #9 on: 10:23:09, 26-04-2007 » |
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Perhaps not so much a gimmick, Smittims, as a realisation that the majority of CD covers have become so uniform that a big series really needs something literally outstanding not only to draw attention to itself, but to make subsequent issues in the run more easily identifiable as a continuation of the set. The Naïve Vivaldi opera series is another example.
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« Reply #10 on: 12:53:31, 26-04-2007 » |
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Smittims,
You are doing yourself a disfavour by judging a CD by it's cover...
I have a great disc Bach of trio sonatas which has beetroots on the cover,I wouldn't be without the music though.
I really dont think the cover matters at all, but as with everything beauty or surprise will catch the eye.
x Jan x
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« Reply #11 on: 11:14:20, 27-04-2007 » |
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I thought I had made it claer I am not judging the content of the CD by the cover.I am quite prepared to believe they are spendid performances and recordings.But I won't have those gimmicky pictures in my house and I won't give the company money when I disapprove of their practice.
In other words,it's a matter of principle,nthe same way that people refused to buy Outspan oranges during Apartheid. Probably a very old-fashioned thing to do nowadays.
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« Reply #12 on: 11:29:58, 27-04-2007 » |
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It's about time you outGrew such silliness, smittims. When I buy a CD, it is for the musical performance captured on the disc. Complementary artwork is a pleasant adjunct, but to reject a CD on the basis of an artwork theme adopted for its cover just seems a bit daft to me.  |
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« Reply #13 on: 19:08:43, 27-04-2007 » |
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EEll,Jan,chacun a son gout,eh?
I decided that the pictures on the Gardiner series were so unrelated to the music it was a silly gimmick.Even if I wanted to buy a CD of Bach cantatas I'd avoid these just for this.
For the same reason did you never buy any of the Decca Eclipse LP's with unrelated countryside scenes from the National Trust sponsor's photographers?  Or what about these from Hyperion:    |
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