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[Mandryka]

Any information whether it's MI or PI?

No, but I saw them with MI, it was one of the more enjoyable concerts I've been to this year. Their Beethoven is good too.

[88]

Any information whether it's MI or PI?

It's available on Qobuz now. I'd say MI but no vibrato, at least none in the first two fugues that I listened to. (I far prefer it on a piano.)

[prémont]

It's available on Qobuz now. I'd say MI but no vibrato, at least none in the first two fugues that I listened to. (I far prefer it on a piano.)

Nor is the string quartet my medium of choice for AoF; however, had it been a PI recording, I might have considered a purchase.

BTW welcome to the forum.

[prémont]

Orgelbüchlein on piano four hands!

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/bach-orgelbuechlein-in-the-transcription-for-piano/hnum/11969845

[88]

Nor is the string quartet my medium of choice for AoF; however, had it been a PI recording, I might have considered a purchase.

BTW welcome to the forum.

Thank you. I enjoy listening to one pianist (or occasionally a harpsichordist) dealing with the often dense counterpoint by himself!

[Roy Bland]

https://melody.su/en/catalog/classic/134979/

[Mandryka]

Their Winterreise is special.

[Mandryka]

Live

[Mandryka]

1739 organ at Ansbach (St Gumbertuskirche)

[JBS]

Contents
Dixit Dominus RV807
Confitebor tibi, Domine RV596
Sanctorum meritis RV620
Vos invito barbarae faces RV811
Magnificat RV611

[San Antone]

Any information whether it's MI or PI?

You might be interested in this article which discusses the instruments used - the musicians used various combinations of instruments beyond the standard string quartet.

[prémont]

You might be interested in this article which discusses the instruments used - the musicians used various combinations of instruments beyond the standard string quartet.

After reading the article, I've decided that I should purchase the CD.

[Mandryka]

After reading the article, I've decided that I should purchase the CD.

I don't think you'll regret it. There's a moment quite early on where they take a fugue as a cello and violin duo - it was the moment when my ears first pricked up in the concert, and the same experience just now on the recording.

[Roy Bland]

[Selig]

Blue Heron have finally recorded Obrecht's Factor orbis, one of my favorite "songs"... I'm beyond excited to hear it

Out December 13th.

[Roasted Swan]

Blue Heron have finally recorded Obrecht's Factor orbis, one of my favorite "songs"... I'm beyond excited to hear it

Out December 13th.

Why the apostrophe in Year's!  Surely "Christmas and New Year in 15th Century France & Burgundy" would have been fine.....?!

[Selig]

Why the apostrophe in Year's!  Surely "Christmas and New Year in 15th Century France & Burgundy" would have been fine.....?!

"New Year's" vs. "New Year" appears to be an American vs. British thing (my impression after a quick googling). I didn't know this. This is a US (Boston, MA) ensemble, so that would check out.

An argument could be that New Year's [Day][Eve] more unambiguously refers to the holiday, and not the ensuing year.

[Roasted Swan]

"New Year's" vs. "New Year" appears to be an American vs. British thing (my impression after a quick googling). I didn't know this. This is a US (Boston, MA) ensemble, so that would check out.

An argument could be that New Year's [Day][Eve] more unambiguously refers to the holiday, and not the ensuing year.

Ah!  Thanks for clarifying - I was just having a moment channelling my inner pedant (or is it channeling.....   )

[Brian]

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"This programme brings together composers who, for the most part, were compelled to flee their homeland. In 1920, Ivan Wyschnegradsky took refuge in Paris, where he wrote for a quarter-tone piano at a time when, in Russia, the slightest dissonance was considered a political provocation. Andrzej Panufnik left his native Poland in 1954. Alfred Schnittke settled in Hamburg in 1990, eight years before his death, having spent most of his life in the Soviet Union. Although Schubert never moved away from Vienna, the pain and solitude of his inner exile are palpable in his music. Finally, the Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe emigrated on account of the First World War, and it was in the United States, in 1917, that he wrote the melancholy musical poem recorded here, which he called Exil!"

The inclusion of Schubert is a little dodgy. But speaking of Schubert...

[André]

The Panufnik, Wyschnegradsky and Ysaÿe items look interesting...