Pascal Roge playing Satie, reminded to play some Satie after viewing this video made by an acquaintance I keep in touch with on another forum who has similar tastes in gear as me. 1984 DDD recording and it sounds like it could have been made yesterday.
What was that **** about? I didn't get the memo. Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne Festival 2010 is available on Amazon Prime - opinions?
Now on the turntable, "Sacred Vocal Music Of Claudio Monteverdi" performed by The Parley Of Instruments featuring (the lovely and talented) Emma Kirkby (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor) and David Thomas (bass) on Hyperion.
Now on the turntable, "Bach - The Well-tempered Clavier, Book II" performed by Andras Schiff on London.
This morning I listened to this recording of Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Paul Paray was sometimes criticized for making music that sounded “too French” or that was driven too hard. But this seems like a pretty mainstream performance to me. There were a couple of brief moments when the violins were bowing too hard on the loud parts. The softer more lyrical sections had plenty of subtlety though. I think maybe Paray suffered by comparison to his competitors at the time. This is hardly surprising. Just look at any list of who was active in the late fifties and early sixties. The competition was mind boggling. Mercury’s recording is fairly typical with lots of clarity and dynamics, but a bit too much emphasis on the high frequencies. Oddly, my LP has the channels reversed so that the violins are on the right. I hope that this was corrected on the CD edition. I saw this symphony performed just last month. Jamie Laredo conducted the Vermont Symphony in Burlington’s Flynn Theater. Their interpretation made me think of Bruno Walter’s, though I may have been biased to think so by the fact that Laredo wore a collarless dark gray suit much like the ones Walter often did. With his back to the audience Laredo even looked like Walter. I sat in the center of the sixth row, a bit too close for a good blend of sounds. With my ears at the level of the musician’s knees, a good deal of the treble edge was taken off the sound. It was like turning the treble down a notch or two.
I bought these 2 Pascal Roge's Satie CD's at the now defunct Tower Records near Lincoln Center in NYC right before a concert in the early 2000's ...
Dvorak, A. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra B Minor Berlin P.O. cond George Szell and others DG Resonance 429 155-2 Bloch, E. Schelomo Berlin B.O cond Alfred Wallenstein Plus Bruch, M. Kol Midrei op 47 Orchestre Lamoureux, Paris cond Jean Martinon The above with Pierre Fournier on Cello Let's retitle this as some truly great Cello music well played,eh? This is typical bare bones no notes cd!
