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Now listening to CD 2 from "Bach - 6 Solo Sonatas & Partitas" performed by Viktoria Mullova on Onyx.

Sonata No. 3/Partitas Nos. 2 & 3

 

I have this as a stand-alone CD. Do you have it as part of a big box?

 

I need to give this a second listen one of these days ...

 

Just added this CD to my JS Bach collection today and giving it a first listen ...

 

Looking a bit like the younger brother of Einstein ...

 

No, just a single CD.

 

On the turntable…a pristine mono Plum Dog…I love this recording, and this LP plays like a dream.

 

Today's absurdly cheap CD, in this case 2 CDs for 98 cents:


Glenn Gould, J.S. Bach, .Well Tempered Clavier, Book one

 

Now on the turntable



Overture In The French Style, BWV 831

 

SACD is the way to hear this and her Mendelssohn disc...recorded in multichannel DSD when the tech was very young.

As for the posing...it's just the record company trying to sell a few more records. And wasn't this one of her last records for Sony before jumping ship for DGG? Perhaps she wasn't pleased herself at being marketed that way.

 

I have that Vivaldi CD. It was hyped by some reviewer in Stereophile a while back. Nice recording and package: 2 CDs with 24-page booklet. I'm still warming up to the music, though. Vivaldi takes a few listening sessions to grow on me... (or not).

 

Probably just as well. Trevor and the English Concert recorded the Bach Concertos for 1 harpsichord (bwv 1052-1058) in analog; the 2, 3, & 4 harpsichord concertos (bwv 1060-1065) were recorded digitally.

 

I wonder if that bargain-bin pricing is a sign of things to come--now that Sony "Super Bit Mapping" 20-bit remasters are re-remastered to 24-bit. ("Out with the old... ")

BTW, the photo on this CD was shot by Columbia's photographer Don Hunstein... trying to give Gould the James Dean look.
Gould was actually in the NY studio recording the Bach Partitas in 1963 when this photo was taken. He didn't complete Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier until a couple of years later.

 

Gould at his finest.

 

Now listening to "Medieval English Music - Masters of the 14th and 15th Centuries" performed by The Hilliard Ensemble on Harmonia Mundi.



(this is not the same as Post 5992 )

 

Now listening to "Codex Las Huelgas - Music From The Royal Convent Of Las Huelgas De Burgos (13th/14th Cent.)" performed by Sequentia on DHM.



(this is not included in the Sequentia Edition box set FYI)

 

I have been listening to Jean Sibelius this week from this box set. In the car and at home.

 

Now listening to CD 1 from "Glenn Gould plays Bach" on Sony.

• Goldberg Variations 1955 recording
• Two fugues from WTC II BWV 883 & 878

 

Now joining the crowd.

 

Now listening to "Vivaldi - 6 Double Concertos" performed by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields led by Neville Marriner on Philips.

• Concerto In D Major, RV 563 For 2 Trumpets, Violin, Strings, And Continuo
• Concerto In F Major, RV 539 For 2 Horns, Strings, And Continuo
• Concerto In G Major, RV 532 For 2 Mandolins, Strings, And Continuo
• Concerto In C Major, RV 533 For 2 Flutes, Strings, And Continuo
• Concerto In A Minor, RV 536 For 2 Oboes, Strings, And Continuo
• Concerto In G Major, RV 545 For Oboe, Bassoon, Strings, And Continuo

 

Now listening to CD 1 from "Bach - The Art Of Fugue" performed by the Julliard String Quartet on Sony.

 

Now listening to CD 2 from "Bach - The Art Of Fugue" performed by the Julliard String Quartet on Sony.

 

Picked up a couple of nice London/Decca LPs at the thrifts this morning…

 

Brought this one home today, too (my LP is a London). Love his playing, and love the sound on this record.