Daphne is late some thirty years after Electra, think more Four Last Songs that superb writing for the female voice. Some say it's not his greatest. For me it holds all those Strauss thing I love.
I’m not a huge fan of Strauss’ music, but Four Last Songs may very well be the greatest piece he has written.
Listening to "Metamorfosi Trecento - Transformations of Myth in the Ars Nova" performed by La Fonte Musica led by Michele Pasotti on Alpha.
She is generally not my go-to violinist when it comes to baroque works. I have her recordings of Beethoven and Schumann ...
I bought this CD a number of years ago. It is another excellent recording by Monica Huggett who was the lead violinist of the AAM under Christopher Hogwood ...
I have the Sonnerie CD on loan from the library. I bought used copy of the Orchestral suites by Hogwood.
My favourite recording of those Bartók works. I like it more than the Steinbacher recording on Pentatone which is so revered.
I remember the Hogwood Bach Orchestral Suites as I have them - unfortunately spread across 2 CD's ...
I really like this one: also for No.1: In addition to fantastic playing, the SACD audio is superb, too.
I don't know much about her early music recordings, more her Romantic and modern stuff Jolilvet ,Berg and Egk, but her Bach Sonatas and Petitas is about as good as it gets. Her Mozart Violin Concertos are very special.
She kind of reminds me of Viktoria Mullova, who is generally more associated with classical works than baroque but nonetheless excels in baroque performance ...
Yeah I'm going to pick up listening to the rest of it this evening on speakers, what I heard was excellent. Rest of my lunch time listening was Brahms- the first two Sonatas for Piano and Cello (Fournier, Backhaus) and Four Pieces For Piano Op. 119 (Rudolf Serkin). This is by far my favorite performance for Op. 119. The recordings of the Diabellis are also exceptional and in much better sound quality than the one he made on Columbia. For the Diabellis my two favorites are Igor Levit and either one of the Rudolf Serkin recordings, I need to compare the two Serkin recordings at some point. All three of these performances treat the pieces like the dance like pieces they are, with graceful accelerandos and tempi instead of playing them with a heavy hand, too many pianists play it more wrong than right.
This box by Paul van Nevel is great! Paul van Nevel and Peter Phillips are both great, though van Nevel is probably stronger in continental European early music while Phillips excels in early English early music ...