She also has a disc of Mozart sonatas and a disc of Scarlatti sonatas. But that appears to be it, nothing but solo piano recordings. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keys-Mozar...4549403&sr=8-2&keywords=daria+van+den+bercken https://www.amazon.co.uk/Domenico-S...swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1544549403&sr=8-1
I have the JEG's recording on CD. I have the SMP by Richter on both CD and LP but he recorded the work twice with somewhat different soloists ...
You'd be hard-pressed to find two more different approaches to the big Bach choral works than Richter and Gardiner! That said, I am a fan of both, but the Monteverdi choir is an absolute machine. I love the way they execute the fugues in the B minor mass, to me they operate on a totally different plane from most other choral ensembles.
The Richter SMP I have is the currently available one, recording before I was born (which is saying a lot) with Irmgard Seefried, Hertha Töpper, Ernst Haefliger, Kieth Engen, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. I only started on this classical journey in June and understand there are several phases of Fischer-Dieskau. Apparently the younger version recorded here is less mature (and less distinctive) than the older version. Since I have the two DG Originals boxes, he is probably the best represented bass-baritone in my collection.
I also have the Harnoncourt 2001 but did not appreciate the awesomeness of the piece until I listened to Richter. I just got Gardiner's SMP.
I'd like to pick up the Karl Richter Deluxe Editon Sacred Works box 11 CD/Blu-ray set. But I've already bought way too many boxes in the past month. Just got Ingrid Haebler's Denon Mozart sonatas set, and Skrowaczewski's Bruckner box. And Barenboim's Ring cycle DVD set that I couldn't pass up for 20 bucks.
Since I am still working my way through two Decca and two Philips cubes, I just cannot buy Richter's Cantata box based on the Famous Cantatas discs. Not yet, anyway.
On the turntable, first listen to "Debussy - Pelleas Et Melisande" performed by the Chorus of the Grand Theatre, Geneva and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet on London. Camille Maurane (Baritone) Erna Spoorenberg (Soprano) George London (Bass Baritone) Guus Hoekman (Bass) Josephine Veasey (Mezzo Soprano) Rosine Bredy (Soprano) John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone) Gregore Kubrack (Baritone)
There are plug-ins in programs like Audacity, but it's the same issue one runs into with noise reduction: a little goes a long way and do you want to trust the algorithm to not rough-house with the audio?
Gardiner definitely plays it "straighter" than Richter, who really makes it more of a cosmic event. There are virtues to both approaches, I find.
I have installed Audacity on my computer for a few years now and digitized some open-reel tapes. To the best of my knowledge, Audacity would leave the pops and clicks on your LP alone though I have yet to use it for needle drop. If I connect zPhono I posted above, I am supposed to use Audacity to do the actual digitization. To declick, you need to run the Audacity files through the declicking software ...
While I have all the JS Bach choral works by JEG, I have preferred the recordings by Herreweghe in recent years ...
SERGEI RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Chopin, op. 22 Piano Sonata No.1, op. 28 Vladimir Ashkenazy
Me neither, it's my first listen. Some variations are full of speed and have the Rach's usual "heavy" chords, other are tender and dreamy, evoking the style of Chopin.
Check it out if you get the chance. It is a brilliant set of variations on Barry Manilow's OOOPS I mean Chopin's C Minor Prelude.
