mikeweil

Every type of medium has its advantages.

Immerseel noted he was positively surprised by the high quality of Strauss' instrumentation, which Brahms and others admired. His recording goes back to the original scores, which are differentvfrom what modern orchestras use.

The real sound and tempos. https://www.discogs.com/release/7919842-Anima-Eterna-Johann-Strauss-Valses-Polkas-Ouvertures

He once confessed in an interview he had played with everybody but Rollins and Miles. One of Europe's very best. And a real free spirit.

The two Werner Müller Orchestra LPs Ekkehart Fleischhammer gave me when we met a few weeks ago are great examples of what German musicians were capable of in that style. Previously unreleased recordings made for Berlin radio in 1960 and 1961, no Ameican exiles in the band! Really interesting stuff. Bancamp distributes Sonorama. https://sonoramarecords.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-mutations https://sonoramarecords.bandcamp.com/album/feuilleton-in-jazz

Freshsoundrecords.com just released a box set of 1950's Swedish jazz. https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/swedish-cool-and-modern-jazz-albums/57573-swedish-cool-and-modern-jazz-1949-1959-the-golden-years-4-cd-box-set.html

What's the best sounding download source for this?

My thoughts exactly.

Playing music is even better.

I saw him live around that time, with his brother Antoine in the band. It was great, only that he overused the microphone, which he wouldn't really have needed in a club of that size.

Fully agreed!

Over the last four weeks we attended a series of concerts during the Wiesbadener Bachwochen, a bi-annual festival. This year there was an enlarged program to celebrate 50 years of its existence. to much to pay for all, but we picked some jewels. The Italian ensemble Zefiro played wind sonatas for the Dresden court by Fasch, Heinichen, Zelenka and others. Absolutely cinvincing and enganging performances. Its leader, oboist Alfredo Bernardini, conducted a program of orchestral pieces of the Dresden orchestra with students of the period performance branch of the Frankfurt music Academy, which they aptly call Capella Academica Frankfurt. One has to keep in mind that the Dresden orchestra between 1700 and 1750 was one of the three best in Europe, and these young people now play that demanding stuff flawlessly! The director of the branch, Eva Maria Pollerus, played three and a half hours of Bach last Saturday, all of Clavierübung I & II. The harpsichord was a reconstructed model by Harass in Thuringia built by Jürgen Ammer in 2007, a type of instrument that Bach played. Absolutely stunning sound, and perfect performance Everybody thinking it is appropriate to play these Partiutas on a modern piano should get an opportunity to hear this and be convinced that it is not. The sound with multiple regsitration of four sets of strings - 16", 8", 8", 4" - was fascinating.

Well, the tunes she composed/arranged, or solos on.

Just thumbing through this thread - This one would really be great!