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Sigiswald Kuijken is not Dutch, he's from Belgium (Flanders, to be exact). BTW, Kuijken has since (2009) recorded the suites on "shoulder cello." Haven't heard the recording...

Thinking of getting another versions of the Cello Suites (currently have Gendron and Bylsma I). My preference is for recent releases (hey, want to support "the industry") and HIP (which is kind of under-represented in my CD collection). HIP not absolutely required if performance is sufficiently kick-ass. The three recordings below have caught my eye. Any feedback (or other recommendations) appreciated. a) Queyras on Harmonia Mundi: great reviews, clips sound excellent (playing and sound quality), negative is that the set is pricey and Q. plays a period cello with modern bow/strings; b) Gailliard on APARTE(?): seems to be HIP, samples good, fewer reviews than Queyras; c) Anne Gastinel on Naive: got my attention for some reason, but don't know much about it and samples are limited.

A lot of these arguments are kinda comical to me. Fact of the matter is, this is the most dead serious kind of shit. It could potentially take down not just the PSU football program, but the whole f**g university. In order to avoid a shutdown, everyone even remotely responsible is gonna have to walk the plank. End of story. It's even more comical that our jock-sniffing culture can blind seemingly intelligent adults to the obvious reality.

Regarding the non-reporting of criminal activity, I compare this in some ways to the Salomon Bros. (Wall Street) Treasury bid-rigging scandal of 1991. In that case, the supervisor of the law-breaking employee privately reported the conduct to top company executives, but nothing further was done. This very nearly took the company down: Warren Buffett had to temporarily act as chief executive until the firm could be sold, and all employees in the relevant chain of command were fired. Applying this to Penn State, I expect all of the implicated heads to roll, from the University President through the AD, down to Paterno, possibly even McQueary. I wouldn't even be surprised if the University sees fit to suspend the football program, or administer some kind of "death penalty" a la SMU 1987 (I personally find this a most appropriate solution). Disclaimer: I don't intend to draw any parallels between child abuse and financial shenanigans, only to make disciplinary predictions.

Amp Lee Jethro Pugh Grady Tate

Jose Canseco Curly Howard Iggy Pop

Richard von Krafft-Ebing The Marquis de Sade Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Many thanks! Decided to go for Rachel Podger. Good opinions here confirmed external reviews. Clips sounded pretty good, too.

Thanks. I'm also seeing enthusiasm for Rachel Podger. She gets bashed by Classics Today's Jed Distler (2/10 "artistic quality"), but he's a critic whose tastes are very different from mine (certainly in the pianistic realm), so I'm inclined to disregard his opinion. Strange, I've really "rediscovered" the violin S/P recently. Weirdly, I was motivated by listening to several versions of Busoni's piano transcription of the great Chaconne from Partita #2 in D minor. The cello suites seem to get more discussion, but the violin works are surely no less worthy of attention. (Granted, I've listened to the cello suites much more often over the years, but I now can't say why...)

Have owned Grumiaux's recording for years. Have been listening a lot lately, and want to hear some others. Prefer to go the HIP route rather than Milstein, Szeryng, etc. (not that there's anything wrong with them, of course...). Any recommendations? Cursory searches turn up the names Tetzlaff, Zehetmair and Wallfisch. Tetzlaff samples sound pretty good. Don't know much about the HIP realm, open to suggestions. Thanks.

Happy Birthday, all the best!

Finally broke down and bought Herbie Nichols's Complete Blue Note Recordings box - a big expenditure, but will call it a (recent) birthday present.

A. A. Milne B. B. King C. C. Sabathia

Well said.

Many thanks, most appreciated. Hadn't visited for a couple of days, and was surprised to find the thread!

Thanks. Interesting, back when I lived near NYC I attended several concerts featuring David Starobin. I even heard him and George Crumb perform Mundis Canis (at Manhattan School of Music), a work later released on Bridge. I've purchased several Bridge CDs, all contemporary music.

Right! I found the glasses a bit confusing.

Well, I'll break the string of puzzlers with this fairly easy one (Warning - peekable link name):

Hat sale, not just classical, at Jazz Loft: https://www.jazzloft.com/c-37-hatsale2.aspx Not overwhelming, but a few fairly interesting-looking classical: Schleiermacher on piano (esp. the 2 Soviet avant-gardes), Pauline Oliveros (is she "classical"?), Anzelotti on accordion, James Tenney.

A hint: she has been on the cover of hundreds of magazines! Total shot in the dark...Claudia Schiffer?

On the subject of Monteverdi, I've seen a 9-CD box set of the complete operas on Brilliant Classics. Looks interesting, but I don't yet know enough about the recordings to put it on any wish lists. I've seen two of the three operas live and really dig them. [Added] 4-CD Vespers set less than USD 10 used. Any other Monteverdi suggestions welcome...

I'm in such a minority as to be statistically insignificant, but... I live in a rural area without easy broadband (DSL is possible, but would have to go satellite, which I don't really trust, for more bandwidth), so am quite happy with the DVD-by-mail thing (Qwikster or whatever it's called). I actually downgraded my subscription a couple of months ago to cut out streaming and do DVDs only. I also dig the bonus material/commentaries on deluxe DVD editions. I agree that streaming/downloads will eventually dominate, but the poor minority w/o ready access to high bandwidth is gonna get screwed.