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On ‎3‎/‎15‎/‎2017 at 10:19 AM, alankin said:

Well, I don't think you can perform Beethoven unless you're serious, but they sound more joyful than severe to me.

Good to know. I should have worded my query differently. You can certainly be serious and can sing and be joyful all at the same time.

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Just Sinfonia (with the New Swingle Singers!). Eindrücke is a kind of once fashionable Darmstadtian serial piece that never interested me (disclosure: I enjoy certain serial works and composers, but it's not a big percentage of my listening).

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Now playing, CD 27:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Vesperae solennes de confessore K 339 — Gwynne Howell (bass), Ryland Davies (tenor), Elisabeth Bainbridge (alto), John Constable (organ) – London Symphony Chorus
– Kyrie in D minor K 341 (368a) — John Constable (organ) – London Symphony Chorus
– Ave verum corpus in D major K 618 — John Constable (organ) – London Symphony Chorus
– Exsultate jubilate K 165 (158a) — John Constable (organ) – London Symphony Chorus
– Zaide K 344 (336b): Ruhe sanft mein holdes Leben
– Die Zauberflöte K 620: Ach ich fühl's es ist verschwunden
– Così fan tutte K 588: Ei parte...Per pietà ben mio
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) – London Symphony Orchestra – Sir Colin Davis (Philips)

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Now playing, CD 16:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  
– Concerto for Violin No.1 in B flat major K 207
– Concerto for Violin No.2 in D major K 211
– Concerto for Violin No.3 in G major K 216
David Oistrakh (violin)  – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – David Oistrakh (EMI Classics)

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Now playing, CD 1:
Franz Liszt  (Sony Records)
– Concerto for Piano No.1 in E flat major S.124 — Arthur Rubinstein (piano)  – RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra – Alfred Wallenstein
– Concerto for Piano No.2 in A major S.125 — Van Cliburn (piano) – Philadelphia Orchestra – Eugene Ormandy
– Totentanz S.126 — Byron Janis (piano) – Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Fritz Reiner
– Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra S.123 — Philippe Entremont (piano) – New Philharmonia Orchestra – Seiji Ozawa 

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Alessandro Scarlatti -- Opera Overtures & Concertos

Concerto de' Cavaliere, Marcello Di Lisa 

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Tight

-- Di Lisa and his Concerto de' Cavalieri focus on 17th and 18th Century Italian music, particularly Scarlatti. So these boys and girls are at minimum heavily studied in this stuff. This disc is part of a broader baroque project, as is indicated in the lower left of the image. Polished, for sure, but there's a lightness and joy that permeates this music. Very nice. 

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David Daniels, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris

Berlioz -- Les Nuits D'ete

Ravel -- Cinq Melodies popularies grecquies

Faure -- Trois Melodies

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... plus a couple of instrumental numbers thrown in for good measure. Very pleasant 

 

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