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Hardly a household name but another suprisingly excellent disc from Dacaopo.The varied works and the Opening Ballet Benzin,Petrol in English or Gasoline west of the pond.(GAS is something totally different in the English Dictionary.)
Quality wise the recording is up with the best again and ... more |
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Review by Dansk July 18, 2008
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A truly fantastic album, filled with adventurous songwriting and aggressive playing, but utterly ruined by the production. I bought this SACD and immediately regretted it. What's the point of creating an audiophile version of your album if you're just going to destroy it with compression and ... more |
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DO NOT MISS THIS!!! I had to order a copy from Caiman in Canada via Amazon. The Walton is PHENOMENAL. I think this performance can stand next to the Heifetz premiere recording of 1941. The playing is so good and self-assuredly virtuosic it will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck!
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Although Buxtehude is renowned for his considerable legacy of fine organ music, he also wrote 21 chamber works. The Opus 1 Sonatas (1694) are really trio sonatas, for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord, which the North German composers preferred to the brighter tone of two violins and continuo ... more |
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THIS IS REALLY GOOD!!! Beware your volume setting at the start of the disc. I have conducted the Mozart Seraglio Overture and I have NEVER heard a percussion section attack their instruments with the sheer ferocity that these musicians do. The mixture of German/Austrian and Turkish music makes for ... more |
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