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another box set recommendation - Italian baroque

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Posted on March 30, 2014 at 11:10:54
mbnx01
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Ten discs, $23. Wonderful music, performances, and recordings. Very nice.



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Baroque Music is certainly an acquired taste..., posted on March 30, 2014 at 19:12:58
Ivan303
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One that I have yet to acquire.

Streaming it now on QOBUZ, 16/44.1 Lossless FLAC but I don't think I'll make it through all 10 discs. ;-)


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Most classical music is an aquired taste, posted on March 31, 2014 at 09:25:19
Jack G
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But ships in 1-2 months? Seriously?
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Seems some of the Amazon Sellers promise shipping in a couple days..., posted on March 31, 2014 at 09:43:24
Ivan303
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but I get to listen today, for as long as I can stand it, that is! ;-)




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I guess I'll find out, posted on March 31, 2014 at 15:58:01
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I ordered it. It's a somewhat of an odd collection, but could be interesting. Monteverdi is more like renaissance music really. Never thought of him as baroque-kind of a bridge to it.
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RE: I guess I'll find out, posted on March 31, 2014 at 17:04:41
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The Baroque period has also been called "The Age of the Basso Continuo." In Monteverdi and his contemporaries, there are the beginnings of the semi-improvised keyboard accompaniments to single vocal lines. Eventually this evolved into figured bass, specifying with numbers over the bass line what harmonies were to be played. This started around 1600, and the newly-beginning-to-form Baroque style coexisted with older styles for quite a while.

 

RE: I guess I'll find out, posted on April 1, 2014 at 23:24:41
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Most musicologists would classify Monteverdi as a Baroque composer. His operas were among the first ever written. Calling him a Renaissance composer would be like calling Beethoven a composer of the classical era.

 

Think it fair to say that he was a product of the Renaissance period..., posted on April 2, 2014 at 10:20:52
Ivan303
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but he didn't stay there for long.


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well, he was., posted on April 7, 2014 at 06:42:38
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there it is.


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Maybe not getting it is a prejudice?, posted on April 7, 2014 at 06:45:52
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:-)
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Nah, I'll listen to most anything..., posted on April 9, 2014 at 20:54:01
Ivan303
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Took me decades to warm to Mahler. =:-0

Now I've collected his complete symphonies by any number of conductors.

Same for modern guys like Schnittke, Berg or even Schoenberg. Sorry, still can't fall in love with Webern!

And yes, a lot of the stuff above is acquired taste.


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I grew up performing baroque music in a cathedral choir, posted on April 9, 2014 at 21:27:25
Timbo in Oz
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We were lent a large very tall tracker-action chamber organ, which was rolled slowly into the nave, this was while the big main organ was being rebuilt.

And suddenly, Newcastle had a Baroque Society, and we performed a lot with them down in the nave playing harpsichords and recorders, etc. Early 1960s, this was.

So English & other baroque church music was part of the ouvre we sang, and then performing concerts with diverse instruments.

So much for Australia being a cultural desert back then. Let alone now.

I don't go and switch off the system when Mahler or Bruckner are on, and I have tried them on and off over many years. I wonder mostly when thay are going to get to the point, and lose interest.

I really don't get the need for music to be unpleasant and atonal. I shudder when I or other singers fail to pitch correctly, and I guess that's why I dislike most atonal music. Noting that correct pitch has to be adjusted up or down at some points for a lot of vocal music, ie not what's written - as otherwise it sounds ugly.

I much prefer the early romantics and then back from there - right back to the earliest pieces of notated music - IIRC that's the 6th and 7th centuries CE.

Thank god for printing, electrical recording, decent microphones, and decent storage media.

I record acoustic concerts for Artsound FM her in Canberra.








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RE: another box set recommendation - Italian baroque, posted on April 19, 2014 at 11:03:08
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Thanks for this recommendation. Wonderful music. Of the 5000 or so CDs in my library (FLAC files), only about 500 are classical music. The vast majority is jazz and the rest are rock or electronic.

This collection greatly enhances my music collection.

Rich

 

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