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My top 3 music for December 2017;

ckd-569.jpg      ckd-469d.jpg Linn has a 3 for the price of 2 offer through out December :Linn

 

ble-hd2-300shadowv5.png Sound Liaison has released a magnificent follow up to the 1st Enghave Barok download, with a sublime recording of one of Bach very best cantatas the Bwv 39.

                                                                          Sound Liaison

 

The download is on special offer for $/€ 10 this month. That is steal for that kind of recording quality.

 

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Enghave Barok’s intense performances of these cantatas, have gained worldwide acclaim from leading Bach specialists.
The ensemble's burning dedication to convey the many layers hidden in Bach's music, let the listeners explore Bach's universe, with the leading Scandinavian Bach ensemble as tour guides. And this high resolution download ensures that the best place is reserved for you, the listener, right in the sweet spot in front of the Enghave Barok Ensemble.

                                                                     

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I actually usually don't listen to some particular 'Christmas mood' music during Christmas (I simply play the stuff I feel like hearing at the moment and BTW I hate most of Christmas pop music you can hear on almost every radio at the end of December and unfortunately for me even much, much earlier) so I can propose only some unorthodox 'Christmas' music..

How about :

 

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This one is maybe even more interesting:

 

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https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charles-gayle-mn0000806671/biography

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1 hour ago, sphinxsix said:

I actually usually don't listen to some particular 'Christmas mood' music during Christmas (I simply play the stuff I feel like hearing at the moment and BTW I hate most of Christmas pop music you can hear on almost every radio at the end of December and unfortunately for me even much, much earlier) so I can propose only some unorthodox 'Christmas' music..

How about :

 

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This one is maybe even more interesting:

 

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https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charles-gayle-mn0000806671/biography

 

Although I like many and many avant-garde jazz recordings, these two from Charles Gayle are too noisy and annoying for my ears, Christmas time or non-Christmas, the same.

 

I guess you are in Holland, there are some awesome avant-garde musicians from this country, such as Han Bennink, or Micha Mengelberg, for example.

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Ola Gjeilo | Winter Songs

 

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This album did not excite at first listen but now that I have heard it a couple of times I have started to like it.

 

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On 10.12.2017 at 3:39 PM, AnotherSpin said:

 

Although I like many and many avant-garde jazz recordings, these two from Charles Gayle are too noisy and annoying for my ears, Christmas time or non-Christmas, the same.

 

I guess you are in Holland, there are some awesome avant-garde musicians from this country, such as Han Bennink, or Micha Mengelberg, for example.

I have to admit that my Christmas music proposal was a slight provocation. I actually quite rarely listen to free jazz like this (but when the moment is right there's nothing like let's say Peter Brotzmann's 'Machine Gun'). As for this year's Christmas (my first ever in the Netherlands) music I will surely post the information about it on 'The Album of the Evening' thread.

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11 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

I have to admit that my Christmas music proposal was a slight provocation. I actually quite rarely listen to free jazz like this (but when the moment is right there's nothing like let's say Peter Brotzmann's 'Machine Gun'). As for this year's Christmas (my first ever in the Netherlands) music I will surely post the information about it on 'The Album of the Evening' thread.

 

It was clear about provocation...) But for me it was quite right, I never listen to any Christmas music, maybe because I was growing up in the USSR where Christmas or any other religious holidays were non-existent and Orthodox Christian music in general is too syrupy to my ears. I had a many years habit of listening Bach's Weihnachts Oratorium in the very last day of the year though. Not anymore, almost every end of the year I go to India for a winter stay, and Christmas music is merely a nonsense there.

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7 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

I had a many years habit of listening Bach's Weihnachts Oratorium in the very last day of the year though. Not anymore, almost every end of the year I go to India for a winter stay, and Christmas music is merely a nonsense there.

Why don't you give this one a try before leaving?

 

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On 9-12-2017 at 2:38 PM, christian u said:

My top 3 music for December 2017;

ckd-569.jpg      ckd-469d.jpg Linn has a 3 for the price of 2 offer through out December :Linn

 

ble-hd2-300shadowv5.png Sound Liaison has released a magnificent follow up to the 1st Enghave Barok download, with a sublime recording of one of Bach very best cantatas the Bwv 39.

                                                                          Sound Liaison

 

The download is on special offer for $/€ 10 this month. That is steal for that kind of recording quality.

 

                                                                     

Magnificent music!

''Cantata BWV 39. The opening chorus is a small masterpiece.

It is divided into three main sections, each of which relates to an adapted text from Isaiah 58, 7-8. ’’Break your bread for the hungry, and those who are in misery, bring them into your house! If you see a naked person, clothe him, and do not recoil from your own flesh and blood. Thereupon will your light burst forth as the red dawn of morning, and your betterment will quickly grow, and your righteousness go before you, and the glory of the Lord will embrace you.’’

The chorus begins, not by chance,(‘’Break your bread for the hungry’’) with chords broken down through the instrument groups. First the recorders, followed by the oboes, and at last the strings. This broken motif results in a remarkable legato sequence before the choir sets in, with the initial motive as accompaniment. Out of this motive, a fugue runs between the singing voices, while the orchestra continues the broken pattern. The voices finally meet in homophony before the opening is repeated.'' 

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31 minutes ago, PAP said:

Those Dunedin albums are very good indeed.

I still have to write about the Dunedin Christmas Oratorio on my blog, but at least I've now been able to compare the Dunedin version of the Magnificat with two serious competitors, Vox Luminis on Alpha and Jordi Savall on Alia Vox.

 

The good news is there are no losers, all three are just outstanding, see also here:

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2017/12/16/getting-seasonal-again-with-three-beautiful-versions-of-bachs-magnificat/

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On 12/9/2017 at 10:34 PM, Musicophile said:

Musicophile, why do you mention your fave Nutcracker is Abbado, yet the cover art and link talk about nothing but Rattle.  I have the Rattle SACD and need now to rip it.  :) Thx

Ted

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1 hour ago, ted_b said:

Musicophile, why do you mention your fave Nutcracker is Abbado, yet the cover art and link talk about nothing but Rattle.  I have the Rattle SACD and need now to rip it.  :) Thx

Ted

OMG no idea why I wrote Abbado there, nobody ever noticed. I obviously mean the other Berlin Phil boss, Rattle, as indicated on the cover below. 

 

Must have been a false association when I wrote. this post. 

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