I

I rather enjoy Vincenzo Bellini

Recently, I

I figured it was about time that I took a listen to DG

Sergey Tanayev isn

Until recently I

I decided to take my current exploration of early music as far back as I plan on going, right to Hildegard von Bingen. Medieval music is quite old enough for me, almost assuredly, as I have no real interest in listening to how people think the Romans may have listened to music. I

Dietrich Buxtehude is another early baroque stalwart I hadn

I believe I

Thus far in my listening I

It

I so enjoyed my first disc of Morales

Missing Ravel piano concerto discovered! That

Having enjoyed all of the recordings of music by Ahmed Adnan Saygun, I figured I could go for another one, and I settled on a CPO disc devoted to his Third and Fifth Symphonies. It

I had a hankerin

Time to move forward in time a little, but not really too much. I

So far I

Exploring the Renaissance a bit more, I figured I should listen to Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina. I

Continuing on with yet more Crist

Continuining on with more Renaissance music, I decided to move north a bit and try some Orlande de Lassus. (Though not the recording recommended earlier in this thread.) Philippe Herreweghe has recorded enough music by Lassus to seem a safe bet, and so I grabbed his latest offering, the Cationes Sacrae for six voices. The recording is both spectacular and a bit disappointing. Let me

After listening to so much ancient liturgical music, it seemed time to move forward in time a bit. I decided to move all the way to the present

I

Albert Roussel is one of those composers I

Where have you been all my life? I pondered this question, not exactly seriously, while listening to another disc of music by Roussel conducted by Mr Eschenbach. This disc, with the large-scale, serious symphony, and two suites from Bacchus et Ariane, made for a perfect follow-up to the prior disc of Roussel

Whilst browsing a local used LP hut, I stumbled upon a CBS recording by Robert Casadesus that I didn

I figured I might as well finish off Christoph Eschenbach

Once again I thought I

In my listening experience, Michael Endres has demonstrated himself to be a fine player of Germanic piano music. His Mozart and Schubert sonatas are among the best I

I so enjoyed my first disc of V