(April 9, 2015 at 4:53 pm)Alex K Wrote:(March 26, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I am convinced that you will come around, if you hear the right recordings, and give them a chance.
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Quote:Alex K, to help convince you of my taste, I recommend you buy:
http://www.amazon.de/Brandenburg-Con-1-6...B000002AQ4
There are many recordings of the Brandenburgs, but none that I have heard come close to this one. Since you already have a great love of Bach, this recording should convince you that I am not just some savage trying to mislead you about what is great. Listen to it a few times, both as the focus of your attention, and also while you do something else (like posting online). If you do not love it, I will not know what to say to you.
I bought it and I love it. No seriously, I've listened to it 10 times over the past few days, headbanging to the epic riffs in #3 first movement. I don't know what the hell the flute is doing from 3:58 on in #5 first movement, but what the hell
I am glad you tried it and that you the good taste to love it! Jeanne Lamon also did the best Handel's Water Music that I have ever heard, and I have a couple of other recordings that are superb and more than good enough. But Lamon is better. In fact, I have never heard a recording conducted by her that I did not prefer to every other recording I have ever heard of the same piece of music. I think she can do no wrong as a conductor.
I am looking forward to what you will say about the Requiem that I recommended. Hopefully, after I see your thoughts on that, we will remain on speaking terms.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
