I feel the same way about Venetian music from the Renaissance and early Baroque: chills up my spine every time. I simply can’t get enough of it. I might have sprung for this box had I not already dished out considerable sums for some of your other recommendations. One can only do so much to feed the industry.
I am glad that DH has returned to making some longer videos. I know that short is the iron rule of all content these days, be it video, audio, or text, but I imagine that most of his subscribers are people who remember a different pace, and I, for one, look forward to the longer videos. I pour myself a modest drink and sit down in front of the laptop looking forward to the superb mix of analysis, anecdote, humor, and the only singing almost as bad as mine. Six minute videos just don't do it. So I was delighted to learn more about M. Corboz, and those original jackets stirred memories of visits to record stores in the late 70s and 80s. I had very few recordings by him, though: I was a student living on the margins, and still discovering many of the basics, so baroque rarities weren't much on my radar. But I had discovered the Charpentier Te Deum (starting off with the glorious prelude, which I first heard on the old DG album Royal Fanfares at Versailles, with the Orchestre de chambre Paul Kuentz, which knocked me for six). I found an Erato cassette of the Te Deum, and it was Corboz and the Gulbenkian orchestra and chorus of Lisbon. Glorious! I wish I could buy all those boxes out there (and, thanks to Dave, I learned all too late that I should have bought the Munch box) but I am unlikely to acquire the Corboz box. But I will search him out on my streaming service. After 30-odd years of HIP recordings, I find many of the older recordings quite beautiful, and I know Corboz's Charpentier was lovely. But I will conclude with a few requests for Dave: I loved the Haydn Symphony Crusade episode on No. 44, but that's a work that really deserves a full 20-minute-plus video on best performances. It has a long recording history, so there is a lot to discuss, and the performance in the video was fine, but not optimal. And I'd love to listen to a substantial video on the best recordings of the Corelli Op. 6 concerti. I only have five or six recordings of them, but I truly adore them and I'd love to hear your views on the many versions out there (I like a lot, but the I Musici Philips recording from 1966 is my touchstone). Finally, I yearn for a video devoted to the Max Goberman Haydn Symphony recordings. By no means always the best performances, but they were such marvellous groundbreaking recordings. Consider it my Christmas list, Uncle Dave!
If folks are interested in a more complete box of Vivaldi vocal music, there’s one, or was one, on Phillips conducted by Negri. It includes the incredible Salve Reginas!
Thank you, Dave. I love Corboz’s work. His Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Faure, etc. I hope you get a chance to review the Classical and Romantic box. I don’t know some of those early French and Italian music discs that were reviewed from this box, so I will have to check them out. I love his non-dogmatic approach to early music, as you noted. The choirs sound great, and the interpretations are so good, so luminous and clear-not interventionist or mannered, but expressively warm. Thank you.
This megabox is a treasure chest of fabulous Renaissance and Baroque music, performed elegantly and eloquently by Corboz' vocal and instrumental forces in Lausanne and Lisbon. As a great lover of early music, I obtained this set as soon as it was available, and have not been disappointed. The recording quality is somewhat variable, and the period brass and wind instruments in Corboz's first Monteverdi "Vespers" are pretty raucous and out of tune (one reason why he redid it later in his career). But this set is a real musical adventure. Thanks, Dave, for getting around to reviewing it.
I bought this set for exactly the same reasons you stated. Alot of stuff not often recorded....French and Italian...large collection of Vivaldi and Monteverdi. There were only two other large sets of recordings of Vivaldi choral ...Going through the box selecting something new to me after something I already know. I wish he did more with the lesser recorded works. I am not sure if I will get the second box....too much competition.
Jeff. I concur. Seriously thinking about this one. But got a bunch of boxes coming. Dave. Ur gonna bankrupt me :) getting to a stage now where I scramble when they are delivered to hide from my wife. Haha
His Christmas Oratorio is actually my favorite, and I have a lot of them. I don't remember whether your colleague mentioned it or not but something about the richly modern forward winds and darker-toned soloists and reasonably festive tempos just strikes the right balance, like a good, well-aged fruitcake.
With 1000s of Cd's in my collection life is too short to listen to these enormous box sets can't imagine the companies selling loads of these especially of more obscure music but i presume they make some profits somewhere
But how do you live? You know too much! For example Maazel, you pinpoint exactly to what I experienced with him playing in RFH London or Napoli San Carlo. My question is: do you listen non stop to every recording or just snippets and even so.. is a Q&A in order? Are you able to talk to peers or are you 24hrs busy? I can not fathom your knowledge and agree too most.
I do listen to every recording, but with reissues I can spot check the ones I remember well and re-listen to the ones I don't. It's really a function of memory and when it comes to music I have this quirk--I tend to remember most of what I hear, and more weirdly, if it's a familiar work I remember differences between versions of what I have heard. It's not perfect, and I still have to check to confirm my recollections, but my friends have told me they don't hear things the same way at all so I guess it's unusual. Anyway, it works for me. And I do listen constantly too (apart from my day job).
I feel the same way about Venetian music from the Renaissance and early Baroque: chills up my spine every time. I simply can’t get enough of it. I might have sprung for this box had I not already dished out considerable sums for some of your other recommendations. One can only do so much to feed the industry.
I am glad that DH has returned to making some longer videos. I know that short is the iron rule of all content these days, be it video, audio, or text, but I imagine that most of his subscribers are people who remember a different pace, and I, for one, look forward to the longer videos. I pour myself a modest drink and sit down in front of the laptop looking forward to the superb mix of analysis, anecdote, humor, and the only singing almost as bad as mine. Six minute videos just don't do it. So I was delighted to learn more about M. Corboz, and those original jackets stirred memories of visits to record stores in the late 70s and 80s. I had very few recordings by him, though: I was a student living on the margins, and still discovering many of the basics, so baroque rarities weren't much on my radar. But I had discovered the Charpentier Te Deum (starting off with the glorious prelude, which I first heard on the old DG album Royal Fanfares at Versailles, with the Orchestre de chambre Paul Kuentz, which knocked me for six). I found an Erato cassette of the Te Deum, and it was Corboz and the Gulbenkian orchestra and chorus of Lisbon. Glorious! I wish I could buy all those boxes out there (and, thanks to Dave, I learned all too late that I should have bought the Munch box) but I am unlikely to acquire the Corboz box. But I will search him out on my streaming service. After 30-odd years of HIP recordings, I find many of the older recordings quite beautiful, and I know Corboz's Charpentier was lovely. But I will conclude with a few requests for Dave: I loved the Haydn Symphony Crusade episode on No. 44, but that's a work that really deserves a full 20-minute-plus video on best performances. It has a long recording history, so there is a lot to discuss, and the performance in the video was fine, but not optimal. And I'd love to listen to a substantial video on the best recordings of the Corelli Op. 6 concerti. I only have five or six recordings of them, but I truly adore them and I'd love to hear your views on the many versions out there (I like a lot, but the I Musici Philips recording from 1966 is my touchstone). Finally, I yearn for a video devoted to the Max Goberman Haydn Symphony recordings. By no means always the best performances, but they were such marvellous groundbreaking recordings. Consider it my Christmas list, Uncle Dave!
If folks are interested in a more complete box of Vivaldi vocal music, there’s one, or was one, on Phillips conducted by Negri. It includes the incredible Salve Reginas!
Thank you, Dave.
I love Corboz’s work. His Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Faure, etc. I hope you get a chance to review the Classical and Romantic box. I don’t know some of those early French and Italian music discs that were reviewed from this box, so I will have to check them out. I love his non-dogmatic approach to early music, as you noted. The choirs sound great, and the interpretations are so good, so luminous and clear-not interventionist or mannered, but expressively warm. Thank you.
This megabox is a treasure chest of fabulous Renaissance and Baroque music, performed elegantly and eloquently by Corboz' vocal and instrumental forces in Lausanne and Lisbon. As a great lover of early music, I obtained this set as soon as it was available, and have not been disappointed. The recording quality is somewhat variable, and the period brass and wind instruments in Corboz's first Monteverdi "Vespers" are pretty raucous and out of tune (one reason why he redid it later in his career). But this set is a real musical adventure. Thanks, Dave, for getting around to reviewing it.
Corboz first recording of the Bach Mass in b is terrific! And French baroque music is neglected, I need this box!
It's one of the great ones.
The "Classical & Romantic Eras" box is already available.
I bought this set for exactly the same reasons you stated. Alot of stuff not often recorded....French and Italian...large collection of Vivaldi and Monteverdi. There were only two other large sets of recordings of Vivaldi choral ...Going through the box selecting something new to me after something I already know. I wish he did more with the lesser recorded works. I am not sure if I will get the second box....too much competition.
Jeff. I concur. Seriously thinking about this one. But got a bunch of boxes coming. Dave. Ur gonna bankrupt me :) getting to a stage now where I scramble when they are delivered to hide from my wife. Haha
@@alanmcginn4796 I feel your pain 😎
His Christmas Oratorio is actually my favorite, and I have a lot of them. I don't remember whether your colleague mentioned it or not but something about the richly modern forward winds and darker-toned soloists and reasonably festive tempos just strikes the right balance, like a good, well-aged fruitcake.
With 1000s of Cd's in my collection life is too short to listen to these enormous box sets can't imagine the companies selling loads of these especially of more obscure music but i presume they make some profits somewhere
But how do you live? You know too much! For example Maazel, you pinpoint exactly to what I experienced with him playing in RFH London or Napoli San Carlo. My question is: do you listen non stop to every recording or just snippets and even so.. is a Q&A in order? Are you able to talk to peers or are you 24hrs busy? I can not fathom your knowledge and agree too most.
I do listen to every recording, but with reissues I can spot check the ones I remember well and re-listen to the ones I don't. It's really a function of memory and when it comes to music I have this quirk--I tend to remember most of what I hear, and more weirdly, if it's a familiar work I remember differences between versions of what I have heard. It's not perfect, and I still have to check to confirm my recollections, but my friends have told me they don't hear things the same way at all so I guess it's unusual. Anyway, it works for me. And I do listen constantly too (apart from my day job).
Megatorios.......🤣😂