... this is a must-have. Father Willis, Simon Nieminski and the lot at Palmerston Place have given us a taste of their daily life with English church music at it's best. The label is named "Pro Organo" and the CD is numbered CD 7208. So hear my words, ye people, the online store is just a click away!
Father Willis? Click here to find out....
Very Important!!
Many of my previous posts are linking to the now inactive site "homefree.freewave.no/~s302202". These links will not work anymore. However, if you replace the part of the URL containing what I just mentioned with "www.organamateur.com", the links will work beautifully...!!
I am still catching up with trends on the internet. This time it is YouTube. Go to my channel here. There is a video there too!!!
I was let into temptation of buying a Messiah DVD, and I did it. I fell for the trademark of the Choir of King's College Cambridge. This a live recording from 1994 in the Pieterskerk, Leiden, The Netherlands, on the Brilliant Classics label. Brilliant is of course not a quality label, I knew that. I did buy a big Bach CD box from Brilliant many years ago, and I have not yet listened to all of it... There are mainly two reasons why I don't recommend this DVD. The first is that the sound production is really bad. The use of dynamical compression is just so heavy that I feel sick listening to it more than 5 minutes. The second reason is that the sopranos is not singing very well. Some them aren't singing at all, in fact. They just move their lips. It is a bit disappointing to observe King's College Choir being like other average choirs, as their reputation is almost flawless. It is not worth the money to buy this DVD, even if it's cheap.
