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Submitted by
Name: dhondt Wilfried
From: Flanders Belgium
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Bij mijn zoektocht naar meer informatie over de CD Graun - Concertos for Strings - Grauel Violin Concerto - Moderntimes_1800 CO - Ilia Korol vond ik op uw site de meest relevante informatie

Bedankt voor deze info

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Added: April 13, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Monique van Oosterhout
From: Netherlands /South Africa
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Please let me know when Stefan Temminthe recorder virtuoso the will perform in the Netherlands, Utrecht in the near future. many thanks, Monique

Added: March 15, 2016

Submitted by
Name: albert zwartjes
From: The Netherlands
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Comments:
Just bought the complete CD set of Stefani Molardi playing Bach's Organ Works on the Brilliant Classics label.

All I can say is - wish I had read your review on the initially separately issued Volume 1 of these very same renditions first!

Agree with you wholeheartedly!

What a plodder, what a total lack of charm, conviction, personality..... B-o-r-i-n-g !!

I shall stick to my much beloved Peter Hurford complete set of the same works on Decca....and lick my (financial) wounds.

Added: November 30, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Jaakko Tuohiniemi
From: Helsinki, Finland
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Comments:
The reviews written - and published for all to read free of charge - by Johan van Veen are a great enjoyment for me, actually have been already for many years.

His reviews are just like reviews should be: long enough to catch the point, not only the positive things, but also in making us remember that nothing should be taken for granted what comes to historically informed performance practice. Making an evaluation of artistic creations is always a subjective work - and to be credidble must not omit the negative aspects, for if you are able to say that something is good, you must be able to say as well that something is bad. The latter aspect is too often hushed away, but Mr van Veen bravely keeps saying what he thinks.

Even if I find myself to be once a while in opposition with his reviews, reading them is one of top things for me, week after week. So very many thanks, Johan, for your great work!

Added: July 19, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Bart O'Brien
From: Rotterdam
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Comments:
With the demise of International Record Review, your intelligent, knowledgeable reviews become even more important. Please keep up the good work!

Added: April 18, 2015

Submitted by
Name: Lothar Bemmann
From: Goettingen (D)
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Comments:
Bach CPE..., Treasures of the Empfindsamkeit,
Metronome Recordings MET CD 1091,
Carole Cerasi: please amend harpsichord to clavichord.

Added: July 28, 2014

Submitted by
Name: Matthias Velten
From: Cologne D
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Comments:
thank you for the helpful radio guide, but you forgot one important concert:
20-3-14 Klara 20.30 Huelgas Ens.:de Rore : Passione secundum Johannem, live broadc within Klara festival, Brussels Miniemenkerk

Added: March 22, 2014

Submitted by
Name: John T. Dulaney
From: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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Comments:
I always look forward to your monthly lists of CD releases, an essential addition to Gramophone and Fanfare. Thank you very much for your work, and best wishes for the holiday season.

Added: November 26, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Russell Blacker
From: UK
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Comments:
Thanks for your reviews of CDs. It is really helpful to have well informed comments - such as yours - on new recordings as most early music discs don't get reviewed in 'Gramophone'. Keep it up.

I agree with you wholeheartedly about the dumbing down of Radio3 - I used to listen to it all the time to catch the special recordings they did - remember "The Rise of Polyphony" series by Basil Lam or the wonderful series of English Madrigals by Anthony Rooley and the Consort of Musicke? Now, it's just CDs-based and I don't bother at all. I do my best to catch snippets of new recordings on sites such as the CPO label or Itunes.

Added: February 28, 2012

Submitted by
Name: Ercole Nisini
From: The Stage

Comments:
I am just suggesting that not qualified people should not put their opinion about our job on the web or share their comments with concerts organizations since this is a damage to our work!! If you do not like our music, our CDs or our interpretation it is fine, but please do not put your opinion everywhere if you are not requested!!!!! Find the way to share it privately with your friends, but please do not enter into professionals channels......or please let us know somehow that you are a qualified journalist or musicologist (.....a professional musicians would not do that anyway)!!!!!!!!!!

E.N.

Added: October 18, 2011