Just put on Bruckner’s first. Hopefully I’ll get through all 9 by tomorrow!
I broke months of musical abstinence to search out and listen to this album. Sublime. Many thanks!
Mercifully free of kazoos / Crumhorns I assume?
Nice to see you on here 
Thanks. Trio sonatas do tend to be mercifully free of medieval instruments. I am around until the threatened update of the Forum software takes place, and then I will be cast into outer darkness 
Hope all goes well for you these hot days.
Regards
Chris
It turns out I needn’t have searched much for this album, since I posted it and marked it as a favourite on 8th Jan. 2021. It just shows how much I am out of things nowadays
I’m working through a lot of the HDTT Pure DSD256 transfers from tape this week as I put together a list of my top of the pile list for sound quality. Most of these I’m posting under the open genre thread on what’s spinning now. But I thought I drop this one here for those who never visit that other thread. Some I post may not make the list, others will. This one WILL make my list, btw.
In honor of the Fourth of July, I played this a couple of days ago:
These variations were written by Charles Ives at the age of 17 as a “fun“ piece for Independence Day. He gave the first performance at the Methodist Church in Brewster, New York, just down the road from where I live. They are not desert Island music, but I’ve always enjoyed them. I’ve heard several recordings; many of them were recorded on very large organs in large halls with heavy registration. I like this one because the registration is lighter and you can hear more clearly what’s going on; the hi-res sound is very good.
Ives, who began working as a church organist at the age of 14, described the last variation as “more fun than a baseball game.“ (Ives played baseball in high school and as an undergraduate at Yale.). It is marked to go as fast as the organist can manage the pedal part.
A superb new release from Alexey Pogarskiy at Artes Mirabiles. Alexey has been making excellent recordings. If you are not familiar with them, this Latvian label, founded in 2016, is one explore and continue to watch. His most recent three albums have been terrific. NativeDSD listing
Great Work. I love the Musical Offering for dacades now. Very fine recording from the early days of historic orientated performances. The Kuijkens and Gustav Leonhard; great.
