[LAU] Is this the band Sky? Was: Text-based sound visualisation? Re: Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 52, Issue 32

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:32:29PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 11:08 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:52:15PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >  
> >> I can recommend Mozart's Requiem (Philips Classic Productions 1991.
> >> Note! I hate Mozart too, but I love this recording. The Academy of St.
> >> Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner are geniuses.)
> > 
> > Beh...
> > 
> > For Mozart's Requiem there's nothing coming close to the
> > version by Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale and La
> > Chapelle Royale, Harmonia Mundi, 1997. 
> 
> La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken - a belgium barok orchestra - did an
> amazing interpretation of it as well. It's fast but to too rushed.

Yes...  The Kuijken brothers, Erik Van Nevel, Philippe Herreweghe, ...
the Belgians have done well in this area.

I *hate* Mozart's Requiem performed too slowly... and Kuijkens
version certainly isn't too fast.

Tuba mirum spargens sonum...

Ciao,

-- 
FA