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PerfectWagnerite

Quote from: André on June 13, 2017, 03:24:22 PM

Not too sure about a 12'36" Adagietto.
For comparison consider Bruno Walter's NYPO recording where the Adagietto clocks in at 7'35".

Mahlerian

Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on June 13, 2017, 03:53:17 PM
For comparison consider Bruno Walter's NYPO recording where the Adagietto clocks in at 7'35".

Mahler's own timing was similar, according to a contemporary report.  That said, he would have been the first to say that traditions of tempo can be superseded if the music calls for it.  Although pushing 13 minutes does seem excessive to me, if a conductor pulls it off, that's what counts.
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The Osmo/Minnesota recordings have been consistently eccentric, often bizarre.

Adagietto excerpt

brunumb

Quote from: Brian on June 13, 2017, 07:33:29 PM
The Osmo/Minnesota recordings have been consistently eccentric, often bizarre.

Adagietto excerpt

Dirgetto for self-indulgent conductor.

PerfectWagnerite

Quote from: brunumb on June 13, 2017, 10:05:25 PM
Dirgetto for self-indulgent conductor.
Fairly common today though: Mahler has gotten slower and more and more eccentric while Beethoven has gotten much much faster.

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Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on June 14, 2017, 05:35:40 AM
There's a reason he kept marking his scores Nicht schleppend!
Someone must have taken Vanska's score and crossed-out Mahler and wrote Bruckner on it.

Kontrapunctus

No details yet, but Decca just signed 23-year old Tarasevich-Nikolaev, the grandson of Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva. He certainly has a good pedigree!



Todd




I generally don't buy Saint-Saens recordings.  I will make an exception in this case.
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A nice reissue.

Also coming, but with no images and incomplete information:

Fazil Say plays Nocturnes.  I assume Chopin's.

Ragna Schirmer teams with Ariane Matiakh in Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Fourth, apparently from March concerts.

Ivor Bolton's Bruckner cycle all boxed up.

An Evgeny Kissin Beethoven recital.  I was under the impression he was on sabbatical, so I don't know if this is some reissue compilation, something that was in the can, or something entirely new.
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Another Eloquence reissue of note. 
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Quote from: Todd on June 15, 2017, 05:28:13 AM
Also coming, but with no images and incomplete information:

Fazil Say plays Nocturnes.  I assume Chopin's.


Great news! He performed Chopin last season here - combined with Mozart and then Say as encores. The Mozart didn't really grab me all that much (I still bought the box and enjoy it), the Say was really week but people loved it ... but the Chopin, wow!
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BIS has made its first recording with the London Symphony. Conductor Lance Friedel leads Walter Piston's Symphony No. 6, Stephen Albert's Symphony No. 2 and Samuel Jones's Symphony No. 3.

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Quote from: Todd on June 15, 2017, 06:51:23 AM



Another Eloquence reissue of note.

I had it on vinyl at one point. Bizarre that recordings by such a prominent combination of conductor and orchestra should take so long to appear on CD. Probably reflects some negative opinion held by Decca staff responsible for scheduling back catalog reissues. I remember reading, probably in Culshaw's book, that he was in the control room with Kubelik conducting Dvorak with the WPO around the same time and he thought that the microphones were malfunctioning because the Vienna Philharmonic sounded so bad with Kubelik on the podium.  ::)

amw

Quote from: Todd on June 15, 2017, 06:51:23 AM



Another Eloquence reissue of note. 
Definitely.

How does it compare to his Bavarian Radio Symphony recordings on Orfeo?

Todd

Quote from: amw on June 17, 2017, 03:59:52 AM
How does it compare to his Bavarian Radio Symphony recordings on Orfeo?


I'll probably be finding out in not too long.
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And two world premiere recordings that both feature superstar guest performers:




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Thabks, as always, for your update, Brian!

Quote from: Brian on June 19, 2017, 05:42:21 PM
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Wow! That one looks really enticing. Of the works included in this CD, I only know Interventions (which I saw in 2008 Berlin with Barenboim under the baton of Boulez--the last time I saw him conduct  :( ).

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That an established CD label can typeset a cover this way, with such an unnecessary hyphenation of a word, totally baffles me... ::)

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Quote from: ritter on June 20, 2017, 11:25:45 AM
That an established CD label can typeset a cover this way, with such an unnecessary hyphenation of a word, totally baffles me... ::)

What makes you think this record label is anything more than a person with a copy of Adobe Illustrator and a rolodex containing names of recording engineers?