New Releases

[The new erato]

This 3 CD set is new at mdt.co.uk. £0-42 (+VAT for those inside the EU).

[Brian]

MDT is publishing a lot more new releases to go with Norrington's Haydn Paris!

Part I

[Brian]

Part II



BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis. Genia Kuhmeier, Elisabeth Kulman, Mark Padmore, Hanno Muller-Brachmann, Anton Barachovsky, Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Bernard Haitink. BR Klassik



Variations on a Theme by Niccolò Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 1 'Edward'
Klavierstücke, Op. 76 Nos 1, 2, and 6
Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9
Klavierstück, Op. 119 No. 2
Intermezzo, Op. 117 No. 3
Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1
Barry Douglas (piano)



ISAAC ALBÉNIZ

Piano Concerto No 1 in A minor 'Concierto fantástico' Op 78 [27'50] orchestrated with TOMÁS BRETÓN (1850–1923)

1 Allegro ma non troppo [13'07]
2 Rêverie et Scherzo: Andante – Presto [7'11]
3 Allegro [7'32]
4 Rapsodia española Op 70 [13'14]
ENRIQUE GRANADOS

Piano Concerto in C minor 'Patético' [35'54]

5 Lento grave e quasi recitativo – Allegro grave non molto lento [18'36] reconstructed by MELANI MESTRE (b1976)
6 Allegretto (after Danza española No 2: Orientale & Capricho español) [8'33] adapted for piano and orchestra by MELANI MESTRE
7 Molto allegro (after Allegro de concierto) [8'45] adapted for piano and orchestra by MELANI MESTRE
Melani Mestre piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins

Granados never actually got round to writing his piano concerto, so our pianist here - Hyperion debutant Melani Mestre - has done it for him. And it's a romp. The first movement is pretty much 'echt', from Granados' sketches for a putative piano concerto, but thereafter it's a hugely enjoyable what-if ...





The two works on this recording are separated by 35 years, during which time Penderecki made a decisive break with the post-war European avant-garde. In the Magnificat, chilling instrumental clusters, spectral sounds and impassioned rhetoric unite with tonality and counterpoint to deliver a work of monumental emotional power. Written to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Kadisz is among the most distinctive of Penderecki's later choral works in the stark contrasts between drama and sombre reflection of its individual sections.



Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973)

Sinfonia degli eroi†
Dai sepolcri†
Ditirambo tragico†
Armenia†
Grottesco
Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra / Amaury du Closel

†WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING



Alongside Carl Reinecke, Jadassohn was regarded as the leading composer of the Leipzig School, continuing the tradition of musical romanticism inspired by Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Having studied with Liszt, Jadassohn later became an instructor in theory, piano, and composition - his pupils included many composers represented on cpo – such as Frederick Delius, Edvard Grieg, Ferruccio Busoni, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Felix Weingartner, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert. The four Symphonies presented on these new discs are a significant part of his oeuvre.



Ignatz Waghalter rose from an impoverished childhood in Poland to become conductor at the newly founded Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin in 1912. Here, the first performance of his youthful comic opera Mandragola, attended by luminaries such as Richard Strauss, Busoni, and Humperdinck, won him huge acclaim: the Overture and Intermezzo reveal his orchestral mastery. With the rise of Nazism Waghalter left Europe for America where he strongly identified with the Afro-American cause, and began work on the New World Suite, ten short movements of rich melodic imagination that illustrate his constant desire to write approachable and lively music. Volume 1 in this series [8572809] was an ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) nominee.



BARBER Piano Concerto Op. 38
BARTOK Piano Concerto No. 3
KEITH JARRETT Tokyo Encore

Keith Jarrett, piano
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken
Dennis Russell Davies conductor
New Japan Philharmonic
Kazuyoshi Akiyama conductor

For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto op. 38 and Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3, and rising to the challenges of these major works.

[Karl Henning]

MDT is publishing a lot more new releases to go with Norrington's Haydn Paris!

Part I

A question for you here 

[Todd]

From the DG Bad Hair Shots collection.





From the Steinway No Hair Shots collection.

[Mandryka]

MDT is publishing a lot more new releases to go with Norrington's Haydn Paris!

I bet this will be outstanding.

[prémont]

I bet this will be outstanding.

Probably outstanding, but not playing for more than 40 minutes, and only containing "minor" Works.

[Mandryka]

Probably outstanding, but not playing for more than 40 minutes, and only containing "minor" Works.

Oh yes, I was confusing the preludes there with the preludes and fugues BWV 553-560.

[Camphy]

[Brian]

Mandryka and Premont:

"right now in the pipeline I've got the Bach violin-harpsichord sonatas, with Erich Höbarth for Aeolus, and the flute-harpsichord sonatas, with Pauliina Fred for Naxos." - interview with Aapo Häkkinen

[SonicMan46]

MDT is publishing a lot more new releases to go with Norrington's Haydn Paris!

Hi Brian - that is quite a HAUL!  Just received V.1 of the Telemann w/ the same conductor/orchestra, i.e. 'The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments' - amazingly and despite owning about 50 CDs of GPF's works, this is my first recording w/ Schneider & La Stagione Frankfurt - need to check out their other disks against my list of Telemann works in my collection?

Mozart PCs w/ Brautigam (have his Piano Sonata set) - looks like he will eventually record all of these works, likely w/ a resulting box?  I'll look forward to your comments - currently, own Viviana Sofronitsky & Malcolm Bilson doing these works on period instruments - could cull out the Bilson for Brautigam - hmmm?  Dave

[Wakefield]

"right now in the pipeline I've got the Bach violin-harpsichord sonatas, with Erich Höbarth for Aeolus, and the flute-harpsichord sonatas, with Pauliina Fred for Naxos." - interview with Aapo Häkkinen

Höbbart/Häkkinen: an interesting and unexpected association. 

[prémont]

Mandryka and Premont:

"right now in the pipeline I've got the Bach violin-harpsichord sonatas, with Erich Höbarth for Aeolus, and the flute-harpsichord sonatas, with Pauliina Fred for Naxos." - interview with Aapo Häkkinen

Thanks. Reminds me of purchasing his Bach harpsichord conserto set.

[prémont]

Höbbart/Häkkinen: an interesting and unexpected association. 

Mmm..I think Häkkinen wins.   

[Wakefield]

Mmm..I think Häkkinen wins.   

As a chamber musician, I know Höbarth basically through the Mosaïques, playing repertory from Classical and Romantic composers...

[prémont]

As a chamber musician, I know Höbarth basically through the Mosaïques, playing repertory from Classical and Romantic composers...

Well yes, I know him from a few recordings only, which are the Mosaïques´ early Beethoven quartets and from Harnoncourt´s two sets of Brandenburgs from 1982, where Höbarth plays first viola in concertos 3 and 6 and leads the ripieno´s first violins in concerto 1,2 and 4. He sounds a bit anonymous in the Bach, I think. All in all he has not recorded that much.

[Mandryka]

There are some Haydn trios too. I don't have a view about Höbarth but I will say that the viola player who Hakkinen did the gamba sonatas with on Naxos (Mikko Perkola) plays in a very characterful way, which I rather like  -- so yes, a surprising choice.

[Wakefield]

There are some Haydn trios too. I don't have a view about Höbarth but I will say that the viola player who Hakkinen did the gamba sonatas with on Naxos (Mikko Perkola) plays in a very characterful way, which I rather like  -- so yes, a surprising choice.

I read some two or three years ago about a projected recording of the violin sonatas by Federico Guglielmo and Claudio Astronio. Apparently, it didn't come true. 

[André]

Check my post in the Beethoven Sonatas thread.

[HIPster]

Posting for the Weiss/lute fans ~
[asin]B00SOXPOH4[/asin]
Drops April 14; on the Carpe Diem label:

http://www.carpediem-records.de/en/

The new solo CD of Toyohiko Satoh, the 72 year old Japanese lutenist who is considered my many as one of the most influential lute players of the last century, presents a well-known repertoire of baroque lute music. Mr. Satoh was the first lutenist to record Bach's lute music on LP in the 70s (Phillips). Now he returns to this music 40 years later, delivering a completely different rendering of these iconic pieces. His playing has been influenced much by his studies of traditional Japanese arts such as tea ceremony, No-theater and Zen meditation. So here we are presented a recording that draws from the deep silence within, from the awareness of everything in the universe being connected, and from the understanding of Bach's music as a universal, almost superhuman symbol of completeness.

Released the day following my Birthday.  I've already pre-ordered this.