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[Kontrapunctus]

Praise be! Release date is January 8, 2021. This is the final volume.

[vandermolen]

This has just been reviewed. I've liked Gregson's orchestral music and might well investigate this CD:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Oct/Gregson-piano-8574222.htm

[MusicTurner]

Praise be! Release date is January 8, 2021. This is the final volume.

Thank you for the info! A lot of varied music to explore in that series.

[Maestro267]

That Sorabji set is probably going to be a 2 or 3-fer, given the last of the Transcendental Studies is about 30-35 minutes by itself.

[staxomega]

Praise be! Release date is January 8, 2021. This is the final volume.

Definitely in for this, thanks for posting it.

[kyjo]

I don't think this one's been mentioned yet:

[asin]B08HGRZS3R[/asin]

Contains the 1st violin sonata, 1st cello sonata, and 2nd piano trio. Definitely one to look out for!

[Kontrapunctus]

That Sorabji set is probably going to be a 2 or 3-fer, given the last of the Transcendental Studies is about 30-35 minutes by itself.

One of the last Etudes is nearly an hour long! It's a 2-CD set from what I have seen.

[Maestro267]

Yeah, looking at the approximate timings listed on the (excellent) Sorabji Archive website, most of the rest of Nos. 84-99 are miniatures, none exceeding even 10 minutes.

[André]

So far nobody seems to have attempted to record the 24 preludes and fugues for piano of Niels Viggo Bentzon. The trouble is, he made 13 series of them (that's 312 p&f), each series lasting an hour.

[Mandryka]

Bach violin sonatas with organ, details here

http://www.encelade.net/index.php/en/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing-2/product/25873-js-bach-trios-for-keyboard-and-violin-by-odile-edouard-and-freddy-eichelberger

Lovely little organ, full of character, I don't know what it is, it's lithe enough to cope with the intricacy of the keyboard music in, for example, 1017/i. Odile Édouard makes a pure tone come out of her fiddle, it's an angel playing. Good recording too, with an ambiance. First impressions are very positive - with one reservation which could turn out to to be a serious problem - the sound seems maybe balanced to the violin part - maybe, I need more time to be sure.  It's may be a Spotify problem.

[prémont]

So far nobody seems to have attempted to record the 24 preludes and fugues for piano of Niels Viggo Bentzon. The trouble is, he made 13 series of them (that's 312 p&f), each series lasting an hour.

I suppose you are aware that he recorded the entire "Det tempererede klaver" himself, yes all 13 series. He was a most accomplished pianist. I own the set, but have only listened to the first three series. It's generally wild-growing quasi improvised music.

Accidentally I came across his second piano sonata played by Rolf Reinhardt. A nice experience. A "German" serious interpretation of the music which makes it weighty and listenable.

[prémont]

Lovely little organ, full of character, I don't know what it is, it's lithe enough to cope with the intricacy of the keyboard music in, for example, 1017/i. Odile Édouard makes a pure tone come out of her fiddle, it's an angel playing. Good recording too, with an ambiance. First impressions are very positive - with one reservation which could turn out to to be a serious problem - the sound seems maybe balanced to the violin part - maybe, I need more time to be sure.  It's may be a Spotify problem.

I would expect the use of organ to improve the balance, but if the organ is under-balanced it doesn't help. However, how would you compare it to Pierot/Gester?

[Todd]

[André]

I suppose you are aware that he recorded the entire "Det tempererede klaver" himself, yes all 13 series. He was a most accomplished pianist. I own the set, but have only listened to the first three series. It's generally wild-growing quasi improvised music.

Accidentally I came across his second piano sonata played by Rolf Reinhardt. A nice experience. A "German" serious interpretation of the music which makes it weighty and listenable.

I didn't know he had recorded them ! I suppose that distribution of this release must be quite limited. Certainly a collector's item  .

[MusicTurner]

I didn't know he had recorded them ! I suppose that distribution of this release must be quite limited. Certainly a collector's item  .

It's fairly commonly seen here in DK, also at second-hand sales. In general, I think the works of his earlier decades have a reputation for being more thought-through and well-crafted, say the first 200 opuses ... the early Passacaglia op.31 for piano, recorded on Odeon LP by Bengt Johnson, really needs a CD release, for example.

[prémont]

It's fairly commonly seen here in DK, also at second-hand sales. In general, I think the works of his earlier decades have a reputation for being more thought-through and well-crafted, say the first 200 opuses ... the early Passacaglia op.31 for piano, recorded on Odeon LP by Bengt Johnson, really needs a CD release, for example.

As far as I know the first series, which he recorded for Fona LP ca 1970, didn't make it to CD, and the complete 13 series he later made for Classico didn't include the older recording, but contained a new recording of the first series. Maybe you can confirm or correct this.

[André]

Interesting, thanks for that.

Last week I listened to his symphonies 5 and 7 multiple times. I was particularly fascinated by no 5. I have 2 other Dacapo discs of his symphonic music that I should revisit. But no piano or chamber music. He composed more works than WAM...

[Brian]

So far nobody seems to have attempted to record the 24 preludes and fugues for piano of Niels Viggo Bentzon. The trouble is, he made 13 series of them (that's 312 p&f), each series lasting an hour.

How did he have time for anything else?!

[MusicTurner]

As far as I know the first series, which he recorded for Fona LP ca 1970, didn't make it to CD, and the complete 13 series he later made for Classico didn't include the older recording, but contained a new recording of the first series. Maybe you can confirm or correct this.

I'm pretty sure it is a new set.
The old Fona LP recording is extremely rare, I've never seen it, through decades of collecting, whereas you quite often see his other LPs of Beethoven sonatas, or his own selected sonatas and piano works, Scriabin+Reger, etc.

[Mandryka]

I would expect the use of organ to improve the balance, but if the organ is under-balanced it doesn't help. However, how would you compare it to Pierot/Gester?

No it's a speaker thing I think, it sounds better balanced on my big system and with fresh ears this morning.