New Releases

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This recording just came out today:

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I bought it for the Chavez Piano Concerto. A work I've been really wanting to hear a good, modern performance of. I already read one review of this recording and the reviewer gave it high marks. It would be hard for me to not resist this concerto because Chavez is a composer I've felt needs a revival. Hopefully this recording will mark some more releases either from this source or from other labels. Surprised Naxos hasn't recorded all of Chavez's symphonies. They would be a great label to do it.

[The new erato]

The more or less complete Bruckner (can see no Helgoland) on Profil.

[knight66]

I don't know whether there is more waiting in the wings, but LSO Live has now issued the Sir Colin Davis concert of Weber's Der Freichutz. It has appeared on Spotify. I recommend it, it has bounce and drama, lyricism and it is very well sung and played. It may well be the last new recording we get from him.

Mike

[TheGSMoeller]

A new Berlioz disc from Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Ticciati. This time joined by Mezzo Karen Cargill in performances of Les Nuits D'Ete and La Mort De Cleopatre. The only other fan of Ticciati's fantastique recording I can think of is Sarge.


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[Octave]

I saw that disc advertised at some website I recently visited, and I am now as then mesmermized by the cover art.  I don't know if I'd put it in a frame, but it makes my eyes burn.  (In a kind of pleasant, lysergic way.)

[TheGSMoeller]

I saw that disc advertised at some website I recently visited, and I am now as then mesmermized by the cover art.  I don't know if I'd put it in a frame, but it makes my eyes burn.  (In a kind of pleasant, lysergic way.)

It's like being in an Altered States trip. With dragonflies! 

[kishnevi]

Stumbled over this on Amazon.

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ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the music of Dobrinka Tabakova, a composer born in Bulgaria in 1980 but raised from a young age in London. In Tabakova music richly melodic, texturally sensuous, often emotionally radiant there resides the new and the familiar, or rather the familiar within the new, and vice versa; there are the spirits of East and West coursing through the pieces, usually hand in hand; and just as the composers technical virtuosity is apparent, she possesses a desire, and a gift, for direct communication that can be heard in virtually every measure.

The recording features Tabakovas Concerto for Cello & Strings and the Rameau-channeling Suite in Old Style for viola and chamber orchestra, as well as three chamber works: the string trio Insight, the string septet Such Different Paths and a trio for violin, accordion and double-bass, Frozen River Flows.

The performers include star violinist Janine Jansen and several of Tabakovas former conservatory colleagues: violinist Roman Mints, violist-conductor Max Rysanov and cellist Kristina Blaumane, principal with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Completely unfamiliar with the composer; anyone know what her music is actually like?

[knight66]

A new Berlioz disc from Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Ticciati. This time joined by Mezzo Karen Cargill in performances of Les Nuits D'Ete and La Mort De Cleopatre. The only other fan of Ticciati's fantastique recording I can think of is Sarge.


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I will be collecting that one, the reviews have been excellent. I have been following this young conductor, he is remarkable. Ticciati was mentored by Colin Davis and it looks like he caught the Berlioz bug. But he is no kind of copy cat. I suggest he is destined for the very top of his profession.

Mike

[TheGSMoeller]

I will be collecting that one, the reviews have been excellent. I have been following this young conductor, he is remarkable. Ticciati was mentored by Colin Davis and it looks like he caught the Berlioz bug. But he is no kind of copy cat. I suggest he is destined for the very top of his profession.

Mike

Have you acquired Ticciati's fantastique with SCO, knight? It's a lovely performance, the SCO produce such a smooth tone.

[Mirror Image]

Coming June 3rd -

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An excellent coupling as both concerti are favorites of mine. Will be interested in hearing what Ehnes does with these masterpieces. Kirill Karabits with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra are excellent choices for Ehnes.

[TheGSMoeller]

Should be lots of Britten released being his 100th birthday. Here's another VC release, the third from BBC and Gardiner...


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[Opus106]

Gardiner...

No, it's the blind one conducting. (Yes, it's late here. )

[TheGSMoeller]

Funny, iPhone suggested Gardiner for Gardner. I'm too trusting and accepted the suggestion. Damn you, Apple, fool me once...

[Mirror Image]

Should be lots of Britten released being his 100th birthday. Here's another VC release, the third from BBC and Gardiner...


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I'm lukewarm about this recording to be honest. I wasn't all too impressed with Gardner's other Britten recordings, but I haven't heard it but let's hope Little delivers the goods here. Howard Shelley is a good pianist but I seriously don't see him knocking Richter or Osborne out of the count.

[Mirror Image]

Another release coming out that I'm definitely going to snap up on June 3rd:

[knight66]

Have you acquired Ticciati's fantastique with SCO, knight? It's a lovely performance, the SCO produce such a smooth tone.

I have read the reviews of it and they are excellent, (mostly), i have not bought it yet. The discs are not on Spotify, so i am very tempted.

Mike

[Brian]

Wagner:
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 3
- Siegfried Idyll
- Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort, 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene' (from Götterdämmerung)
[Petra Lang (mezzo)]
- Götterdämmerung: Dawn, Siegfried's Rhine Journey & Funeral March
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer

[Brian]

This week Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester are finishing recording sessions for a Brahms symphony cycle.

[MishaK]

I hope it ends up being more interesting than his first cycle with RCO, which was boring and was quickly deleted from the catalog.

[Parsifal]

I hope it ends up being more interesting than his first cycle with RCO, which was boring and was quickly deleted from the catalog.

Deleted?

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If the new one is anything like the Dresden Beethoven, we can be confident of it being expensive, at least.