New Releases

[Daverz]

Hard to resist, although I have collected a smattering of both sets over the years.

I want these just for the Beethoven, which Hurwitz has been teasing his listeners with for months, waving around a Japanese edition of the Markevitch Beethoven recordings.  I already have quite a few of the other recordings on CD.

[Spotted Horses]

I want these just for the Beethoven, which Hurwitz has been teasing his listeners with for months, waving around a Japanese edition of the Markevitch Beethoven recordings.  I already have quite a few of the other recordings on CD.

If I do get the complete set, turns out I wasted some money on a Markevitch Original Masters release, a few years back, which has a sampling of the Beethoven, as well as some very good Mozart with Lamoreaux.

[André]

Hard to resist, although I have collected a smattering of both sets over the years.

Same here, but the DG ox has some splendid Schubert, Mozart, Berwald and a Pathétique for the ages (mono), more intense than the Philips LSO. From the Philips set I particularly recommend the Verdi Requiem.

[Mandryka]

(Very different approach from his earlier (wonderful!) CD of music questionably attributed to Dowland. I'll try to write something about it later if I can.)

[Mandryka]

Good organ, incandescent playing.

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93rgano_de_la_iglesia_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_de_la_Consolaci%C3%B3n_(Garrovillas_de_Alcon%C3%A9tar)

Harry's right

Early morning listening

Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia.

Organ Music.

Miguel del Barco Diaz, Organ.
Renaissance before 1578. (1 manual of 42 keys, C-a with a short octave.
Iglesia de Santa Maria de la Consolacion, Garrovillas de Alcontar, (Caceres, Spain)

Surpassed my expectation in the positive vein. Brilliant often finds performers and interesting organs, plus composers not often recorded. This is a gem, every organ buff needs this. Well recorded.

[Selig]

Southern Italian works of the 16th and 17th centuries

Don't miss it

[prémont]

Southern Italian works of the 16th and 17th centuries

Don't miss it

Thanks for pointing to this, which to me is a must have.

[prémont]

Good organ, incandescent playing.

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93rgano_de_la_iglesia_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_de_la_Consolaci%C3%B3n_(Garrovillas_de_Alcon%C3%A9tar)

Harry's right

I am particularly fascinated by the sound of this organ.

[Mirror Image]

I can't find an image but coming in late October is another installment of Susanna Mälkki's Bartók on BIS. The release will feature Concerto for Orchestra, but I'm unaware of any couplings at this juncture as I found on Presto Classical and it doesn't have a lot of information about it.

[Mirror Image]

Thanks! I need to get around to listening to her other Bartók recordings, which are still sealed at the moment.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks! I need to get around to listening to her other Bartók recordings, which are still sealed at the moment.

FWIW, my intro to Susanna Mälkki was her guest conductor turn leading the BSO in The Miraculous Mandarin. It was, as you may surmise, an excellent evening!

[Brian]

That cover art is really cool. Looks like maybe some kind of rock texture.

[Brian]

Schubert Octet
BIS

"Wigmore Soloists":
Isabelle van Keulen viola
Laura Samuel violin
Timothy Ridout viola
Kristina Blaumane cello
Tim Gibbs double bass
Michael Collins clarinet
Robin O'Neill bassoon
Alberto Menéndez Escribano horn

The live concert from which this CD was recorded is available online if you search for the name Wigmore Soloists.

[Mirror Image]

FWIW, my intro to Susanna Mälkki was her guest conductor turn leading the BSO in The Miraculous Mandarin. It was, as you may surmise, an excellent evening!

Sweet, Karl!

[Brian]

Very interesting for Szeryng and Hahn fans:



Chausson/Paganini: Boston SO, Michael Tilson Thomas, 1974
Hahn: Atlanta SO, Louis Lane, 1987, American premiere of the concerto
https://www.rhineclassics.com/collections/new/products/rh-022-2cd-henryk-szeryng-live-in-usa



Jolivet, Mehta, Isserlis, Argerich, some starry names there.
https://www.rhineclassics.com/collections/new/products/rh-019-9cd-ivry-gitlis-in-memoriam

[Mirror Image]

Heads up Holst fans...coming in September:

[Mandryka]

Southern Italian works of the 16th and 17th centuries

Don't miss it

Very good first impression.

[Brian]

Mompou was Hough's first true love as a pianist, so to speak. Here's his comment on "Jeunes filles au jardin", from the "Stephen Hough's Dream Album" encore collection:

"Mompou's slender masterpiece which closes the recital (from his suite Scènes d'enfants) takes me back to my own childhood. The first record we bought when I started to learn the piano was a mixed album, much like this one, on which Clive Lythgoe played this little gem. Thus I knew Mompou before I knew Mozart, and this piece has been my companion as an encore for over forty years of concerts now. I've never found another which could surpass its gentle charm. It was one of the first pieces I learned with my infant fingers and I hope it will be the last piece I play when my own career (was it all a dream?) finally comes to a close."

[Artem]

What was the reaction to Youn's first disk of Schubert?

[JBS]

I got an email yesterday that Amazon estimates it will ship the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra set at the end of September or beginning of October, even though the release date is August 20th.