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Roy Bland · October 13, 2023, 05:40:39 PM

Quote from: JBS on October 13, 2023, 10:18:52 AMWell done! Then it's safe to assume you know the official name of "Komarov's Concerto"?

it could be helpful
https://www.komarov.msk.ru/index.html

JBS · October 13, 2023, 07:31:28 PM

Quote from: Roy Bland on October 13, 2023, 05:40:39 PMit could be helpful
https://www.komarov.msk.ru/index.html

Thank you. Do you know if the recording linked there is the one on the Northern Flowers CD?
At the very least, Ms. Tarasova is the soloist there.

vandermolen · October 13, 2023, 11:13:01 PM

Quote from: Roy Bland on October 13, 2023, 05:40:39 PMit could be helpful
https://www.komarov.msk.ru/index.html

Thanks very much.

prémont · October 14, 2023, 01:51:24 AM

Wolfgang Rübsam's latest:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/j-s-bach-organ-transcriptions/hnum/11601063

Mandryka · October 14, 2023, 09:12:02 AM

Quote from: premont on October 14, 2023, 01:51:24 AMWolfgang Rübsam's latest:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/j-s-bach-organ-transcriptions/hnum/11601063

Good that he's developed a good relationship with Brilliant.

Brian · October 14, 2023, 11:20:40 AM

EARLY DECEMBER
(and a very adventurous month for BIS/Apple)

The Sgambati is a live recording of the concerto (studio recording of the short overture) dating from 2012 (studio) and 2013 (live), which is how we are getting a new recording of both a defunct orchestra and a deceased pianist.

Jaakko Kuusisto's Symphony was written while he was struggling with his fatal cancer, and left unfinished; his brother Pekka completed it and conducts.

"Pictured Within" is a newly commissioned "reverse Enigma Variations": all the variations are dedicated to Martyn Brabbins, and all of them are by different composers. Brabbins did assign each composer an Elgar variation to "respond to" or write in the tempo/mood of: for example, Brett Dean takes one of the viola solos, Harrison Birtwistle gets Nimrod (!), and so forth. Other participants include Judith Weir, Sally Beamish, Kalevi Aho, Gavin Bryars, Anthony Payne, and Colin Matthews.

PR blurb: "Helvi Leiviskä was Finland's first major female composer. Initially inspired by the language of late Romanticism – she mentioned Brahms as her favourite composer – Leiviskä developed an original, modern style that eschewed all schools, convinced that it was more important to tread one's own path than to follow fashionable styles. While her output may seem small in terms of quantity, it more than makes up for it in the quality of the works, especially her symphonies, a genre she considered 'the highest manifestation of music'.

"This disc presents three works: the Sinfonia Brevis, a confidently crafted work reminiscent of Sibelius; the austere, restrained, melancholy and at times very dissonant Symphony No. 2, which could be called 'tragic'; and the Suite for orchestra No. 2, which uses material from a powerfully descriptive score originally composed for a film."

Symphonic Addict · October 14, 2023, 03:07:50 PM

CPO

Madiel · October 15, 2023, 06:24:02 PM

Quote from: Brian on October 14, 2023, 11:20:40 AM(and a very adventurous month for BIS/Apple)

I can't help wondering whether it's sheer coincidence or whether the change in status has anything to do with it.

JBS · October 15, 2023, 06:24:17 PM

I haven't seen this mentioned

Released this past Friday.
For some reason the cover does not list the best reason to get this CD: it includes De Falla's Nights In The Gardens Of Spain.

Atriod · October 16, 2023, 06:30:18 PM

Quote from: JBS on October 15, 2023, 06:24:17 PMI haven't seen this mentioned

Released this past Friday.
For some reason the cover does not list the best reason to get this CD: it includes De Falla's Nights In The Gardens Of Spain.

I certainly enjoy Nights in the Gardens of Spain more than both of Ravel's Piano Conerti.

atardecer · October 16, 2023, 11:31:39 PM

Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain is an outstanding work. I consider it comparable in quality to the Ravel (although I like Ravel's more). Not sure why they wouldn't list it on the cover.

Roasted Swan · October 17, 2023, 01:50:02 AM

Quote from: Madiel on October 15, 2023, 06:24:02 PMI can't help wondering whether it's sheer coincidence or whether the change in status has anything to do with it.

I would imagine release schedules are worked out months in advance. And in any case I cannot really imagine Apple as pushing niche contemporary releases over and above big old cash cows.....!

Madiel · October 17, 2023, 02:36:22 AM

Quote from: Roasted Swan on October 17, 2023, 01:50:02 AMI would imagine release schedules are worked out months in advance. And in any case I cannot really imagine Apple as pushing niche contemporary releases over and above big old cash cows.....!

Well, this is in fact months in advance. But I wasn't necessarily thinking of Apple pushing this, I was wondering whether Robert von Bahr might have taken the opportunity to push out a bunch of stuff with minimal consequence.

Roasted Swan · October 17, 2023, 03:43:46 AM

Quote from: Madiel on October 17, 2023, 02:36:22 AMWell, this is in fact months in advance. But I wasn't necessarily thinking of Apple pushing this, I was wondering whether Robert von Bahr might have taken the opportunity to push out a bunch of stuff with minimal consequence.

good point.

Symphonic Addict · October 17, 2023, 01:25:35 PM

Langgaard's Songs from Dacapo

Madiel · October 18, 2023, 01:05:38 AM

I wonder if the pianist has any family connection to the composer Riisager. No evidence of such a connection in his bio.

71 dB · October 18, 2023, 04:02:35 AM

Quote from: Madiel on October 18, 2023, 01:05:38 AMI wonder if the pianist has any family connection to the composer Riisager. No evidence of such a connection in his bio.

Riisager is probably just a very common Danish surname. Maybe just as common as Jacobsen. Family connections are rarely if ever left unmentioned in artist bios.

Madiel · October 18, 2023, 04:37:28 AM

Quote from: 71 dB on October 18, 2023, 04:02:35 AMRiisager is probably just a very common Danish surname. Maybe just as common as Jacobsen. Family connections are rarely if ever left unmentioned in artist bios.

Well I'm not aware of it being a common name, hence the speculation. It doesn't strike me as a particularly common one from what I know.

EDIT: Forebears website suggests only about 600 people named Riisager. Not a lot.

SECOND EDIT: The forebears website is generally quite fun to play with. For one thing, it confirms other evidence that my mother's maiden name is ridiculously obscure. 17 people. Makes Riisager look common.

prémont · October 18, 2023, 04:40:08 AM

Quote from: 71 dB on October 18, 2023, 04:02:35 AMRiisager is probably just a very common Danish surname. Maybe just as common as Jacobsen. Family connections are rarely if ever left unmentioned in artist bios.

No, Riisager is rather uncommon in Denmark. The name is presently shared by 348 persons, while Jacobsen is shared by 23.379 persons.

71 dB · October 18, 2023, 04:54:30 AM

Quote from: premont on October 18, 2023, 04:40:08 AMNo, Riisager is rather uncommon in Denmark. The name is presently shared by 348 persons, while Jacobsen is shared by 23.379 persons.

Oh, ok. I was wrong then in my speculation. While 348 people is far from making Riisager a relatively common name, it is quite common compared to my own surname which is quite rare Finnish surname (only 10 people having it including me).