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JBS

Quote from: Madiel on February 04, 2025, 07:16:30 PMNow that I've noticed the comment, I'm curious about the story behind the mother spelling the surname "Kvint" and the son using "Quint".

It's a perfectly sensible shift, I'm just curious about the decision to shift.

Edit: he came from Russia as a teen, I don't know whether the whole family came. But it seems the surname would have been Квинт.

Second edit: looks like his mother stayed in Russia. So for her the name is a transliteration.

You can now all carry on with your day...

Mother lives in Russia and spells it Kvint. More precisely Лора Квинт.

Son has lived in the USA since the age of 17, and is now a US citizen. Her brother also lives in the USA, as did her father until his death.

The real oddity lies in the fact that Philippe's father was a man named Alexander Zhurbin, the first of Lara's three husbands. So he opts to use her family's maiden name instead of his father's family name. She apparently used Kvint through all three marriages, probably for professional reasons (her career started before she married Zhurbin).

The above is from her Russia Wikipedia biography, linked from her entry on Discogs. Which gives Quint as the primary version of her name despite no one else doing so
(and that includes a birthday post on Instagram in her honor by Philippe).

[Written while you were doing your edit.]

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Madiel

Parents apparently divorced same year he was born. Hence name choice I suspect.

All this without hearing a note of music.  :laugh:
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prémont

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pjme



" Together with his ensemble A Nocte Temporis, he has devised a highly imaginative programme. From the eleven single opera and concert arias for tenor and orchestra that are ascribed to Mozart, the Belgian tenor has selected those that are entirely in the composer's hand – leaving out the ones completed or reconstructed by others, and adding an exquisite aria from Mitridate, re di Ponto. Mozart was only nine years old when in 1765, during his stay in London, he launched into his first opera aria for tenor and orchestra, to verses from a libretto by Metastasio. At the end of 1766, on his return to Salzburg, the child prodigy composed Or che il dover – Tali e cotanti sono KV 36 for a festive celebration, making the court aware of his enormous talent. Throughout his career, alongside his own operas Mozart also wrote arias intended for insertion into the operas of other composers..."
Rarities  for the completist...I think.
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Florestan

Quote from: pjme on February 05, 2025, 03:10:32 AM

" Together with his ensemble A Nocte Temporis, he has devised a highly imaginative programme. From the eleven single opera and concert arias for tenor and orchestra that are ascribed to Mozart, the Belgian tenor has selected those that are entirely in the composer's hand – leaving out the ones completed or reconstructed by others, and adding an exquisite aria from Mitridate, re di Ponto. Mozart was only nine years old when in 1765, during his stay in London, he launched into his first opera aria for tenor and orchestra, to verses from a libretto by Metastasio. At the end of 1766, on his return to Salzburg, the child prodigy composed Or che il dover – Tali e cotanti sono KV 36 for a festive celebration, making the court aware of his enormous talent. Throughout his career, alongside his own operas Mozart also wrote arias intended for insertion into the operas of other composers..."
Rarities  for the completist...I think.
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Mozart's concert arias are among the best music he wrote. There are two complete recordings that I'm aware of, one in the Philips Complete Mozart Edition and the other one on Decca. Both are excellent.
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Que


Mandryka

Quote from: Que on February 05, 2025, 05:54:00 AMA similar attempt by Fretwork was quite boring IMO.  :)

But a similar attempt by Les Voix Humaines was not boring -- you may not like it, but I don't think it would be fair to say it was boring.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

bioluminescentsquid

Quote from: Mandryka on February 05, 2025, 06:49:27 AMBut a similar attempt by Les Voix Humaines was not boring -- you may not like it, but I don't think it would be fair to say it was boring.
Or Accademia Strumentale Italia! :)

Que

Quote from: Mandryka on February 05, 2025, 06:49:27 AMBut a similar attempt by Les Voix Humaines was not boring -- you may not like it, but I don't think it would be fair to say it was boring.

Quote from: bioluminescentsquid on February 05, 2025, 07:29:13 AMOr Accademia Strumentale Italia! :)

Not familiar with either of those.

prémont

Quote from: Mandryka on February 05, 2025, 06:49:27 AMBut a similar attempt by Les Voix Humaines was not boring -- you may not like it, but I don't think it would be fair to say it was boring.

Or Kölner violen-consort?
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Mandryka

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Quote from: prémont on February 05, 2025, 12:14:07 PMOr Kölner violen-consort?

Indeed - in fact just after making that post I listened to them.

I see that the forthcoming Phantasm release includes an organ - which is new on record I think.

I heard them perform AoF years ago, by the way.
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Selig

Quote from: Mandryka on February 05, 2025, 01:18:56 PMI see that the forthcoming Phantasm release includes an organ - which is new on record I think.

I'm guessing the consort and organist are performing separately, with the latter taking the canons.

Their previous AoF recording for Simax (fugues only) was one of their first recordings, so I'm interested in hearing the development.


prémont

Quote from: bioluminescentsquid on February 05, 2025, 08:53:07 PM
https://falseazurerecords.com/2025/01/31/no-4-in-the-cabinet-of-wonders-with-scheidemann-and-schop-music-for-organ-and-violin-from-17th-century-hamburg/

I suppose that the Scheidemann works are arranged for violin and organ by the performers. I don't know as to the Schop works whether any of these might be written originally for violin and organ.
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vandermolen

This is a dangerous thread for me! Gipps Symphony 5, Ben Haim etc. I MUST have them  ::)
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DavidW

Quote from: vandermolen on February 06, 2025, 06:39:15 AMThis is a dangerous thread for me! Gipps Symphony 5, Ben Haim etc. I MUST have them  ::)


You have been banned from the forum until you can reign in your CDCDCDCD pathology. ;D  :laugh:

bioluminescentsquid

Quote from: prémont on February 05, 2025, 11:04:52 PMI suppose that the Scheidemann works are arranged for violin and organ by the performers. I don't know as to the Schop works whether any of these might be written originally for violin and organ.
Famously, one of the tests Matthias Weckmann was put through during his audition for the organist position at Hamburg St. Jacobi was to play continuo for Schop.

prémont

Quote from: DavidW on February 06, 2025, 06:53:57 AMYou have been banned from the forum until you can reign in your CDCDCDCD pathology. ;D  :laugh:

If he suffers from CDCDCDCD, I consider it proof of him being a devoted GMG member. He should be honored.
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(poco) Sforzando

Quote from: Brian on January 19, 2025, 02:16:08 PMOdd that Jed did not write that review for CT. Also, although I've seen many glowing reviews, I've yet to be tempted because it is yet another set that claims to be complete while not actually being complete. It appears to be missing "La Parade" and the piano reduction of Daphnis. Four complete traversals (Thiollier, Tharaud, Dumont, Uhlig) have included La Parade, while Uhlig alone has done the 19-minute Daphnis reduction.

I will live without La Parade. I've only started on the Poizat set, bugt the concertos are extraordinary.
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