New Releases

[Mandryka]

http://www.anothertimbre.com/gombert.html

[lordlance]

For those following Naxos' Brazil series, someone has very kindly made a (comprehensive?) Spotify playlist of all albums:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4lTx3Ne9wHwCo5CyUdF7SP?si=5650b428f05244a7

[prémont]

http://www.anothertimbre.com/gombert.html

I don't know what to think of releases like this. My knee jerk reaction is to avoid it.

[JBS]

I don't know what to think of releases like this. My knee jerk reaction is to avoid it.

I listened to two of the three tracks uploaded to Youtube.
Your knee jerk reaction is a good one.
TBH, it sounds like it was realised on MIDI.

[hopefullytrusting]

I listened to two of the three tracks uploaded to Youtube.
Your knee jerk reaction is a good one.
TBH, it sounds like it was realised on MIDI.

I had a different reaction. I'd need to hear a full track, but I thought those extracts sounded pretty good.

[hopefullytrusting]

Okay, I'm going to pick up that album tonight - I'm sold on it.

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/g-o-m-b-e-r-t

Thanks, @Mandryka

[Mandryka]

@prémont @hopefullytrusting

Apart from five tracks by Weeks, they are instrumental transcriptions of Gombert's motets, some long. The transcriptions appear literal, the imagination is in the choice of the instruments - a lot of wind instruments making tangy harmonies. For me, the most interesting music was the music composed by Weeks.

[hopefullytrusting]

@prémont @hopefullytrusting

Apart from five tracks by Weeks, they are instrumental transcriptions of Gombert's motets, some long. The transcriptions appear literal, the imagination is in the choice of the instruments - a lot of wind instruments making tangy harmonies. For me, the most interesting music was the music composed by Weeks.

I bought the recording, and I like it a lot - in fact, it has awakened an entire world of new harmonies to me - there is so much bass in that music, so much dissonance in the harmony - it was, from my perspective, quite striking, so it was a worthwhile investment for me.

[Mandryka]

I bought the recording, and I like it a lot - in fact, it has awakened an entire world of new harmonies to me - there is so much bass in that music, so much dissonance in the harmony - it was, from my perspective, quite striking, so it was a worthwhile investment for me.

I wonder if you'll also like the Slaato/Reinecke transcriptions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYm7oaelOWI&list=OLAK5uy_mHMkRt-dchPVvGIYGxJctqObtLC2tUXIs

[hopefullytrusting]

I wonder if you'll also like the Slaato/Reinecke transcriptions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYm7oaelOWI&list=OLAK5uy_mHMkRt-dchPVvGIYGxJctqObtLC2tUXIs

Yes, I love that. I love that bass, and I love how far away the melody seems from it. (Will purchase this later today.)

[hopefullytrusting]

I wonder if you'll also like the Slaato/Reinecke transcriptions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYm7oaelOWI&list=OLAK5uy_mHMkRt-dchPVvGIYGxJctqObtLC2tUXIs

Lol, I actually already own this recording - it is awesome.

[JBS]

I wonder if you'll also like the Slaato/Reinecke transcriptions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYm7oaelOWI&list=OLAK5uy_mHMkRt-dchPVvGIYGxJctqObtLC2tUXIs

I certainly liked it better than the Apartment House CD. Perhaps difference in the instrumentation, or the difference between Gombert and Machaut.
Or maybe I'm just tired and any music is good. At any rate, I've marked it to play in full later.

[Roy Bland]

On "Brasilia" symphony by Guerra-Peixe ,the booklet of Petrobras cd (i have) defines it a la Khachaturian IMHO resembles more to folkloric Copland both work than performance and conductor Isaac Karabtchevsky of high level

[Mandryka]

@JBS @hopefullytrusting

The best I know for transcriptions of early music is this from Orlando Consort with Heinz Holliger

https://ecmrecords.com/product/guillaume-de-machaut-heinz-holliger-machaut-transkriptionen-genevieve-strosser-jurg-dahler-muriel-cantoreggi-the-hilliard-ensemble/

[Mandryka]

Nice instruments -- a harpsichord (I think, it is most unusual!)  and a clavichord -- sweet and lyrical playing. This on the basis of a couple of sneaky peaks on Spotify.

In the C major prelude, I don't think I've ever heard so much (real or suggested) dynamic variation. I think it's a piano. I've found piano, harpsichord and clavichord so far - no organ yet.  I just can't find the details online anywhere. I think this is potentially a very interesting release.

[hopefullytrusting]

In the C major prelude, I don't think I've ever heard so much (real or suggested) dynamic variation. I think it's a piano. I've found piano, harpsichord and clavichord so far - no organ yet.  I just can't find the details online anywhere. I think this is potentially a very interesting release.

That Hollinger recording, I also own - I agree with your assessment of it.

According to the press release, it is a fortepiano:

"Vincent Bernhardt offers a reading of this work that highlights the development of the instrumentarium at the time, using a harpsichord and a clavichord,  as well as a fortepiano copied from an instrument built in Bach's time."

[Mandryka]

[Brian]

On "Brasilia" symphony by Guerra-Peixe ,the booklet of Petrobras cd (i have) defines it a la Khachaturian IMHO resembles more to folkloric Copland both work than performance and conductor Isaac Karabtchevsky of high level

The other two works on the CD are from his early experiments with serialism.

[bioluminescentsquid]

In the C major prelude, I don't think I've ever heard so much (real or suggested) dynamic variation. I think it's a piano. I've found piano, harpsichord and clavichord so far - no organ yet.  I just can't find the details online anywhere. I think this is potentially a very interesting release.

It sounds like a tangent piano.

[Mandryka]

This has caught my attention in a good way, never heard of the pianist before.

https://www.piano-classics.com/articles/s/schumann-novelletten-op21-nachtstuecke-op23/