New Releases

[The new erato]

Do I see Jose White there?

[Brian]

Do I see Jose White there?

Yes indeed - Violin Concerto with Aaron Rosand, LSO, Paul Freeman.

[Paul_Thomas]

Great news for 20th Century String Quartet lovers

Elisabeth Maconchy's quartet cycle is being reissued on Unicorn!

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8512947--elisabeth-maconchy-complete-string-quartets

[Daverz]

Great news for 20th Century String Quartet lovers

Elisabeth Maconchy's quartet cycle is being reissued on Unicorn!

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8512947--elisabeth-maconchy-complete-string-quartets

Interesting.  I wonder how much of the Unicorn catalog they plan to reissue. 

[Karl Henning]

Great news for 20th Century String Quartet lovers

Elisabeth Maconchy's quartet cycle is being reissued on Unicorn!

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8512947--elisabeth-maconchy-complete-string-quartets

That is terrific news.

[The new erato]

When I started buying classical CDs around 1992, these were some of mye first aquisitions.

[Todd]

The last disc features a straight strung Chris Maene piano.  I kinda want to hear the disc for that reason alone.  (It's Daniel Barenboim's new piano.)  I hope the playing is better than the god awful suit the pianist opted to wear for the cover shot.  The shoes are nice enough, though.

[San Antone]

The one Todd posted that interests me most is the Cédric Tiberghien Liszt recording.  However, it won't be available until February 2019 despite being recorded in December 2017.  I wonder why Hyperion has such long lag times from recording to release?

[Brian]

Dear lord, that suit. It's like Don Cherry.



HIP - replica of an 1830 piano



"Hugely prolific as well as widely acclaimed, Kalevi Aho has composed 30 concertos to date. Many of them are available in recordings from BIS, and the present release features two works from the past decade. The Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra was commissioned for Jörgen van Rijen, who also performs it here. The concerto is actually Aho's second concertante piece for the trombone – his Symphony No. 9 (1994) included a substantial and very virtuosic solo part for the instrument. In that work, and even more so in the concerto, the composer's aim has been to extend the expressive and virtuosic possibilities of the trombone. Composed around the same time, the Trumpet Concerto is scored for the wind section of a medium-sized symphony orchestra, plus two saxophones, baritone horn and percussion. It was given its premiere by the same musicians that perform it here, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins supporting its principal trumpet Alain De Rudder in what is often a surprisingly jazzy work."

[Todd]

Dear lord, that suit. It's like Don Cherry.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Great news for 20th Century String Quartet lovers

Elisabeth Maconchy's quartet cycle is being reissued on Unicorn!

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8512947--elisabeth-maconchy-complete-string-quartets

I got what seems to be the identical release not long ago on Regis.

[Daverz]

I got what seems to be the identical release not long ago on Regis.

Ah, that explains why I have this as well. 

It's only $149.98 on Amazon.

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[milk]

Dear lord, that suit. It's like Don Cherry.



HIP - replica of an 1830 piano



"Hugely prolific as well as widely acclaimed, Kalevi Aho has composed 30 concertos to date. Many of them are available in recordings from BIS, and the present release features two works from the past decade. The Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra was commissioned for Jörgen van Rijen, who also performs it here. The concerto is actually Aho's second concertante piece for the trombone – his Symphony No. 9 (1994) included a substantial and very virtuosic solo part for the instrument. In that work, and even more so in the concerto, the composer's aim has been to extend the expressive and virtuosic possibilities of the trombone. Composed around the same time, the Trumpet Concerto is scored for the wind section of a medium-sized symphony orchestra, plus two saxophones, baritone horn and percussion. It was given its premiere by the same musicians that perform it here, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins supporting its principal trumpet Alain De Rudder in what is often a surprisingly jazzy work."

I cannot find the Mendelssohn even on BIS's website. I guess it's REALLY new.

[Brian]

I cannot find the Mendelssohn even on BIS's website. I guess it's REALLY new.

it's on eclassical.com.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Ah, that explains why I have this as well. 

It's only $149.98 on Amazon.

[asin] B0000V3QAU[/asin]

I found the invoice, it wasn't as recent as I remember, 2010. Cost me 12 bucks from Berkshire Record Outlet.

[Brian]

[André]

Nice cover!

[pjme]

https://www.youtube.com/v/IDpg18xTmTs

https://www.youtube.com/v/R-6GgX-tR4U

Without "that suit"....

[Brian]

Ligeti - etudes
Scriabin - No. 10
Prokofiev - No. 8
Rachmaninov - etudes-tableaux







16:47 for the Bach/Busoni promises to be rather extreme. I didn't like Colli's Scarlatti.




***NEW FLORENCE PRICE SYMPHONY CYCLE ON NAXOS

[ritter]

The interest of this set for fans of Rattle (and of Mahler as well, I suppose) is that it includes two live recordings of the Sixth, separated by more than 30 years: one from 15 November 1987–the first concert in which Sir Simon conducted the Berliners—, and another from 20 June 2018—his farewell concert as Principal Conductor—.