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Ghost of Baron Scarpia

Quote from: Mandryka on April 23, 2019, 11:35:43 AMI was looking forward to experiencing the transition into 41 but I didn't get that far.

I experienced the transition just now, in my imagination. I think putting the three symphonies together adds nothing.

Brian

I grew up "imprinted" on my dad's Philips recording of Gardiner and the English Baroque doing Mozart 40:
6:54
13:53
4:58
9:09

The 41 on the same disc has three movements that reach 11 minutes.

Brian

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What is the Trio Zimmerman?

North Star

Quote from: Ghost of Baron Scarpia on April 23, 2019, 12:28:39 PM
What is the Trio Zimmerman?
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra. The string trio arrangement by Dmitry Sitkovetsky has been recorded several times before.
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Ghost of Baron Scarpia

Quote from: North Star on April 23, 2019, 12:42:56 PM
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra. The string trio arrangement by Dmitry Sitkovetsky has been recorded several times before.

Sound like a good ensemble, but I think I have two recordings of that arrangement already.

Brian

TZ is really excellent (as you'd expect from three star soloists joining forces) but I'm not into the Bach. Heresy, right?! I dig TZ's Mozart Divertimento.

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Ewa Poblocka does Schubert and Chopin miniatures
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Elizabeth Brauss does Chopin Scherzo No. 2 on an 1847 Pleyel
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Quote from: Brian on April 23, 2019, 10:51:12 AM
But this is how CDs have worked since they were invented. If you don't press pause on the remote, they move right along from one symphony to the next...

This is what track programming is for.

It's sad how many CD players don't actually have it.
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Madiel

Also, June looks exceptionally interesting.

I will no doubt forget all this.
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Ghost of Baron Scarpia

Quote from: Brian on April 23, 2019, 11:43:33 AM
I grew up "imprinted" on my dad's Philips recording of Gardiner and the English Baroque doing Mozart 40:
6:54
13:53
4:58
9:09

The 41 on the same disc has three movements that reach 11 minutes.

Just when I deleted that one from my shopping cart...

Brian

Quote from: Ghost of Baron Scarpia on April 23, 2019, 02:20:37 PM
Just when I deleted that one from my shopping cart...
Kid me went out and bought the Böhm late symphony twofer and was like "but the symphonies are so short!!!!!"

Ghost of Baron Scarpia

Quote from: Brian on April 23, 2019, 02:36:31 PM
Kid me went out and bought the Böhm late symphony twofer and was like "but the symphonies are so short!!!!!"

With Bohm tempos, not that much shorter, I suspect.

I kick myself because I recently got a box of Bruggen/Mozart/Philips and now realize the Gardiner/Mozart/Philips is approximately a zillion times better.

PerfectWagnerite

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Quote from: Mandryka on April 23, 2019, 11:35:43 AM
I listened to it this afternoon by coincidence, the whole symphony. I didn't enjoy it I'm afraid, but not necessarily because it was too long,

I was looking forward to experiencing the transition into 41 but I didn't get that far.
Harnoncourt is a frustrating conductor, the best I can describe is the soft parts are too loud and the loud parts are too soft. Throw in a few weird accents and errand tempi and there you have the garden-variety Harnoncourt performance.

I don't see any transition to 41 either. Just because the final trio of symphonies were written more or less as a group doesn't mean there is any connection between them.

Quote from: Brian on April 23, 2019, 02:36:31 PM
Kid me went out and bought the Böhm late symphony twofer and was like "but the symphonies are so short!!!!!"
Bohm, Szell, Walter etc. omit the exposition repeats in the 1st, 2nd and 4th mvts of no. 40. The 4th mvt is around 5 minutes in these performances and the 2nd mvt is 8-9 minutes. I really don't understand the performance practice nowadays to repeat not only the exposition but also the development and recapitulation which stretches the final mvt to 10 minutes long. I am not dyslexic I heard it the first time around.

Ghost of Baron Scarpia

Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on April 23, 2019, 03:48:43 PM
Harnoncourt is a frustrating conductor the greatest Mozart conductor who ever lived...

I made a slight revision to your statement to reflect my own opinion.  0:)

Que

Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on April 23, 2019, 03:48:43 PM
Harnoncourt is a frustrating conductor, the best I can describe is the soft parts are too loud and the loud parts are too soft. Throw in a few weird accents and errand tempi and there you have the garden-variety Harnoncourt performance.

Quote from: Ghost of Baron Scarpia on April 23, 2019, 03:57:08 PM
I made a slight revision to your statement to reflect my own opinion.  0:)

I'm torn between both sentiments. Harnoncourt's style certainly became more erratic as time progressed.
Tough I prefer period instruments, I like his Concertgebouw recordings much better than his later recordings with the Concentus Wien.

Top Mozart conductors? Harnoncourt is definitely one of them, together with Szell, Walter, Krips, Brüggen, Jacobs and Van Immerseel.

Q

mc ukrneal

Quote from: Que on April 23, 2019, 10:16:18 PM
I'm torn between both sentiments. Harnoncourt's style certainly became more erratic as time progressed.
Tough I prefer period instruments, I like his Concertgebouw recordings much better than his later recordings with the Concentus Wien.

Top Mozart conductors? Harnoncourt is definitely one of them, together with Szell, Walter, Krips, Brüggen, Jacobs and Van Immerseel.

Q
I'd go for Mackerras or Colin Davis myself. But any decent conductor is able to achieve greatness with Mozart. I mean, the source material....
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Mandryka

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Quote from: mc ukrneal on April 23, 2019, 10:38:48 PM
But any decent conductor is able to achieve greatness with Mozart.

I don't agree with this, unless you make it circular with the meaning you give to decent. In my opinion the last few symphonies aren't easy to get off the page.

By the way, yesterday I listened to Harnoncourt's final 40 and the 40 from Mathieu Herzog and Norrington Stuttgart 40. 
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Mandryka

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Quote from: Que on April 23, 2019, 10:16:18 PM
erratic

Q

The image of erratic is that of deviating from the orthodox, and right from the start Harnoncourt was clear that this is what he wanted to do in Mozart and elsewhere. However he didn't always have the bottle, or maybe the clout, to get the orchestra to follow.

I think that where you have a musician who is constantly curious, constantly experimenting, there are bound to be disorienting results, and the joy of listening is to follow the path as it were, to explore the journey with the conductor. So I'm very glad to have Harnoncourt's last Mozart recordings.

Basically this is a plea for less judgement, less evaluation, and more understanding.
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Wanderer

Quote from: Brian on April 23, 2019, 11:51:40 AM
JUNE!!!! PART 1!!!!


D. 959, 547, 915



D. 575, 537, 664



Interesting. And more Skalkottas is always a good thing.

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These two recordings and box set are of very high interest to me (even though I own so many performances of these works already):