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Madiel

^^ I know the Debussy performers already did another album (the ballets?) that you rated highly.
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Ghost of Baron Scarpia

Quote from: Mandryka on April 23, 2019, 10:55:39 PMI 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.

I like that Harnoncourt would generally peel away the performance tradition of a work and reimagine it, sometimes using original source material, general knowledge of period practices, or just his own sense of musicality. As you say, sometimes the results are disorienting, sometimes they are extraordinary. In the extraordinary category I put the Concertgebouw Mozart, the Schumann symphonies, there are too many to list. I remember his Bartok as being a dud.

Mandryka

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Quote from: Brian on March 22, 2019, 02:52:24 PM


Op 18 No 3 / Kongsgaard Variations / Op 131



I think the op 131 is well worth listening to. No major new conceptions but well executed mainstream played passionately and well recorded. They have found a feeling of slightly boisterous fun which suits the music well -- maybe it's not so mainstream after all!  If it were a concert (and indeed a stream is not unlike a concert) people would be on their feet at the end demanding an ovation, and go home with a smile on their faces.

They're specialists in post war music as far as I can see, I shall be exploring!
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Brian

Quote from: Madiel on April 24, 2019, 08:33:18 AM
^^ I know the Debussy performers already did another album (the ballets?) that you rated highly.
The Singapore La mer / Images disc is super underrated, especially as an SACD option. The La mer originally came out on a variety program of sea music including works by Glazunov, Bridge, and Zhou Long.

Pat B

Quote from: Madiel on April 23, 2019, 03:16:56 AM
I don't know that I agree with the theory at all. But I would prefer that sort of eccentricity over what appears to be little more than an attempt to persuade people to pay the price of 2 CDs for 1.5 CDs worth of music.

I see a preorder price of $25, which doesn't seem out of line for a new release of ~100 minutes of music on a non-budget label. Alia Vox's single discs go for $20-22.

And I think there can be value in segues between pieces — there is a fantastic DVD of Sokolov playing several Beethoven sonatas attacca.

That being said, I am not a fan of repeating recordings within a package. To me, the effect here is to draw attention to the limitations of the format. Is the idea to listen to the 3 symphonies consecutively? Repeating the central work doesn't accomplish that at all. But having a fairly high opinion of Savall, I'll probably give it a go on spotify to see what he makes of these transitions.

Mirror Image

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Quote from: Madiel on April 24, 2019, 08:33:18 AM
^^ I know the Debussy performers already did another album (the ballets?) that you rated highly.

Yes, that's the recording and it's a fine one. One of the best performances of Jeux that I've heard.

Mandryka

Quote from: Todd on April 06, 2019, 04:38:47 AM


Oh hell yeah.





He gave a concert with op 119 in Germany this time last year, and I just heard a recording of it.  I think it's the best solo playing I've heard from him.  I haven't heard him in op 126 but I have heard him do late Beethoven, op 111 and the Diabelli variations in 2016, I was less impressed, but that could just be me or the night.

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Todd

Quote from: Brian on April 23, 2019, 11:51:40 AM


D. 959, 547, 915


Calling a purchase of the year now.
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The reissue you did nazi coming.
The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

Brian

Haochen Zhang's first BIS CD was very introspective (1.X.1905, Brahms Op 117, etc), and very very good. This will hopefully show a very different side of him.

staxomega

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


Day 1 purchase from me! I asked him if he was going to be recording D959 or D960 when I heard him play the former in NYC. Which was a stunning performance.

Ras

Rachel Podger has just released her own transcriptions of Bach's cello suite for her instrument - the violin:

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Brian

BIS confirms by email that the new Helsinki PO/Susanna Mälkki "Wooden Prince" is the beginning of a small Bartók series and the beginning of a longer collaboration between label, orchestra, and conductor. Promising news.

Mirror Image

Quote from: Brian on April 30, 2019, 11:28:18 AM
BIS confirms by email that the new Helsinki PO/Susanna Mälkki "Wooden Prince" is the beginning of a small Bartók series and the beginning of a longer collaboration between label, orchestra, and conductor. Promising news.

Excellent! I can't wait for her to do The Miraculous Mandarin. One of my all-time favorite works.

aukhawk

Part of the same release isn't it?


Mirror Image

Quote from: aukhawk on May 01, 2019, 12:11:47 AM
Part of the same release isn't it?



Ah yes, couldn't remember what other work was coupled with The Wooden Prince. A pity it's not the complete Mandarin with wordless chorus.

Roasted Swan

Quote from: Mirror Image on April 30, 2019, 11:57:35 AM
Excellent! I can't wait for her to do The Miraculous Mandarin. One of my all-time favorite works.

Having recently questioned another (unrelated) thread where someone said a particular version of a piece was all you'd ever need, I'm going to be a complete hypocrite and say exactly that about the Miraculous Mandarin Suite - the Ormandy/Philadelphia version is jaw-droppingly stunning in execution and mood.... (I do prefer the complete ballet - but for the Suite this has never been bettered as far I I have heard)

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amw



Major new release for weirdos—all first recordings

Mandryka

Quote from: amw on May 04, 2019, 01:47:05 AM


Major new release for weirdos—all first recordings

I will be getting this. You may like this one, it's inspired by  Hildergard's music, I like it very much.

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amw

Quote from: Mandryka on May 04, 2019, 03:01:10 AM
I will be getting this.
I already have it!

QuoteYou may like this one, it's inspired by  Hildergard's music, I like it very much.


I'll definitely give it a try as well, although wary of anything marketed as "mindfulness" (a useful but limited therapeutic practice which has apparently become capitalist big business)—but haven't heard of any of these performers before and if they're down to record Radulescu they can probably do just about anything they want.