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[Mandryka]

Ricercari on an organ. It's all really nicely done I think, engaging, poised, thrilling, no swagger, and beautifully recorded, and a sense of the performers responding to each other.  Of all the Italian opfers I've head, this seems to me the most interesting.

[prémont]

Ricercari on an organ. It's all really nicely done I think, engaging, poised, thrilling, no swagger, and beautifully recorded, and a sense of the performers responding to each other.  Of all the Italian opfers I've head, this seems to me the most interesting.

How many other Italian Opfers have you heard? I only know one other Italian recording, the one with Accademia Bizantina (Carlo Chiarappa, Ottavio Dantone).

BTW having read your enthusiastic words about the Turin recording I heard in my inner ear John Berkow shouting "ORDER, ORDER" all the time, so I hurried to order the CD.

[Mandryka]

One other -- but you may say I was cheating -- half Italian at least --  the one with Vitorio and Lorenzo Ghielmi

[prémont]

One other -- but you may say I was cheating -- half Italian at least --  the one with Vitorio and Lorenzo Ghielmi

I thought of this, but decided to consider it international.

[Mandryka]

https://www.catalinavicens.com/organiccreatures

Catalina Vicens, Organic Creatures,

This is so exciting... We've finished recording these wonderful medieval organs, and now the editing process of the next double CD, Organic Creatures, can begin! Medieval Music: Composed-Decomposed-Recomposed The breathing organs were: -Organetti by Wolkenstayn Orgelbau, Rholf, and v.d Putten -Pigeon egg pipe medieval organ & -Gothic organ after Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece (ca. 1432) by Winold van der Putten *Gothic Organ in St. Andreas, Ostönnen-Soest (ca.1425) *Renaissance organ, Krewerd-Groningen (ca. 1531)- Music by Hildegard, Perotin, Vitry, Machaut, Landini, Wolkenstayn, Illeborgh, Binchois, Dufay, Agricola, Henry VIII and many others. New compositions by carson Cooman, Ivan Moody, Olli Virtaperko, Prach Boondiskulchok, and many improvisations. With the Musical Collaboration of Christophe Deslignes and Jankees Braaksma. .

Jankees Braaksma is a new name to me

https://www.youtube.com/v/4sHgoU3VaSg

[Daverz]

György Sándor - The Complete Columbia Album Collection

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Presto has a track listing:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8716623--gyorgy-sandor-the-complete-columbia-album-collection

I think this includes the first official release of any of Ormandy's Columbia mono recordings on CD: the Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3 and the Myaskovsky Symphony No. 21.   There may be some hope for an Ormandy box with more of his mono recordings.

[André]

György Sándor - The Complete Columbia Album Collection

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Presto has a track listing:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8716623--gyorgy-sandor-the-complete-columbia-album-collection

I think this includes the first official release of any of Ormandy's Columbia mono recordings on CD: the Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3 and the Myaskovsky Symphony No. 21.   There may be some hope for an Ormandy box with more of his mono recordings.

These two works were paired on a Columbia vinyl. I had purchased it for the Bartok, but ended up fascinated by the Myaskovsky

[Daverz]

These two works were paired on a Columbia vinyl. I had purchased it for the Bartok, but ended up fascinated by the Myaskovsky

Yes, I have the pairing on a "Columbia Special Products" Lp.  This new transfer is fantastic (listening via Qobuz):

https://open.qobuz.com/album/ilgwx8mvk7k5b

The sheen of the Philadelphia strings in the Symphony comes through very well.  There is only a slight bit of acetate crackle in the quieter parts.  There was also a transfer on Biddulph, which I haven't compared yet.

[André]

Ohhhhhh how I wish we'd get a complete Ormandy box, remastered of course ....

[Brian]

Ohhhhhh how I wish we'd get a complete Ormandy box, remastered of course ....

They've done Bernstein, Reiner, Munch, Monteux, Szell, and Walter, so you'd think that we will have one in a few months...??

Ormandy recorded a ton and I wonder how enormous the box will be.

[Roasted Swan]

Complete aside really - but I heard recently one of the Dutton remasterings of the old CBS quadrophonic recordings from the 70's.  They have come up sounding so much better than the previous CD incarnations I have heard.  I wish someone would do that to Szell or Ormandy.  That said those Sony 24 bit bargain box remasterings are very impressive I have found......

[JBS]

The poetic renewal embodied by Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine and so many others after them radically changed the musical landscape and propelled French art song into a true golden age. This tribute to Fauré, the supreme master of the mélodie, gains its radiance from Marc Mauillon's ideally clear voice and Anne Le Bozec's delicate pianism. The singer's second 'solo' recording on harmonia mundi shows him just as much at home in Faurean word setting as in the text of Lambert's Leçons de Ténèbres.
harmonia mundi HMM902636

[Mirror Image]

Man...not another Fauré I need. Just when I thought I was done!

[Madiel]

Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on that one myself.

[Mirror Image]

Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on that one myself.

Indeed. Any one know when it's due for release?

[JBS]

Indeed. Any one know when it's due for release?

Amazon page says it is due to be released this Friday (Jan 10). But Amazon seems to list only as a download, not a physical CD.

[Mirror Image]

Amazon page says it is due to be released this Friday (Jan 10). But Amazon seems to list only as a download, not a physical CD.

Yeah, I looked into this as well. Thanks for the information.

[Mandryka]

[Roy Bland]

It seems a lot Socialist Realism:

[pjme]

This is quite a find!
Plenty of recordings of pieces for wind instruments by Bozza. But to my surprise, there are at least 5 numbered symphonies and plenty of concerti and chamber music. So this recording of an oratorio (ca 1955-1956) may shed some new light on his style and development.
The last mines in the Northern department (Valenciennes/Lille/Douai/Lens....) were closed in 1990. Poverty, dangerous work, strikes...it is a region disfigured by the "terrils" . Some sites are on the Unesco lists and are restaured as musea.
"Social realism"? let's listen first!

As for Bruyr:
José Bruyr was among the founding fathers of the Académie Charles-Cros. He was also a member of the Claude Debussy committee in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. A musicographer and music critic, he has written several books on Arthur Honegger, operetta,[1] history of music, and on composers such as Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Jules Massenet, Maurice Ravel, and so on.

He was in touch with Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Alfred Cortot, Henri Dutilleux, Olivier Messiaen, the Belgian composer Marcel Orban and Russian Igor Stravinsky and Ivan Wyschnegradsky as well as musicologists Armand Panigel, Jean Roy, Antoine Goléa, Jacques Bourgeois and Léon Vallas. He was a friend of Georges Fesch, franco-belgian banker and composer, Jacques Fesch's father. José Bruyr has been involved from the beginning in the French radio show Club des amateurs de disques, later entitled La Tribune des critiques de disques [fr]. He is buried at the cimetière ancien de Saint-Germain-en-Laye [fr]. (Wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Eug%C3%A8ne_Bozza#Oratorio

For those who read French: https://www.musicologie.org/19/le_chant_de_la_mine_oratorio_d_eugene_bozza_et_jose_bruyr.html
there's also a short fragment from the (live) recording. Honegger and Milhaud spiced up with a mild dose of Russian constructivism. I like it!
If you hate reciters and speaking choruses, stay away.