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[Spineur]

Still a disc that makes me curious!

The picture is I think missleanding as it suggest Vernet and Muza Rubackyte play together.  Most likely Vernet plays the organ works ans Rubackyte the piano compositions.

The new Dessay/Legrand, too - quite enjoyed their first collaboration, I'm a sucker for Legrand (and even more so Legrand/Demy).

I am also curious.  I will at least stream the disk.

[Todd]

The picture is I think missleanding as it suggest Vernet and Muza Rubackyte play together.

I don't see it as misleading at all.  Two fine artists recorded what appears to be the complete keyboard output of the composer.  Either artist alone would have sold me on the disc; both makes it a slam dunk.  From Amazon France (translated by Google):


"Elève favori de Franz Liszt, Julius Reubke, disparu à l'âge de 24 ans de tuberculose, nous laisse une oeuvre réduite mais d'une qualité exceptionnelle. Sa Sonate pour piano (1857) et surtout sa Sonate pour orgue en ut mineur «Psaume 94» comptent parmi les oeuvres les plus remarquables du répertoire romantique du XIXème siècle. Muza Rubackyte au piano et Olivier Vernet à l'orgue, nous offrent une intégrale magistrale (les deux sonates et 4 pièces inédites ou beaucoup plus rares.) sur deux magnifiques instruments : un grand piano Fazzioli, et l'orgue monumental Ladegast/Eule de l'église St-Nicolas de Leipzig"


"A favorite pupil of Franz Liszt, Julius Reubke, who died at the age of 24 years of tuberculosis, leaves us a reduced work of exceptional quality. His Sonata for Piano (1857) and especially his Sonata for Organ in C minor "Psalm 94" are among the most remarkable works of the Romantic repertoire of the 19th century. Muza Rubackyte on the piano and Olivier Vernet on the organ, offer us a masterful integral (two sonatas and four unpublished or much rarer pieces) on two magnificent instruments: a grand piano Fazzioli, and the monumental organ Ladegast / Eule de the St-Nicolas Church in Leipzig"

[San Antone]

I'm not sure this has been mentioned yet:

Looks interesting, but what do they play?

[San Antone]

The latest from Graindelavoix - madrigals by Cipriano de Rore

Nice, something to wishlist.

[Mirror Image]

Looks interesting, but what do they play?

Here's the tracklisting via Presto Classical:

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8363662--gershwin-rhapsody-in-blue-catfish-row

[Brian]

In a previous post, I made fun of this, asking who the audience could possibly be:



Turns out, the answer is "20th century orchestral fanatics". This has a few of Schwarz's Naxos performances (e.g. Creston, Hovhaness, Piston, Hanson) but also lots of previously unreleased, or previously LP-only, performances of stuff like:

- R. Strauss/Couperin Divertimento, Frau ohne Schatten fantasy, Schwarz's own Rosenkavalier suite
- Schoenberg's concerto for string quartet and orchestra, chamber symphony No. 1, Brahms piano quartet orchestration
- Elliott Carter's "The Minotaur" and Canon In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky (for three trumpets)
- Mendelssohn's "Heimkehr aus der Fremde" overture (never heard of this)
- Andrzej Panufnik's Symphonies Nos. 3 and 10 and Autumn Music
- Respighi's Bach orchestrations
- "October" (Shostakovich)
- works by Stephen Albert, David Diamond, George Perle, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Irving Fine, Stefan Wolpe (a solo piece for trumpet played by Schwarz), Busoni, Hindemith, Schreker, Honegger, Bernstein's "Kaddish," a Gunther Schuller album
- a Brahms symphony (Seattle SO, 2012-14) + serenade (Los Angeles Chamber Orch, 1980s, Nonesuch LP) cycle

Plus the booklet notes have a lot of Schwarzian reminiscences about, e.g., his friendship with Elliott Carter and the time he performed Borodin's Third Symphony in an orchestra conducted by Boulez (!).

[Todd]

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[ritter]

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Wow, that Debussy set looks really complete (from the description on Amazon)! I can't find any details  of the performsnces, but this looks worth exploring...

[Mirror Image]

Wow, that Debussy set looks really complete (from the description on Amazon)! I can't find any details  of the performsnces, but this looks worth exploring...

It'll certainly be interesting to see the performance details. Not that I'm in any dire need of more Debussy in my collection.

[San Antone]

Wow, that Debussy set looks really complete (from the description on Amazon)! I can't find any details  of the performsnces, but this looks worth exploring...

Amazon US says it won't be available until January 2018.

[André]

Actually, I wonder what the market is for that particular box. EMI has recorded Debussy extensively over the last 60 years. Amateurs will likely squabble over the choice of versions.

Libraries, maybe ?

[ritter]

Actually, I wonder what the market is for that particular box. EMI has recorded Debussy extensively over the last 60 years. Amateurs will likely squabble over the choice of versions.

Libraries, maybe ?

Libraries and...me, perhaps?  It seems like a good opportunity to get Debussy pieces in different versions (for instance, I did not even know there was a première and a seconde version of the Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans). And there's a thing called Le Gladiateur I had never even heard of.

As for the performances, I presume they'll go for the Karajan Pelléas et Mélisande, and the Martyre would seem to be the Cluytens (as it's spread over 2 CDs). As for Rodrigue et Chimène, one should expect the now OOP Nagano recording on Erato. Gieseking for piano? But the obscure stuff he never recorded would have to be from other pianists. Let's see... And wait for the price, too...

[Todd]

Gieseking for piano?

Given the piano music recordings in the Warner vaults, it would be something of a shame if they used only or primarily Gieseking.  I mean, they have Cortot, Francois, Egorov, early Beroff, some Michelangeli, Haas, Ousset, Pommier, Ferber, and no doubt others I forgot or don't know about.  The set is definitely not for me, or marketed to people like me.  I do have to think the set will probably lean toward stereo recordings, though maybe not.

[ritter]

Given the piano music recordings in the Warner vaults, it would be something of a shame if they used only or primarily Gieseking.

Let's hope they don't, then. I have Gieseking's complete EMI set in my collection, and don't really care for it much (perhaps this should go in the "Unpopular Opinons" thread  )...

EDIT: No Gieseking! Hurrah! Amazon France lists the performes (just put the ASIN in the search box, and voilà). Ousset, Béroff, Egorov, Aimard are there...

[mc ukrneal]

Given the piano music recordings in the Warner vaults, it would be something of a shame if they used only or primarily Gieseking.  I mean, they have Cortot, Francois, Egorov, early Beroff, some Michelangeli, Haas, Ousset, Pommier, Ferber, and no doubt others I forgot or don't know about.  The set is definitely not for me, or marketed to people like me.  I do have to think the set will probably lean toward stereo recordings, though maybe not.

Ciccolini...

[ritter]

Ciccolini...

There as well... IMHO, a great Debussy interpreter...

[North Star]

The Pelléas seems to be Armin Jordan's, with Rachel Yakar, Philippe Huttenlocher, Jocelyn Taillon, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, François Loup, and Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
And no Gieseking in the set, but Egorov, Ciccolini, Aimard, Francois, Ousset, Béroff.

https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076D14CFP/

[Todd]

Let's hope they don't, then. I have Gieseking's complete EMI set in my collection, and don't really care for it much (perhaps this should go in the "Unpopular Opinons" thread  )...

That's probably not that unpopular anymore, especially with respect to his oft published EMI set.  His 30s stuff is his best Debussy, and some other live recordings are better than the old standby.  What would pique my interest is if Warner issues the 1951 Columbia recordings he made, though I don't know for sure if Warner owns those, and if they don't, what company does.  I've read a few times that those are better than the slightly later and much better known recordings.

[André]

Strange that EMI choose to cannibalize their own complete Cluytens box just issued a few weeks ago. OTOH there are a few choice items in the lot, chief among them being Delphine Seyrig's Chansons de Bilitis, although I prefer to hear them in the context of the original Virgin program:

[André]

Has this been mentioned ?



I don't know many people who would actually go for a second, let alone a third version of that work, but I'm curious. Might be quite good if I judge from the cast list.