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[king ubu]

Has Decca acquired the former Piano Classics cover designer?

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Has Decca acquired the former Piano Classics cover designer?

:-)  I think when you get published by Italian Decca, you get to submit your own design. 

[Mandryka]

Harmonic Classics Paris France and Jean-Charles Ablitzer are pleased to introduce an exceptional edition
in High Definition of the Buxtehude Complete Organ Works on Six North Germany Historical Organs.

Limited edition numbered & remastered.

High Definition sound & burning, The most powerful digital CD to date.
(the manufacturer guarantees its audiophile product 200 years! )

Limited Edition of 299 numbered boxes from 01 to 299.

The 6 albums remastered in High Audio Definition Audio are burnt one by one at nominal speed.
They are accompanied by a precise plan of the D. Buxtehude's Works (BuxWV numbers, discs & tracks).

Special offer (guaranteed price until March 31).
The sale price for this 6 CD-HD box is : 59,90 €
(Free Air Mail sending)

More information about : https://www.harmonicclassics.com/album/IT_HC_D_8718-36/?lang=en

Best regards

François-Dominique Jouis
Editor/Editeur
Label Harmonic Classics Paris France

www.harmonicclassics.com

[Que]

I'm very glad to see this cycle reissued.
I have all volumes, the 6th volume as a CD-R since it was never issued on CD.

Now, I'm  awaiting the stream of converts.... 

Q

[Mandryka]

I'm very glad to see this cycle reissued.
I have all volumes, the 6th volume as a CD-R since it was never issued on CD.

Now, I'm  awaiting the stream of converts.... 

Q

Yes I was thinking of you. I only have volume 1, it's very nicely recorded so I can imagine this improved version will sound outstanding. I'm quite glad to see Harmonic Classics back in business -- they wrote to me a while ago to say they were going to cease trading. There are some other things in their catalogue I'd like to hear -- by Ablitzer and Paul Badura Skoda. They need to get themselves on Qobuz quick!

[Mandryka]

May release

[Mandryka]

Highly influential Northern German organ builder Arp Schnitger is buried in the Hamburg-Neuenfelde Church, and it is in this uniquely preserved sacred structure from the High Baroque that we find the largest instrument from his workshop, an organ with a Rückpositiv and two manuals.

Hilger Kespohl is now presenting this exquisite instrument for the first time after the magnificent restoration of this historical monument, and his program features the music of another famous Baroque Hamburg resident: Matthias Weckmann, who like no other composer between Schütz and Bach succeeded in drawing on the immense variety of European musical styles in order to develop his very own tonal idiom.

[Que]

Yes I was thinking of you. I only have volume 1, it's very nicely recorded so I can imagine this improved version will sound outstanding. I'm quite glad to see Harmonic Classics back in business -- they wrote to me a while ago to say they were going to cease trading. There are some other things in their catalogue I'd like to hear -- by Ablitzer and Paul Badura Skoda. They need to get themselves on Qobuz quick!

They have such a great back catalogue, but are definitely not business geniuses...

They should connect with MusicOuthere or just sell the catalogue.

Instead they are burning 300 Buxtehude sets to high quality CD-R, without any proper distribution channels to sell them...

Q

[Mandryka]

Dunstable, Bytterling, Frye

[Madiel]

Do we have a tracklist anywhere for this one?

[Mandryka]

I think this is very good, they've just finished a tour in Holland and if I'd known of them last month I'd have made the effort to go.

[JBS]

I think this is very good, they've just finished a tour in Holland and if I'd known of them last month I'd have made the effort to go.

I have their first CD of music by Salomone Rossi, on Linn
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and looking it up on Amazon I see they have issued a second one focused on the Songs of Salomone. 
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But the CD I have left no real impression on me, good or bad.
They seem to have released several CDs on Pan in the last two or three years,  plus this one, which AmazonUS lists as download only, and which has the same release date (1/18/2019) as the CD you posted

[Mandryka]

I have their first CD of music by Salomone Rossi, on Linn
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...

But the CD I have left no real impression on me, good or bad.

...

Well Rossi's music isn't top tier. I like the way they harmonise.

I first got interested in them because of their name, I thought it might say something about their approach to harmony  I like the way they make chords very much.

[JBS]

Well Rossi's music isn't top tier. I like the way they harmonise.

I first got interested in them because of their name, I thought it might say something about their approach to harmony  I like the way they make chords very much.

Well, they have a whole series of 16th/17th century madrigals and other music that might appeal to you.

Meanwhile, TD
Release set for July
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''In his own words, Raymond Lewenthal was an ''octave thrower, long-distance arpeggioer and general producer of volcanic rumbles''. This hugely talented, extroverted pianist was also a key figure in the revival of a great deal of 19th-century piano music, most of all that of Charles-Valentin Alkan. Sony Classical's new 6-CD collection of Lewenthal's complete recordings for RCA and Columbia Masterworks celebrates this maverick pianist's recorded legacy, with three LPs of material specially remastered from the analogue tapes. Its release comes thirty years after Lewenthal's death in November 1988.
Both a showman and a scholar, Lewenthal was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1923, working as a child movie actor in Hollywood before beginning formal piano study at the age of 15. His teachers included Olga Samaroff and Alfred Cortot. Though his early career in the US flourished after a debut with Dmitri Mitropoulos and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1948, he withdrew from public performance a few years later after being attacked in Central Park. By the time he returned to concertizing in the 1960s, he had become a champion of Alkan's, much of whose music he edited for publication.
His enthusiasm for obscure Romantic repertoire was not limited to Alkan. He revived Adolf von Henselt's little-known Piano Concerto in F minor, a spectacularly difficult work, recording it with Sir Charles Mackerras and the LSO alongside his own version of Liszt's Totentanz. ''The sheer virtuoso bravura of it all is dazzling'', wrote Gramophone. With the same orchestra and conductor Eleazar de Carvalho, he also recorded Anton Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto in D minor, and the dazzling finale to Franz Xaver Scharwenka's Second Concerto in C minor.
Two albums of Alkan's solo piano music are a fitting tribute to Lewenthal's obsession; they include his Symphonie, Grande Sonatine and many studies and miniatures. ''Raymond Lewenthal measures up to Alkan's fearsome demands with expressive gusto'', wrote BBC Music Magazine one visionary eccentric pianist channeling the spirit of another. Lewenthal also recorded the Hexaméron, a work written collaboratively by five pianists and put together by Liszt, and now receiving its first CD release Liszt's Réminiscences de Norma (''a revelation'' Gramophone).
One final CD shows another, no less significant side to Lewenthal: several recordings of him discussing works collected here at the keyboard, again never before released on disc. This vital, vivacious communicator ''a kind of Romantic idol'', The New York Times remarked still has a lot to say to us today, about a repertoire that continues to benefit from his passionate advocacy.''

[André]

Richard-Hamelin's previous Chopin disc is very good. I think I'll go for this one, issued last week.

[Mandryka]

[Que]

Is that the artist?  What is she doing? 

[Florestan]

What is she doing? 

Why, Schuberting no doubt...

Jokes aside, I'm interested in hearing it, the lady is a very fine pianist.

[Harry]

Is that the artist?  What is she doing? 

I know a nice of her quite closely, also a musician, and she told me that the mother of Khatia is staging these poses, for she know the financial effect of them.

[Draško]

What is she doing? 

Bigger question is what is she doing with Andante sostenuto of D960 at fourteen and a half minutes