New Releases

[amw]

Is this the old-ish King International cycle, or something new?  If new, what label?

Peter Rösel, soixante-quinze printemps, vient d'enregistrer en concert en prévision de l'année Beethoven, toute les Sonates pour le label japonais King Records (et les Concertos, et des disques Mozart), aucune parution en Europe ne semble prévue à ce jour ce qui est incompréhensible. J'espérais qu'au moins Berlin Classics rééditerai la brassée de Sonates qu'il avait engrangée au temps du microsillon, amorce d'une intégrale qui ne fut jamais achevée à la suite de la réunification de l'Allemagne, mais non, seulement un disque avec deux opus qui suffisent pourtant à révéler tout son génie dans ce répertoire

https://www.clicmusique.com/beethoven-sonates-pour-piano-rosel-p-104054.html

As far as I can tell w my 8th grade French, this will be a new live cycle also on King Records.

[Mandryka]

It is a transfer of two sonatas from the old recording on Berlin Classics, he has made a new set of concert recordings of Beethoven on something called King but it's not available out of Japan. Nothing more is planned from Berlin Classics. The two on Berlin Classics « are sufficient to reveal his genius »

[Mandryka]

[Madiel]

The release of the Nightingale Quartet performing Holmboe, which was supposed to be out a few days ago, seems to have been pushed back all the way to October. 

[Mandryka]

     

[Mandryka]

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8767964--la-bellezza-the-beauty-of-17th-century-violin-music

Opens with a good solo violin piece by someone called Nicola Matteis Jr. though the partita which follows is a lot more predictable.  What looks like an excellent booklet. I may listen to this, I may not. 

[Harry]

I have that already and its darn good

[Mandryka]

Hmmmmmm. Dunno about this. Predicatable jolly dance music.


https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8718089--suoni-amorosi

[MusicTurner]

The release of the Nightingale Quartet performing Holmboe, which was supposed to be out a few days ago, seems to have been pushed back all the way to October. 

I didn't know about such a release, but I think alternative Holmboe quartet recordings would be very nice, given that the KontraQuartet have had a monopoly so far on CD.  I think there's room for quite different interpretations.

Also, further recordings of at least some of the symphonies, perhaps more grand and cinematic in style than those by Hughes/BIS, would be interesting.

[Biffo]

Just been listening to the last seven numbers of this excellent album.

[Mandryka]

Re l'Acheron, they really have developed a sound and an approach of their own. I'd love to hear them in concert, to get a feel for what they really sound like. Intense; sensual; magnificent timbres, deep bass and a treble with no whining, an ensemble with coherence but no homogeneity - like shot silk; not at all demonstrative or extrovert; eloquent and poetic.


This is the sound they make

[Brian]

The release of the Nightingale Quartet performing Holmboe, which was supposed to be out a few days ago, seems to have been pushed back all the way to October. 

Yeah, we're starting to see releases get pushed back and I'm honestly shocked more of them haven't been. Sony's big Peter Serkin box got bumped from May to June in the USA.

A friend of mine who just published a book says there are real challenges with getting workers in to print copies, let alone distribute them - his book's print run sold out, and now people are asking him where to buy and there's just no answer. I imagine other industries will have the same problem.

[Gurn Blanston]

Yeah, we're starting to see releases get pushed back and I'm honestly shocked more of them haven't been. Sony's big Peter Serkin box got bumped from May to June in the USA.

A friend of mine who just published a book says there are real challenges with getting workers in to print copies, let alone distribute them - his book's print run sold out, and now people are asking him where to buy and there's just no answer. I imagine other industries will have the same problem.

I had posted in the Haydn thread that I talked to Catherine Manson and she says that London Haydn Quartet Op 76 is all recorded, but right as they finished, the studio was forced to shut down before they could complete post-production, and now she doesn't know when it will be released, maybe in the Autumn. I'm guessing this is far from the only instance of this...   

[Mandryka]

And yet in music pre 1750, April has seen a load of new and interesting releases, but not much in March.

Music, unlike books, doesn't have distribution problems because it's pretty well all online.

[Florestan]

And yet in music pre 1750, April has seen a load of new and interesting releases, but not much in March.

Music, unlike books, doesn't have distribution problems because it's pretty well all online.

Well, books pre 1750 are pretty well all online. 

[Gurn Blanston]

And yet in music pre 1750, April has seen a load of new and interesting releases, but not much in March.

Music, unlike books, doesn't have distribution problems because it's pretty well all online.

Yes, but I'm sure that is stuff that had already been completed, including the studio mastering et al. Things in which the ensemble had merely completed their part but which had yet gone no further, are probably backlogged pretty well. If Hyperion recording studio is shut down, I would guess there are plenty of things already recorded which will hit the market in a big slug, along about September.

[Brian]

And of course the quartet can't record things now for release in 2021!

[Mandryka]

And of course the quartet can't record things now for release in 2021!

Can't they just play it in their homes over zoom?

[Gurn Blanston]

And of course the quartet can't record things now for release in 2021!

I think they were just keeping to their release schedule, which usually was in the Spring. They would tour all autumn and winter then record and release. So sure, what's a year in the big picture of things like that? 

[Christo]

Well, books pre 1750 are pretty well all online. 

Not even one percent, AFAIK. Not sure how many hundreds of thousands of books were printed in the Dutch Republic alone - should check that - certainly no more than hundreds of them digitized.