New Releases

[Brian]

Didn't catch this the first time around.  Nicholas Rimmer is a very fine pianist; if he's good enough for Nils Monkemeyer, he's good enough for me.  I think I shall obtain this recording.

Rimmer has made a couple previous appearances for Naxos accompanying cellist Gabriel Schwabe in Brahms and Schumann, and violinist Tianwa Yang in Wolfgang Rihm, which is a good example of two artists I like recording repertoire I'll never want to hear them playing.

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Already starting to see JULY RELEASES announced...











with the original finale to No. 2 and played on two Conrad Graf pianos from 1818 and "1832/24" (??) + a Franz Bayer piano c. 1825

[Brian]

oops, almost forgot the rather silly crossover album "Mozart Mambo" featuring Mozart horn concertos played in Cuba...plus mambos on Mozart themes?!

[kyjo]

In June:

Very interesting! While tonal, both concerti are very much 20th-century in their language. All of Hyperion's previous releases in this series have (to my knowledge) contained concerti that are unquestionably "Romantic" in idiom, so this is a bit of a departure for them. The Bliss is a big-boned, exciting work and the Rubbra is much more introverted, even austere at times, but has moments of great originality and color. A new recording of the latter is particularly welcome!

[JBS]

Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble?!

[Todd]

Their Beethoven is so good, I may have to bite.



Who has not always secretly pined for eleven discs of Carl Orff in one box?

[Roy Bland]

Perhaps a new mastering has improved scarce sound quality of Decca edition

[Mirror Image]

Perhaps a new mastering has improved scarce sound quality of Decca edition

Very nice. I rather enjoy this symphony.

[Symphonic Addict]

Very interesting! While tonal, both concerti are very much 20th-century in their language. All of Hyperion's previous releases in this series have (to my knowledge) contained concerti that are unquestionably "Romantic" in idiom, so this is a bit of a departure for them. The Bliss is a big-boned, exciting work and the Rubbra is much more introverted, even austere at times, but has moments of great originality and color. A new recording of the latter is particularly welcome!

I couldn't agree more with you, Kyle. Both concertos are splendid in their own terms.

[vandermolen]

Very interesting! While tonal, both concerti are very much 20th-century in their language. All of Hyperion's previous releases in this series have (to my knowledge) contained concerti that are unquestionably "Romantic" in idiom, so this is a bit of a departure for them. The Bliss is a big-boned, exciting work and the Rubbra is much more introverted, even austere at times, but has moments of great originality and color. A new recording of the latter is particularly welcome!

+2

[vandermolen]

Very nice. I rather enjoy this symphony.

+1

[vandermolen]

Perhaps a new mastering has improved scarce sound quality of Decca edition

Is this a new re-issue Japanese release?

[Roy Bland]

No it is
https://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/products/khachaturian-symphony-no-2-the-bell-aram-khachaturian-vpo
Poor Decca sound quality (the sound lacks depth and clarity. the first movement was bombastic and the sound of the strings shrills) IMHO should be significantly improved.

[vandermolen]

No it is
https://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/products/khachaturian-symphony-no-2-the-bell-aram-khachaturian-vpo
Poor Decca sound quality (the sound lacks depth and clarity. the first movement was bombastic and the sound of the strings shrills) IMHO should be significantly improved.

OK thanks. I'll probably just stick with my Decca CD release. If I want to listen to a better recording I have Jarvi's fine Chandos CD:

[aukhawk]

1962 - plumb in the middle of the Solti Ring project - same orchestra, same venue - surprising they didn't do better.

[Maestro267]

I find there's a real Soviet intensity to that Khachaturian 2 recording. I have it on a Decca 2-fer, and while I see its flaws, I don't find it that unlistenable.

[vandermolen]

I find there's a real Soviet intensity to that Khachaturian 2 recording. I have it on a Decca 2-fer, and while I see its flaws, I don't find it that unlistenable.

Me too - just been playing it.

[JBS]

Don't remember these being posted before
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The orchestra is named after Svetlanov. Info says this is the first recording to use the original opening of the Burlesque.
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[Madiel]

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The orchestra is named after Svetlanov. Info says this is the first recording to use the original opening of the Burlesque.

And is there any basis for thinking Shostakovich still wanted the original opening of the Burlesque?

I've just read the notes on the Hyperion website. Frankly there are times when fetishizing a composer's first ideas is not good, and to me that includes when the piece was never heard that way because the composer made changes when working through the score with the first performer.

It's like insisting you want to read the version of a book an author came up with on their own before they ever discussed it with a colleague or editor. It's not actually how the modern artistic process works.

[Brian]

I listened to the sound clip and I think it's pretty awesome.

[Brian]

Also Ibragimova is currently (ie now!) recording Paganini's 24 caprices, the ideal project for a socially distant studio.