New Releases

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I only recently picked up my first recordings of mandolin works (Beethoven, of course).  Do I need more?

Post hereby given a Special Award.

I think all of Avital's CDs are worth getting, including the jazz/pop CD with Omer Avital. [Disclosure: I also like Omer A.]

(Avi and Omer are both Israelis from Moroccan Jewish families, but are not actually related despite having the same last name.)

I hadn't heard of his before now, but really like what I've heard so far.  I did watch some of a link to DG's website re new album with another Avital.  Currently listening to a CD interview with him which I also found online here:  https://www.classicalwcrb.org/post/avi-avitals-bach#stream/0

Chris Thiele also released a Bach album several years ago.  You can see and listen to him here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3lH_Tevw5o

PD

[Madiel]

New details about this bad boy:



Looks like it is truly "hyper-complete", including the Prix de Rome cantatas (Jacques Grimbert recordings licensed from Marco Polo), obscure piano music like La Parade (Tharaud) and the piano reduction of Daphnis et Chloe (bit of a mystery - the only recording I know of is Florian Uhlig, but Uhlig is not listed as a performer). Includes Ravel's orchestrations of Mussorgsky, Chabrier, Debussy, and Schumann's Carnaval (not sure who is conducting that).

There are four CDs of historical material, including Ravel and Poulenc playing piano, Ravel conducting, Bernac, Casadesus, Cortot, Monteux, Munch, Rubinstein, etc. Perhaps to compensate for whatever Simon Rattle recording they let slip into the box.

The paintings are by Albert Marquet.

Looks like a very similar strategy/feel to their Ravel box.

By the way Grimbert didn't do the Prix de Rome cantatas, he did the preliminary round choruses. For the actual cantatas it would be Plasson.

[JBS]

If it's like their Debussy and Berlioz boxes, some of it may be new performances especially recorded for this set.

[The new erato]

Three discs.  Live.  Includes a bunch of names I don't know.  Plus a lot of works by the very prolific Anonymous.

Ordered. Thanks for making me aware of this.

[Brian]

By the way Grimbert didn't do the Prix de Rome cantatas, he did the preliminary round choruses. For the actual cantatas it would be Plasson.

Oops, thank you.

[André]

Next week surprising release.

Surprising indeed. Dudamel/LA undercut Nelsons and the Bostonians...

[Todd]

Next week surprising release.

Dude.

[vers la flamme]

Next week surprising release.

Wow. That's one to look out for.

[Brian]

That Tavener album cover is...uh...certainly an interesting choice.

[JBS]

That Tavener album cover is...uh...certainly an interesting choice.

The composer, I assume. 
Any idea of the contents? Isserlis did a great performance of The Protecting Veil on EMI. If he's doing a new one for this CD the result should be interesting.

[Brian]

The composer, I assume. 
Any idea of the contents? Isserlis did a great performance of The Protecting Veil on EMI. If he's doing a new one for this CD the result should be interesting.

No Veil - the major work is The Death of Ivan Ilyich. https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68246

[JBS]

No Veil - the major work is The Death of Ivan Ilyich. https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68246

Thanks. I'll put this one on the maybe list. [Beyond Protecting Veil, there isn't much by Taverner I actually like.]

[Alek Hidell]

That Tavener album cover is...uh...certainly an interesting choice.

Willie Nelson's long-lost brother

[vandermolen]

That Tavener album cover is...uh...certainly an interesting choice.

I'm sorry that the VW is not coupled with Symphony 6 as 3 and 4 were on the same CD. Still, the scenes from 'Pilgrim's Progress' looks to be of great interest.

[Biffo]

I'm sorry that the VW is not coupled with Symphony 6 as 3 and 4 were on the same CD. Still, the scenes from 'Pilgrim's Progress' looks to be of great interest.

The VW disc isn't released until the end of October - I expect I will succumb, if only for the early Pilgrim stuff. The best Brabbins performance I have heard so far is the Sea Symphony but the BBC broadcast from Edinburgh, not the CD which I have never managed to finish.

[vandermolen]

The VW disc isn't released until the end of October - I expect I will succumb, if only for the early Pilgrim stuff. The best Brabbins performance I have heard so far is the Sea Symphony but the BBC broadcast from Edinburgh, not the CD which I have never managed to finish.

Yes, I expect I'll succumb too. I've enjoyed all of his performances so far and much prefer them, generally, to the Manze and Elder cycles, apart from Elder's No.3.

[Brian]

On his Berwald YouTube video, Hurwitz reveals that he's been told there will be two Igor Markevitch box sets released in 2021, with the DG and Philips recordings.

[Todd]

Any new recording from Ms Gvetadze is always welcome.

[Todd]

On Orange Mountain Music, a label new to me.  The label is devoted to the music of Philip Glass



Could be exciting.



Won't be exciting.

[Brian]

Well shoot, that Martinu is a must-buy.

I have one Orange Mountain Music release, Glass' Third Symphony and a piano concerto created from the soundtrack to "The Hours" - probably my favorite Glass disc overall, which means I listen to it once every five years. Featuring the frosty sounds of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.