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[Todd]

Have you got any expectations that it wouldn't turn out to be just another third tier set?

Yes.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

He is a member of the Piper-Hiedsieck family of champagne makers and a performer with very personal ideas - the good kind of eccentric. Piano nerds love him because of his unusual choices and the way he embodies an old French style of playing (he studied with Cortot) with better recorded sound and technique. He does occasionally get a little too weird - I don't like his Beethoven pastoral sonata.

Of course the other thing is that, as the link shows, many of his recordings are quite rare - 8 of the 27 CDs are the first time the recordings are appearing on CD.

It's funny the labels have finally fully committed themselves to CD releases of all their archival jewels just as CDs and CD players are being phased out.

Thanks for the info and your thoughts on him Brian.  I was excited to read that he studied with Cortot (of whom I'm a big fan).  The wording in Wiki was rather strange.  Did he also study with Kempff (another pianist of whom I am a fan)?

PD

[Brian]

Did he also study with Kempff (another pianist of whom I am a fan)?

Not sure - someone else probably knows.

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Got some more NOVEMBER intel:



Imagine telling someone you want to listen to an album called "and".



"Recorded live in 2019, it includes Ginastera's Violin Concerto, Op. 30, which requires no fewer than seven percussionists handling some four dozen instruments, Bernstein's imposing Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion that was inspired by Plato's Symposium and Samy Moussa's Violin Concerto "Adrano", a World Première and an OSM commission." Moussa is b. 1984

Naxos accidentally uploaded the wrong front cover for this one so here's the back cover instead:





It's actually sonatas 9 and 10.

[The new erato]

Imagine telling someone you want to listen to an album called "and".

Particularly as "and" means duck in Norwegian. At least it doesn't mean dodo.

[Todd]

Intriguing.  Could make for a good A/B with Dusinberre/Korevaar.

[Kontrapunctus]

The Bach is a reissue.  I've not seen the Chopin before.

Most likely since, sadly,  she died in 2019.

[MusicTurner]

Particularly as "and" means duck in Norwegian. At least it doesn't mean dodo.

An 'and' also means a duck in Danish, but in our slang, it means 'a false story'.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Particularly as "and" means duck in Norwegian. At least it doesn't mean dodo.

Anyone here remember this? 

[Todd]

Most likely since, sadly,  she died in 2019.

Yeah, I know.  The Chopin may not have been released before.  The Bach has been. 

[71 dB]

An 'and' also means a duck in Danish, but in our slang, it means 'a false story'.

In Finland false news stories are called ´uutisankka´ which means ´news duck´.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I wonder how a duck became associated with a false news story?

[MusicTurner]

I wonder how a duck became associated with a false news story?

Possibly it comes from Germany where, 1) among journalists, a not verified report, that had to be approved by the editor, was supplied with the letters NT. NT is close to saying Ente, which means duck in German ... or maybe 2) from the expression blaue Ente, or blue duck, meaning something that is not very likely.

There should be similar associations with the word duck in Swedish, Russian and Dutch, at least according to some quick research. Also, in French, giving or selling Half a Duck means cheating.

[Symphonic Addict]

Now, if the music is as wonderful as the cover art, this is a must hear.










Taken from Toccata webpage:

Although the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875–1965) came to be remembered as a pioneer in the science of acoustics, the music he wrote in the first part of his career has a late-Romantic opulence and spaciousness that was very much of its age. Here his powerful and dignified Second Symphony, which sits somewhere between Bruckner and Rachmaninov, is joined by two early pièces d'occasion and excerpts from his grand historical opera of 1910, Matilde, or Mexico in 1810, which marked the centenary of the Mexican War of Independence.

Sounds enticing!

[Madiel]

An 'and' also means a duck in Danish, but in our slang, it means 'a false story'.

Among my favourite Danish phrases while learning the language - with limited practical use - was that "the second duck" is "den anden and".

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Possibly it comes from Germany where, 1) among journalists, a not verified report, that had to be approved by the editor, was supplied with the letters NT. NT is close to saying Ente, which means duck in German ... or maybe 2) from the expression blaue Ente, or blue duck, meaning something that is not very likely.

There should be similar associations with the word duck in Swedish, Russian and Dutch, at least according to some quick research. Also, in French, giving or selling Half a Duck means cheating.

Interesting!  Thanks. 

Among my favourite Danish phrases while learning the language - with limited practical use - was that "the second duck" is "den anden and".

Is that used at the market?  Or for picking out ducks in a lineup? 

PD

[relm1]

[staxomega]

https://www.youtube.com/v/kXsmuyxD09A

[Mandryka]

Machaut, Landini - the usuals. There's not much of it. Recorded in 2010, I'm not sure why they've decided to release it now. Machaut songs with tasteful instruments, for some reason. Very good indeed though! Details here

https://www.blueheron.org/recordings/cds/salmagundi/

[Madiel]

Is that used at the market?  Or for picking out ducks in a lineup? 

PD

In Duolingo, anything is possible.

An even better Danish phrase: "I get few sheep" is "Jeg får få får".

[vandermolen]

There was an excellent earlier release from these forces featuring Symphony No.6

Another new release: