New Releases

[Mandryka]

[MusicTurner]

Neuhaus I & II on Scribendum, material not seen that often;
cf. https://www.scribendumrecordings.com/our-shop/4583959841/sc824-20cd---heinrich-stanislav-neuhaus-the-art-of/11540836

Åstrand plays lesser known works for violin and orchestra, on Dacapo (which has apparently insisted on another silly cover, the metal sphere)
      Malling: Konzertfantasie op. 20
    +Lange-Müller: Romance op. 63
    +Ludolf Nielsen: Romanze op. 20 & Berceuse op. 9
    +Enna: Romanze & Barcarole
    +Carl Nielsen: Romanze op. 2
    +L. Glass: Romanze op. 29
    +N.W. Gade: Capriccio
    +Svendsen: Romance op. 26

Barbizet, 14 CD box,
cf. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8844352--pierre-barbizet-the-complete-erato-hmv-recordings

[Todd]

Image finally available.



Gautier moonlights, apparently.



I do wish Mr Armstrong would opt for regular audio only releases.  And it looks like he likes that other Stein.  This was recorded in what must be one of the most garish venues out there, the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth:

[Mirror Image]

New Mahler Berliner box set coming out later this month:

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[Mirror Image]

This looks interesting. I don't really need another recording of these works, but good for Hyperion to record them.

[Madiel]

Fauré: Dolly Suite. Poulenc: Sonata for four hands. Debussy: Six épigraphes antiques and Petit Suite. Stravinsky: Three easy pieces. Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye.

Both March 5.

Sounds like a nicely chosen programme.

[Daverz]

The Coptic Light is very good.  Haven't listented to the other work yet.

[Mandryka]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I come bearing more news for JANUARY



Haydn 15, 35, 45, "Scena di Berenice"



The Liszt orchestral album includes a rare version of the Rhapsodie espagnol arranged by Busoni. Filipec (a good old-fashioned barn-storming virtuoso) supplies his own cadenzas in the Hungarian Fantasy.



Real arpeggione and 1827 Conrad graf fortepiano!





Only 48 minutes...plenty of room for another regard or two...







It appears only two of the tracks actually have words/texts. Get ready for some oohs and aahs?!

Brian,

Are you planning on ordering that Hungarian one?  I don't recognize most of the composers' names but am intrigued.

PD

[milk]

Wow! This already sounds much better than what I had - though I'm just going from memory. The new world symphony? I can't believe how strange, unnerving and beautiful this music is. Feldman almost makes it sounds simple too. There was a time when I was trying to put together sounds like this and I just couldn't do it. I can almost understand better where Feldman gets his chamber music ideas from. Almost. 

[Mandryka]

Wow! This already sounds much better than what I had - though I'm just going from memory. The new world symphony? I can't believe how strange, unnerving and beautiful this music is. Feldman almost makes it sounds simple too. There was a time when I was trying to put together sounds like this and I just couldn't do it. I can almost understand better where Feldman gets his chamber music ideas from. Almost.

yes, yes yes, that's right.

[Mandryka]

This sounds outstanding to me, and normally I'm not so interested in this composer - apart from when Satoh plays! This is expressive stuff which makes the music sounds much less triv than normal. Not sure about the recording quality, he's playing a theorbo, 14 course so you know what to expect.

http://frabernardo.com/?portfolio=de-visee-johannes-oetzbrugger#tab-id-2

[Mandryka]

Super organ, a handful of piece by Muffat, lots of someone called Krieger who I don't know anything about.

[Mandryka]

Very imaginative and distinctive set of Goldbergs. You ain't 'eard nuffin like this before.

[Brian]

Brian,

Are you planning on ordering that Hungarian one?  I don't recognize most of the composers' names but am intrigued.

PD

There are a couple names I don't recognize, either. (I thought Laszlo Weiner and Leo Weiner might be the same person, but nope!) I know Farkas and Veress, and the name Frid very vaguely rings a bell somewhere deep in the hopeless murk of my memory  but this repertoire is right up my alley. Love Hungarian folk string tradition.

[Mandryka]

Prima Facie are pleased to announce the release a world premiere recording and one of the final works by the legendary composer John Cage: 4 Solos for Voice: Solos for Voice 93-96, performed by Electric Phoenix. A detailed work for solo and over dubbed vocals the recording was masterminded by producer and musical polymath Daryl Runswick.

Daryl Runswick: "I met John Cage twice, and was as beguiled by him personally as everyone who met him was. The first time was in Zagreb on 21st April 1985 when he attended a concert by Electric Phoenix; the second in London on 19th June 1988 at a rehearsal of the piece he wrote for us, 4 Solos for Voice. For the recording, made several years after the world premiere of 4 Solos for Voice (and indeed after Cage's death) I as producer adopted several procedures which I hope he would have approved of.

'At the 1988 rehearsal, Cage stipulated that in performance we should ignore one another completely – never interact in any way. For the recording I decided we would record the four solos separately and not as an ensemble, and that the recordings would be assembled into performances later. In actual performance it is virtually impossible to ignore one another – although on stage we positioned ourselves apart and out of each other's eyeline – but here we could be truly independent. I therefore summoned each of the singers to John Whiting's October Sound studio alone and they recorded their music in the presence only of John and myself.

'We recorded each vocal event separately and stopped the tape (it was still Digital Audio Tape in those days) between events. In this way we could re-record an event as many times as we wanted until we were pleased with it. This meant we ended up with a collection of dozens of single events which could then be assembled into complete performances."

This historic recording is a must for the serious collector of avant garde music, challenging, inventive but ultimately very listenable to.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Naxos' distribution site just wasn't updated promptly and they pushed their own Jan. releases to the end of the month. Looks like this week they uploaded the disc titles and artist names, but not the tracklists or artwork, so I decided not to post them until next week. I can say that there is a great deal of pretty interesting stuff happening on Naxos in January. Big new post coming Monday or Tuesday (whenever they upload the album covers), but get ready for Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata "performed on a real arpeggione", Adams' My Father Knew Charles Ives, and multiple percussion-centric albums.

Hi Brian,

I've tried to pull up one of the CDs (to share with a friend), but I'm not finding it on the Naxos website nor elsewhere.  How/where did you find these releases?

PD

[Brian]

Hi Brian,

I've tried to pull up one of the CDs (to share with a friend), but I'm not finding it on the Naxos website nor elsewhere.  How/where did you find these releases?

PD

The images come in from a Naxos marketing website where they distribute downloads and press materials to reviewers - I used to be a CD reviewer until 2017 and they forgot to delete my account  . Presto has some details on the releases but not all the details yet, for example: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8861974--veress-hungarian-serenade

Usually Naxos uploads the press materials privately about 2 weeks before the CDs appear on retail sites like Amazon etc. and 6 weeks before the CD is actually released, which is why my posts are often the first ones.

[Artem]

Not sure about the recording quality, he's playing a theorbo, 14 course so you know what to expect.

http://frabernardo.com/?portfolio=de-visee-johannes-oetzbrugger#tab-id-2

Beautiful music. But is it the structure of the instrument that make it sound like the music being played inside a well? I often hear that kind of sound on similar recordings.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The images come in from a Naxos marketing website where they distribute downloads and press materials to reviewers - I used to be a CD reviewer until 2017 and they forgot to delete my account  . Presto has some details on the releases but not all the details yet, for example: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8861974--veress-hungarian-serenade

Usually Naxos uploads the press materials privately about 2 weeks before the CDs appear on retail sites like Amazon etc. and 6 weeks before the CD is actually released, which is why my posts are often the first ones.

Ah, that explains it!  I was beginning to wonder whether or not I was going crazy! 

PD