New Releases

[foxandpeng]

Heads up Vasks fans --- out this month:

Yum. Looking forward to this landing on the ol' Spotify...

[Mirror Image]

Yum. Looking forward to this landing on the ol' Spotify...

Indeed. I rather enjoy oboe concerti, so this one from Vasks should be a good one.

[Traverso]

A new recording,happy that it appears after a long time of silence

[SonicMan46]

Some other upcoming releases that look interesting:

   

I'll be interested in the comments/reviews on the Ivo Kahánek set of piano works.  Currently, I own just one box (inserted middle above) w/ Inna Poroshina licensed by Brilliant (recordings from the late 1990s) -  I had the Radoslav Kvapil collection but preferred Inna (as did many of the reviewers - attached for those interested).  Dave

[milk]

A new recording,happy that it appears after a long time of silence

I was a little disappointed by this actually. Maybe it's just my subjective dissatisfaction with the repertoire. I wanted him to just record a straight set of Bach keyboard works, the French Suites or the Partitas or something. I've had enough of these transcription recordings. Maybe I'll change. I do like Sempe's playing quite a lot.

[T. D.]

I'll be interested in the comments/reviews on the Ivo Kahánek set of piano works.  Currently, I own just one box (inserted middle above) w/ Inna Poroshina licensed by Brilliant (recordings from the late 1990s) -  I had the Radoslav Kvapil collection but preferred Inna (as did many of the reviewers - attached for those interested).  Dave

Thanks, very helpful reviews attachment. This is of marginal purchasing appeal, but I'd go for it if the price is right. In my personal experience, Messrs. Hurwitz and Distler are somewhat contrarian indicators  , but the other critics, including Mr. Woolf from musicweb (whose taste seems more like my own) also lean to the Brilliant.

[Added] OMG, Berkshire has the 5 individual Poroshina discs on ESS.AY (but not the Brilliant reissue)!

[Brian]

MORE OCTOBER INTEL







Mozart - Piano Quintet
Poulenc - Sextet
Martinu - Sextet





Berlioz - Les nuits d'ete, Cleopatre
Holmes - La nuit et l'amour (8 minute aria)



Will include the original album booklet notes, plus a new intro by the conductor

[Brian]

LAST ONE I PROMISE



The Rontgen is a double album recorded in 2006-7!! What is CPO doing sitting on an album for 15 years?! Anyway, the symphonies are very modest in length, ranging from 10 to 22 minutes, so the 2 CDs only total 103 minutes of music.

By the way, it's been only a decade since the Pittsburgh Symphony's last Brahms 4 recording, a real winner under Marek Janowski that completed an excellent complete cycle. Timings: 12:38 / 11:06 / 5:54 / 9:26 and the MacMillan Larghetto is 14:56. Edit: The Larghetto is an orchestral arrangement of MacMillan's choral work "Miserere."

[vers la flamme]

^When was that Haitink/Bruckner 7 recorded, I wonder; anyone know? I enjoy Haitink's latter day recordings of Bruckner and Mahler.

[Brian]

^When was that Haitink/Bruckner 7 recorded, I wonder; anyone know? I enjoy Haitink's latter day recordings of Bruckner and Mahler.

June 15, 2019, his last concert in Amsterdam (his last concert overall was in September of that year).

[Karl Henning]

LAST ONE I PROMISE

Not sure I should be surprised that Mompou is still driving new releases.

[Ras]

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Academy of Ancient Music, Berlin with I. Faust and Tamestitt on Harmonia Mundi:

[asin]B0991J76PS[/asin] September 17.

Johannes Klumpp has followed Thomas Fey leading the Heidelberg Symphony Ochestra in their complete Haydn cycle. October 1.
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[Symphonic Addict]

Oh my... how many interesting releases! For me those include the Ivanovs, Martinu (Netopil), British Music for Strings III, Draeseke, Walton, Wolf-Ferrari, MacMillan, Vasks and Röntgen!

[Mandryka]

[Karl Henning]

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Academy of Ancient Music, Berlin with I. Faust and Tamestitt on Harmonia Mundi:

September 17.

Johannes Klumpp has followed Thomas Fey leading the Heidelberg Symphony Ochestra in their complete Haydn cycle. October 1.

Ye gods! More Brandenburgs?! Just what the world doesn't need! Faust is a brilliant violinist, but this is pure vanity.

[DavidW]

Ye gods! More Brandenburgs?! Just what the world doesn't need! Faust is a brilliant violinist, but this is pure vanity.

I'm sure after that they'll release some Beethoven symphonies and Mahler symphonies.  It's always fresh!

[Karl Henning]

I'm sure after that they'll release some Beethoven symphonies and Mahler symphonies.  It's always fresh!

And I thought Nelsons and the BSOwere insufficiently imaginative with another Shostakovich cycle ....

[Spotted Horses]

Ye gods! More Brandenburgs?! Just what the world doesn't need! Faust is a brilliant violinist, but this is pure vanity.

Evidently people want it, why would you deny them?

[Karl Henning]

Evidently people want it, why would you deny them?

Did people want Jaws: The Revenge?

[Karl Henning]

Did people want Jaws: The Revenge?

Obviously a Faust-helmed Brandenburgs is not the dreck which the movie is. But it looks like the same corporate thinking: It's sold before, It'll sell again.