New Releases

[vandermolen]

Back to what jlopes posted - there are a couple more BIS releases coming that I found info on, and some Naxos stuff:

The Petridis CD looks interesting. Never heard of him. I just sampled his 1st Symphony on You Tube which sounded really good.

[Madiel]

Imnsho, this is the greatest canard in the whole history of music. Not only are the composer's intentions completely unknowable to anyone else than the composer himself, but oftenly they are not knowable even to the composer herself --- witness (among scores of other direct or indirect testimonies) Rachmaninoff's and Prokofiev's recoded significant departures from their own scores.

What exactly, then, do you think the point of a score is?

Again, I come back to the point: if you're invoking a composer's name, then you're signalling you are not the source of the music.

Jazz doesn't work this way of course, and neither does pop/rock to an extent. But that's to a significant degree because they are forms that evolved when music was transmitted more by recordings rather than print. And they are also forms where the identity of a composer doesn't get the same prominence.

[Madiel]

Back to new releases... I might be interested in Naxos starting a series of Brahms songs.

[prémont]

.. and of course our recent, rude and unnecessary "anachronistic all the same"..

I didn't intend to be provocative, but just wondered about the purpose of using a piano, which is a hundred years old. One doesn't get closer to the baroque sound world for that reason.

In summary: So far she [Mejoueva] wants to play the French suites on piano, I don't understand, why a modern piano wasn't used instead.

[JBS]

Back to what jlopes posted - there are a couple more BIS releases coming that I found info on, and some Naxos stuff:

Trifonov gives an impressive performance of the Brahms Chaconne in his brand new release.
It will be interesting to see what another pianist can make of it.

[mabuse]

The transcription by Brahms is magnificent and it is a pity that the pianists especially want to play the one by Busoni.
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I did not hear Trifonov ...
I remain devoted to Anna Vinnitskaya:

[JBS]

There are several performances on Youtube, including Trifonov, but also Sokolov, Zimmerman, and Fleisher, among others
https://www.google.com/search?q=brahms+chaconne&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&prmd=vsixn&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw_62D-tLzAhWCmGoFHRFMDU0Q_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=360&bih=640&dpr=2#ip=1

[Mirror Image]

Back to what jlopes posted - there are a couple more BIS releases coming that I found info on, and some Naxos stuff:

Yes! I'll definitely be buying this one.

[Mirror Image]

It's better than yet another Beethoven/Brahms/Bruckner/Mahler recording, at least!

QFT, Kyle.

[Mandryka]

In summary: So far she [Mejoueva] wants to play the French suites on piano, I don't understand, why a modern piano wasn't used instead.

She always uses it, she travels around to give concerts with it, presumably it's her piano and she likes it. I like it in fact, it's a very good piano indeed.

She's got a big following in Japan. I have heard some of her Bach - inventions. It is strong confident playing.

[Mandryka]

Bach on a modern chamber organ and viol. Intimate performances and the first track - a prelude - seems quite sympathetic actually. Booklet here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/85/000144358.pdf

Romina Lischka is someone I have heard before, in Demachy and Ferabosco. I don't know if this Marnix de Cat is the ubiquitous singer of the same name.

[bioluminescentsquid]

Bach on a modern chamber organ and viol. Intimate performances and the first track - a prelude - seems quite sympathetic actually. Booklet here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/85/000144358.pdf

Romina Lischka is someone I have heard before, in Demachy and Ferabosco. I don't know if this Marnix de Cat is the ubiquitous singer of the same name.

I saw this too, not a modern chamber organ but a real church organ!

[Artem]

This sounds very good indeed. And I think it's a nice piece of music. You can hear it on bandcamp.

On the strengths of her version of Triadic Memories, I'd consider purchasing her new Feldman recording. Not that there're so many new recordings of Feldman's music, that one has to make decisions.

[Que]

In summary: So far she [Mejoueva] wants to play the French suites on piano, I don't understand, why a modern piano wasn't used instead.

It's odd, but those earlier Steinways do sound pretty. 

[Mandryka]

Just wonderful!

[prémont]

She always uses it, she travels around to give concerts with it, presumably it's her piano and she likes it. I like it in fact, it's a very good piano indeed.

She's got a big following in Japan. I have heard some of her Bach - inventions. It is strong confident playing.

Thanks, this explains a lot.

[prémont]

I don't know if this Marnix de Cat is the ubiquitous singer of the same name.

It is him. He is a trained organist too:

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/De-Cat-Marnix.htm

[Florestan]

What exactly, then, do you think the point of a score is?

To give headaches to performers. 

Seriously now, I think a score is supposed to represent what the composer had in mind and how they wanted the music to sound --- one might say "the composer's intentions". But the fact that there are recorded instances of composers departing from their own scores when performing their own music shows that the score is actually an approximation of those intentions and not the intentions themselves.

[MusicTurner]

Another aspect is that say Stravinsky's recordings of his own works vary very considerably, depending on when they were done, chronologically. We don't have many published, recorded cases like that (Richard Strauss also comes to mind. I'm less sure about Boulez), but it's surely a tendency among many, more or less 'passive' performers as well, including HIP people.

[Mandryka]

What exactly, then, do you think the point of a score is?

The point of a score is to inspire performers to make music.