New Releases

[Brian]

Cross-posting this warning in the hopes that somebody bought a physical CD and can advise us on whether it is affected.

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! POTENTIALLY DEFECTIVE NEW RELEASE WARNING !

Just had an amazingly trippy experience:



I've never heard Hindemith's Clarinet Quartet before. But unfortunately, in this performance, the second movement contains two tracks overlaid on top of each other. The second movement is played normally, but with the entire first movement repeated in mono sound in the background of the right channel. The result takes Hindemith's love of counterpoint to, uh, a dangerous new extreme. 

This is true on several streaming sources I've tried: Naxos Music Library, Presto free samples, even Orfeo label's own website. So it is possible Orfeo has coded the insane merger track into everything.

Now I have to seek out another album to hear this piece as it is meant to be played. Because that was...uh...terrifyingly intense. Kind of cool in an Ivesian way. But also hair-raisingly bizarre.

[vers la flamme]

Indeed. Of great historical interest, and never before available on CD AFAIK.

What is kind of sad is that Sony uses the same picture of the composer for both the Boulez and Craft releases of Webern's works in this budget series, resulting in almost identical covers:

 

How lazy is that? 

I definitely had the same thought. Personally I have the Boulez set in a different guise, this:



... which seems to highlight Boulez more so than it does Webern...

[Roy Bland]

Koval/Dsch strange coupling

[Symphonic Addict]

Koval/Dsch strange coupling

Now, that is a cover art!

[Mandryka]

Unfortunately after Brexit purchasing CDs from English suppliers has become very expensive. If I were to purchase this attractive recording it would cost me three times as much as before Brexit.

He may not be aware of the situation. If you write to him he may well make the recording downloadable.

I've ordered the CD. I listened to some of his WTC last night - very good, and I'd forgotten how energetic the interpretation is.

[bioluminescentsquid]

re: the Colin Booth CD, looks like Smalin (aka Musanim) has been commissioned to make animations for several of the pieces here - not sure if it will cover the whole CD but nice to listen to parts of it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNruJmIyClw

[staxomega]

Indeed. Of great historical interest, and never before available on CD AFAIK.

What is kind of sad is that Sony uses the same picture of the composer for both the Boulez and Craft releases of Webern's works in this budget series, resulting in almost identical covers:

 

How lazy is that? 

This is a really good example, whenever I saw the latter I just assumed it was the Boulez recordings, I never realized Sony released Craft's Columbia LPs on CD.

Does anyone have a link to this Robert Craft Sony box? I can't find it on Amazon.

edit: oh it's a new release, just saw Brian's post on the previous page. I suspect I'll buy this, I like the one Craft Naxos disc I have.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Some details here -  she has a voluptuous creamy voice and the little wind band accompaniment is done beautifully, everything is sensual. This is a gorgeous CD

https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiOTI0NTI2OS4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE2MzA1MzM0ODl9

I think that your link is a bit off as it only shows a large image of the cover photo there.  I did, out of curiosity check youtube and there's a lovely short video about the music, instruments, etc. which includes a short clip of them performing.  Fascinating looking at the instruments!  The youtube video (done for Audite) is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmOeJQ3D458

PD

[Daverz]

Don't know much about this reissue label, but might be of interest for those who remember these old Nonesuch LPs by Pomerium Musices and Alexander Blachly:

https://www.youtube.com/v/NiLuUY8emzQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnZzAuOhelpdkPcbTGAgcYg/featured

Qobuz has lossless downloads:

https://open.qobuz.com/album/vjv1iofe92wsa

There's also an earlier reissue of a Dufay LP:



https://open.qobuz.com/album/bvipthgtipetb

EDIT: found a bit of info on the label on Youtube:

"ReNovo is a classical music label developed with the music critic and Lp collector Giampaolo Zeccara, and dedicated to the digital reproposition of the most accurate and faithful remasterings of great analog recordings of the past.
ReNovo is a label of Devega Music Publishing, founded in 1970 in Italy by the musicians Vanerden (Otto Reppert), Angel Pocho Gatti and Delle Haensch. Specialized in classical music and synchronization music (production music), Devega was taken over in 1995 by the Genoese publishing group De Ferrari with which it continues its activity extending it to jazz and indie rock."

Sounds like they are an Italian knockoff label doing LP transfers (digital reproposition?).  Hopefully better than Urania and the like.

[Madiel]

Koval/Dsch strange coupling

Why do you regard that to be a strange coupling? It's 3 Russian composers from the same era.

[Brian]

Oddly Amazon.de has the back cover of this but not the front. But helpful for collectors who want to know if they need this! There appears to be one album (Monteverdi) never before released on CD. Click to expand.

[Karl Henning]

Oddly Amazon.de has the back cover of this but not the front. But helpful for collectors who want to know if they need this! There appears to be one album (Monteverdi) never before released on CD. Click to expand.

How many CD 16s are there?

[JBS]

How many CD 16s are there?

Perhaps they added some of the Bach and Purcell material on to the CD with the Baroque songs?

In fact a quick look on Amazon shows some Purcell was already included with Biber et al.

[Brian]

How many CD 16s are there?

Hah!
Next month I'm releasing my own 16 CD set where they're all CD 16.

[JBS]

Back on topic:

Amazon US has finally posted the release date--tomorrow--and list price for this set.

$299.99 US

I knew it was going to be expensive but didn't expect it to be that expensive.

[Roy Bland]

Why do you regard that to be a strange coupling? It's 3 Russian composers from the same era.

Koval was a personal enemy of DSCH.In 1948 Marian Koval wrote a long article in three consecutive issues of Sovetskaya Muzyka titled, "The Creative Path of Shostakovich" in which he found evidence of Formalism in every one of Shostakovich's works.

[Mirror Image]

Amazon US has finally posted the release date--tomorrow--and list price for this set.

$299.99 US

I knew it was going to be expensive but didn't expect it to be that expensive.

Ouch...yeah, I'll definitely pass, but one does have to take into account these were all the recordings he made with the Bavarian RSO for the BR Klassik label, but still...that price.

[Madiel]

Koval was a personal enemy of DSCH.In 1948 Marian Koval wrote a long article in three consecutive issues of Sovetskaya Muzyka titled, "The Creative Path of Shostakovich" in which he found evidence of Formalism in every one of Shostakovich's works.

Okay.

Nevertheless, the work in question is an example of Shostakovich being a good little Soviet.

[Papy Oli]

Hah!
Next month I'm releasing my own 16 CD set where they're all CD 16.

I bet Harry Christophers is kicking himself right now for not having had this idea before 

[staxomega]

From Eloquence, a few haven't been posted to this thread yet. Looking forward to the Westminster box of Fou Ts'ong, sad that it takes a less popular musician's death to finally start to see some reissues on digital.