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[Que]

I asked Arcana about Festetics recording more of the string quartets many years ago and got a cryptic reply along the lines of it will be happening but there has been nothing new.

The possible prospect of the Festetics Qt getting back to their old Schubert SQ project, is actually more than I hoped for! Fingers crossed...

We also need a HIP LvB SQ cycle. I sampled some by thr Chiaroscuro Qt - but it doesn't seem to be my vibe.
My money would be on the Schuppanzigh Qt, perhaps spamming Accent is in order. 

[pjme]

I hope that the Jussen brothers will record more Dutch composers. this is a good start anyway!

https://www.youtube.com/v/htECaCwIlM4

https://www.youtube.com/v/6YHhHCv0qyU

Joey Roukens rousing "Neon toccata' from the concerto for two pianos and orchestra.
The photograph I find quite tacky.

Leo Smit is a composer well worth rediscovering ( as are Henkemans and Pijper, of course)

https://www.youtube.com/v/oIcQvxEmMm8

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

[Mandryka]

I like it. It's relaxing.

[Brian]

How much do you like the combination of clarinet, cello, and piano? Enough to buy a 7 CD box set of the nearly complete repertoire from the 1700s to present day, including Weinberg, Kahn, Rihm, Part, Norgard, Ireland, Schoenberg, Lindberg, Beethoven, and more?

Featuring the principal clarinet of the Vienna Philharmonic with a cellist from the Berlin Philharmonic and a pianist who is also accompanist to Thomas Hampson and Bernarda Fink.

[Madiel]

How much do you like the combination of clarinet, cello, and piano? Enough to buy a 7 CD box set of the nearly complete repertoire from the 1700s to present day, including Weinberg, Kahn, Rihm, Part, Norgard, Ireland, Schoenberg, Lindberg, Beethoven, and more?

Featuring the principal clarinet of the Vienna Philharmonic with a cellist from the Berlin Philharmonic and a pianist who is also accompanist to Thomas Hampson and Bernarda Fink.

I do rather like that combination, if Beethoven, Brahms and Nørgård are any indication. But 7 discs worth? Hmmm... might still be worth pondering!

Edit: It includes Faure op.120, and immediately I'm turned off.

[Mandryka]

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/60/000150606.pdf

Sounds good, good instruments.

[Mandryka]

Weichenberger's good when Satoh plays the music, so maybe Held can make something enjoyable out of it.

[Mandryka]

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/94/000148049.pdf

Various homages. Some serious musicians (e.g, Benjamin Kobler)

[Mandryka]

Attention Willaert mavens. Did you miss Dionysos Now! I did. They have two CDs already chockablock with Willaert masses, all called Adriano, and a third in the pic above is in the pipeline for September.


https://www.dionysosnow.com/en/adriaan-willaert

[Mandryka]

Bartok solo violin, Ligeti solo Viola and other things.

[Mandryka]

Her previous Schubert recording was outstanding, cantabile Schubert, and colourful - organologically interesting too, with a Graf with loads of pedals and timbres very rich in partials. I have very high expectations of the forthcoming one.

[Todd]

Can't remember if this was posted before or not.

[Brian]

Wow, those Paul Paray boxes are must-haves for me. So happy to see Mercury Living Presence stuff coming back. Also, Honeck of course also mandatory.

[staxomega]

The possible prospect of the Festetics Qt getting back to their old Schubert SQ project, is actually more than I hoped for! Fingers crossed...

We also need a HIP LvB SQ cycle. I sampled some by thr Chiaroscuro Qt - but it doesn't seem to be my vibe.
My money would be on the Schuppanzigh Qt, perhaps spamming Accent is in order. 

I would love to hear Festetics record the Trout Quintet more than anything else, I've praised their performance of the String Quintet to high heavens here.

Beethoven, I am behind on my backlog of the string quartets (still need to reevaluate Goldner Quartert and Emerson. Plus Hungarian Quartet's 1953 cycle came in a few weeks ago, it never ends ), so I've held off hearing any of the new period instrument releases. I have been buying all the Mosaïques volumes as they come out as Naïve releases never stay in print too long. I am slowly warming to them in the late quartets the more I play them, there is a lot there that warrants it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Wow, those Paul Paray boxes are must-haves for me. So happy to see Mercury Living Presence stuff coming back. Also, Honeck of course also mandatory.

+1. I am seriously interested in the Paray box. Yamame looks like a classy grandma. I will check her disc.

[Spotted Horses]

Wow, those Paul Paray boxes are must-haves for me. So happy to see Mercury Living Presence stuff coming back. Also, Honeck of course also mandatory.

I count 18 CDs total in the two volumes. I have the three big Mercury boxes, and I think there is more Paray than that in the big sets. But I seem to see the cover of Paray's mono recording of Brahms 4 in the first set. That has never been on CD, to my knowledge, and would be a temptation. (I have gone as far as finding a copy of the original LP, which was too badly warped to play.)

[Brian]

I count 18 CDs total in the two volumes. I have the three big Mercury boxes, and I think there is more Paray than that in the big sets. But I seem to see the cover of Paray's mono recording of Brahms 4 in the first set. That has never been on CD, to my knowledge, and would be a temptation. (I have gone as far as finding a copy of the original LP, which was too badly warped to play.)

Those images are somewhat misleading - the full size versions here and here reveal that the boxes are 23 and 22 CDs each, with most of the covers just not displayed. Full track lists are at the Eloquence website.

EDIT: I'm sorry...Carmen electric rock opera featuring a credited kazoo soloist?? Well I know which of the 45 CDs I'm never playing

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[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Always I have been suspecting that the cd boxes generated more revenues for the industry than the sales of single discs did. I haven't seen the stats but I have a strong feeling about it.

[Madiel]

EDIT: I'm sorry...Carmen electric rock opera featuring a credited kazoo soloist?? Well I know which of the 45 CDs I'm never playing

Oh come on. At least once.