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[ritter]

As classical composer unknown

Jean Prodromidès studied with René Leibowitz, and another opera of his, La noche triste, was recorded by Adès with a relatively well-known cast (soprano Olivia Stapp, tenor Vinson Cole, baritone François Le Roux, conducted by Arturo Tamayo). But yes, he's better remembers (if at all) for his film music.

That release of Goya, though, is from 1997...

[Mandryka]

There are some magic things by Prodromidès - for example, Le Livre des Katuns.

[pjme]

I may have shown this on GMG years ago...cannot remember.
Anyway, in 1961 Prodromidès wrote music for a -then- very lavish TV production of Aeschylos  Les perses. Musique de scène, oratorio, opera? Tv was still quite new and -apparently - this work was broadcast on TV in mono and in stereo (as a test) on radio. It created quite stir and my latin/greek teacher spoke about it ten years later...

Orff, Honegger, Milhaud and exotic Rozsa ....what a weird work!

For the rest Prodromidès wrote plenty of filmscores. his orchestral works -if there are any - remain all but forgotten, I'm afraid.
https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/jean-prodromides

I just see that he wrote the score for this Wajda film



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4GDEUNWvuA&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RhX5UgcZnY41GITU2RmDebK&index=7
Livre des Katuns, Salomé...: https://youtu.be/AomtFd2hjb4?si=qVyJcfTO_xIofnit

[Roy Bland]

Jean Prodromidès studied with René Leibowitz, and another opera of his, La noche triste, was recorded by Adès with a relatively well-known cast (soprano Olivia Stapp, tenor Vinson Cole, baritone François Le Roux, conducted by Arturo Tamayo). But yes, he's better remembers (if at all) for his film music.

That release of Goya, though, is from 1997...

OK i will move but i've never seen it

[ritter]

OK i will move but i've never seen it

No need to move it, RB. As far as I know, there's no thread dedicated to the composer. Whatever you think is best.

Regards,

[Roy Bland]

 China Record (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and the China Symphony Orchestra have jointly launched the "A Century-long Review of Chinese Symphony Creation (Concerto and Suite Sections)".

[ritter]

As reported in the Boulez thread.


Tamara Stefanovitch plays Boulez's Second Sonata, Eisler's Sonata No. 1, Bartók's Sonata, Shostakovich's Sonata No. 1, and Scarlatti's Sonata K87 in B minor.


This is a new recording of Boulez's Livre por quatuor by the Diotima Quartet, as it includes movement IV, which was completed by Philippe Manoury after Boulez's death (and therefore was absent from the earlier 2015 recoridng by the same group). There's some 10 minutes of addtional music.

[Mandryka]

End of Feb

[Brian]

MORE APRIL STUFF

including MORE LISZT BY DANIEL GRIMWOOD!!!





Grimwood!!!
This also includes the Schumann Arabesque, Liszt Consolation No. 3, and Clara Schumann Soirees Musicales.



This is the Ysaye solo sonatas and some fillers by Bach and Mathieu Crickboom - on 4 LPs! No CD release











"The most comprehensive tribute ever issued on record to the art of the Italian pianist Sergio Fiorentino. Many recordings here newly remastered and receiving their first-ever issue in the digital age. A landmark set for pianophiles.This set has been curated by the collector Ernst Lumpe, who contributes a lengthy appreciation and introduction to the booklet of the set, alongside an essay by Christoph Schlüren & Ottavia Maria Maceratini. It was Lumpe who drew the pianist out of retirement during the 1990s, resulting in an 'Indian Summer' of recordings made in Berlin until not long before the pianist's death in 1998. They are reissued here, alongside much less familiar solo and concerto recordings from the 1950s and 60s – 'The Early Recordings' – and separate sections dedicated to Fiorentino's particular, free-wheeling mastery of Chopin and Liszt. In 1954 he recorded Mozart's Concerto K467 in Naples; the repertoire from those years otherwise focuses on richly sonorous interpretations of German repertoire. Around this time too, however, he recorded several major Chopin collections: the Ballades, Etudes, Polonaises, Scherzos, and Waltzes. Alongside some revisiting of this repertoire, late in life in Berlin, Fiorentino turned to Russian repertoire: Prokofiev, Scriabin, and especially Rachmaninoff, whom he had always venerated as the supreme pianist."

N.B. This has all been previously issued on Piano Classics, and does not include the additional material from Rhine Classics. I notice the number of Liszt recording CDs has dropped from 6 to 5. (As a Fiorentinian I own all of the previous issues.)

[Brian]

EVEN MORE



Here are the performers and works in the Ancerl concerto box:

[JBS]

I presume this


is just a straight re-issue of this


which I have, so I'm safe from this one.

(And that's just a re-issue of a Thorofon set. So this is the third label it's appeared on.)

[Brian]

Yeah, there's a Thorofon logo in the bottom corner.

[Que]

MORE APRIL STUFF

including MORE LISZT BY DANIEL GRIMWOOD!!!



Grimwood!!!
This also includes the Schumann Arabesque, Liszt Consolation No. 3, and Clara Schumann Soirees Musicales.

Awesome!  And I will not mind the additional Schumann.

I would also keep an eye out for this. Deljavan did a Chopin recording on Brillant before, and it made a big impression:

[Que]

EVEN MORE

Piques my interest, mainly because of the Bruckner.

[The new erato]

Piques my interest, mainly because of the Bruckner.

I have his 6th on a Supraphon double LP. I liked it quite a bit in my early Bruckner phase many decades ago, when Supraphon was easily and cheaply available and money was tight.

[Brian]

Piques my interest, mainly because of the Bruckner.

The Bruckner 5 uses a posthumous edition with cuts he did not approve. 7 and 9 are unencumbered. I just posted about the Tchaikovsky 5.

[Florestan]

Deljavan's mug is fit for Balzac's Histoire des treize rather than Chopin's music. 

[Atriod]

Via Crucis, Six Consolations, and Nos. 8 and 9 from the Harmonies poetiques et religeuses.



"Works by Maurice Ravel, Ricardo Viñes, Alexandre Tansman, Salvatore Sciarrino, Betsy Jolas"

Chamayou is recording at a breakneck pace, I still haven't fully digested his phenomenal Messiaen lieder album with Barbara Hannigan nor heard the Cage and Mendelssohn albums from last year.

The Abduraimov is Prok 2 + Shor 1. For more on Alexey Shor, visit this thread.



1. It's not complete; he omits La Parade.
2. Yes, this is his second complete recording after the MDG version; that time he used a 1901 Steinway, while this time he switches to Yamaha.
3. He writes a booklet essay about his interpretations but does not mention any evolution or change compared to his previous recording.

I will definitely be streaming Bavouzet's second cycle, for complete cycles of Ravel the MDG cycle is likely my favorite set. And the only cycle that has one of my favorite performances of Gaspard.

I just listened to the Shor Piano Concerto 1, a nice work, sounds like an old fashioned romantic piano concerto in the vein of Medtner.

[Mandryka]

[Mandryka]