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Wakefield

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The lovely Alina Ibragimova:

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http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67795&vw=dc

http://www.youtube.com/v/_JdZm7_17NA

(1:40)

... and here is the third movement of the violin concerto in D minor:

http://www.musicme.com/#/Alina-Ibragimova/titres/Violin-Concerto-In-D:-Iii.-Allegro-t2943074.html

No bad at all, I think.  8)




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-- Voltaire

Mirror Image

Coming in December:

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Can't say I'm necessarily looking forward to this recording, but Gergiev has turned in a good 7th on the Philips label. It could be interesting to hear what he has to say with this work now.

TheGSMoeller

#882
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 25, 2012, 09:34:26 PM
Coming in December:

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Can't say I'm necessarily looking forward to this recording, but Gergiev has turned in a good 7th on the Philips label. It could be interesting to hear what he has to say with this work now.

It will all depend on the size of the toothpick he conducts with.

Mirror Image

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on November 26, 2012, 03:14:35 AM
It will all depends on the size of the toothpick he conducts with.

:P

not edward

Quote from: Brian on November 21, 2012, 09:38:48 AM
In January, Louis Lortie and Edward Gardner team up for Szymanowski's Symphony No 4.



Measuring up to the recent Broja/Wit will be a stiff challenge, but Edward Gardner's Polish music series is going very well so far.
That could be very good, I think: I can see Lortie doing a fine job with the solo part (haven't heard his Lutoslawski concerto also with Gardner, but imagine it would suit him pretty well too).

Brian, do you know Wit's earlier EMI Szymanowski? I'd probably say I tend to prefer those recordings by a hair--particularly the Symphonie concertante thanks to Piotr Paleczny's incisive reading of the solo part. (I guess it's a work that really suits Paleczny, as there was also once a BBC Radio Classics issue where he's also extremely fine.)
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-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Lisztianwagner

Quote from: James on December 01, 2012, 04:26:20 AM
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Wergo's essential reissues from their famous 1960s era Studio Reihe series continue with a recording of music by Karlheinz Stockhausen. The composer's Zyklus fur einen Schlagzeuger is offered in two different versions performed by two different performers, Max Neuhaus and Christoph Caskel. Stockhausen originally wrote the work for the Kranichstein Percussion Competition in 1959. He deliberately did not determine the length of the piece's performance, so as not to be overly specific concerning the work's multiplicity of meanings, the different characters of various performances, or the technical abilities of the players. For Klavierstuck X, performed here by the legendary pianist Frederic Rzewski, Stockhausen combined two extremes. The work is based on the attempt to mediate between relative disorder and order, chaos and balance.

This recording looks very interesting, Zyklus and Klavierstuck X are certainly great works.
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Brian

Quote from: edward on November 30, 2012, 01:07:35 PM
That could be very good, I think: I can see Lortie doing a fine job with the solo part (haven't heard his Lutoslawski concerto also with Gardner, but imagine it would suit him pretty well too).

Brian, do you know Wit's earlier EMI Szymanowski? I'd probably say I tend to prefer those recordings by a hair--particularly the Symphonie concertante thanks to Piotr Paleczny's incisive reading of the solo part. (I guess it's a work that really suits Paleczny, as there was also once a BBC Radio Classics issue where he's also extremely fine.)

I don't know Wit's earlier Szymanowski, and the EMI catalogue that's been added to NML doesn't include it. :(

I DO see a Paleczny recording on NML with Kazimierz Kord and the Warsaw Philharmonic.

North Star

Bezuidenhout's Mozart in January!

QuoteOn volume four of his widely acclaimed traversal of Mozart's music for solo keyboard, fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout performs on an instrument by Paul McNulty, modeled on a Viennese original by Anton Walter and Sohn (c.1805). The program includes Piano Sonatas in D major K.311 and G major K.283 and the lovely Variations on 'Je suis Lindor' in E flat Major, K.354.

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Lisztianwagner

The recording of the Neujahrskonzert 2013, with Franz Welser-Möst & Wiener Philharmoniker; I'm really looking forward to seeing this concert next January! ;D

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Of course, I'm absolutely keen to get the CD as well!
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Wakefield

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Quote from: North Star on December 02, 2012, 12:58:59 PM
Bezuidenhout's Mozart in January!

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He has experienced an outstanding transformation in three years.

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-- Voltaire

kishnevi

US release date 22 January 2013
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Amazon blurb describes the contents thusly
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Felix s Quartet in A Minor, Op 13, was completed in 1832. The quartet contains an allegro vivace, adagio non lento, allegretto con moto, and presto finale. Each movement is unique in its own way and portrays Felix s powerful voice as a composer. In 1834, Fanny composed the string Quartet in E flat Major. This string quartet contains an eloquent opening Adagio, C minor Allegretto, slow, yet intense, intense Romanze in G minor, and a challenging Allegro moderato finale. Lastly, Felix wrote The Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80, months following Fanny s death. The piece contains an anguished Allegro vivace assai, dark Allegro assai, moving Adagio in A flat major, and Finale that expresses extreme grief up to its anguished closing bars. This powerful piece would prove to be Felix s final piece as he died months after its completion.

Wakefield

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February 12, 2013
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

kishnevi

Quote from: Gordon Shumway on December 20, 2012, 02:02:50 PM
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February 12, 2013

Hopefully, this will fall more in the category of his WTC (which I more or less like) than in the category of his Goldbergs (which I decidedly dislike as being much too lethargic).

Meanwhile,  I overlooked this one, also from Virgin, and also on 1/22/13
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Wakefield

Coming soon:



Bach, J S - Mass in B minor, BWV232

2 HYBRID SACDs: Audio multichannel version of the concert

DVD1: Captured at Fontfroide Festival in 2011 in the nave of the Abbey Church.

DVD2: documentary 'Bach and Savall in Fontfroide' about the rehearsals of the Mass in B minor (French only)

Céline Scheen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (alto), Pascal Bertin (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass)

La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

Scheduled for release on 14 January 2013 (Presto Classical).
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

kishnevi

#894
Spotted this on GMG's Amazon new releases banner
(actually it was released last month)


The Amazon write up identifies the soloist as a "fortepianist"[ETA: and now that I enlarged it for this post, and can read it, so does the CD cover], so presumably these are PI performances.

Wakefield

Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on December 25, 2012, 08:02:14 PM
Spotted this on GMG's Amazon new releases banner
(actually it was released last month)


The Amazon write up identifies the soloist as a "fortepianist", so presumably these are PI performances.

QuoteHummel: Piano Concertos Volume 1
Composer   Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Format   1 CD Jewelcase
Cat. Number   94338
EAN Code   5028421943381
Conductor   Didier Talpain
Fortepiano   Alessandro Commellato
Orchestra   Solamente Naturali


About this release
As the vibrant works on this new recording demonstrate, the music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778--1837) deserves to be far better known today than it is. While he was one of the most famous and celebrated composers of the Classical period, his popularity declined rapidly after his death, with the onset of Romanticism, and it is only now that musicians have begun to effect a serious revival of his repertoire.

Hummel's parallel career as a concert pianist is evident from the sparkling virtuosity of the works heard on this disc, all for fortepiano and orchestra: they span his development from a young composer in the thrall of his mentor Mozart (heard in the charming Piano Concertino in G) to the drama and supreme virtuosity of his final period of creativity (Introduction & Rondo brillant in F minor). It is clear that Romanticism was beginning to take root during his lifetime; the Piano Concerto in A minor, for example, prefigures Chopin in its delicacy, and it is unsurprising that Hummel's music proved an inspiration to the younger composer.

Alessandro Commellato, Solamente Naturali and Didier Talpain are specialists in the performance of Hummel's works, having already recorded a number of his compositions for Brilliant Classics -- from chamber music to opera. As their performances demonstrate, Hummel's music is highly deserving of revival, and will particularly delight listeners who enjoy the piano concertos of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin.

Other information:
- The start of an important and exciting series: the complete piano concertos of Hummel played on period instruments.
- First recordings on period instruments, recorded in 2009 and 2010.
- Includes booklet notes and a biography of Hummel.
- Previous releases of Hummel's music on Brilliant Classics include: Piano Septets (94041), the opera Mathilde (94043) conducted by Didier Talpain, and a disc of music written for the Esterházy family (94115), performed by Didier Talpain, Chorus Alea and Solamente Naturali.
- Fortepianist Alessandro Commellato displayed his great skills in the performance of Hummel's Septet (BC 94041) and Solamente Naturali conducted by Didier Talpain proved their championship of Hummel with the recording of the opera Mathilda (BC 94043) and the Masses (BC 94115).
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

kishnevi

Quote from: Gordon Shumway on December 25, 2012, 08:08:44 PM


Muy rapido, mi amigo!  (and Feliz Navidad, what's left of it!)

Wakefield

Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on December 25, 2012, 08:13:44 PM
Muy rapido, mi amigo!  (and Feliz Navidad, what's left of it!)

¡Feliz Navidad para ti también, Jeffrey!  :)
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

Octave

I ran across mention of new EMI Icon releases for early 2013: Constantin Silvestri, Brigitte Fassbaender, Arturo Toscanini, Boris Christoff, and John McCormack.  I saw these listed as forthcoming releases in an "EMI Icon" search under the "Klassik" shop at Amazon.de.  Only front covers when I checked; no track listings or back cover pics.  I am especially happy about the Fassbaender and Christoff!  Too bad I bought her WINTERREISE just a week ago; it will make a chilly gift to some friend.
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Opus106

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New Old Release:

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Even with 50 discs, I wonder if it will cover all the solo piano and his conducting, let alone concerti and chamber music.
Regards,
Navneeth