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[betterthanfine]

Didn't know Adrien Brody had a second career as a musician!

[ritter]

Didn't know Adrien Brody had a second career as a musician!

He once was a pianist, IIRC. 

[betterthanfine]

He once was a pianist, IIRC. 

Ha, quite right. How could I forget?

[Wanderer]

Two of Romanovsky's previous recital discs that I have are good, albeit not very special. The cheesy title of this one notwithstanding, I'd be interested in listening to his version of the Second Sonata.

[Que]

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[Que]

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[André]

I can't find a link to this Moravec issue, Que. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I can't find a link to this Moravec issue, Que. 

Here's the AmazonUK link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chopin-Scherzi-other-Ivan-Moravec/dp/B00OPHG84Q/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_2

[Peter Power Pop]

I can't find a link to this Moravec issue, Que. 

Here's the AmazonUK link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chopin-Scherzi-other-Ivan-Moravec/dp/B00OPHG84Q/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_2

You can hear the entire album on Spotify:

https://play.spotify.com/album/0Wil6xScMSRkqJCmiAJ7rd

The album was originally released on Dorian Recordings in 1991:


Amazon.com
CD Universe


And then released on Supraphon in 2011:


Supraphon
ArkivMusic


Here are some other links for the re-release on Brilliant Classics:


Brilliant Classics
MDT
Presto Classical
Qobuz

[Que]

                                           [Linnn Records]

How is John Butt on the harpsichord? 

Q

[Que]

Going through the planned issues for December at jpc I found this - probably already posted before? 



https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/svjatoslav-richter-complete-decca-philips-dg-recordings/hnum/6202728

Though my admiration for Richter has so far been constricted to his Schumann (actually,  Richter is my 1st stop in that composer!) and Russian composers, I might just seriously consider this......

Q

[Moonfish]

Going through the planned issues for December at jpc I found this - probably already posted before? 



https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/svjatoslav-richter-complete-decca-philips-dg-recordings/hnum/6202728

Though my admiration for Richter has so far been constricted to his Schumann (actually,  Richter is my 1st stop in that composer!) and Russian composers, I might just seriously consider this......

Q

It is about $91 from Amazon jp including S&H.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00N9MWVVW

[Mandryka]

I played Butt doing BWV 881 on spotify. It's exactly what you'd expect from his organ performances: lively, confident and cheerful.

[Brian]

Piano alert! Promo press materials follow the image.



Alexander SCRIABIN
Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20

Nikolai MEDTNER
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, Op. 60, "Ballade"

Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton

Sudbin's recordings of Medtner's first and second piano concertos (BIS1588 and BIS1728) were widely admired, with the first disc nominated for a Gramophone Award and the second being dubbed an "Essential Recording" in BBC Music Magazine.

His recordings of Scriabin have similarly garnered universal acclaim. The liner notes, written by Sudbin, state with conviction that both concertos are "absolute masterworks – unjustly underperformed and constantly underappreciated".

[Sergeant Rock]

I played Butt doing BWV 881 on spotify. It's exactly what you'd expect from his organ performances: lively, confident and cheerful.

hehe....he said butt...he said organ....


Sorry!...my barely suppressed Butthead emerges periodically.

Sarge

[Ken B]

hehe....he said butt...he said organ....


Sorry!...my barely suppressed Butthead emerges periodically.

Sarge

We don't need Beavis and Buthead to entertain us.

[Mirror Image]

Piano alert! Promo press materials follow the image.



Alexander SCRIABIN
Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20

Nikolai MEDTNER
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, Op. 60, "Ballade"

Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton

Sudbin's recordings of Medtner's first and second piano concertos (BIS1588 and BIS1728) were widely admired, with the first disc nominated for a Gramophone Award and the second being dubbed an "Essential Recording" in BBC Music Magazine.

His recordings of Scriabin have similarly garnered universal acclaim. The liner notes, written by Sudbin, state with conviction that both concertos are "absolute masterworks – unjustly underperformed and constantly underappreciated".

I'm a big fan of Scriabin's Piano Concerto. Will certainly keep my eyes out for this recording. I'm less familiar with Medtner's music, however.

[Sammy]

I played Butt doing BWV 881 on spotify. It's exactly what you'd expect from his organ performances: lively, confident and cheerful.

I agree that Butt plays the WTC in a similar manner to how he plays Bach's organ works, but we differ concerning the rewards.  Although I tend to love hesitations and staggering of musical lines, I find Butt choppy, not exciting when the music well allows for such playing and a long way from being poignant in the slower pieces.  He just isn't my cup of tea.

[Mandryka]

I agree that Butt plays the WTC in a similar manner to how he plays Bach's organ works, but we differ concerning the rewards.  Although I tend to love hesitations and staggering of musical lines, I find Butt choppy, not exciting when the music well allows for such playing and a long way from being poignant in the slower pieces.  He just isn't my cup of tea.

Well I only listened to the one prelude and fugue. I can imagine what you say is right.

[Brian]

Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151
Chamber Symphony No. 4, Op. 153
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra / Thord Svedlund

The ongoing SACD series of orchestral works by Weinberg now explores some lesser-known, late works of the composer. This disc features the last two Chamber Symphonies, which indeed reflect a largely hidden, yet still prolific period of his life. The Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, recording with Chandos for the first time, is conducted by the highly experienced and versatile Thord Svedlund.

Not only is Chamber Symphony No. 4 the penultimate work that Weinberg completed, but it can also be read as a summation of his entire life and oeuvre. The elegiac mood shaping the piece echoes his last decade – of infirmity, loss of friends to death and emigration, and gradual decline in public and professional interest in his work. Then each movement shares some reminiscences of Weinberg's life: the placid strings weaving a delicate childlike lullaby; the opening chorale having already been used in some of Weinberg's masterpieces; and the folk-like themes of the solo clarinet in the last two movements deriving from others.

Apart from the sad, wistful last movement (Andantino) heralding No. 4, Chamber Symphony No. 3 is closely linked to String Quartet No. 5, Op. 27 through its recitative-like melody.



Andrea Antico was a printer from Dalmatia who obtained, through the first Medici Pope, Leo X, a monopoly on printing keyboard music. His 1517 collection of frottole – a quasi-rustic word meaning a deceitful, silly story – contains highly advanced, but textually corrupt arrangements of part-songs for keyboard made by an anonymous musician. This world première recording of the complete Frottole Intabulate incorporates a new edition by harpsichordist Glen Wilson.

Frottola means a deceitful, silly story. They were wildly popular songs in the later part of the fifteenth and the first third of the sixteenth centuries. An anonymous musician arranged them for keyboard and they were then published by the printer Andrea Antico in 1517.The arrangements were radical for the time and the arranger succeeded in producing a real polyphonic keyboard style. Some were performed by organist Kimberly Marshall on the Loft label in 2002 and just a few by Silvano Rodi on Gall in the same year. Nothing as comprehensive as this Naxos collection has ever been released.



Pepe Romero solos in the first of three discs dedicated to Torroba.



And in less fortunate news, Naxos continues to waste valuable time/money recording popular hits with the boring Lyon orchestra in its cavernous concert hall.