New Releases

[Cosi bel do]

Well maybe I was not clear enough. The "as usual" was about their artistic policy, not about the quality of their catalogue. I'm not saying all their artists are as bad as what I saw today of this fortepianist. I just generally find their releases uneven and unpredictable, and you cannot generally trust Brilliant as almost certain excellence. But this is almost the case for all labels today, of course...

[Mandryka]

http://winsormusic.org/buyrecordings/lorraine170

[Peter Power Pop]

David Hurwitz writes that RCA will be issuing a 10 CD box in March 2015 dedicated to Jean Martinon's Chicago Symphony recordings.

Yep.



Details at Amazon.co.uk

[ritter]

Yep.



Details at Amazon.co.uk

Thanks, Brian and Peter! Looks very interesting... 

[Mirror Image]

Yep.



Details at Amazon.co.uk

Definitely will be picking this one up once it's released.

[André]

Me too ! Martinon was adventurous in his progamming.

[Daverz]

Details at Amazon.co.uk

But no Shostakovich Symphony No. 1?

http://www.shadeddog.com/discography/lsc-2300-2399/lsc-2322/

I suppose they could finally have fixed the gap between III and IV in the Nielsen 4.  But I have most of these recordings already.

[Cosi bel do]

Only CSO recordings, that's what the cover says
It's already something...

Among what will remain, there's also Prokofiev's symphony no. 5 with the OSCC ; and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances with the LSO. Is that all ? Let's hope for a cheap supplement...

[Brian]

I suppose they could finally have fixed the gap between III and IV in the Nielsen 4.  But I have most of these recordings already.

Wanna talk about this gap? I'm not aware of the recording at all.

[Daverz]

Only CSO recordings, that's what the cover says
It's already something...

Among what will remain, there's also Prokofiev's symphony no. 5 with the OSCC ; and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances with the LSO. Is that all ? Let's hope for a cheap supplement...

The Slavonic Dances are on Eloquence, so I think these LSO recordings are owned by Decca.

Here's the Shostakovich:
http://www.buywell.com/cgi-bin/buywellic2/efly.html?mv_arg=10345

Wait...it's Walter Weller in 1 according to the notes.  Weird.

...OK, the Martinon Shostakovich 1 was in the Martinon box that Decca put out a few years ago.  Starting at $599.98 on Amazon Marketplace.  Hopefully this will eventually make it to Eloquence.  Presto does have it as a lossless download.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Only CSO recordings, that's what the cover says
It's already something...

Among what will remain, there's also Prokofiev's symphony no. 5 with the OSCC ; and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances with the LSO. Is that all ? Let's hope for a cheap supplement...

The Prokofiev 5th is on Testament, taken from Decca originals. Decca obviously licensed it to RCA (on LP) for distribution in the States.



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[Daverz]

Wanna talk about this gap? I'm not aware of the recording at all.

It's a great recording of the Nielsen.

The gap is on this issue, but not the previous one in the Navigator series:

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It's a 5 second gap between movements III and IV, where there should only be a brief rest.  This is where the side change was on the Lp.  I suspect that that's how the master tapes were made as well: they knew where they would put the side break, so the orchestra stopped here, and there is a long reverberation tail on the tape.  So I suspect that when the transfer was made someone who was not familiar with the score kept that reverberation tail from the tape.

BTW, the Symphony No. 2 conducted by Morton Gould is also excellent.

[Brian]

Thanks, Daverz.

So I just got an email from Naxos listing their distributed Priority Releases for January-April...

Some highlights:

JANUARY
- Jack Gallagher: Symphony No. 2. (For Karl!)
- Ge Gan-Ru: Shanghai Reminiscences. "Ge Gan-ru is one of China's foremost composers. Very different from his previous exploration of the Western avant-garde, Shanghai Reminiscences is a warm and affecting evocation of "the street scenes and sounds" of Gan-ru's childhood in pre-Cultural Revolution Shanghai, viewed through the lens of his adopted American traditions."
- Pepe Romero starts a series of Torroba's guitar concertos
- Mozart: Requiem. Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki, BIS. Two 2-minute sample clips.
- Nico Muhly's new Cello Concerto on the Steinway label. Zuill Bailey, Indianapolis SO, Jun Markl
- Start of a complete Paavo Jarvi Mahler cycle on C Major DVDs

FEBRUARY
- Boris Giltburg plays Schumann: Papillons, Carnaval and Davidsbündlertänze
- Copland, Antheil, Piston on Pentatone: the Oregon Symphony and Carlos Kalmar do Copland's Third Symphony, Antheil's Jazz Symphony, and Piston's Incredible Flutist

MARCH
- Penderecki's Magnificat from Warsaw/Wit
- Poulenc choral music from the Elora Festival Singers and Noel Edison (the works are not specified yet)
- start of a series of complete Philip Glass piano music with Nicolas Horvath
- HIP Bach sonatas and partitas from Gil Shaham. "Gil has recorded with Baroque bridge and Baroque bow and 3 out of 4 strings are gut. His tempos will surprise, but where the 'old' school are generally recited as the benchmarks in this repertoire—Grumiaux, Szeryng etc.—there are notable 'newbies'—Podger, Tognetti, Tetzlaff and Ibragimova amongst them."
- Shchedrin's new opera The Left-Hander, from the Mariinsky and Gergiev. "Rodion Shechedrin's The Left-Hander is a comedy of Russians and Englishmen, new technology, old traditions and strong drink."

APRIL
- Couperin's Les Nations with the Juilliard Baroque led by Monica Huggett
- Aaron Jay Kernis orchestral music, with JoAnn Falletta on Naxos, including something that requires guest soloist James Ehnes
- Sallinen's opera King Lear with Okko Kamu leading the Finnish National Opera on Ondine

[The new erato]

No picture available, but this ought to be prtty special:

Marenzio / Quinto Libro Di Madrigali, La Compagnia Del Madrigale (Interprète) on Glossa

Available from February 25th according to amazon france.

[Ken B]

No picture available, but this ought to be prtty special:

Marenzio / Quinto Libro Di Madrigali, La Compagnia Del Madrigale (Interprète) on Glossa

Available from February 25th according to amazon france.

Woo hoo!

On the other hand it means I may pay full price for a recording, which might incapacitate me for weeks.

[Todd]

[mc ukrneal]

Mozart wins the pennant! Mozart wins the pennant!

[Moonfish]

Mozart wins the pennant! Mozart wins the pennant!

Exciting to see a new release from Hahn!

[kishnevi]

Bemused by Shaham's 3 gut strings.   Recording budget not enough for all four?

[Pat B]

Bemused by Shaham's 3 gut strings.   Recording budget not enough for all four?

The E string transitioned to steel before the others, but still long after Bach's time.

"3 out of 4 strings are gut" is an awkward bullet-point, that's for sure.