New Releases

[Todd]

Carrying this over to a new page so people will see it. What is the longest single opera? I can't imagine listening to a four-hour opera!

You don't listen to much Wagner, do you?  Four hours isn't that tough. 

[ritter]

...Meistersinger is over five hours..

...but, in good perfomance, goes by in a flash! 

Meyerbeer's Vasco da Gama (the Urfassung of L'Africaine) is 255 minutes in the recent CPO recording...it seems much longer than that! 

[Brian]

What are Pekka Kuusisto (vn) & Hannu Lintu playing on that one?

Sebastian Fagerlund's violin concerto.

Oh please, even Les Troyens is four hours, as is Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise. Meistersinger is over five hours..

You don't listen to much Wagner, do you?  Four hours isn't that tough.

Oops! I've seen Meistersinger live. Silly me 

[Artem]

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Both of these reissues are coming out soon. Does anybody know what were the original releases?

[Henk]

A note-complete Guillaume Tell live from Bad Wilbad is announce on Naxos fos March:

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The press blurb mentions this:

Performed for the first time in its original uncut version, this four-plus hour-long production of Guillaume Tell was the jewel in the crown of the 25-year history of the 'Rossini in Wildbad' opera festival. Rossini's final, great, operatic masterpiece, based upon the libretto by Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis after Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell and Claris de Florian's Guillaume Tell, is a story of liberation, the oppressed Swiss attaining their ideal of emancipation by hounding the tyrannical Habsburgs out of their country. Although it was composed for the complex demands of the Paris Opera, numerous dances, choruses and arias were dropped for reasons of practicality. These are restored in the present recording which also includes the stunning finale of the shorter 1831 version of the opera, to be found on Disc Four. Recorded live at the Trinkhalle, Bad Wildbad, Germany over the course of four days in July, 2013 by the combined forces of the Camerata Bach Choir, Poznan and the Virtuosi Brunensis, conducted by Antonino Fogliani. Soloists include baritone Andrew Foster-Williams as Tell, tenor Michael Spyres as Arnold Melcthal and soprano Judith Howarth as Mathilde.

Great news!

[betterthanfine]

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Both of these reissues are coming out soon. Does anybody know what were the original releases?

The Charpentier has been previously reissued in the Apex series:

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I own it, but don't recall ever really listening to it. I got it because one of the tenors was my voice teacher.

[Camphy]

End of March:





http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A49

[North Star]

      
        
       

[North Star]

I don't think Freire's latest has been mentioned.

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[betterthanfine]

I think it has, but I'm curious to hear from people who've heard it! Anyone?

[Karl Henning]

A note-complete Guillaume Tell live from Bad Wilbad is announce on Naxos fos March:

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Wish-listed.

[Todd]

[listener]

vOL. 3 of the MERCURY Living Presence sets will be available in the UK March 16th
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00RUKV7OG/ref=pe_28651_63329731_em_1p_1_ti

corrected as per the next post.  That explains why I have those Westminster LPs that aren't included.

[Mookalafalas]

vOL. 3 of the Westminster Living Presence sets will be available in the UK March 16th
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00RUKV7OG/ref=pe_28651_63329731_em_1p_1_ti

  You had me all excited...but your link is to vol 3 of the Mercury series, not Westminster.

[Moonfish]

  You had me all excited...but your link is to vol 3 of the Mercury series, not Westminster.

Ditto! *Meows at the Westminster full moon"

[Wanderer]

Jumppanen's next installment in his projected Beethoven cycle (opp.10/1-3, 53, 54 & 57) is due for release in March:

[Todd]

[Brian]

ELIZABETH JOY ROE
Britten & Barber Piano Concertos
Young American pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe traces her personal artistic journey through the music of Britten and Barber with performances of their Piano Concertos.  Both works are accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bulgarian conductor and composer Emil Tabakov, and are presented in company with Britten's Notturno and Barber's Homage to John Field.

Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning concerto, famed for its fiendish technical demands and neo-Romantic lyricism, enters the Decca catalogue for the first time, while Roe's account of the Britten Piano Concerto, marks Decca's first return to the score since it was recorded by Sviatoslav Richter under the composer's direction in 1970.

[Camphy]

"Now, a new line-up, though still one that bears the characteristic Borodin sound (large, almost symphonic in scope and with a very distinctive way of phrasing), starts a new cycle with works from very different periods in Shostakovich's music life"

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4788205

[amw]

Now, a new line-up [...] starts a new cycle

This is probably going to be the best Shostakovich quartet cycle yet, for those interested in such things. I've heard them live.