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[MishaK]

Oh, gosh, and I missed this delicious typo (not faulting you!)—

That and the counterpart from Debussy: Le marteau de Saint Sébastien.

[kishnevi]

I see - will think about it, but I guess I really have enough Mozart sonata cycles for now.

The Kraus is already available in two earlier formats. 
I have the one with the bust on the cover.



In that batch I am mostly interested in the Serkin and Katsaris sets.  I would be more interested in the Carmignola if I did not have four of the seven CDs already.  If it is cheap ennough...

[Todd]

[Holden]

The van Bloss is available for listening on Spotify. A lack of dynamic range is immediately evident in Op 57. The Diabellis lack cohesion. It sounds as if the whole thing is being sight read!

[Mandryka]

Where's K533?

I don't believe she ever recorded it. I guess it's a bit of a problematic piece in some textual way- incomplete maybe because it's normally topped off with 494. I don't know whether this is why Kraus poo pooed it.

For what it's worth, I say don't buy Kraus on Sony.

[André]

Because of Kraus or Sony ? I own the previous integral set, on Music & Arts.

[marvinbrown]

  WELL WELL WELL......it seems that Herbie's illustrious ring cycle will  FINALLY make its appearance in this soon (June 12, 2015) to be released boxset! Too bad it's my LEAST favorite Ring Cycle (appologies to Sarge,  Mirror Image  (who shall forever be my Wagnerian colleagues) et al who consider this Ring cycle to be the ultimate performance of Wagner's masterpiece.

  I can't seem to find the performers on the other recordings...anyone know? (EDIT: I beileve they might be the EMI recordings, if so the Tosca, the Der Rosenkavalier, the Carmen, the Boris Godunov are must haves!!  Too bad the box does NOT include the very fine Die Meistersinger on the EMI label!)

 

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  https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/karajan-the-opera-recordings/hnum/7213319

  marvin

[ritter]

...
  I can't seem to find the performers on the other recordings...anyone know? (EDIT: I beileve they might be the EMI recordings, if so the Tosca, the Der Rosenkavalier, the Carmen, the Boris Godunov are must haves!!  Too bad the box does NOT include the very fine Die Meistersinger on the EMI label!)
...

Et voilà

Unfortunately, it's not easy to realize at first sight which recordings are actually included, as names are given for individual tracks and not complete performances. Unless I am mistaken, none of the EMI recordings is included (e.g., you have two Rosenkavalier--the live one from Salzburg with della Casa, and the late studio take of the piece with Tomowa-Sintow, but not the celebrated Schwarzkopf). I think the Karajan recordings on EMI fell on the Warner side of the deal... This set should be called "The Opera Recordings: those we could get hold of" 

As far as the Karajan Ring is concerned, I definitely like his approach, as glossy as it may be. Well, and it was the door through whcih I first entered the world of Der Ring des Nibelungen 

Cheers,

[marvinbrown]

  Et voilà

Unfortunately, it's not easy to realize at first sight which recordings are actually included, as names are given for individual tracks and not complete performances. Unless I am mistaken, none of the EMI recordings is included (e.g., you have two Rosenkavalier--the live one from Salzburg with della Casa, and the late studio take of the piece with Tomowa-Sintow, but not the celebrated Schwarzkopf). I think the Karajan recordings on EMI fell on the Warner side of the deal... This set should be called "The Opera Recordings: those we could get hold of" 

As far as the Karajan Ring is concerned, I definitely like his approach, as glossy as it may be. Well, and it was the door through whcih I first entered the world of Der Ring des Nibelungen 

Cheers,

  Thank you for the link  !

  I do not recognize ANY of these recordings, not even the Tosca! and I have many recordings of Tosca.  I do not understand, DG, Decca and EMI are under one parent company (Universal)?? Do you mean to tell me that when EMI was bought out (or went into liquidation) their catalogue was split amongst many companies? A real pity if Universal lost out on the EMI Great Recordings of the Century catalogue.

  marvin

[Mirror Image]

  WELL WELL WELL......it seems that Herbie's illustrious ring cycle will  FINALLY make its appearance in this soon (June 12, 2015) to be released boxset! Too bad it's my LEAST favorite Ring Cycle (appologies to Sarge,  Mirror Image  (who shall forever be my Wagnerian colleagues) et al who consider this Ring cycle to be the ultimate performance of Wagner's masterpiece.

No need to apologize, Marvin. HvK's cycle isn't for everyone, but have heard many other Ring cycles, this one just hit me like a ton of bricks. I haven't listened to any Wagner in quite some time, but whenever I do I always reach for some HvK or Bohm.

[ritter]

  Thank you for the link  !

  I do not recognize ANY of these recordings, not even the Tosca! and I have many recordings of Tosca.  I do not understand, DG, Decca and EMI are under one parent company (Universal)?? Do you mean to tell me that when EMI was bought out (or went into liquidation) their catalogue was split amongst many companies? A real pity if Universal lost out on the EMI Great Recordings of the Century catalogue.

  marvin

The Tosca (with Leontyne Price--wonderful!--, Giuseppe di Stefano and Taddei) was on Decca originally (as was the Boris Godunov you mentioned in you previous post).



Other recordings you may not recognize because they are live from Salzburg, and were issued by DG only after Karajan's death (one of the Rosenakavlier, the Orfeo ed Euridice, the Don Carlo--which is not the much later studio EMI version).

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As far as EMI is concerned, I do not know the exact details, but I understand their catalogue was split between Warner and Universal. I think the lion's share of the classical catalogue went to Warner. For instance, all the Callas stuff was reissued under the Warner imprint, and the famous Karajan Meistersinger from Dresden as well.

[king ubu]

Yes indeed. EMI Classical went to Warner. Jazz went to Universal mostly, thereby adding Blue Note to their almost all-encompassing catalogue - in ol' yurp they also distribute the ex-Fantasy holdings, crazy. However, they had to give away some labels for legal reasons, such as MPS. That label eventually ended up at Edel's. Not sure if they care for Gulda's classical sides ...

But anyway, Warner didn't skip a beat and started putting their logo on ex EMO sets real fast.

[Mookalafalas]

Can't get a good image to work...
 
Anyway, in Europe (Amazon) they have a 23 disc "late Bohm" box coming out in June.

[Karl Henning]

But anyway, Warner didn't skip a beat and started putting their logo on ex EMO sets real fast.

Well, cannot really blame them for acting promptly on the re-branding.

[HIPster]

Watching the series Wolf Hall on PBS and noticed that the period music is being released in June:
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"The soundtrack to BBC-PBS television series "Wolf Hall" brings King Henry VIII's court to life with dances and songs - some of which were composed by the monarch himself. Filmed in the great historic houses in England, the series features specialist early musicians playing live on set. All the Tudor Music for the production has been carefully sourced and arranged by Claire van Kampen, and recorded with the Musicians of Shakespeare's Globe at the famous Abbey Road Studios, London, England."

[king ubu]

Well, cannot really blame them for acting promptly on the re-branding.

Of course not - I was just astonished by how fast it went. (And that should have been EMI, not EMO, of course - hate my dumbphone).
As for hating Universal missing out ... I'm no particular friend of Universal's, but that's because of the lousy way they (and that included predecessors down to PolyGram in the mid-90s) have treated their amazing jazz holdings (including labels like Decca, Mercury, Verve, Impulse, but also small ones like Commodore or Keynote). Ultimately not sure EMI was much better, and Sony/BMG/RCA certainly was much worse then either Universal or EMI, but still ... moronic reissue series, bringing the same old same old again and again and again, yet holding back wonderful treasures all the time. So, in general, I say bugger off to the majors but obviously I'm making good use of their cluelessness and buy plenty of their classical reissues that they're selling for what, 25, 30% of the price they could ask for (could have ... there's no back now, it's too late).

[Drasko]

Can't get a good image to work...
 
Anyway, in Europe (Amazon) they have a 23 disc "late Bohm" box coming out in June.

http://www.amazon.de/Karl-B%C3%B6hm-Late-Recordings-Ltd-Edt/dp/B00UW6AFXO

some of the content can be deciphered from here:
http://www.emag.ro/karl-bohm-late-recordings-vienna-london-dresden-cd-album-4794371/pd/DRN2TMBBM/

[Brian]

FFG meets JEB:



Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918):
Jeux (Transcription for two pianos by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971):
Le Sacre du printemps
(Transcription for piano four hands by Igor Stravinsky)

Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945):
Two Pictures (Transcription for two pianos by Zoltán Kocsis)



Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935)
Chamber Music I-VIII
Chamber Music I, Op. 38 for string orchestra
Chamber Music II, Op. 41 for alto flute and string orchestra
Chamber Music IIII, Op. 58 (The Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote) for cello and string orchestra
Chamber Music IV, Op. 79 (Metamorphoses of the Elegy for Sebastian Knight) for piano and strings orchestra
Chamber Music V, Op. 80a* (Barabbas Variations) arr. by Gothóni for piano and string orchestra
Chamber Music VI, Op. 88 (3 invitations au voyage) for string quartet and string orchestra
Chamber Music VII, Op. 93 (Cruselliana) for wind quintet and string orchestra
Chamber Music VIII, Op. 94* for cello and string orchestra




And a plethora of Nielsen:



Maskarade (complete opera)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra And Choir / Michael Schønwandt
Johan Reuter; Stephen Milling; Niels-Jørgen Riis; Dénise Beck; Anne Margrethe Dahl; Ditte Højgaard Andersen; Guido Paevatalu et al.

Dacapo Records celebrate Nielsen's 150th Birthday by presenting a new first-rate studio recording of his charming "Maskarade" opera in expert Danish hands!





Carl Nielsen (1865 – 1931)
Concertos

Nikolaj Znaider, violin
Robert Langevin, flute
Anthony McGill, clarinet
New York Philharmonic / Alan Gilbert

Or you can get that same disc in this box:



Carl Nielsen (1865 – 1931)
The Symphonies & Concertos

Nikolaj Znaider, violin
Robert Langevin, flute
Anthony McGill, clarinet
New York Philharmonic / Alan Gilbert
4 SACD hybrids

[Mirror Image]

Good to see all of the Nielsen and that Sibelius Segerstam disc.

[North Star]

Good to see all of the Nielsen and that Sibelius Segerstam disc.

+1, And that Bavouzet & Guy disc. And the Martinů.