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ritter

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A new CD with Maurice Ravel's piano concerti played by Vincent Larderet has just been released:



Larderet has recorded Ravel and Florent Schnitt (the latter for Naxos) in the past, but I have not heard those CDs. This new release includes the world première recording of the version for piano and orchestra of Schmitt's J'entends dans le lointain (the first movement of his suite for solo piano Ombres). Conductor Daniel Kawka has an excellent CD of late Boulez music (Dérive 1 & 2, and Mémoriale) on Naïve, a program I also saw him do live in a memorable concert.

Brian

Quote from: ritter on October 19, 2015, 01:20:27 PM
Larderet has recorded Ravel and Florent Schnitt (the latter for Naxos) in the past, but I have not heard those CDs.
Larderet's Ravel is essential - mostly because it has the world premiere recording of a mature, major Ravel piano work. Why nobody had ever before recorded Ravel's transcription of three movements from Daphnis, when it's very-nearly-but-not-quite on the same level as Stravinsky's three movements from Petrushka, is a total mystery. It's 20 minutes long, you hardly ever miss the sound of the orchestra, and Larderet plays with great enthusiasm.

EDIT: PS what is the "Ose Symphonic Orchestra"?

ritter

Quote from: Brian on October 19, 2015, 01:44:58 PM
Larderet's Ravel is essential - mostly because it has the world premiere recording of a mature, major Ravel piano work. Why nobody had ever before recorded Ravel's transcription of three movements from Daphnis, when it's very-nearly-but-not-quite on the same level as Stravinsky's three movements from Petrushka, is a total mystery. It's 20 minutes long, you hardly ever miss the sound of the orchestra, and Larderet plays with great enthusiasm.
Good to know, Brian...I went for Florian Uhlig (on Hänssler) as far as those movements from Daphnis are concerned (I think Larteret beat Uhlig by just a couple of months in recording the work), and must say I'm not really that impressed by Uhlig's  pianism (too brittle and lacking in warmth). It's a matter of taste, I suppose... .

Brian

Quote from: ritter on October 19, 2015, 01:50:33 PM
Good to know, Brian...I went for Florian Uhlig (on Hänssler) as far as those movements from Daphnis are concerned (I think Larteret beat Uhlig by just a couple of months in recording the work), and must say I'm not really that impressed by Uhlig's  pianism (too brittle and lacking in warmth). It's a matter of taste, I suppose... .
Too German? ;)

kishnevi

#4025
Quote from: Brian on October 19, 2015, 01:44:58 PM
Larderet's Ravel is essential - mostly because it has the world premiere recording of a mature, major Ravel piano work. Why nobody had ever before recorded Ravel's transcription of three movements from Daphnis, when it's very-nearly-but-not-quite on the same level as Stravinsky's three movements from Petrushka, is a total mystery. It's 20 minutes long, you hardly ever miss the sound of the orchestra, and Larderet plays with great enthusiasm.

EDIT: PS what is the "Ose Symphonic Orchestra"?

Google seems to think it is this
http://www.ose.qc.ca/#content-content-inner
Although I can't  find any reference to the recording there.


Edit:   never mind. Kawka's website links to the real one, since he is their conductor.
They are Lyonnais.
http://ose-lorchestre.com

Wakefield

#4026
Quote from: Brian on October 19, 2015, 03:08:35 PM
Too German? ;)

German like Bach, German like Beethoven, German like Wagner? Or even German like Schubert, who was an Austrian? :-\ ;D

P.S.: I know you are joking.
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Todd




Hmm.  Now why doesn't UMG just do a big Dohnanyi box?
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JCBuckley

#4028
Coming next month - music by Rameau, libretto by Voltaire:


ritter

#4029
Apparently never before released, a must (I suppose) for admirers of Hans Knapperstbusch:



And some Beethoven symphonies conducted by Karl Böhm very late in his career:


El Chupacabra

November release:

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Brian

If you want to hear some real French Horn Porn, click this listing of the new Pittsburgh Symphony Beethoven album and play the sample clip from No. 7's finale.

mc ukrneal

Quote from: Brian on October 23, 2015, 05:14:34 AM
If you want to hear some real French Horn Porn, click this listing of the new Pittsburgh Symphony Beethoven album and play the sample clip from No. 7's finale.
Timing seems off just a bit... and why is this FHP? Maybe I should ask what it is first?! :)
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Madiel

Quote from: Brian on October 19, 2015, 06:17:00 AM
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Do we have to wait until it's released before it goes in the thread on bad cover art?
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Quote from: orfeo on October 25, 2015, 04:41:34 AM
Do we have to wait until it's released before it goes in the thread on bad cover art?
Surely preemptive action is the ideal.  8)
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Brian



"En Plein Air"
● JS Bach: Capriccio "is closer to the departure of beloved brother" BWV.992
● Schumann: Forest scene Op.82
● Janacek: in the mist
● Bartok: in the open air



Adrien La Marca : British Delight -Music for Viola

● Clark: Viola Sonata
● Dowland: "to flow, my tears" / "If my grief is move the hearts of people"
● Britain: Lachrymae and Op.48
● Bridge: to Contemplation person / Allegro appassionato
● Harvey: chanting for viola solo
● Vaughan Williams: British folk six study by the  water of fun  Spahn point  Van Diemen's Land  she borrowed some money from his mother  daughter and Dragon  London After walking the bridge
● Purcell: fleeting music

Brian



Simon Mayr's Requiem has been assembled for this recording from the original autograph scores. Some parts of the Requiem were written in collaboration with Mayr's student, Donizetti.

That is a ton of vocal soloists, by the way.

Brian

#4038


"He completed his Symphony No.13 in August 1976, as a commission by the Bergen Festival for its 25th anniversary the following year. The complexity and large scale of the work was such that the first performance was postponed for another year, however – and in fact the work had never been performed in Sweden until Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra played it in concert in 2014. As the majority of Pettersson's symphonies it is in one movement, harbouring the great contrasts between an atonal and a traditional, tonal idiom that characterize the composer's musical language. A noteworthy feature in the present work is the presence of many brief allusions to other composers – from Beethoven (with the theme to the Fifth Symphony) to D-S-C-H, the musical cryptogram of Shostakovich's name."



COMPLETE Bily the Kid and Rodeo, NOT the suites. I've listened to this disc already, and it's pretty terrific!

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Also, Connoisseur Society will soon be releasing a Grieg Lyric Pieces recital by Edward Rosser. For those in the cult of Rosser's unusual pianism, this will be well worth hearing - I enjoyed it greatly last night - although this time out the sound is still flawed, which was a problem with his Schubert.

Mirror Image

Quote from: Brian on October 27, 2015, 04:50:28 AM



COMPLETE Bily the Kid and Rodeo, NOT the suites. I've listened to this disc already, and it's pretty terrific!

Great! Can't wait to hear this one. Litton's a very good conductor. Perhaps even underrated. I loved his Prokofiev and Ives recordings.