Request a Recording!

[Octo_Russ]

Here's your chance to request a recording from a Record Label, ever wanted your favourite Artist to record a specific work?, well get writing with your suggestions.

Here's my three suggestions/requests, they're all solo piano,

1 Alfred Brendel recording Chopin's 27 Etudes, yeah i know, he's not a Chopin interpreter, but if he could be coaxed out of retirement, i would just love to hear what he has to say with these miniatures, i'm sure there would be revelations galore.

2 Mitsuko Uchida - Brahms Handel Variations/4 Ballades, i would love to hear her try some Brahms, like Brendel i think she's too much of a specialist in too few areas, it would be great to hear her expand her horizons in Brahms.

3 Helene Grimaud - Bach Goldberg Variations, well now she's dipped her toe into an exclusively Bach recording, why not jump in and record these variations, i'm sure there's great insights to be had.

I've got dozens more ideas, but i thought it best to limit myself to three, so here are the rules, no more than three requests to keep it short-ish, and it must be a living Artist able to record today, solo instrumental, chamber, orchestral, vocal, opera, anything.

Let's hope that some Record Label bigwigs or Artists tune in and take up some of our requests 

[Drasko]

#1 Krystian Zimerman finally recording Chopin sonatas. He's been playing them for years, superbly, but his ever increasing perfectionism has become debilitating.

#2 Grigory Sokolov recording some baroque - Bach English & French Suites or Rameau 1728 Suites, or just allowing for release whatever is he been playing over last decade, Scriabin recital from few years ago, for example.

#3 Ivan Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra recording Brahms' 3rd Symphony.

[Verena]

#1 Krystian Zimerman finally recording Chopin sonatas. He's been playing them for years, superbly, but his ever increasing perfectionism has become debilitating.

#2 Grigory Sokolov recording some baroque - Bach English & French Suites or Rameau 1728 Suites, or just allowing for release whatever is he been playing over last decade, Scriabin recital from few years ago, for example.

Hopefully Zimerman and Sokolov read these lines .. If I may add a couple of suggestions: We need Zimerman in other Chopin works, too, e.g., the Mazurkas and Nocturnes. And, of course, I'd love to hear Sokolov in the Chopin Ballades, Mazurkas, Nocturnes, or any other Chopin composition, for that matter.

[Opus106]

And, of course, I'd love to hear Sokolov in the Chopin Ballades, Mazurkas, Nocturnes, or any other Chopin composition, for that matter.

He has already recorded some Chopin for Naïve.

[not edward]

Hasn't Zimerman announced that he's retiring from recording? If so, it'll be a great loss, regardless of his sometimes eccentric behavious.

[Antoine Marchand]

1 Alfred Brendel recording Chopin's 27 Etudes, yeah i know, he's not a Chopin interpreter, but if he could be coaxed out of retirement, i would just love to hear what he has to say with these miniatures, i'm sure there would be revelations galore.

Not your request, but Brendel recorded some Polonaises forty years ago on Vanguard Classics. Currently that excellent disc (Op. 53 "Heroic", Op. 40 No. 2, Op. 44, Op. 61 and Op. 22 "Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante") has been reissued by Brilliant Classics in this big box set (which includes another rarities for Brendel's usual repertory):

[Verena]

He has already recorded some Chopin for Naïve.

Yes, but unfortunately he recorded almost exactly those Chopin works which I like least (excepting the 2nd Sonata)... 

[Drasko]

Yes, but unfortunately he recorded almost exactly those Chopin works which I like least (excepting the 2nd Sonata)... 

He also recorded 1st Concerto for Denon, then there are numerous bootlegs of his 2005 Chopin programe (4 impromptus, Nocturnes op.62, Polonaise-fantasie) and I have some live recordings from 70s recorded off air - Mazurkas op.30/3/4 and Polonaises op.44 and op.53. And if you add few mazurkas and occasional waltz he plays as encores that would be all Chopin I ever heard from him.

Hasn't Zimerman announced that he's retiring from recording? If so, it'll be a great loss, regardless of his sometimes eccentric behavious.

I've heard something about him stopping concertizing from 2011, but don't recall from whom and where I heard that.

[Verena]

He also recorded 1st Concerto for Denon, then there are numerous bootlegs of his 2005 Chopin programe (4 impromptus, Nocturnes op.62, Polonaise-fantasie) and I have some live recordings from 70s recorded off air - Mazurkas op.30/3/4 and Polonaises op.44 and op.53. And if you add few mazurkas and occasional waltz he plays as encores that would be all Chopin I ever heard from him.

Oh yes, forgot about the concerto. Would be lovely if he'd allow the live recordings you mentioned to be made available to the public, especially the Mazurkas. Bet they are great. I don't think there are too many great Mazurka recordings around (apart from Golden Age pianists).

[Lethevich]

Man, do I want Chandos to record a Havergal Brian disc. I don't care what it is, I would buy anything, even the 1st symphony, although I would prefer a collection of the shorter symphonies - ideally the ones not yet commercially recorded.

There isn't really any suitable conductor available, the one of only living ones who has shown an interest (albeit decades ago) is Charles Mackerras, so as this is a fantasy thread, let's say a twofer of Mackerras and the BBC Phil (to allow for more rehearsal time) with Nos.13, 19, 24, 26, 27, 29 & 30.

Not that I care about the label and conductor, just record the music damnit!

Edit: Not to mention another Rutland Boughton opera - perhaps the Queen of Cornwall.

[Holden]

Very parochial choices here:

Sokolov - Chopin Op 10 (to go with his excellent Op 25

Hamelin - Chopin complete Etudes

[Guido]

Tim Hugh recording the Foulds and Brian cello concertos.
And I wish that the Moeran concerto that he planned to record with Naxos had happened.

[Teresa]

Man, do I want Chandos to record a Havergal Brian disc.

Sounds interesting, I have Brian's Symphony No. 6, 'Sinfonia Tragica' on Lyrita and enjoy it very much, I would also like to explore his other works. 

[Brian]

I'd lock Ivan Moravec in a recording studio, bring him food and water as needed, and not let him out.

Eventually I'd bring Josef Suk and lock him in with Ivan.

EDIT: I'd like Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic (not the Staatskapelle Weimar) to do a Richard Strauss disc of Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, and Tod und Verklarung. And how about Ana Maria Martinez starring in a new recording of La boheme?

[Lethevich]

Sounds interesting, I have Brian's Symphony No. 6, 'Sinfonia Tragica' on Lyrita and enjoy it very much, I would also like to explore his other works.

The EMI twofer with 7, 8, 9 and 31 is definitely the way to go in terms of price, quality and accessability

[Teresa]

The EMI twofer with 7, 8, 9 and 31 is definitely the way to go in terms of price, quality and accessability

Thanks 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I'd lock Ivan Moravec in a recording studio, bring him food and water as needed, and not let him out.

I was just thinking the same thing!

[Grazioso]

Novak's symphonies, please.

[Gabriel]

Cherubini: Médée. René Jacobs.
Cherubini: Mass in C major. Credo a otto voci. Riccardo Muti.
Rejcha: Complete string quartets. Quatuor Mosaïques.

[Sergeant Rock]

I'd like more Schumann and Beethoven from Hélène Grimaud:

Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze op.6 and Abegg Variations op.1

Beethoven: Pathetique, Waldstein, Appassionata, Moonlight and Op.111

Mackerras has recorded some Havergal Brian (Symphonies 7 and 31) and conducted others. I'd like to see him fill three gaps: symphonies 24, 25; symphonies 27, 28, 29, 30; and symphonies 12, 13, 14.

I might live to see Grimaud record those works but the Mackerras/Brian is a pipe dream 

Edit: Just thougt of another Schumann work I'd love to hear Grimaud perform...but not Robert, Clara: her A minor Piano Concerto

Sarge