New Releases

[Roasted Swan]

More than performers, they become vessels - rendering Stockhausen's cosmic spirituality and intricate structures with clarity, devotion, and otherworldly intensity.

Oh Pu-leez....  not sure I've ever met a musician who was a vessel unless they were drinking from it.......

[Mandryka]

Alpha Classics proudly presents "Baroque Stories", a new series of recordings devoted to young talents in early music; its first recording introduces Louise Acabo . . .

[Madiel]

Do we know, or can speculate about, who the actual composer might be?

Yes, Chopin's pupil Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild.

It's a few years ago now, but someone uncovered that a "Chopin" nocturne in C minor and waltz in  A minor were amongst 4 pieces published in the Baroness' name in the 1860s. Which is a long time before they were published in Chopin's name.

The 2 pieces in question always struck me as a little bit simplistic by Chopin's standards, especially when they were supposedly pieces from later in his career. To me the most likely answer is not that she somehow stole them, but that she worked on them with Chopin and that's why there was material in his handwriting. He was helping her learn composition, maybe to some extent co-writing with her.

[Brian]

MORE SEPTEMBER STUFF (LARGE POST)

Please do not quote this full post. Naxos did not upload small size images of these artworks, only full size. This means the post will take a long time to load and may use up a lot of data if you look at it on your mobile phone. As a courtesy to others, please do NOT quote it in full so that the page does not take a month to load every time someone opens it. I will be editing posts that quote this in full to remove the quotes.

For my part, to shorten load times, I will not be posting any albums that have already been posted by others including in other threads if I have seen them there (almost always the relevant threads in the composer forum, including iirc Kalevi Aho and Walter Kaufmann). I've also replaced the usual back cover images to explain recital contents with typed-out text contents.



"Spunicunifait" is a HIP ensemble. Taavi Oramo is the son of Sakari Oramo and Anu Komsi.



This is NOT the Scheherazade previously released on BBC Legends with the epic 50' runtime. This one is 45'. The Glinka has however previously appeared on BBC Legends.



Most of this is world premiere recordings of student works from the 20-year-old Boulez.



arrangements of 10 songs for voice and quartet, plus the Quartettsatz D703 and the slow movement from Death and the Maiden



Chausson - Concerto
Tailleferre - Violin Sonata No. 2, String Quartet, two miniatures



Sibelius - Five Pieces Op 81
Debussy - Sonata
Augusta Read Thomas - Incantation
Cyril Scott (arr. Kreisler) - Lotus Land
Faure - Sonata No. 1



arrangements of the following, sometimes including cimbalom and double bass
Dvorak - Gypsy Songs and Moravian Duets
Janacek - Moravian Folk Poetry
Bartok - Romanian Folk Songs
Boulanger - Serenade Tzigane
plus works by Dinicu and Vasiliev

[Brian]

Some interesting OCTOBER RELEASES have also been announced already.

Following the same rules - I posted an Elgar release in his thread so it does not appear here.





Double piano concertos by Victor Babin and Dana Suesse, who was known as the "Gershwin Girl" for her jazzy style. Plus Beach Suite for Two Pianos on Old Irish Melodies. There's an excellent Suesse piano Concerto in Three Rhythms on Naxos.



"the American countertenor Reginald Mobley devotes this new recording to English repertoire with a simple combination of primarily voice, lute, and viola da gamba. Solitude opens with Henry Purcell's moving 'Tis Nature's Voice and other famous Purcell melodies, sails through John Dowland's deeply melancholy waves, and also reveals the declamatory charm of the 17th-century English composers who surrounded Samuel Pepys."



Op. 1 Nos. 1 and 3
Gassenhauer



Martin - Mass for double choir
Daniel-Lesur - Le cantique des cantiques
Messiaen - O sacrum convivium

plus two Shostakovich boxes:

Naxos is releasing their film music series in a box, and Brilliant is doing:



Symphonies - Barshai
Chamber Symphonies - Barshai
Jazz, ballet, film suites - Kuchar
Piano Concertos - Andaloro
Violin Concertos - Pochekin
Cello Concertos - Ivashkin
String Quartets - Rubio Quartet
Preludes and Fugues Op 87 - Rubackyte
Piano Quintet, Piano Trios, Violin Sonatas (the viola sonata is marked for violin here), Cello Sonata - "various artists"

[JBS]

Prestoclassic's write-up for Spunicunifait

Spunicunifait is the curious name adopted by a group of five musicians, all of whom have a great deal of experience in chamber music as well as in prestigious orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; they have founded this ensemble to be able to devote themselves to the in-depth study and period instrument performance of Mozart's six string quintets. Their choice of a name is also a trifle facetious, copying the example set by Mozart in a letter to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart in which he wrote the three mysterious words "Spuni Cuni fait"; these could mean spun or woven / coney or rabbit / and "made," the past participle of the French verb faire: to make: something woven from rabbit skin, like the shawl his beloved cousin Bäsle wore in a self-portrait.

[Madiel]

1. Nice to see what BIS is up to under the newish arrangements. It still looks BIS-like.

2. Shostakovich film music boxed up? Ooh. I'm a little bit interested.

[JBS]

1. Nice to see what BIS is up to under the newish arrangements. It still looks BIS-like.

2. Shostakovich film music boxed up? Ooh. I'm a little bit interested.

There's already a 7 CD set from Capriccio.

[Brian]

1. Nice to see what BIS is up to under the newish arrangements. It still looks BIS-like.

I had the same thought! Complete Schnittke piano music, complete Ustvolskaya symphonies, Bartok, Aho, Tippett, and also just found this:



These are not the recording projects of a corporate overlord trying to shut a label down!

[Mandryka]

[Holden]

This will be interesting. There is a Lim live 'Seasons' recording from a concert on YT from 2023 in Amsterdam which also, coincidentally, includes the Op 10 Chopin Etudes. (See below). So we've got the Decca recording coming which I am assuming is a studio version. I suspect that Lim enjoys the spontaneity of the concert hall much more than that of the studio as is attested by his debut recording for DGG of the Chopin Etudes. (Compare them to his live OP 10 here). I won't be able to fully decide until the Decca/DGG is fully released next month. You can do a comparison of the DGG Etudes Op 10 and the live ones from this YT clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlA-y4m3Qhw

[JBS]

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