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[kishnevi]

This one:

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My response to Gielen's cycle is mixed.  When he's good, I think he's very good--but he's not as consistent as some others.  Haven't heard much of this one yet.  What I have heard sounds pretty fine, including Jerusalem, but Kallisch is a question mark in my mind.

I got it when it first came out.  My reaction pretty much mirrors what you report--Jerusalem very good,  Kallisch merely okay, all in all not the version I'm going to return to very often.  Somewhere on the listening thread I posted a slightly detailed action report.   One very odd thing about this recording is that the tenor movements were recorded ten years before the contralto movements--Nov 1992 for Jerusalem, Nov 2002 for Kallsich.   What the back story there might be with that, I have no idea.

I wouldn't say Kallisch spoils it, however--just not up to a rather high standard set by Jerusalem.


If you want an extremely good DLvdE, get the one released by DG about the same time as the Gielen, which features Wunderlich and Fischer Dieskau conducted by Krips in a concert recorded in 1964 (Vienna Symphony was the orchestra), and then allowed to lie dormant in the ORF archives for forty five years.   The sonics are not great, even for that era, but Wunderlich is (IMO) better than he was with Klemperer in the famous EMI recording, and DFD at least as good as he was with Bernstein. 

[jlaurson]

you mean Eschenbach/Capriccio.

yes.

[Renfield]

One very odd thing about this recording is that the tenor movements were recorded ten years before the contralto movements--Nov 1992 for Jerusalem, Nov 2002 for Kallsich.   What the back story there might be with that, I have no idea.

You beat me to it. I haven't actually heard the recording, but even though I'm usually very tolerant about studio tinkering, I draw the line when half the recording comes from what is essentially a different conductor and orchestra.

(In the sense of artistic continuity, etc.)

This has excluded the studio Bruno Walter Beethoven 9th from immediate interest, as well.

[Mandryka]

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 'Rasumovsky No. 2'
Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat, K428
Webern: Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909) and Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913)

[Mandryka]

Schoenberg's serial domestic opera

[mc ukrneal]

Anyone familiar with this music?
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[Todd]

Andras Schiff playing the Fantasie, Papillons, Waldszenen, and other works, including a second recording of the Geistervariationen.  Yes, this looks most promising.

[Lethevich]

That looks really cool - I liked Schiff's ECM disc with the novelettes (rare to see these all together rather than individually as fillers).

[Mandryka]

I'm sure the book is interesting but the main reason I'm thinking of buying it is because of the CD which is included -- particularly for the Brahms E minor sonata with Shigeo Noriki. I know that Starker himself wasn't totally happy with the one he made with Sebok (nor am I) -- is this one better?

[Lethevich]

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This looks neat, though I wonder how much it leaves out? Amazon UK has better tracklistings link.

Edit: Brendel snap!

[karlhenning]

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This looks neat, though I wonder how much it leaves out? Amazon UK has better tracklistings link.

Edit: Brendel snap!

Nice, thanks, Sara!

[Todd]

Comments?

That's Brendel's best sonata cycle (IMO, of course), so I'd say it warrants consideration.



Saw this new DVD of Lulu on DG's site.  Looks most promising.  I'll have to compare it to the Andrew Davis/Christine Schafer version.  Can't have too many Lulus.

[prémont]

While I have several complete sets, well more than several, but not nearly as many as Todd or others, I have only a few sonatas by Brendel.  So, I am considering this recent re-issue:

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From the Amazon blurb, "The Beethoven box is a re-issue of Brendel's ANALOGUE recordings of the Beethoven Sonatas (recorded 1970-77) along with his first cycle of the Beethoven concertos (recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Bernard Haitink 1976-77). "

Comments?

Must be his second concerto cycle. The first was for Vox with Wallberg and others.

[The new erato]

Is this the start of the long awaited reiossue of the Entartete Musik series?

[Wanderer]

Is this the start of the long awaited reiossue of the Entartete Musik series?

Hopefully!

[Drasko]

Is this the start of the long awaited reiossue of the Entartete Musik series?

That would be awesome, but that Decca Opera ... something logo in lower left corner doesn't look promising to me. If you remember Das Wunder der Heliane was once reissued in Decca Classic Opera series but had nothing to do with Entartete Musik.   

[Expresso]

Which DVD of Wagner's Ring would you recommend?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002G1TSBI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
or maybe
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Ring-Nibelungen-Metropolitan-Levine/dp/B00006L9ZT/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1315746953&sr=8-2

[Renfield]

Which DVD of Wagner's Ring would you recommend?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002G1TSBI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
or maybe
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Ring-Nibelungen-Metropolitan-Levine/dp/B00006L9ZT/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1315746953&sr=8-2

I've seen the Barenboim/Kupfer, and can recommend it.

It's an imposingly staged (and conducted), kinetic visual performance; and the singing is quite good too!

[jlaurson]

Which DVD of Wagner's Ring would you recommend?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002G1TSBI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
or maybe
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Ring-Nibelungen-Metropolitan-Levine/dp/B00006L9ZT/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1315746953&sr=8-2

MUCH rather Kupfer than the stodgy-dull-unacted Levine Ring. Atrocious, unless you are a hard-core American reactionary who hates acting and any sense of real drama with his or her opera. But really neither of those two and Chereau, instead.
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2005/09/chreau-ring-cycle-das-rheingold.html
Almost old-fashioned in comparison to most newer Rings on DVD, the acting/drama is absolutely impeccable; Das Rheingold especially the best opera-on-DVD production I've ever seen. (Reviews of all four operas at above link.)

[Renfield]

MUCH rather Kupfer than the stodgy-dull-unacted Levine Ring. Atrocious, unless you are a hard-core American reactionary who hates acting and any sense of real drama with his or her opera. But really neither of those two and Chereau, instead.
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2005/09/chreau-ring-cycle-das-rheingold.html
Almost old-fashioned in comparison to most newer Rings on DVD, the acting/drama is absolutely impeccable; Das Rheingold especially the best opera-on-DVD production I've ever seen. (Reviews of all four operas at above link.)

Would that it was easy to find, nowadays.

When I was looking for a Ring DVD, I went for the Kupfer first, hoping to get the Chereau a little later, and then it went OOP.