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[T. D.]

Whoa, the Feldman/Babbitt CD concept had been done before!



When I regularly attended new music concerts at Merkin Hall (near Lincoln Center, NYC) from mid-90s through about 2001, Milton Babbitt was often in the audience. Turnout was typically so meager that it was easy to identify people  .

[Artem]

That's really cool, T.D.

[Todd]

Do I pre-order, or order when it comes out?

[Todd]

Why must record companies not just release everything everywhere? 

[Spotted Horses]

Anyone with impressions of the Brahms/Couteau solo piano music set?

[staxomega]

Anyone with impressions of the Brahms/Couteau solo piano music set?

I listened to him play the Ballades and Intermezzi, I didn't find them particularly interesting. I like these complete piano boxes, but sadly find they're more often average.

[Spotted Horses]

I listened to him play the Ballades and Intermezzi, I didn't find them particularly interesting. I like these complete piano boxes, but sadly find they're more often average.

Yes, probably a complete set is a fools errand, since I am sure I have everything of consequence in individual recordings by pianists that I am partial to.

[JBS]

Yes, probably a complete set is a fools errand, since I am sure I have everything of consequence in individual recordings by pianists that I am partial to.

IMO complete sets are best for the stuff that does not get recorded very often. How much solo piano music did Brahms compose? I've got several recordings of the late works but little else.

[T. D.]

IMO complete sets are best for the stuff that does not get recorded very often. How much solo piano music did Brahms compose? I've got several recordings of the late works but little else.

The Katchen box amounts to 6 CD, for instance. I really enjoyed it, but it was more or less my introduction to Brahms piano music. "Complete" boxes are convenient but unlikely to satisfy the cognoscenti  , especially with regard to the best-known works.

[Spotted Horses]

IMO complete sets are best for the stuff that does not get recorded very often. How much solo piano music did Brahms compose? I've got several recordings of the late works but little else.

Besides the late works there are three Piano Sonatas, of which it seems only the third is widely considered worth performing, there are Four Ballades, widely recorded, some obscure theme and variation sets, the Waltzes, the Op 79 Piano pieces, some odds and ends.

Brahms is probably my favorite composer and in some sense I fell I owe it to myself to hear all of his significant works, although there are a few of his most revered works that I have not listened to. At this point it seems that I am saving them to have something of Brahms to discover in my old age.

And truth be told, I already have the Oppitz set, although it seems to be generally considered uninspiring (I haven't dug into it yet).

[JBS]

Went looking on Amazon.
The Douglas set on Chandos lists everything on its back cover

I have a little more than I thought: the Handel and Paganini Variations, but I'm blanking on who the performer is. Perahia?
ETA: And I have the sonatas played by Guy.

[Mandryka]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Should I click the button?

[Brian]

I'd be curious about that program too. I own the music in the Martinon and Fremaux Erato boxes.

This is $16 at Europadisc, any comments?



Edit: found my own very negative comment on the Eroica, that Janowski was very soft with the brass and timpani.

[JBS]

Anyone have an opinion on this?

[Spotted Horses]

Anyone have an opinion on this?

Magnificent. Unforced, non histrionic, beautifully performed by the Czech Philharmonic.

[DavidW]

Magnificent. Unforced, non histrionic, beautifully performed by the Czech Philharmonic.

I think I know what my listening is for this week then.

[Spotted Horses]

I think I know what my listening is for this week then.

Hope you like it as much as I did.

[Truth be told, I think I have only listened to 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 from this set.]

[Todd]

Do I need 34 discs of Renaissance music?  Can I live without it?  Hard to say.

[Brian]

Any fans or detractors of this? Should I buy if I don't have any recordings of NV and only two of Konzertmuzik (Lenny/Sony and Steinberg)?



EDIT: Seeing a comment from Daverz that this is curiously lifeless compared to Steinberg and Ormandy.