Never Recorded, O-O-P, or A Better Recording Needed: Your Wish List!

[Madiel]

Holmboe's Concerto for String Quartet, please.  Not least because the idea is so darned interesting.  Pah! I sneer at your double and triple concertos and raise you an entire ensemble in its own right!

[listener]

String Quartet concertos do exist!   I've got those by SPOHR, MARTINU and LEES listed in my collection

[North Star]

And I would say that e.g. a piano trio is an ensemble, too...

[Madiel]

And I would say that e.g. a piano trio is an ensemble, too...

Yeah, but that's only 3 instruments. Beethoven didn't try hard enough. 

Anyway, that was only one reason.  The other reasons being: (1) I'm a huge Holmboe fan (has anyone noticed this yet) and (2) it's his final completed work, which inherently gives it some extra pull.

[pjme]

I'd love to see a new version of this - or a cd-re-issue:



It's one of Rozsa's most luscious scores!

More Koechlin is definitely welcome  - the symphonies and the early Biblical pieces...

A state of the art recording of any of Milhaud's big opera's and l'Orestie - complete.
More French composers in need of (re)discovery: Jolivet's cello concerti, all three symphonies and the magnificent choral piece "Le coeur de la matière" ; Someone should also couple André Jolivet's pianoconcertto with Peter Mennin's and add Eugen Suchon 's Partita rhapsodica for a full treatment of steely and rythmical exuberance.

Any major work of Georges Migot would be welcome  - his catalogue is huge, there must be some good works in it. I'd love to hear "La jungle" a 1928 "Polyfonie" for organ and orchestra.

And have a look at Canteloube's catalogue. Inspite of his (1940- Vichy) behaviour he was a very accomplished composer. I love his Tryptique for soprano and orchestra, but would like to discover the other ( non-Auvergne) works for orchestra or voice and orchestra ( Au Printemps for Maggie Teyte) , Vers la Princesse Lointaine (1910–1911) voor orkest,L'arada six pieces (1918–1922), lied met orkest,  trois pièces pour orchestre Lauriers, Pastorale roumaine, ; Pièces française, pf, orch, 1934–5, symphonic suite from Le mas etc.

Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez: Reisado do Pastoreio (1930), suíte orquestral com o famoso Batuque;

P.

[Daverz]

String Quartet concertos do exist!   I've got those by SPOHR, MARTINU and LEES listed in my collection

Was the Lees ever on CD?  I have it on a rather screechy sounding RCA Lp.  Flipside is the Sessions Symphony 3, which did make it to CD on CRI.

[listener]

Was the Lees ever on CD?  I have it on a rather screechy sounding RCA Lp.  Flipside is the Sessions Symphony 3, which did make it to CD on CRI.

Same combination CD release on CRI:  http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=688658

I did't like it much on vinyl either, did not think a replacement would be worth the cost.

What I do not have nor have I seen is MAYUZUMI's Microcosmos for:
Clavioline, Guitar, Musical Saw, Vibraphone, Xylophone, Percussion (Bongos and Congas) and Piano.

[Daverz]

Same combination CD release on CRI:  http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=688658

I was not aware of this release, thanks.

[pjme]

and



The Orbon is a lovely work. Strangely enough it sounds like Martinu and has no (cheap) South American flavour at all...except possibly for its heartbreaking , passionate, slow movement.
Great music.
Both versions are excellent. Mata conducts a larger orchestra.
P.

[Mirror Image]

I would love to hear a more modern recording of Koechlin's The Jungle Book. Preferably conducted by Stephane Deneve with Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra since this orchestra has performed a lot of Koechlin already and Deneve is an expert in French music.

[pjme]

Did you try



And Zinman's recording isn't bad at all!

But, yes, there are many works by Koechlin that are worth (re)discovering, or that would benefit from an inspired performance.

P.

[Mirror Image]

Did you try



And Zinman's recording isn't bad at all!

But, yes, there are many works by Koechlin that are worth (re)discovering, or that would benefit from an inspired performance.

P.

Yes, I own Zinman, Bedford, and the partial cycles of Segerstam and Holliger. Zinman's recording isn't bad at all. Quite the contrary, it's a fine recording for its time, but I would like to hear a French conductor in Koechlin's music. While we're discussing Koechlin, I hope Hanssler continues its series. The last release was disappointing as it contained only one original composition while the rest were orchestrations of other composers' music.

[Scarpia]

It would be nice if Bruggen's Philips recordings were boxed up and available.   The Beethoven Cycle, the Schubert cycle, and the late Mozart symphonies are frustratingly nla.

And what of Pollini and WTC Book II, or the remaining Beethoven Piano Sonatas?   How much longer does he expect to live?

[Gurn Blanston]

It would be nice if Bruggen's Philips recordings were boxed up and available.   The Beethoven Cycle, the Schubert cycle, and the late Mozart symphonies are frustratingly nla.

Not to mention his fine Haydn symphonies and orchestral works....

Philips is among the world's worst in making their recordings hard to get. They are well-situated there with DG, certainly a contender for that same crown.

[Scarpia]

Not to mention his fine Haydn symphonies and orchestral works....

Philips is among the world's worst in making their recordings hard to get. They are well-situated there with DG, certainly a contender for that same crown.

Well, the two are under the same roof now, which gives them little incentive, to complete with themselves.

Market capitalism is all well and good, until all the big firms merge into one.   Isn't that what Marx said would happen, leading to the communist utopia?

[mahler10th]

Lang Lang better pull the finger out, I cannot find a complete set of Beethoven Piano Concertos by him.  It will be unforgivable of him not to dish those concertos out!   

[zmic]

I'm listening to Mengelberg's recording of Bach St. Matthew Passion and it is my wish that somebody today would have the guts to record a version like that with modern recording techniques. Yes I'm talking modern instruments, slow tempi, massive choirs and excessive rubato. Those HIP recordings, it's becoming boring like hell.

[Parsifal]

Has Kubelik's Wiener Philharmoniker Brahms Symphony Cycle ever been issued on CD?  I have LPs, but I've never seen it on digital media, and it seems like a glaring omission.
(corrected)

[Daverz]

Has Kubelik's Wiener Philharmoniker ever been issued on CD?  I have LPs, but I've never seen it on digital media, and it seems like a glaring omission.

What work are you referring to?

[Parsifal]

What work are you referring to?

Omission corrected above, ooops.