What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Newstone only made one set, recorded in 1958 and and in stereo, and as far as I recall released in mono 1959 and stereo a little later. I got the stereo version 1964, being obsessed by Bach from a very young age.

You are, of course, correct. What I should have indicated was that I had two editions of Newstone's Bach Brandenburg Concertos, one in mono and one in stereo.
Do you like the set? Do you still give it an occasional listen?

[Christo]

New 'discovery' of the kind that happen, once in a while. The sometimes overflowing grace of the orchestral music by French composer Daniel-Lésur (1908-2002):

[prémont]

You are, of course, correct. What I should have indicated was that I had two editions of Newstone's Bach Brandenburg Concertos, one in mono and one in stereo.
Do you like the set? Do you still give it an occasional listen?

Yes, I consider it to be one of the more consistent sets in pre-autentic style (along with Münchinger, Redel, Ristenpart, Baumgartner, Tilegant and so on.) I have made a digital copy of my old LP set, making listening more comfortable, as I have dismantled my TT long time ago. None-the-less Newstone's Brandenburgs have to my knowledge been released commercially on CD twice:

http://www.forgottenrecords.com/Newstone--Bach-Mozart--852.html

this is a CDR of fine quality, and the remastering has been nicely done without too much filtering.

and here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brandenburg-Concertos-1-6-2CD-Newstone/dp/B06XHTPF5Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1504351548&sr=1-1&keywords=newstone

Actually I got the latter (a rather recent release) a few months ago and listened to it. The SQ is good, compared to the original LPs, but it is still a tad sharp.

[Karl Henning]

It's rather weird to hear Gould play the organ...and not hum!

That's because, unlike the piano, an organ need not be mic'd near the player!

[Spineur]

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
String Quartet Op.9 № 1 in C (Hob. III/19)
Festetics Quartet

[North Star]

G'day, Karl!

Thread duty
Haydn
Symphony No. 23 in G major (1764)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Hogwood
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[aligreto]

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 [Newstone]....


   


From the mono version.

[aligreto]

Yes, I consider it to be one of the more consistent sets in pre-autentic style (along with Münchinger, Redel, Ristenpart, Baumgartner, Tilegant and so on.) I have made a digital copy of my old LP set, making listening more comfortable, as I have dismantled my TT long time ago. None-the-less Newstone's Brandenburgs have to my knowledge been released commercially on CD twice:

http://www.forgottenrecords.com/Newstone--Bach-Mozart--852.html

this is a CDR of fine quality, and the remastering has been nicely done without too much filtering.

and here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brandenburg-Concertos-1-6-2CD-Newstone/dp/B06XHTPF5Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1504351548&sr=1-1&keywords=newstone

Actually I got the latter (a rather recent release) a few months ago and listened to it. The SQ is good, compared to the original LPs, but it is still a tad sharp.

I agree. I also like it.

I saw that 2 CD set when I was searching for images of my vinyl sets.

[Mister Sharpe]

Back to the LP survey and after that I'm reigniting my own Saturday afternoon at the Opera (and no, I haven't all day for music today, but a good chunk of it) :

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[Spineur]

New 'discovery' of the kind that happen, once in a while. The sometimes overflowing grace of the orchestral music by French composer Daniel-Lésur (1908-2002):

I also love this disc.  I first heared the fantastic adagio from the Serenade for strings, and then bought the disc and found the symphony of dances, also wonderful.
I would like to find a disc of the suite médievale even though it is on UT.

https://www.youtube.com/v/uhj1hmQ_ODg

TD: some vintage tenor: Antonio Cortis 1925-1930 recordings

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
String Quartet Op.9 № 1 in C (Hob. III/19)
Festetics Quartet

And the trippy segue which works better than you might at first think:

http://www.youtube.com/v/gArB8ytk0oM

[Karl Henning]

G'day, Karl!

Thread duty
Haydn
Symphony No. 23 in G major (1764)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Hogwood
[asin]B01BHFPU3S[/asin]

Cheers, Karlo!

[Karl Henning]

Joining our Karlo . . .

"Papa"
Symphony № 23 in G (H.I/23)
AAM
Hogwood

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[aligreto]

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 [Newstone]....


   

[Karl Henning]

Joining our Karlo . . .

"Papa"
Symphony № 23 in G (H.I/23)
AAM
Hogwood

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What a beguilingly understated ending!

[Mirror Image]

It's perfectly understandable pal  You where away for quite a while actually, how's your music collection feeling right now? 

My classical collection has sprung to life yet again.

[Mirror Image]

Streaming:

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How is this? I noticed it when searching the new releases via Amazon.

[North Star]

Medtner
Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Op. 50
Demidenko
BBC Scottish Symphony
Maksymiuk
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[ritter]

Revisiting Honegger's Le Roi David after many, many years:



I am very fond of King David's "younger sister" Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (for the music and for Claudel's wonderful text), and return to it often, but have managed to neglect this earlier oratorio. And I must say, the work does not deserve being relegated to a junior position. Part I starts in an endearingly naïf and orientalist way, but the writing gets increasingly intricate as the work progresses, and some of the choral pieces are Honegger at his considerable best IMHO. The "Danse devant l'archet" that closes part II, with the angels singing "Alléluia!" is breathtaking. The Witch of Endor scene is also quite gripping. The presence of a narrator might be off-putting to those who do not speak French, but Daniel Mesguich delivers his part very convincingly, and in general the performance under Serge Baudo is first rate.

This is the final version of the work, which actually started out as incidental music to René Morax's play. A recording on Naxos claims to be of an earlier version of the oratorio (not the incidental music), and I'm tempted to seek it out.

What prompted me to listen to it was my leafing through an anthology of texts by Argentinian socialite, patron of the arts, author, amateur actress and famed beauty Victoria Ocampo, who performed the piece under Ansermet in Buenos Aires in 1925 (she later played the title rôle in Stravinsky's Perséphone under the composer himself when he toured to Argentina). She was that kind of special person who seems to have known everyone that mattered, and used her vast financial resources to promote the arts (among other things, she founded Sur, which for many years was probably the most presitgious literary review in the Spanish language). Somehow, until I puchased this selection of her writings, I had read about her, but nothing by her. Her family was the archetype of the "patrician Argentinians", and her sister Silvina (a noted author in her own right) was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares. They were all very close to Jorge Luis Borges.

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