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[ritter]

Just ordered this new release. The Quartetto Sincronie plays Malipiero's String Quartets No. 2, 3 & 6, interspersed with the movements of a transcription for SQ of Monteverdi's Missa a quattro voci (1650). Intriguing...



I understand stand the Sincronie intends to record the whole cycle of Malipiero's eight SQs.

Also ordered this (relatively) recent book on Bruno Maderna, published by the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basle.

[vandermolen]

Dutilleux/Weinberg

[DavidW]

The first and last are cds, the middle ones are digital downloads.

[ritter]

Something I didn't even know existed (ordered today from a trusted seller in Discogs):




A young Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Malipiero, Milhaud, Petrassi and Roman Vlad! 

And I have in my collection the live recording of Strauss' Elektra from Florence under Mitropoulos, which had been officially released by Cetra in the early 50s, but had no idea he had recorded other stuff for the label (Malipiero's Seventh Symphony and AFAIK the only recording of Casella's orchestration of Bach's Chaconne).

[Wanderer]

[ritter]

A Rossini splurge at Melomania in Paris. Works that will be new to me (La pietra del paragone —hat tip to @Florestan —, Ciro in Babilonia, Elisabetta) or that I wanted alternative recordings of.




Although I will always associate Il turco in Italia with Callas, her recording is heavily cut, while this one from 2007 uses the critical edition.






This has a very young José Carreras in its roster.


The record label managed to misspell prima donna Daniela Dessì's name on the cover. 

[Florestan]

This is an absolutely delightful opera buffa and the line up looks stellar. Enjoy!

[Florestan]

A Rossini splurge at Melomania in Paris. Works that will be new to me (La pietra del paragone —hat tip to @Florestan —, Ciro in Babilonia, Elisabetta) or that I wanted alternative recordings of.




Although I will always associate Il turco in Italia with Callas, her recording is heavily cut, while this one from 2007 uses the critical edition.






This has a very young José Carreras in its roster.


The record label managed to misspell prima donna Daniela Dessì's name on the cover. 

The whole haul is superb! I'm delighted to see some Rossini love.

[JBS]

A Rossini splurge at Melomania in Paris. Works that will be new to me (La pietra del paragone —hat tip to @Florestan —, Ciro in Babilonia, Elisabetta) or that I wanted alternative recordings of.

If you're in the mood for more Rossini, Zedda recorded several on Naxos, including a second one of Gazza Ladra and a Cenorentola that features Joyce DiDonato.

[Spotted Horses]

Yeah I guess I was wrong there.  I guess I conflated a hazy memory of quasi-HIP with PI.

I don't know what HIP non PI string quartet performance would be, except maybe less vibrato. For orchestral music HIP would mean appropriate ensemble size and orchestral balance. That wouldn't apply to a string quartet.

[Traverso]

Mozart

[Wanderer]

[DavidW]

I don't know what HIP non PI string quartet performance would be, except maybe less vibrato. For orchestral music HIP would mean appropriate ensemble size and orchestral balance. That wouldn't apply to a string quartet.

That is overly simplistic.  There is more to HIP than vibrato and orchestra size.  Much of the period style movement is researching how people performed back in the day and trying to do it that way instead of the modern way.  In baroque it might mean playing freely, in romantic era perhaps more rubato as some simple examples off the top of my head.  The modern style is much more literalist.

There is a whole book on it that I recommend:

[Spotted Horses]

That is overly simplistic.  There is more to HIP than vibrato and orchestra size.  Much of the period style movement is researching how people performed back in the day and trying to do it that way instead of the modern way.  In baroque it might mean playing freely, in romantic era perhaps more rubato as some simple examples off the top of my head.  The modern style is much more literalist.

My only experience is listening to the Festetics and Aeolian Haydn quartets in parallel. The difference in string sound was noticeable, but I didn't notice any consistent different in performance style. There are subtleties that escape me, I guess.

[JBS]

@ritter is to blame for the Wagner



[From Arkivmusic]

[Wanderer]

[Peter Power Pop]

Adam: Giselle (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Richard Bonynge)

[Madiel]

I don't know what HIP non PI string quartet performance would be, except maybe less vibrato. For orchestral music HIP would mean appropriate ensemble size and orchestral balance. That wouldn't apply to a string quartet.

Well, just try the Buchbergers...

[Maestro267]

Rachmaninoff: Trios elegiaques Nos. 1 & 2, Cello Sonata, Morceaux de salon, Romance for violin & piano, Gopak (Mussorgsky arr. Rachmaninoff), Two pieces, Lied for cello and piano
Gomziakov (cello), Korobeinikov (piano), Samouil (violin)

[classicalgeek]

From Berkshire Record Outlet:
Not deliberately, but the theme seemed to be 'string concertos'.



And one from a few weeks ago, a Valentine's gift from my girlfriend: