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Well, I don't mind the DG engineering --- I think all of the Boulez recordings I've heard that were on DG have sounded outstanding. I do like the Columbia engineering, too, especially those 60s recordings. Yeah, I've heard this Pli selon Pli was preferred over the remake, but I haven't heard the DG remake yet, so it might be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison of both performances.

The DG is awesome too, it's a little more polished, clinical even, quite different from the previous, but still worthy. If I'm not mistaken I believe there had been some revisions done to the score in the interim between the recordings as well.

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The DG is awesome too, it's a little more polished, clinical even, quite different from the previous, but still worthy. If I'm not mistaken I believe there had been some revisions done to the score in the interim between the recordings as well.

I'll have to do some comparisons at some point. Can't wait to hear the work. Of course, I'll have to find the time first.

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I already own the Sinopoli recording of Gurrelieder in an older box set (the one before the recent reissue of his Second Viennese School recordings), but I wanted the original recording of it mainly because this is a very special piece for me. I remember being the most impressed with his performance and the earlier Boulez on Columbia. None of the rest of them I've heard did it for me in terms of vocalists, orchestral grandeur, and overall pacing. Of course, it's a mammoth of a work and there are flaws with every recorded performance. Pierrot Lunaire is a work I've been wanting to get to know better and see if I can get into outside the Craft and Boulez recordings I own. This one on Nonesuch with Jan DeGaetani is highly rated. Also, I've been wanting to explore Arnie's lieder and having been impressed with the Berg lieder recital from Shirai on Capriccio, I figured I would give this recording a shot.

[Ratliff]

Picked up this release (used), to supplement my collection of Ireland orchestral music.



I chose this one because I am interested in hearing "The Forgotten Rite." There is a companion disc, also featuring Hickox, which I also considering.

[Traverso]

The Sony Pli selon pli with Halina Lukomska and the BBCSO is a phenomenal recording. You're gonna love it. I personally prefer it greatly to the DG recording, which is maybe more polished and has more of a beautiful sheen to it, perhaps, but the earlier is played with perhaps a little more conviction—I also greatly prefer the 1960s Columbia engineering to the DG.

   

Well said ,my thoughts exactly.

[Madiel]

https://www.youtube.com/v/y9kGgqSIqGw

I don't have that album, but nice programming and now I want to go listen to my versions of those pieces. It's most of the Szymanowski I properly know.

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I don't have that album, but nice programming and now I want to go listen to my versions of those pieces. It's most of the Szymanowski I properly know.

If I were you, I would check out Symphony No. 3, "Song of the Night" or Stabat Mater next.

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Three more Schoenberg recordings that I wanted in this reissued incarnation:

[aukhawk]

Shame Boulez is petrified in a single pose - he had so many other interesting and fairly unique hand gestures in his repertoire, it would be nice to collect a few.

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Shame Boulez is petrified in a single pose - he had so many other interesting and fairly unique hand gestures in his repertoire, it would be nice to collect a few.

Yeah, but it's a part of a series and it would be nice to have more of an assortment of photos of him, but I still love these older designs.

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^I don't always love Boulez's Schoenberg recordings, but that Pierrot Lunaire is definitely my favorite recording of that great work. I'd like to hear those other two CDs too, though I'm quite happy with Sinopoli's Gurre-Lieder.

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^I don't always love Boulez's Schoenberg recordings, but that Pierrot Lunaire is definitely my favorite recording of that great work. I'd like to hear those other two CDs too, though I'm quite happy with Sinopoli's Gurre-Lieder.

I'm a huge fan of Boulez's conducting (esp. his earlier recordings on Columbia). His Gurrelieder is one of the best ones I've heard, but, yes, if you already have Sinopoli that should be enough for now unless this piece hits you like it did me and end up acquiring many recordings of it. I'll definitely let you know how this Jan DeGaetani recording of Pierrot Lunaire. What little I've heard of it, it sounds quite eerie, which may not be what Schoenberg was going for, but it sounded great to these ears.

[Christo]

If I were you, I would check out Symphony No. 3, "Song of the Night" or Stabat Mater next.

+ 1. Try this:

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+ 1. Try this:

Seconded. Great disc.

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Just ordered.

[Todd]

New FFG LvB and a host of pre-orders.

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Seconded. Great disc.

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I want to say it was your recommendation a few months ago that prompted me to buy it, but I can't remember; but it was definitely someone here.

TD:

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I want to say it was your recommendation a few months ago that prompted me to buy it, but I can't remember; but it was definitely someone here.

I don't think it was me as months ago I didn't really enjoy Boulez, but this was before I actually gave the music a chance. It might have been steve ridgeway or Rafael (ritter). Perhaps even Mandryka.

[JBS]

Just now off Amazon MP
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[André]

Trying the  'other' Scharwenka: