New Releases

[Maestro267]

Naxos haven't listed their December releases on their website yet. They're usually pretty punctual on the 1st of the month with this.

File Schumann/Grieg Piano Concertos into the Overcoupled Works category alongside the Debussy and Ravel 4tets and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra/Music for SPC.

[Brian]

Naxos haven't listed their December releases on their website yet. They're usually pretty punctual on the 1st of the month with this.

I already posted half of them here, a few pages ago. Since they're late uploading the rest, here are the others:



While I'm logged into Naxos' distributor system, here are a few more December releases that were not either in that post or in the posts of other people:



And there are many more...time to publish this and start a second post...

[Brian]

Even more DECEMBER stuff!



No smaller couplings on the Trpceski Brahms piano concertos.



Paul Yarbrough was their longtime violist before departing the main quartet, so this is a little like how the Pavel Haas Quartet brings back their ex-violist Pavel Nikl to do string quintet records.



Well that's a bold program.

[George]

This looks great!

[Que]

This looks great!

It does indeed!    And to add to the excitement (at least mine): Van Oort uses a 1875 Steinway.

[Florestan]

It does indeed!    And to add to the excitement (at least mine): Van Oort uses a 1875 Steinway.

I have his two-volume recording of French nocturnes. I see that this is labelled "volume 6". Which are the other three, I wonder?

[Que]

I have his two-volume recording of French nocturnes. I see that this is labelled "volume 6". Which are the other three, I wonder?

Volumes 1-4:

 


Volume 5: (Which was new to me!)

[Florestan]

Volumes 1-4:

 


Volume 5: (Which was new to me!)

Thanks a lot, my friend! I've just checked my library (in this case, my oldest external HDD out of the three I use) and it turns out that I actually have all five of the above, so the first Russian volume is the very next in the series. Great!   

[Symphonic Addict]

The singular cover art is already a winner to me.

[Brian]

Yeah, that Alkan cover is great!

The PentaTone cycle from only a decade ago is already being reissued:







Bowen - Viola Sonata No 1
Clarke - Viola Sonata
miniatures by Tertis, Bridge, Wolstenholme, Reed, Coates, Vaughan Williams, Forsyth,
arrangements by Tertis of Brahms, Schumann, Faure, Ireland, Mendelssohn
arrangement by Bowen of the "Moonlight Sonata"

[Madiel]

This looks great!

Yes, this was the one that got my attention as well.

I have a suspicion I've actually played the Kalinnikov piece...

[JBS]

I don't remember this being posted (as opposed to being mentioned in passing). Amazon gives the release date as November 24.

[Steinway D]

This looks interesting, though I wish he had recorded it on a modern grand. I'll try to keep an open mind. 

[Que]

This looks interesting, though I wish he had recorded it on a modern grand. I'll try to keep an open mind. 

An Érard 1858 is an interesting choice, since it postdates Mozart. But looking online, the piano arrangement by Karl Klindworth, a pupil of Liszt, dates from 1871. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised!

[Roasted Swan]

An Érard 1858 is an interesting choice, since it postdates Mozart. But looking online, the piano arrangement by Karl Klindworth, a pupil of Liszt, dates from 1871. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised!

I've heard quite a few Klindworth arrangements and in many ways they are astonishing - but for me (the great supporter of arrangements!!) this is an arrangement too far - no matter how well it is played

[Florestan]

I've heard quite a few Klindworth arrangements and in many ways they are astonishing - but for me (the great supporter of arrangements!!) this is an arrangement too far - no matter how well it is played

In another thread I sarcastically alluded to a fictitious transcription of Johannes-Passion for solo violin. Little did I suspect that I wasn't actually far off the reality mark: Mozart's Requiem has been transcribed for solo piano! Human vainglory has indeed no limits. ( @Madiel ) 

[ritter]

And I presume you all know who Klindworth's daughter was...

In any case, that arrangement seems to have been made for home performance, not as a concert piece...

[Symphonic Addict]

Another cycle of Schmidt's Symphonies.

[Daverz]

Even more DECEMBER stuff!

Wow, Silvestri conducting Shostakovich 8.  Fingers crossed that the sonics are OK.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I shall have to hear the Afanassiev, even though I haven't really enjoyed his more recent recordings. Is it only for sale in Japan?

Jfyi.
P.s. How is his Chopin Mazurkas recording like?


https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Beethoven-1770-1827_000000000034571/item_Piano-Sonata-No-29-Valery-Afanassiev-Hybrid_14320595


https://tower.jp/item/6188123/%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9A%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BF