New Releases

[Brian]

Yes, EVEN MORE OCTOBER RELEASES - click back a page if you missed alllll the other ones!







Male soprano alert!!



"Bassoonist and conductor Robin O'Neill buried his head in the Goldberg Variations, which he had discovered through Glenn Gould's recordings, during the first months of the Covid lockdown. Soon after that, the idea of making an arrangement for orchestra began to obsess him as he began hearing instrumental and orchestral sonorities in the keyboard work. Since the main challenge was to reclothe the music without damaging the subtle intricacy of the piece, and after much thought and experimentation, O'Neill chose instruments that Bach himself would have recognized for the solo parts. His reinterpretation of the Goldberg Variations offers a mixture of full orchestral variations interspersed with concertante ones involving two, three, or four solo instruments, at times close to St. Matthew Passion-style writing."

73:45 on that Goldberg



This includes an 11-minute reconstructed "No. 0"

and finally

[Mandryka]

https://open.spotify.com/album/5GdzQEeynUFn9INhUJ51ye

I guess these are rereleases of the DG Italia recordings. I'm really enjoying his K310 this morning, much more than in the past (I don't have the DG release to compare, it has disappeared from spotify.) I had a similar experience with Pletnev's Melodyia Mozart recently - always rejected in the past but last month I thought it sounded like the best music making ever. Go figure.

(Oops, spoke to soon. K570 is unlistenable!)

[Todd]

Oh, shit!  What glorious trainwrecks await intrepid listeners?  I, for one, will find out.

[Spotted Horses]

"Bassoonist and conductor Robin O'Neill buried his head in the Goldberg Variations, which he had discovered through Glenn Gould's recordings, during the first months of the Covid lockdown. Soon after that, the idea of making an arrangement for orchestra began to obsess him as he began hearing instrumental and orchestral sonorities in the keyboard work. Since the main challenge was to reclothe the music without damaging the subtle intricacy of the piece, and after much thought and experimentation, O'Neill chose instruments that Bach himself would have recognized for the solo parts. His reinterpretation of the Goldberg Variations offers a mixture of full orchestral variations interspersed with concertante ones involving two, three, or four solo instruments, at times close to St. Matthew Passion-style writing."

Sounds potentially interesting.

[kyjo]

Yes, EVEN MORE OCTOBER RELEASES - click back a page if you missed alllll the other ones!







Male soprano alert!!



"Bassoonist and conductor Robin O'Neill buried his head in the Goldberg Variations, which he had discovered through Glenn Gould's recordings, during the first months of the Covid lockdown. Soon after that, the idea of making an arrangement for orchestra began to obsess him as he began hearing instrumental and orchestral sonorities in the keyboard work. Since the main challenge was to reclothe the music without damaging the subtle intricacy of the piece, and after much thought and experimentation, O'Neill chose instruments that Bach himself would have recognized for the solo parts. His reinterpretation of the Goldberg Variations offers a mixture of full orchestral variations interspersed with concertante ones involving two, three, or four solo instruments, at times close to St. Matthew Passion-style writing."

73:45 on that Goldberg



This includes an 11-minute reconstructed "No. 0"

and finally

BIS' recent releases have generally been much less appealing than they used to be, for my tastes anyway. Those with more of an affinity for early music will likely disagree, I'm sure.

[foxandpeng]

BIS' recent releases have generally been much less appealing than they used to be, for my tastes anyway. Those with more of an affinity for early music will likely disagree, I'm sure.

My preference has been for releases by contemporary or recent Nordic composers, so I would agree!

[Todd]

#2?  Count me in.



Bach plays Bartok.




















In addition to the shown items, Sony is releasing three The Art of Kazune Shimizu boxes, one for his LvB sonata cycle, one for the rest of his Sony recordings, and one for his RCA recordings.

[JBS]

It may or may not be intentional, but that photo makes Maestro Payare look a lot like Mahler wearing a bad wig from the local high school's theater prop closet.

[San Antone]

It may or may not be intentional, but that photo makes Maestro Payare look a lot like Mahler wearing a bad wig from the local high school's theater prop closet.

I can think of several classical musicians who would benefit from a style adiser concerning their hair:

Simon Rattle



Steven Isserlis



Sigiswald Kuijken

[Florestan]

This is most probably the same theme and program as this:



and none the worse for that.

[Florestan]

Simon Rattle



Steven Isserlis

I've always thought of them as twins separated at birth. 

[Todd]

This is most probably the same theme and program as this:

It is not. 

[The new erato]

I'll see you Florestan, and add an Julian LLoyd Webber:

[Florestan]

I'll see you Florestan, and add an Julian LLoyd Webber:

Triplets, then. 

[Brian]

This is most probably the same theme and program as this:

Whether it is or not (since Todd says not), it's surely based on the night that those four musicians played quartets together, yes? Do we know what works they played together that night?

[Todd]

since Todd says not

Supraphon says it's not. 

[Florestan]

it's surely based on the night that those four musicians played quartets together, yes?

Yes (with the caveat that Todd might say no).

Do we know what works they played together that night?

No (with the caveat that Todd might say yes).

[Brian]

Just looked it up - apparently the works played by the Dittersdorf Haydn Mozart Vanhal quartet were not documented so we can only guess.

Still a great album concept!

[Florestan]

a great album concept!

Absolutely --- and the Mozart is the same in both recordings: KV 465 "Dissonances".

[Roasted Swan]

Triplets, then. 

I see your Julian Lloyd Webber and raise you Nemanja Radulović



what a d**k